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torkellNow you see it...
...now you don't!
Yesterday morning at the crack of dawn Fawley power station chimney and turbine hall were demolished, so before the crack of dawn I trundled along to Warsash to watch from the shoreline (because why not? - and because someone was hosting a geocaching event, also because why not?). The internets suggested that it could be popular so I avoided the suggested parking and instead parked up outside St Mary's at Warsash... which was the right decision, as by the time I'd walked to Hook Park Road everywhere was packed and apparently someone had crashed as well!
Walking there made for something of an odd pilgrimage in the pre-dawn gloom, with torchlit coat-clad walkers dodging the flooded roads (and in one case trying to manhandle a pushchair around a particularly deep puddle). At the beach itself I emerged into the teeth of the autumn gale battering the coast, and got thoroughly soaked through while waiting. I did consider bringing an umbrella... but decided not to in the end what with how windy it was. That was probably the right choice given what happened to other umbrellas:
The chimney went down right on cue, followed by a more visible explosion taking down the rest of the turbine hall, and a few moments late the surprisingly loud bangs reached us (apparently heard all the way over in Fareham). And that was that! A local landmark that I could see from the right spot in Fareham is now gone, and just the cleanup left followed by turning the site into a housing development.
And because this is the 21st century, of course I have video of it (though without the bangs, because of all the wind noise) 😁
...now you don't!
Yesterday morning at the crack of dawn Fawley power station chimney and turbine hall were demolished, so before the crack of dawn I trundled along to Warsash to watch from the shoreline (because why not? - and because someone was hosting a geocaching event, also because why not?). The internets suggested that it could be popular so I avoided the suggested parking and instead parked up outside St Mary's at Warsash... which was the right decision, as by the time I'd walked to Hook Park Road everywhere was packed and apparently someone had crashed as well!
Walking there made for something of an odd pilgrimage in the pre-dawn gloom, with torchlit coat-clad walkers dodging the flooded roads (and in one case trying to manhandle a pushchair around a particularly deep puddle). At the beach itself I emerged into the teeth of the autumn gale battering the coast, and got thoroughly soaked through while waiting. I did consider bringing an umbrella... but decided not to in the end what with how windy it was. That was probably the right choice given what happened to other umbrellas:
The chimney went down right on cue, followed by a more visible explosion taking down the rest of the turbine hall, and a few moments late the surprisingly loud bangs reached us (apparently heard all the way over in Fareham). And that was that! A local landmark that I could see from the right spot in Fareham is now gone, and just the cleanup left followed by turning the site into a housing development.
And because this is the 21st century, of course I have video of it (though without the bangs, because of all the wind noise) 😁
