NORFOLK
A facility that helped elevate Norfolk's status among East Coast ports came to an explosive end Sunday.
For about 70 years, the Sewells Point grain elevator connected Atlantic cargo ships with railroad cars carrying grain and corn.
A stoic landmark on the Elizabeth River, it had silently welcomed Navy sailors home from deployments overseas and beckoned cargo ships filled with coal, rubber and consumer goods to Hampton Roads' terminals.
Read the background story: Deserted Norfolk facility to be imploded
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Controlled Demolition
We designed the building to fall in between the silo wings to keep the build from falling towards the naval base docks the next pier over. Thats also where you were hearing the national anthem come from it plays every morning at 8:00 A.M.
Why in the world
Why in the world are they playing the National Anthem? Has this become a tradition whenever something big is blown up? It's a nice touch, but I'm curious as to why, and who thought of it.
Oh NO! Not the Old Grain Elevator!
The video is tagged with the word "implosion", by the Pilot.. It was 70 years old after all, & probably built by local contractors...so maybe it fell down when that 5 mph wind gust hit it..lol
ojt...
Why do you have to try and get personal with your "ignorance" remarks? Nobody on here attacked anyone else...except for you. No need to throw that last comment of yours in. My point was, and is true, that this was not an implosion....and if it was suppose to be, then it was flawed. I did my research before posting. In the meantime, might I get personal back at ya. While your mother was teaching you that if you don't know then don't speak...maybe she should also have taught you that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. But thats ok...there will always be people of your type posting on here. If you want to see what a "real" implosion looks like, check out some of the vids online. Maybe seeing these will give you a smidge of knowledge about what an implosion is suppose to look like.
the real story
Sorry to bust you folks bubble however the elevator fell just as it was designed to do. It could not "implode" into it's self because it was sitting right on the waters edge and debris in the water would have blocked the Navys access to some of its berths, not to mention the added cost to dredge it back up. The silos in the center had been removed long ago to make room for the collapsing building. This was a perfect job well planned and executed. Some people need to remember what their parents taught them years ago....If you dont know then keep silent, no need to show your ignorance.
controlled fall
It wasn't an implosion; it was a demolition. It was designed to fall that way away to keep debris out of the adjacent slip. The silos are also are to be razed, so I doubt they were worried about their structural stability. I thought it was pretty interesting that they could take it down in such a controlled fashion.
controlled fall
It wasn't an implosion; it was a demolition. It was designed to fall that way away to keep debris out of the adjacent slip. The silos are also are to be razed, so I doubt they were worried about their structural stability. I thought it was pretty interesting that they could take it down in such a controlled fashion.
Stability
He's right. The force of the collapsing building could actually have affected the adjoining silos structural stability.
Um...yeah, ok
Not gonna start some argument over a joke comment I made. But Fulcrum, look up the defintion of implosion and then tell me again it looked like "precision surgery". If this was an implosion, the building would have collapsed upon itself...yet it didn't. First couple floors went, then the building toppled over...which is not implosion. Check out some of the videos online. There are lots of vids that show a true implosion.
Looked like precision
Looked like precision surgery to me. Right between the silos. Scoop it up ans ship it off to landfill.
Wow...
Looks like they screwed that implosion up.