Fire (Station) in the Hole

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This blog is officially pre-empted by Snomageddon, Snowzilla, Snowpocalpse, or whatever you are calling this ridiculous snow of 2010. I had a regular construction update prepared, but snow rules. (Bonus: bookmark this post and re-live it in August. I think it might be looking pretty good then).

Of course we all thought the December snow was our “once a decade” storm. Who knew it would be followed by a “once a century” storm (well, I certainly hope so at least).  I have a couple videos to show the damage, and pics too. (Be sure to kick up the video to 720p and watch full screen for full impact). No idea what this does to the construction schedule, but can’t be good.

Dec. & Jan. Storm Comparo — take a look at the far northern wall on the left side in both pics:

Close up of the far northern wall:

Video as storm winds up Friday Evening:

Video during storm on Saturday Afternoon:

Lee Highway Looking West; East:

21st Rd @ Lee Looking North:

Between Service Bay and Garage:

With the 2nd floor walls ready to go up some of the supporting piles had to come down. Crews started cutting away on Monday and the crane pulled them up Tuesday morning. This is video of the first pile hauled away at about 7:45am. (Sorry for the shaky & glary video quality I had to use my regular camera because my camcorder’s battery was dead. Murphy’s Law & all that.  Then there is the whole sun facing me thing. ) Anyway, play on the best you can.

I’ll spare you the commentary. Let’s go to the videotape: