Demo time

So we spent the weekend boxing all of our things again and taking them to our storage unit in the building’s basement. And we each packed a bag of clothes to grab and go, that way we would be able to stay until the dust got too deep and we were forced to leave. But on that first demolition day -Monday May the 6th - when we got back to the  apartment at the end of the day, it was clear to us that there wasn’t a chance we would be spending the night there. 

Let me tell you, the workers hadn’t played around! They had knocked down walls and ripped a big part of the floors up. Jerry was there for part of the day and captured some of the work in progress: 

And this is what the placed looked liked by the end of day 1 :

                                      

The dust was just too much for my lungs and throat to handle. It only took about 10 minutes in there for my throat to start scratching and for me to start coughing. So, after looking around for a few minutes marveling at how quickly a space can be transformed by the power of sledge hammers, we grabbed our bags and off to a hotel we went.