The Famous Smokestacks are to be Dismantled!

[cjknox]

For those of us who have sailed from Ft. Lauderdale those iconic everglade "smokestacks" have been a welcomed sight for many years, but I just got word that on July 16th they will be demolished.

 

What a bummer, I have always enjoyed seeing them when sailing from the port.

 

[omalley16]

I guess I will have to take a pic, sailing out of there tomorrow for the first time.

 

 

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[riclop]

For those of us who have sailed from Ft. Lauderdale those iconic everglade "smokestacks" have been a welcomed sight for many years, but I just got word that on July 16th they will be demolished.

 

What a bummer, I have always enjoyed seeing them when sailing from the port.

 

They will not be missed.

[zdcatc12]

FPL must be doing that throughout the state. They just reopened the Frontenac plant with gas turbine generators after tearing down the old. They used to have two of the kind like in the picture. They burned bunker fuel and the residents around there said that they always had oily soot on everything from the exhaust.

[Capt_BJ]

FPL will stream with demolition live on their website at 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday.

[wrigley80]

I wanna be sure to remember to watch this on Port Everglades webcam on Tuesday

[MR NW GUY]

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/07/12/inside-the-demolition-of-the-fpl-smoke-stacks-at-port-everglades/

 

Here is an article about the smoke stack removals.

[Keith1010]

Thanks for the two links on this.

 

Keith

[Capt_BJ]

bump to remind

 

6:45 eastern tomorrow

 

You can watch the FPL demolition live at http://www.FPL.com/port or via @insideFPL #FPLport

[MR NW GUY]

That was interesting... I expected the towers to implode and not just fall over. Thanks for the link.

[hannibal54]

Cool video, thanks.

[wrigley80]

We just watched the video on YouTube....so cool

[BlueHerons]

It was all over the news here as well. Thanks for the reminder, it was really cool watching them fall. And sad.