They tried to blow up the Pontiac Silverdome today,
but
some detonator dropped the ball
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/03/pontiac-silverdome-implosion-failure/917332001/Man, I got tons of memories in this joint, from Billy Sims and Barry Sanders to Keith Moon and the WHO and to the USFL
Michigan Panthers with Anthony Carter and Bobby Herbert. LOTS of free concerts and high times.
Somehow, it just seems appropriate that the
ACME Co was unable to bring this concrete behemoth down. This joint was, in the best Motown tradition, built FORD tough, even though no one has wanted it around for a LONG Time (it sucked)...
Oh yeah, we just got home from a
WONDERFUL December motorcycle ride through farm country. 55 Fahrenheits and sunny, the many small town silos from Lambertville to Ida & Maybee and Belleville all seemed to be in full capacity. Every biker we encountered had HUGE, goofy-ass ear to ear smiles.
Woo - freakin - HOO!
This about sums it up:
from
Wash Post:
Welp.
A funny thing happened when, early Sunday morning, engineers and explosives experts tried to bring down the old Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan with carefully planned explosions. In a giant raspberry directed at the experts, the place refused to budge. Although construction crews said the implosion did break off steel beams, the stadium was still standing when the dust cleared.
That’s because, officials told Detroit’s WXYZ, the Silverdome was “built a little too well.”
So the next step is to just chill for a while. Maybe have some doughnuts while we wait.
Although the TV station quoted officials saying they would just let gravity do its job, Rick Cuppetilli, executive vice president with the demolition company Adamo, said 10 percent of the explosive charges in eight key locations failed to go off because of a wiring issue.
“Unless we find something in the next few hours researching the wiring, we will take it down mechanically,” Rick Cuppetilli told the Free Press. “We haven’t found the wire yet. It’s going to take us a while to research it all.”
