The Other Half of the Power Plant Goes ‘Boom’.

05Mar10

(posted by stuartgrant)

It was one of those ‘if only I’d gotten the camera out moments earlier’ moments.

You might remember this post where we described how half of Haskovo’s charming power plant disappeared on us? Well, the other day I happened to be out on the balcony (not a common occurrence in winter!) when I heard this great boom like a thunder clap. I looked around to see the power plant’s 30m-high concrete smoke stack toppling over!

The image will stick in my memory forever! And the sound of its collapse was amazing (once it reached us)!

Here is a video I took of the aftermath. I apologise that it’s essentially pointless – in that I missed all the action and all you can see is the cloud of dust rising up from where it fell – but perhaps I captured some of the coolness of it.

Enjoy?

Cheers,

Stu.

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11 comments so far for “The Other Half of the Power Plant Goes ‘Boom’.”

Thomas says on

06Mar 2010 at 2:44 am :


Sometimes I wish you could rewind the universe so as to record awesome things such as that!

Kylie says on

07Mar 2010 at 3:55 am :


Haha yeah. Smoke is still cool Stu ;) Hi elly laughing in the background :D

SallyLouise says on

07Mar 2010 at 9:47 am :


Worst video EVER! But I laughed. :)

ellygrant says on

07Mar 2010 at 10:54 am :


Sal, I know… I was laughing in the background when I realised Stu was making a video and not simply photographing smoke.

Funny boy :D

stuartgrant says on

07Mar 2010 at 11:33 am :


You have to use your *imagination*, people! :P

Amelia says on

07Mar 2010 at 1:08 pm :


*uses imagination* itt fails
lol “that was awesome”

SallyLouise says on

08Mar 2010 at 2:15 am :


Worse than a dad-joke. It’s a dad-video.

Humphrey says on

09Mar 2010 at 2:31 am :


I appreciate it Stu! I had forgotten what the background noise of Haskovo sounded like :-) So… where are the the hypothetical drug lords, and their dogs going to hang out now?

Peter Grant says on

09Mar 2010 at 3:12 am :


Hey Sal – I resemble that dig at dads!

Stu – at least you got some of the action. Unlike my walking companions when I somersaulted backwards off Cradle Mt in snow! As Elly will have seen on fb ;-) we got back there on the weekend and (1) I didn’t fall off again, and (2) Ma made it to the top in style … rather like a mountain goat, really!!

And lastly – a hipy papy bthuthday to you (to quote Winner-the-pooh),

love Dad xx

stuartgrant says on

09Mar 2010 at 10:46 pm :


Hi Pa.

Thanks! I had a good b’day – the Aussie crew did a great job of helping me celebrate it. Elly full cooked breakfast and Kathryn’s whole trout each for dinner were highlights!

Looking forward to seeing Cradle Mt and the rest of Tassie.
Byee
Love Stu

SallyLouise says on

10Mar 2010 at 10:27 am :


Dad, yes, you do.