They lost all three towers Wednesday (8/4) afternoon around 4 PM EDT
http://www.wwva.com/cc-common/mainhe...rticle=7439986
Direct link to the picture gallery at http://www.wwva.com/cc-common/galler...lbum_id=244870
They lost all three towers Wednesday (8/4) afternoon around 4 PM EDT
http://www.wwva.com/cc-common/mainhe...rticle=7439986
Direct link to the picture gallery at http://www.wwva.com/cc-common/galler...lbum_id=244870
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
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Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
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They carry Glen Beck! It must be God's wrath!
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
That's just nuts. Any word as to how strong the winds were? I don't recall anything like this happening even during Hurricane Charlie 5 or 6 years ago.
Someone down there should know. If I find out, I'll let you know.
BTW, I should credit my source... Frank Bobro N3FB, CE of WPXI-TV channel 11.
(and no, the club's repeater is not on their tower, a different club beat us to it years ago)
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
Being an ex-broadcast engineer, I really feel for their technical staff. I have had to do creative stuff to get a temp signal on the air, but nothing like that.
Do you happen to know if the towers were free standing or did they have guy wires? I've just never seen anything like that before.. especially when referencing a "severe thunderstorm". A direct hit by a tornado, I could see, but straight winds caused by a non-tornadic (is that even a word?) event? That's pretty uncommon, as far as my personal experience goes.
And yeah, I'm presuming there wasn't a tornado, but I guess they're not mutually exclusive. Just when there's a tornado, they usually say so rather than saying severe thunderstorm.
I have never seen the towers in person, but from the first link you can go to a shot of all three standing. They are shaped like self supporters and I didn't see any guys. Of course that doesn't mean they're not there.
Nutty. Mother Nature, what a bitch.
Helluva mess. I'm curious about the tower height , and brand . Must have been a heckuva storm .
I won't question your Creator's wisdom , but you are responsible for your own actions .
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Those were free-standers, and from the debris field and fall pattern one can deduce that they were felled by straight-line winds. Most probably, they were hit by a series of gusts which arrived in such a manner as to repeatedly impart energy to the towers as they were bending away from the gust front...and the in-phase loads finally caused one of the legs to fail.
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