WEAU Tower Falls

  • whiskeysour
    4 miles from Pool 9
    Posts: 693
    March 23, 2011 at 1:25 pm #1271426

    Story:

    FAIRCHILD, Wis. – A 2,000-foot-tall television transmitting tower toppled in western Wisconsin, knocked the TV station off the air.

    WEAU-TV turned to the Internet to deliver its 10 p.m. newscast Tuesday night after the tower in eastern Eau Claire County came tumbling down. The weather was windy and icy at the time, but the tower in Fairchild has stood through Wisconsin’s worst conditions since 1966.

    Fairchild Fire Department spokesperson Stacy Tanner says no one was hurt when the tower came down about 8:30 p.m. WEAU-TV says part of the structure fell over Hwy. H, which isn’t expected to be cleared until later Wednesday.

    When I had a truck driving job for a while I drove by this tower nearly every Wed aft. I always wondered how tall that tower really was.

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    March 23, 2011 at 1:55 pm #949635

    I heard the tower is 25′ high now

    Jon Stevens
    Northfield, Wi
    Posts: 1242
    March 23, 2011 at 7:41 pm #950071

    A co worker was there yesterday on a job. Not when it collapsed of coarse. How would you like to change the light bulbs on that one!
    I was just at a 600′ tower. There was enough ice on it and the wind was strong enough it rocked the entire building underneath. I felt like I had sea legs standing in the middle of the room

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