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Nah, I assumed they were empty or like a naughty kid's stocking at xmas.

Thanks; yeah I was surprised it was so clean as well. I believe the place was welded shut for quite some time and pretty secure, until scrappers cut their way in to grab the copper. They're there to make cash, not spend it on spray paint.

Yup!

On that day, probably get hypothermia pretty fast.

When the plant was open and the gates to the water intakes were open, I'd assume there would be a pretty good pull, not sure if it would be enough to suck a floating person down though.

From here I believe you'd go down the tube, through the large turbine blades, down the large brick tunnel which makes up the outflow... and then a dropped into the river from behind the Niagara Falls water curtain.

They most certainly made sure that stairwell was well lit up! May be it is really scary in the dark! Lamps FTW!

I wonder why the company didn't try and sell some of the machinery off to recoup some of the lost $. Does anyone know why the company's don't try too even sell the scrap?
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holy sooo dangerous

So what exactly does this mean? The thing was not operating, being balky, what?

Those old life rings would barely float a 5 year old.

@autoguy - I'm taking it that you're speaking from experience...ugh...what a horrible mental image.

What would happen if you fell into that?

Is that a person on the right in the distance?

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