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Please have Billy Joel's "I'm Still Standing" going through your head as you look at this photo....

Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a ton of people and cars really close to a controlled demo. Debris, shock wave, dust/chemicals... 

People do seem close to it. I don’t believe it was to be a full implosion today so maybe they were at a safe distance. On the news they said they were just blowing up the girders for the roof.

I used to watch a show on Discovery or one of its sister channels about a demo company and to see how they can drop these things right within a city is absolutely remarkable. They brought down a socceer stadium right beside a highway(?) and literally could use a broom to clean it after they were done. Cables and tension can do marvalous things.

To be honest, I like the appearance better without the roof.  

"I'm Still Standing" was Elton John, not Billy Joel...

Here's video link of it going wrong. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/watch-detroit-botch-the-high-profile-demolition-of-the-silverdome/ar-BBG6Lyd?li=BBgET5V&ocid=spartandhp

Us Canadians not allowed to watch I guess, told me that the video was not available. =(

Whoops got my Piano Guys mixed up.....Yes Elton John.

It was supposed to be a "partial" implosion. From what I understand the upper deck was supposed to collapse only. Well that didn't work. What is funny as I was watching it live (yes I live in Georgetown Ontario about 4 hours away, but grew up in Windsor and moved here when I was 27) I was watching the live feed and picking out the sections I had seen Lions games from, or concerts (Pink Floyd during the Division Bell tour the most memorable by far) and thinking about the memories etc... and then it is still there. Kinda poetic...

The demo should have been scheduled for 1PM. That is when implosions used to be scheduled inside that building.