The Fall of the Two Towers
Due to safety concerns the Cape Town City Council demolished the cooling towers of the now defunct Athlone power station. Apparently they might have blown over in a strong winter storm, good thing we have had no serious storms this winter cause it is coming a little late in the season.
The demolition was scheduled for 12:00, but at about 11:55 I could hear someone talking over a megaphone at the VIP tent about 200m away from my vantage point. The idea occurred to me to capture the demolition on my cellphone camera (the only camera I own), so I pulled the thing out and put it into video mode and pointed it in the right direction. Holding my 18mo in one arm and the camera in the other arm I strained to hear what was being said across the canal to the VIPs. Next to me Marla was arguing with CJ about what colour shopping bag she wanted to sit down on when I thought I heard the announcer say “five…four”.
“Man,” I thought “it’s happening now!” But my phone camera had gone into standby mode, so a quick fumble later I pressed record. I spent the entire time checking the phone to see if it was in fact recording. Good thing it was recording or I would have been like a friend who was standing near who proclaimed “I missed the whole thing!”.
So great work by whoever was watching the clock, you need to turn your time back by about 3 mins (especially when there are a few thousand people depending on you).
So here is my official first posting to YouTube…
My friend Phil got an AWESOME shot of the event check it out.
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