To: chance33_98
Sounds like they didn't get the tension on the guy wires right. Or one of them let go.
17 posted on
07/06/2003 4:19:28 AM PDT by
GailA
(Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
To: GailA
Or one of them let go. Engineers in Nebraska never heard of Factor of Safety or redundancy?
19 posted on
07/06/2003 4:31:33 AM PDT by
Publius6961
(Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
To: GailA
Saw some file of a 2,000' tower in NC (Raleigh area) a few years back that got covered with a thick layer of ice after a freak storm. As the sun came up, it began to melt the East side of the tower. Huge blocks fell off the one side, then the stress became so great the tower just twisted and fell. It was quite an amazing thing to see. A lot of force pent up in a structure like that...
To: GailA
"Sounds like they didn't get the tension on the guy wires right. Or one of them let go."
They probably overloaded the thing by simply clamping yet another big antenna on an existing tower. It sounds like it was mounted pretty high on the tower so the cable weight must have been enormous. These cables are 5-8 inches in diameter!
26 posted on
07/06/2003 8:05:04 AM PDT by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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