January 21, 2006: T-4 cleanup
Last Wednesday, Mickey's ABS team felled T-4, the last Pearman
cantilever support. Today, the weather was perfect for a bicycle ride
so these photos are from the Ravenel bicycle path.
As you can see - there is almost nothing left of T-4.
In the background are the remaining cantilever segments of the Grace
(Port and Drum Island segments) and the Pearman Port segment.
(
Jan 27, 2006: Corey Rubchinuk sent me email way back in December about
his father, Leon, a member of the Testa team. Since then, I have looked
all over for Leon, but he was always at a place that was difficult for me
to get to. But the Testa family is a small group and Ponce came by yesterday,
after Brett's blast of the T-4 foundation,
and I asked where Leon might be. He pointed across Town Creek at
am
excavator and said "there is Leon". I remembered that I saw someone
last Saturday (Jan 21) cleaning up around T-4 and asked Ponch about it. Yes,
he said - Leon was working last Saturday. So I have found Leon - but
have not yet associated a face with the name. So I'm going to continue
to search for him - and give his son, Corey, a surprise photo).
A lonely excavator (operated by Leon - as described above) doing the cleanup.
A closer view of Leon and the T-4 root
In the background several cranes are being positions to continue
disassembly of the Grace cantilever sections
This is simply a wider shot of the same worksite - with the Ravenel
approaches in the distance
Later when I returned, our lone cleaner-upper was using his hammer to
break down the T-4 foundation (Ponce, see above - said that someone
was working with Leon - so next, I'll find out how this is)
