This implosion will be long remembered for being scheduled for 12:00 on 2010-08-22 with thousands of people waiting for the moment.... only to go off prematurely at 11:56:23!! The weather cleared slightly that morning but as we were given the 5 minute warning it started to rain again... then suddenly at about three minutes to twelve we heard 5,4,3,2,1 and everyone rushed to switch their cameras on.... I got my lens cap off and started clicking as the first tower was already falling. There must have been a few thousand people that gathered to watch the last moments of the towers coming down. The taffic jam out of Pinelands lasted well over an hour.
- Three minutes early!!!!!!!
- Traffic jam leaving Pinelands thirty minutes after the implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion - Towers gone!
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion - smoke and dust clearing
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion - Just smoke and dust
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion - Just a plume of smoke standing
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion
- Athlone Cooling Towers Implosion - started three minutes early
- Last photo of the Athlone cooling towers before implosion
- Residents of Athlone on their roofs to get a good view of the implosion
- Media contingent to record the occasion... I was lucky enough to get a media pass for the event
- Masses of people turned up to watch the implosion of the towers
- Liesbeeck District Scouts erected their own platform to watch the implosion
- Three minutes early!!!!!!!
- 1000's of people packed onto Clyde Pinelands field to watch the implosion of the Athlone cooling towers in 10 mins
- At Athlone Cooling Towers to watch the implosion at 12:00.... 44 mins to go
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