[BC] Towers down in St. Luois

[Mike McCarthy]

Tower has an elevator.  It takes 15 minutes to travel the whole tower...two 
men per trip.  You sometimes only have a few minutes from the first 
indication of a storm approaching.

MM

At 02:14 PM 7/22/2006 -0700, Kent Winrich wrote
>I am SO glad thew towers guys made it.  I think I would have filled my 
>pants if that happened to me!!!  I gather there was no elevator.  If that 
>storm blew over semis, imagine hanging on to a tower through that... at 1000'!!
>
>Too bad about the KTRS site.  Quite a nice layout for us tower geeks.  If 
>anyone is interested, I have pics of the site before the damage.
>
>Agreed about the IP connectivity!  Thats where the IP cell phone comes in 
>REAL handy!!
>
>
>On 7/22/06, Mike McCarthy <<mailto:Towers at mre.com>Towers at mre.com> wrote:
>
>One other note on the STL storms....a tower crew working on the 1100 ft.
>community tower just south of downtown replacing an antenna ended the day
>not long before the storms hit.  One observer noted that had they not come
>down when they did by simply ending their day, there is no way they could
>have made it down, nor survived the storms 90 MPH winds, hail, and driving
>rain while on the tower.  The storms approached THAT fast...from a
>direction rarely seen...the NE.
>
>As a matter standing policy for our group, if there is a chance of
>thunderstorms or severe weather, either I or someone is monitoring the SPC
>web page and local radar hourly mid-day through then end of the day's work.
>We doing so more often if there are watches issued and/or any storm
>activity noted on radar.  This is where having IP connectivity/internet
>access at the TX could save a life...or a few.
>
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