Well Rome wasn't imploded in a day

Come back tomorrow and we'll try it again.

The controlled demolition using explosives to take down two giant, unstable construction cranes at the site of the collapsed Hard Rock New Orleans Hotel will start no sooner that noon Sunday, city officials said Saturday afternoon.

The damage to cranes is the prime reason for the delay to Sunday, Fire Chief Tim McConnell said.

As a result, Krewe de Boo, which was originally called off, will roll Saturday, according to Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

Well thank goodness the Halloween parade is back on.  Everybody got pretty mad online when it was announced this morning that it would have to be cancelled for the demolition.

Anyway what happened? 

The delay was caused by new information from demolitions experts inspecting the cranes Saturday morning.

"They got up and got close to it and they found out some things about it that have changed the way they're going to take it down, some of the methodology they're going to use, and that's going to take a little longer for them to accomplish," McConnell said. "The crane's more damaged than they thought. They need to do things that are a little bit safer."

Kind of vague but, basically, it's even worse than they thought.  That's not exactly a comforting thought. But we should say it's a bit better than they pushed back the demolition because Blaine Kern yelled at them about his parade which is another thing we did think about.