Jason and I rode our bikes downtown to watch the demolition of the Landmark Tower (the tallest building ever demolished in Texas). It's was a great reminder how bikes kick the sh!# out of personal automobiles for urban transportation.
Sure, it was raining. But believe it or not there are actually companies that produce raingear for cycling, so you can ride comfortably in the rain if you so choose. We were able to ride quickly around downtown to scout the best locations for viewing the implosion. We scouted a lot more locations than we could have if we'd parked and walked.
Then we got to have fun passing all the cars waiting at red lights trying to get out of downtown after the thing was over. I especially enjoyed passing the jerk in the white uber-SUV Ford Excursion who honked at us 10 seconds early because we were on "his" road. Sorry about that sir. If I'd known you own the road I'd probably have stayed home. I hope you weren't too jealous that Jason and I were sitting down at Paul's, our favorite breakfast spot, before you even got through that red light....
Channel 5 already has some good video of the implosion up; check it out.
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That's some way cool video... whoa!
Thanks for posting the link to the video. It always amazes me how they can calculate implosions so exactly.
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