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N9FE
03-23-2011, 08:51 AM
2300 foot TV station tower on the ground. WEAU TV Many other towers out of power. http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/WEAU_13_tower_collapses_in_Fairchild.html It is not a good day here.
w3bny
03-23-2011, 09:02 AM
Holy crap. Off the air! damn.
KC9ECI
03-23-2011, 04:15 PM
W0AIH can sell WEAU some tower space!
WV6Z
03-23-2011, 04:30 PM
W10AJ could too, that would make for some interesting coverage.
WØTKX
03-23-2011, 05:43 PM
Other articles on that site tell of the other broadcasters helping out, and they are back on the air.

Glad nobody got hurt.

That's going to be a hell of a construction project for somebody, after they grok why it failed.
KC9ECI
03-23-2011, 06:17 PM
The WKBT tower is about the same size and vintage. I fear that the day will come and it craps the bed I give it a 99% probability of landing right on top of a nursing home.
WØTKX
03-23-2011, 06:45 PM
Why the hell is the nursing home so close to a structure like that?
NA4BH
03-23-2011, 06:47 PM
Why the hell is the nursing home so close to a structure like that?

To dampen the fall
suddenseer
03-23-2011, 06:51 PM
To dampen the fall:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
KC9ECI
03-23-2011, 07:20 PM
http://www.galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/GoogleEarth_Image.jpg
W2NAP
03-24-2011, 02:44 AM
talk about storms. got to see 2 rounds of storms, 1st dropping 1/4in hail then 2nd with 1/4in hail with a tornado warning with it.
N8YX
03-24-2011, 06:55 AM
...and now it's 27 degrees out. We're back to freezing our arses off.
X-Rated
03-24-2011, 07:13 AM
...and now it's 27 degrees out. We're back to freezing our arses off.

About the same here. Times like these, living in Chicagoland just ain't all that bad.
N9FE
03-24-2011, 08:26 AM
We will not see 30 degrees till atleast monday or tuesday. It was 3 degrees this morning.
W3WN
03-24-2011, 10:18 AM
...and now it's 27 degrees out. We're back to freezing our arses off.

Tell me about it. I got hit with some golf-ball sized hail walking down to the subway stop last night.

Could be worse. Westmoreland County got hit with a couple of tornados around 5 PM (EDT) yesterday. They're saying about 90 homes damaged, about 30 destroyed. Tore the roof off of a high school auditorium too.
W3WN
03-24-2011, 10:20 AM
Why the hell is the nursing home so close to a structure like that?
Tower was most likely there first, surrounded by empty fields. Then the land got sold, and the people who built the buildings just assumed that the tower would never fall.
N8YX
03-24-2011, 11:16 AM
Could be worse. Westmoreland County got hit with a couple of tornados around 5 PM (EDT) yesterday. They're saying about 90 homes damaged, about 30 destroyed. Tore the roof off of a high school auditorium too.
That's very near 'DSG's folks...
NQ6U
03-24-2011, 11:17 AM
Westmoreland County got hit with a couple of tornados around 5 PM (EDT) yesterday. They're saying about 90 homes damaged, about 30 destroyed. Tore the roof off of a high school auditorium too.

No trailer parks got hit...???
N8YX
03-24-2011, 11:53 AM
No trailer parks got hit...???
Not a lot of trailers in that part of PA.
W5GA
03-24-2011, 12:05 PM
No trailer parks got hit...???
you meant tornado magnets
W3WN
03-25-2011, 08:33 AM
No trailer parks got hit...???
Not this time. The tornados (it's official now, courtesy of the NWS) went through a residential neighborhood. The local high school suffered significant damage, the football field severely damaged (scoreboard and pressbox destroyed) which around here is a major tragedy. If I recall the news correctly, ~90 homes suffered some damage, ~30 of them destroyed completely or damaged enough that they are not repairable. The amazing thing is that no one was killed, or even hurt outside of some cuts and bruises. Now when you consider that there were at least 200 kids at the school at the time (one group rehearsing for a play, the track team practicing outdoors, and so on)...

About 4:45 PM on Wednesday, I was looking out the front window at work with my boss. He was on his Blackberry assuring his wife he'd be home soon. Skies had turned very dark, and we both saw clouds circling, albeit very slowly, over the Allegheny river. I left a few minutes later, and about 2 blocks from the LRT station, I got pelted with hail. No warning, it suddenly stopped misting and down it came. Chunks about the size of your thumb. Not fun.

I didn't find out about the tornados until I got home. Needless to say, all the news stations had plenty of coverage.

My son's wife's family lives in that general area as well, but as far as I know, no one had any problems.
W4RLR
03-25-2011, 11:45 PM
No trailer parks got hit...???Given the right hurricane, it is 100 percent certain this trailer park will be hit by a falling tower. This one is 1049 feet, in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

4045
NA4BH
03-25-2011, 11:47 PM
That's like playing the lotto
kb2vxa
03-26-2011, 01:41 PM
Uh uh, more like Russian Roulette with an automatic. Oh and I noticed something odd, Date Village?
KA5PIU
03-26-2011, 07:02 PM
Hello.

But, you know something?
I can just about bet if a ham were to put up even a modest tower, somebody would make noise!
W4RLR
03-27-2011, 07:35 PM
Uh uh, more like Russian Roulette with an automatic. Oh and I noticed something odd, Date Village?That's DALE Village. It's the name of the mobile home park. The tower was erected by WTVJ television in Miami back in 1949. Back then the land was out in the middle of nowhere. The mobile homes got put there in the late seventies and early eighties.

http://florida.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,2,fid,310310,n,wtvj-tv%20%28miami%29.cfm
N9FE
03-27-2011, 07:40 PM
Well we topped 30 degrees today. WEEEEE Still near ZERO at night.