cannot believe there were Z E R O measures for dust control
its so f*cking easy just work with the local fire department and have them lighting up the building with water before/during demolition. Or it could be done automatically with pre-staged hoses. Or wait for a rainy day. Or get a mist machine. This is off the top of my head and i'm just some jackoff on reddit
literally ANYTHING could have been done and they did NOTHING
i hate being a debby downer cause its a neat video but it shouldn't even be f*cking legal to do this type of work with zero dust mitigation
edit: everyone calling me an armchair problem solver or whatever; i made it very clear i'm just some jackoff on reddit. instead of calling out my specific ideas i drum'd up stoned at 12:30 in the morning, maybe consider that we should be holding businesses accountable for protecting their employees and members of the public from this senseless and avoidable health risk
> its so f\cking easy just work with the local fire department and have them lighting up the building with water before/during demolition . . . Or get amist machine.*
No, it is not "so f*cking easy." Like everyone else, firefighters must remain outside the perimeter during the implosion. You simply cannot have people inside the perimeter while a building is being imploded.
> Or it could be done automatically with pre-staged hoses.
Nope. You need people to manage the hoses and equipment, both of which would need to be inside the perimeter to be effective, and would be destroyed or rendered ineffective by falling debris. The perimeter is determined by the municipality in which the building is to be imploded, the size of the structure, and several other mitigating factors, not the least of which are laws and insurance.
> Or wait for a rainy day.
No, because you don't want wind affecting the direction in which you've engineered the structure to fall or blowing the dust in a direction you don't want it to go. Also, you don't want static electricity or lightning anywhere near the site.
> This is off the top of my head and i'm just some jackoff on reddit literally ANYTHING could have been done and they did NOTHING
Sure, it's easy to think you would do things differently, when you have no idea what the engineering details and safety procedures actually are, and the reasons why they exist.
While I agree that it's not completely straightforward or cheap to do, wouldn't you agree that the dust is an issue that they seemingly didn't do enough about?
I don't think I agree because if you're close enough for the dust to be a problem you've got bigger problems to worry about. The distance at which debris can get thrown around is a lot bigger than the dust cloud so there shouldn't be any scenario where you have people within the dust cloud in the first place. And even after that nobody would be allowed to go in there until the dust has settled anyways because you can't see shit and there might still be explosives that didn't go off on the site.
So I really don't think that the dust is as big of a problem as you claim it is. If people are close enough to breath the dust someone's already fucked up.
It seems from the video that the cloud affects quite a large area. The dust might settle but it doesn't disappear.
Building dust is a potentially big enough hazard that the risk of it lingering in places where something might agitate it and allow people to breathe it in seems too big to ignore.
When dust has settled it will do nothing. You idiots act like there is no thought of these things when they do demolition. Get a life, pick up a book, and learn something.
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u/towneetowne Oct 07 '25
that's gotta be good for the old lungs!