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gomizzoutigers
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Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2009 08:10 pm |
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Thanks to Mike Anderson's STLMediastuff blog, Youtube footage of a lightning strike yesterday to Clear Channel's Nashville cluster's STL tower. Two studios toast, one on life support, no network, no internet, "smells like sh*t.
http://stlmediastuff.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-it-hit-tower.html
Best quote: Cluster VP/MM Tom English adds, "That's what happens when you point a big metal finger at God and play 'I Want To Ride On Your Disco Stick' 9,000 times."
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Ace
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Posted: Sat Aug 22nd, 2009 01:57 am |
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| Ouch. I was at Cumulus in Columbia when we took a direct hit about four years ago - the overnighter actually called the fire department because smoke was pouring out of the KBBM console. Every computer in the place was fried - not fun!!!
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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Sun Aug 23rd, 2009 05:08 am |
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Couple of decades ago, our Program Director was looking out the back door of the station during a severe thunderstorm. Around 30 feet away was our STL tower.
"Wonder what it would be like if lightning struck that tower," he said as I walked by. No sooner did he utter those words, then WHAM, lightning hit the tower. Without flinching, I said, "Like that." Then I walked into my office and my knees buckled, but he never knew that I wasn't the calm, collected engineer.
Last edited on Sun Aug 23rd, 2009 05:08 am by Buddy Dornster
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gomizzoutigers
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Posted: Mon Aug 24th, 2009 04:26 am |
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WSIX is now using the lightning strike as a contest feature to caption the strike picture and win a month's worth of electricity.
http://radiobase1.clearchannel.com/front/OpenContest.asp?Action=Login&SurveyID=29939&zx=561
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Wesley Wallace
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Posted: Mon Aug 24th, 2009 03:17 pm |
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Reminds me of the time we were installing a 60' Rohn 25G STL tower for KFFB in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. There were three of us there. A storm had came in while one of my men (Jeff) was at the house brackets doing some tightening. It was pouring down and me and Toby were under the porch trying to stay dry. Jeff was calling us sissies for getting out of the storm. He stayed on the tower about 30' off of the ground and was doing the classic "macho-man / you call this a storm?" routine. Seconds later, lightning struck a pine tree only 100' away, blowing bark in all directions! Jeff practically slid down the tower like a fireman's pole he was so terrified!
Wesley
Buddy Dornster wrote:
Couple of decades ago, our Program Director was looking out the back door of the station during a severe thunderstorm. Around 30 feet away was our STL tower.
"Wonder what it would be like if lightning struck that tower," he said as I walked by. No sooner did he utter those words, then WHAM, lightning hit the tower. Without flinching, I said, "Like that." Then I walked into my office and my knees buckled, but he never knew that I wasn't the calm, collected engineer.
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Buddy Dornster
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Posted: Mon Aug 24th, 2009 08:54 pm |
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| Too bad it was raining so hard. You couldn't tell if he'd wet himself on the way down!
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