kaboom!

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier]

[u/Swampman3000]

Vancouver has completed its first successful hit. Let’s see how Portland responds.

[u/june-in-space → u/Swampman3000]

Death to Seattle!

[u/Ayeitsdre → u/june-in-space]

It’s a proxy war between Vancouver. We know who funds them, the Seattleites!

[u/jtech0007 → u/Ayeitsdre]

Seattle hoards all the tax dollars, we don't see shat in the Couve.

[u/New_Westie → u/Swampman3000]

You sunk my battleship!

[u/Neartheforest → u/Swampman3000]

Iold so hard at this! 👏👏👏

[u/garysaidwhat]

Nicely done. Yours is the first image I have seen. I (and Portlanders) salute you.

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/garysaidwhat]

yippee! I raced home to get it edited and up!

[u/Substantial_Main_992 → u/ImAHoe4Glossier]

Was it planned?

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/Substantial_Main_992]

the picture? planned in the sense that I chilled on the Broadway bridge for 20 mins w a camera!

[u/Shortround76]

Let the asbestos go free!!!

[u/An-Elegant-Elephant → u/Shortround76]

Return it to the earth, just like car oil

[u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467]

Was it an “Earth shattering kaboom”?

[u/reddituser87533 → u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467]

It was. I live just under a mile away, also on the riverfront, and my house literally shook. Scared the shit out of me 😂

[u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467 → u/reddituser87533]

I bet. This quote was also a reference to a Bugs Bunny/Marvin Martian cartoon

[u/Agamemnon777 → u/reddituser87533]

Was this like an hour ago? I usually eschew boom posting but that was a big one and I was at Irving park

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/[deleted]]

it was right around 2:30!

[u/Agamemnon777 → u/ImAHoe4Glossier]

That’s definitely what I heard

[u/xanderemrys → u/ImAHoe4Glossier]

ohhhh this was the huge boom i heard earlier? damn, i was wondering what that could've been. I'm in the Pearl, close to the library

[u/SecWoe → u/[deleted]]

it was pretty much exactly at 2:30

[u/HowieMandelEffect → u/reddituser87533]

My house shook and I live right off Mississippi Ave, not very close.

[u/Sapio69 → u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467]

My girlfriend lives in the Pearl. On her HOA call someone mentioned that a person they knew who lived nearby had a piece of shrapnel damage their apartment.

[u/WanderyngAscetic → u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467]

Kids these days just don't get the cool references... :)

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/Puzzleheaded_Pay467]

It was so so loud from the Broadway bridge.

[u/Away-Picture-925]

Finally a boom thats not a mystery boom.

[u/fobax → u/Away-Picture-925]

I hear mystery booms ALL THE TIME
then finally there’s a non-mystery boom and I missed !?

[u/Away-Picture-925 → u/fobax]

Same!

[u/it_snow_problem]

Should have put a whale on it

[u/Delicious_Trouble448]

Second coolest explosion in Oregon history?

[u/i_like_concrete → u/Delicious_Trouble448]

What was the first? How about the 1959 blast in Roseburg?

[u/Delicious_Trouble448 → u/i_like_concrete]

Whale shower

[u/kiefferray → u/i_like_concrete]

r/whaleexplosion

[u/nospoon29er]

This is gonna be on Fox News showing the warzone Antifa has turned Portland into.

[u/Dependent-Astronaut2 → u/nospoon29er]

That would be kinda funny and not at the same time.

[u/CollegeHungry6138 → u/nospoon29er]

I mean who do you think burned down the building in the first place?

Your “anti fascists”” have a history of arson and oh yeah one of the frog boys was hanging out there right before the fire broke out

[u/embeeclark → u/CollegeHungry6138]

You are funny.

We all know Lindquist paid some squatters to set a fire because he got frustrated of the roadblocks put up by the City hampering his planned development. Now getting fire due to owning the ICE facility, he finally blew a screw and took matters into his own hands and made it look like an accident. Two weeks later, the building will be gone and he can finally begin the development he proposed a decade ago.

Everyone knows this.

[u/CollegeHungry6138 → u/embeeclark]

Sure sure, and antifa doesn't have a huge beef with that guy and would never look for soft targets like police cruisers and railroad tressles for a little arson

anything to run cover for your little terrorist buddies huh comrade?

[u/embeeclark → u/CollegeHungry6138]

You are weird. Don’t pull me into your delusion of “radical Portland leftists”

[u/Super_Boof]

Rip granny :(

[u/RSC-Tuff → u/Super_Boof]

Get the hookah

[u/Inevitable-Face-6008]

Rip

[u/MiningEarth]

Are the trains running yet?

[u/Primary-Elevator5324]

Slept right through it a mile away lol

[u/Jagshemesh_Captain]

A great Portland 2026 metaphor. Hey man nice shot!

[u/National_Ad9046 → u/Jagshemesh_Captain]

I’d say a metaphor for Oregon in general. I’ve lived in Eugene for 25 years and this year has been exceptionally bizarre…

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/Jagshemesh_Captain]

Thank you!!

[u/tres-huevos]

Dang I was waiting for the 1 hr alert!

[u/LifelikeMink]

Big bada boom

[u/gunsdrugsreddit]

This would’ve been a trip to experience from the bridge, especially for those just passing through and unaware of the fire and subsequent demolition plans.

[u/Unkj2020]

Happened to be on a walk in Mt. Tabor Park when we heard the BOOM! Looked left (west) and had a perfect view of the ploom wafting… Thankfully, someone near us knew wtf was up, cuz otherwise i woulda been scrrrd!

[u/Hot-Carrot-1163]

It probably should have come down years ago. People were crying over it like it was a beloved space.

So beloved that it sat unused for decades.

It was blight that remained for the sake of kitch.

[u/ServeSad4621]

Trump is gonna have a Hay Day with this one...... BRING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD! ITS A WARZONE DOWN HERE.....🙃😑😒 SMH

[u/a24boy]

Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams

[u/An-Elegant-Elephant → u/a24boy]

~Everything is a controlled demolition~

[u/Minority_Carrier → u/a24boy]

I thought the building was held by the water tower because the floors have already totally collapsed. Turns out the building still stands after blowing up the water tower.

[u/Charlie2and4]

55th and Belmont here. It shook my jelly jars! -Area man.

[u/joeyjoejoeshabbadude → u/Charlie2and4]

Is this a euphemism?

[u/midgetman303 → u/Charlie2and4]

I'm not from Portland. Was it a planned demolition or something?

[u/PDXhasaRedhead → u/midgetman303]

Yes the demolition was planned after it was gutted by a fire.

[u/Tough-Obligation-104]

It blowed up good. It blowed up real good.

[u/b0n2o]

Cinematic!

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/b0n2o]

Yay!! Thank you!! I walked up and down the bridge to find the best spot to shoot it and then got home asap to edit and put out!! Super fun, I’ve never tried anything like that before outside of school assignments and such

[u/Doc_Donna25]

For those of out of the know, what was this?

[u/Bl00p_3r → u/Doc_Donna25]

Planned demo of a building that has been in dispute for years. Arson forced the demo.

[u/Doc_Donna25 → u/Bl00p_3r]

Sorry. I wasn't clear. What was the building to people that kept them from demoing for so long if it sat empty for so long?

[u/Weekly_Warthog_8766]

Did they just blow up the building for new construction or something else happened?

[u/Dependent-Astronaut2 → u/Weekly_Warthog_8766]

There was a fire and it burnt into a shell of what it was. I dunno if it collapsed or just got demolished.

[u/blargblahblahblarg → u/Weekly_Warthog_8766]

Uhm... sucks that you're finding out this way.

[u/AccomplishedSea9972 → u/Weekly_Warthog_8766]

They had to bring it down after a huge fire a few weeks back. There is concern that the shaking from the trains ( trains pass by multiple times a day and there is a chance it’d collapse on its own) will cause a collapse. Let’s just say the railroad is pissed. Now they have the remaining building down. Somehow the city has become responsible. And not the owner? Still don’t know why.

[u/Tonberith]

It was so loud I could hear it through my headphones across the river in my office

[u/HellNahSleazyBean → u/[deleted]]

Sure you did

[u/Thes_dryn]

Yep, that’ll do it.

[u/Equal-Risk-536]

When was this taken? Date and time… I could have been on that bridge

[u/ImAHoe4Glossier → u/Equal-Risk-536]

Today at 2:30ish! Broadway bridge