Fallen Tower
A television station antenna tower collapsed here Thursday, killing three. Huntsville has two television stations essentially next door to each other atop Monte Sano mountain, with two twin TV towers next two each other at the high point of the city's skyline. When we went on trips when I was little, those distinctive towers were often the first way I knew when we were almost back home. Odd seeing the mountain with one missing.

That said, I do have to make one other bitter comment. The tower collapsed while workers were strengthening it to support HDTV (the cause of the collapse has not been determined). A representative of OSHA said that there have been several other accidents around the country associated with the installation of the new systems. Three deaths here in town, and several other accidents (it doesn't say if any of those were fatal) elsewhere? Where are the cries to discontinue HDTV? The Senate committee hearings on the safety of HDTV installation? A call for a ban on future HDTV until better tower collapse escape systems are created? The HDTVAIB?
Everything's relative, I guess.

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