If you've come across the Gandy Bridge from Tampa to St. Petersburg, you've seen them -- the three smokestacks of the P. L. Bartow Steam Power plant.
Now, they're gone. At exactly 10 this morning, those smokestacks came tumbling down.
The explosives go off first, followed by the rumbling of a power plant and its three smokestacks falling down like trees being cut down in a forest.
The power plant has not been used since 2009 when Progress Energy replaced it. The new plant makes more electricity and reduced emissions by 80%, according to the company.
The explosions took place safely, but last year, a West Virginia man died while helping to dismantle the power plant.
