Authorities in New Orleans will use explosives to take down two cranes atop the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel.

Officials are racing against the clock to remove the cranes from the building before the arrival of Tropical Storm Nestor.

“We have concerns about how the weather may impact the operation here and the stability of the two cranes,” Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said Thursday, the New York Times reported. “We are working as hard as we can on a timeline that will allow for the crane towers to actually be taken down safely.”

Three people were killed last week after a crane from the hotel toppled onto passersby in the tourist-choked French Quarter.