"Blown Up, Sir!"

Construction is ongoing on the stadium that will be the new home for the Minnesota Vikings. It looks like some of those big cranes have gone up! While that is taking place on the footprint of the old stadium, that old stadium, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, is being destroyed in a fairly extended manner. I'm really no demolitions expert, not even close, but this seems to be taking a long time. The roof came down soon after the the last game was played. That was fairly exciting. They blew up some of the stadium's structure soon after. That was even more exciting. Blowing stuff up is always exciting. They were slowly taking down more of the structure when a beam fell unexpectedly. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Still, that caused a delay as they searched for the cause. The delay in the destruction of the old stadium did not slow the construction of the new stadium. It seems that the new stadium is going up faster than the old stadium is coming down. That could become a problem at some point. That pace changed this past Sunday. A lot of what was still standing was blown up. It was quite exciting. Blowing stuff up is always exciting. For whatever reason, some of the outer wall of that old stadium is still standing. Again, I am no demolitions experts but I can not understand why some of that stadium is still standing. I don't understand why they are taking so long to bring all of that dump down. On the bright side, that means that there could be more explosions coming. Blowing stuff up is fun!