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 Harlan
 
Location: Austin
Gender: Male
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< on 1/26/2011 5:23 AM >
|  | | | This is another Austin Power Plant (not the one that there's already a current thread about). It has a long and extremely controversial history as an obnoxious industrial structure in the middle of a poor neighborhood. Due to increasing outcry over the plant after a series of fires it had, it was shut down in 2007.
It's now in local news again as the city is moving forward to begin dismantling it very soon. The only thing really delaying it at this point was a dispute over which company to hire for the demolition. The council will resolve that on Thursday and then I assume the plant will be slowly destroyed.
I explored it last Sunday and it was astoundingly preserved. There was trash in the trash cans, some food in a refrigerator (yes, gross), and neatly stacked books on shelves. I didn't even see a single piece of graffiti. It was very eery.
Many of these photos aren't very good and by no means give an adequate tour of the plant (it's a big place and I was racing to tour it in my relatively small amount of daylight), but I wanted to give a glimpse of it since it seems more or less unexplored and will soon be filled with construction workers tearing it apart.
Modified to remove the name of the location.
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[last edit 1/26/2011 5:31 AM by Harlan - edited 2 times]
I guess I should probably write something down here. |
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PorkChopExpress
     
Location: Pled's Pig Farm, Virginia
Gender: Male
Stand Up Philosopher
| | Re: Holly Power Plant
<Reply # 1 on 1/26/2011 5:28 AM >
| | | | Posted by Harlan
Is it acceptable to post the name of the location?
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That is generally frowned upon.
"Deep in the human psyche there lies the need to believe in something fantastic, something powerful, something unknown."
"Touch what you cannot solve, and return to me. I'll give you hints, and I'll give you three..." Zork Nemesis "I eat asbestos and piss PCBs." |
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Harlan
Location: Austin
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 2 on 1/26/2011 5:32 AM >
| | | | Posted by PorkChopExpress
That is generally frowned upon.
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Thanks, good to know. It has been fixed.
I guess I should probably write something down here. |
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PorkChopExpress
Location: Pled's Pig Farm, Virginia
Gender: Male
Stand Up Philosopher
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 3 on 1/26/2011 5:42 AM >
| | | | No problem. Very nice pics.
"Deep in the human psyche there lies the need to believe in something fantastic, something powerful, something unknown."
"Touch what you cannot solve, and return to me. I'll give you hints, and I'll give you three..." Zork Nemesis "I eat asbestos and piss PCBs." |
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Ghost
Location: houston
Gender: Male
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 4 on 1/26/2011 6:42 AM >
| | | | Wow, amazing location and pics. Its rare to see a abandonment in that good of a condition.
Take only pictures, Leave only footprints. |
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consecrated
 
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 5 on 1/26/2011 12:00 PM >
| | | | Fantastic location, great set! Very clean place
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Carl Ham
Location: Rural Manitoba
Gender: Male
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 7 on 1/26/2011 7:04 PM >
| | | | Holy Smokes that is so clean. Nice find. 
Long Live Gary Numan |
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CazyBeast2
Gender: Male
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 8 on 1/26/2011 8:04 PM >
| | | | Wow, great pics!
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 10 on 1/26/2011 9:52 PM >
| | | | Very nice indeed! I've wanted to see this place for a while now. I went by there today to check out the status but there were quite a few cars in the parking lot. That's what makes me nervous about checking it out. I also noticed some signs up for a demolition company but not a whole lot of evidence that they've gotten any start on the job yet.
Tetanus for Breakfast!
http://www.shatteredshutter.com |
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Raticus
 
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 11 on 1/27/2011 3:21 AM >
| | | | Sad that they end up tearing down those places.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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Superlocrian
Location: Austin, TX
Gender: Male
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 12 on 1/27/2011 3:24 AM >
| | | | wow! nice job man! I hope I can get in there before it's gone.
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Glass
Location: Chicago
as one does
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 14 on 1/27/2011 3:03 PM >
| | | | Damn! Dead coal and a turbine too... very nice.
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Harlan
Location: Austin
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 15 on 1/29/2011 6:03 AM >
| | | | I guess Thursday's vote was actually a vote to rebid. They're now going to repeat the entire bidding process for hiring a company to dismantle the plant.
Yay for disorganized bureaucracies!
I guess I should probably write something down here. |
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Lily White
Location: Rhode Island/NY/Nola
Gender: Male
Im drunk..
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 16 on 1/30/2011 2:12 AM >
| | | | This is great, not everyday you come across a find like this..
good for you.
www.fallout-ue.com
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FearAndLoathingInAustin
Location: Liberty Hill
| | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 17 on 1/30/2011 4:45 AM >
| | | | Looks like they just left everything - amazing that you got in. I suppose those vehicles outside are more of a deterrent than anything.
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VBJag
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Power Plant
<Reply # 18 on 1/30/2011 5:02 AM >
| | | | EPIC!
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