[TowerTalk] Broadcast tower failure

[bob puharic]

M.G. Brafford wrote:

> TowerTalk,
>     I saw on the news this morning that a tornado felled a broadcast tower
> in Oka yesterday. A video of the failure shows the tower appear to buckle
> in the middle and collapse in a fairly small area. Did anyone else see the
> news cast? It was on CBS Sunday morning.

FWIW i saw it too. it was a short clip but it looked to me as if it started to
fall, pivoting from the base, then it buckled abt 1/3 of the way up and the
top then collapsed...interesting...especially to those of us with towers!


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