EPILOGUE

As the proverbial dust settled from the weekend's activities, crews arrived back at Protec's offices to download volumes of inspection, vibration and photographic data. The following days brought a procession of debriefings, project assessments and performance reviews. Formal engineering reports were prepared for various clients and municipal authorities, vibration data was entered into the firm's blasting database for future vibration-prediction calculations, videotapes were edited, high resolution photographs were printed, and equipment in need of repair was tended to.

Most of the team then grabbed a well deserved rest or worked on local projects in New York or New Jersey for a few days, then it was back to preparing for more road trips. Over the following weekend, NADC-members Dykon Explosive Demolition and Chicago Explosive Services would fell a Florida power plant and an Illinois bridge respectively, and Demtech would blast another structure in West Virginia.

For local residents and community officials in these towns, the events would provide more unprecedented thrills and topics of conversation for years to come. However, for the demolition contractors involved and the team at Protec, it was just another weekend at the office.


In addition to those mentioned above, Michael Golden, Gary McGeever, Brendan Quinn, Pat Daley, Robert Beckett, John Robinson, Philip Lowe, Jacob Uittenboogaard, Lisa Kelly and Richard Davies contributed to Protec's efforts and to this article.

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