Checking in at the Foundry…

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• thanks for posting these. already today what you see in the last photo came crashing down too. : )

• Darren, I am sure the noise is just great! Do they stop the demo'ing at night and on weekends?

• it was odd last weekend since they stopped on friday i think and didn't work all weekend. maybe for the 4th of july. but yes, they usually stop around 5 or 6pm. thankfully since there's constant jack hammering, and noise. on the weekend i don't think they work, but it's hard to remember since they didn't last weekend. they have a big crane there today to help take down some larger pieces. i thought their largest machine they were using to pull down the structure was toast this morning when a large part came crashing down and it was inside the structure, then i saw it's large arm flapping like it was broken, but i guess it just missed being buried.

• Whoever called for the cancellation of Peche Island Day at the last minute is an idiot a-hole. I go all the way out there and I'm there by 10:30am and the staff said it was cancelled because of a few drops of rain. I brought my umbrella. So what if there's a little rain?! I spoke to some of the staff and they said they'd continue no problem for putting their time into it, but they weren't in charge. There wasn't even a follow up rain day, just see ya, come again next year. F'in ridiculous!

• This was a free event, David. Show some gratitude to the volunteers and sponsors who tried to make it happen at no charge. I too was disappionted but they had no control over the weather. There are safety and liability issues and the people in charge of the event obviously felt that the storm cells on radar were threatening enough to justify cancelling. Heavy rain makes navigation hazardous for the open boats crossing back and forth. Thunderstorms often mean lightening strikes too. Having a few hundred people stranded in the open on that island in the event the storm really kicked up could have been a logistical nightmare for all concerned.

• Thank you for the beautiful photos of the Ford foundry. Too bad Buzz Hargrove wasn't inside the foundry when they blew it up.The demolition of the Ford foundry is a great loss to the city and the country. God knows how many Windsorites had family or friends who worked in that old foundry.

• Safety issues my ass. Those weren't 4 person dingys or sailboats. Those were powerboats that could seat 30 people. They looked very similar to the boats that the Windsor Police and the US Coast Guard uses. They even had roofs on them for the navigators And, I doubt the Windsor Police and the Coast Guard are allowed to cancel when there's a few drops. I didn't see any lightning outside. There weren't waves either. If there's delay issues, fine tell people there may be delay issues and they are entering at their own risk and continue, but give them to choice. Don't just cancel. I met volunteers who said they'd continue. This is just overcautious and unnecessary BS! I noticed the City of Windsor was on the list of sponsors. Great! More of my taxpayer money wasted because of this cancellation from some overcautious idiot who called the shots.

• Oh, and speaking of heavy rain, the last time I went on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls there was so much water being sprayed from the falls that if I wasn't wearing a rain jacket I'd be as soaked as if I jumped in river. And navigating through those currents doesn't even come anywhere near today and they do it every day. In fact, I stuck around for a while and didn't see any problems or currents when it was raining and they were taking people back from the Island.

• thanks george. it's been interesting how when they take off one upper roof, there's another roof under it, and another sometimes. showing how it had been added onto over the years. some of those shingles haven't seen the light of day in years i guess. they're busy cleaning up a huge pile of scrap now from their demo work of the center section which seemed to have the most metal.

• John I am going to have to agree with David on this one. They cancelled it after only 20 minutes! Nothing like waiting for it to clear up or at least having it called for rain on their promotion. As it was, it didn't say cancelled if raining. Considering it is the Citizens ENVIRONMENT Alliance, I would have thought a little rain wouldn't hurt anyone.
  As for lightning? None to be had but I sure got wet on my bike ride there and back. So where is the gratitude that I did what they asked but they cancelled it anyway?