Ever have one of those days? Well the city of Sioux Falls South Dakota had one on Saturday. The old Zip feed mill (a landmark for over 50 years) was set to be imploded by 100 pounds of explosives. The plan was for it to drop and then fall over in a big pile. The entire event was made into kind of festival, parties, a drawing to see who gets ot push the button, multi camera TV coverage, the works. Well , the countdown hit zero and the demo charges blew and the building was going to have nothing to do with following the plan. It dropped and tilted but stopped far short of the mark. Looks like it’s going to be a job for the wrecking ball and jackhammer after all. First they have to make the place safe to work around, as it is it could fall over in a strong wind. My brother lives in Sioux Falls and he put together this photo you see above this. No, the sign didn’t originally say ’tilt’. He also took some panoramic photos from the top, I’m still waiting on those.
This link will take you to the KELO TV page where you can see all the exciting tilting action for a bunch of different angled.