November 11, 2005:
Building and Unbuilding
It is midday and the Pearman skeleton over East Bay has increased in
length by one span since yesterday - photo taken at 12:03 pm for
comparison with subsequent photos.
Meanwhile, the 1250 has demolished most of the pier we saw yesterday.
This morning, smaller hammers and grapples have reduced the pier to
what you see here
Now looking west - the port has its own Stonehenge monument
It is also lunch time so Tony is feeding Mike's 1250. It has a capacity
of 350 gallons of fuel - which amounts to about $1000 for a fillup -
required about every other day.
Here is Tony's mobile fuel station.
and after an hour, work has begun to bring down the next pier
and a final look at the work site at 13:55 (remember this time) and
note that SAVE is inscribed at the base
of the nearer column. This begins a permanent Charleston Stonehenge -
and perhaps a small park around the bicycle / jogging lane, with
water fountain and park benches will appear to further commemorate
this site?
November 12 2005 - just after 6am
Sigh - I could not stand the suspense and at the same time was too
lazy to stay up all night and watch the action. So this morning
(Saturday, Nov 12, 2005, 6:10 am) I went over to catch the ending.
Obviously, IT already ended.
Here is East Bay (6:34 am) - with no Pearman Girders
spanning the street. Paul's team took down two spans of girders between
about 8pm last night and sometime before 6 this morning. Nice work
with minimal disruption of East Bay traffic!
The day shift was just starting inside the port. Here is a
sleeping 1250, Michael shining it up a bit and of course, our
slowly disappearing Stonehenge (6:44 am)
Making my way back home, (there is a Pearman segment associated with
this page) the team has set up and hammering away at the adjacent
pier cap (7:44 am). Note the
left pier with the red markings at the bottom - "SAVE" - this will be
a memory of the Pearman Bridge - and perhaps my dream - a small
park/rest area for joggers entering or exiting the Ravenel bike/jogging
lane.
Another look at our monolithic Stonehenge
and for emphasis