OMG! Talk about ICE. Watch this!
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Originally Posted by mSaLL150
holy ****! thats insane. could you imagine being hit by one of those? so are those just comin out of the sky? dang.
They are falling off a 1600' radio/tv tower
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Yea they fall from the tower.
I use to work at a radio station, we had a small 150'-200' tower that broadcast to our 500' main tower on a hill outside of town.
When ever there was ice it was just like that as it thawed. You literally ran ot the station looking up for falling ice and prayed for your life. Once inside you could hear the building being pelted and life was still at risk only you'd never see it coming. A piece could come through the ceiling and impale you at any minute.
They have been showing pictures on the news the last couple of days of a radio tower that collapsed from the ice on it in this last ice storm.
You figure a 1/8" of ice on a tower, thats a lot of surface areas if you figure the guide wires + the surface of every rod of the tower, a thin coating will be several thousand pounds of additional load on the tower.
I use to work at a radio station, we had a small 150'-200' tower that broadcast to our 500' main tower on a hill outside of town.
When ever there was ice it was just like that as it thawed. You literally ran ot the station looking up for falling ice and prayed for your life. Once inside you could hear the building being pelted and life was still at risk only you'd never see it coming. A piece could come through the ceiling and impale you at any minute.
They have been showing pictures on the news the last couple of days of a radio tower that collapsed from the ice on it in this last ice storm.
You figure a 1/8" of ice on a tower, thats a lot of surface areas if you figure the guide wires + the surface of every rod of the tower, a thin coating will be several thousand pounds of additional load on the tower.
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dude thats nuts, makes me happy to live somewhere where there are NO tall buildings or structures to be under..
i remember seeing on the news last year that chunks were falling off the CN tower in toronto, kinda like that but they were sheets the size of cars.
i remember seeing on the news last year that chunks were falling off the CN tower in toronto, kinda like that but they were sheets the size of cars.
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Kansas City PD had shut down a section of streets on Thursday due to the falling ice of of the KCTV 5 tower downtown for this very reason. Our front yard looks like a major hail storm passed through with all the ice falling off the tree.
I was out and about while it was just warming up when the ice was falling off of overhead roadway signs. Didn't see any cars get hit, but there were some close calls. Probably best not to go out on the first 35-degree day after a decent ice storm.
I was out and about while it was just warming up when the ice was falling off of overhead roadway signs. Didn't see any cars get hit, but there were some close calls. Probably best not to go out on the first 35-degree day after a decent ice storm.
