Dorm Demolition
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12-1-2022 Update on the demolition of dorm 203. It looked like this project was going to take years. I watched one day as the workers removed aluminum siding. It took 2 guys 15 minutes to remove one piece of siding. They were being very cautious. This morning they brought in a huge track hoe that could reach the top of the dorm. It had a scoop that looked like a tyrannosaurus Rex head and it went after the building like a starving dinosaur. The pictures are the result after a couple of hours of gobbling. All the remnants are loaded into shipping containers and returned to the USA for recycling. The long game is to build a huge dome over the town so most habitable spaces can be accessed without ever going outside. This is the biggest facelift ever undertaken here but, in the end, it reduces the footprint of McMurdo. I’m also sending along a picture of my work area in town. My work time is split equally between the Center and the Control Tower. I like the Tower much more. The view from