LIttle OFF topic but interesting NOAA WX RADIO

[celltech25]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
144 PM MST SAT DEC 30 2006

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

1230 PM ICE STORM LENORA 39.61N 100.00W
12/30/2006 NORTON KS LAW ENFORCEMENT

400 FOOT TOWER HOUSING THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO TRANSMITTER
COLLAPSED. THE TOWER WAS FOUND AT 1230PM MST BY LOCAL
FIRE DEPARTMENT. ESTIMATE OF 0.5 TO 0.75 INCH ICE
ACCUMULATIONS ON TOWER.

[kb0nly]

Is that ironic or what??

If anyone finds a news story on it, or some pictures let us know!

[WA3VJB]

They need to practice what they preach.
Apparently they had no plan.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/byz/severe_guide/section1.php

UNDERSTANDING YOUR RISKS
AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A PLAN

Ice Storms - Heavy accumulations of ice can bring down trees, utility lines, and communication towers. Roadways become a glaze of ice and nearly impassable. Again, school buses may be delayed or unavailable. Of all winter deaths related to ice and snow, 70 percent occur in motor vehicle accidents and 25 percent are people caught out in the storm.



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Local newspaper had a reference to it, but didn't mention the NWS.

http://www.saljournal.com/?module=displ ... ormat=html

"We've got a lot of electrical lines down all over," said Sheriff Troy Thomson, who also serves as the county's emergency preparedness director.

Thomson said a communications tower collapsed, and for a couple of hours, the emergency center lost the ability to page out rural firefighters. A crew from Rural Telephone, Lenora, was able to reroute the signal, he said, and the paging capability was restored.

"We had a calling tree set up, so we were ready to go," Thomson said. "We didn't have to use it. Nobody was in any danger or anything."

THIS IS NOT THE TOWER COLLAPSING FROM THE ICE
But cool anyway.

[motofreak008]

I found this and am quite impressed. I live in northwest Kansas, where the storm happened. If that is the tower I am thinking of, it caused a lot of problems. I just got internet back on after nearly a week of no internet because a tower went down. Interstate 70 was closed for almost three days, and every other highway that goes out of my town was closed. Truckers and travelers were stranded the whole time. My town just sold out to the main power company Midwest Energy, but luckily kept the power plant with all of the generators. They were down and for four or five days, guys on my dad's (He is the local utilities director) crew and himself had to stay at the power plant for eight hours at a time to see that they engine was running fine. It took until last night until Midwest found the problem and we switched back over. In my neighboring county, about 3,000 poles were down in that one county. Schools are closed all over the place. This storm was very bad, it started with rain, and that froze. Then on top of that, it snowed for nearly three days. I heard today that FEMA may be called in to bring in generators and other things. Pretty much, if you didn't have a 4wd vehicle, you were stuck were you were at.