lightning = bad
Hello all! I haven't been around for a few days here, and its taken me about three hours to get caught up on everything. Glad to see the spam-storm is dissipating.
The reason for my absence was that the radio station where I work was absolutely toasted by a lightning strike early this past weekend. There are five stations in the building, they were all virtually destroyed. Here's the story from the local paper:
http://showmenews.com/2006/Aug/20060828News001.asp
Needless to say, I've been pretty busy trying to keep things on the air! Our engineers and IT people have done a great job, but I knew things were bad when one of them started quoting from the Book of Revelations as he worked!!!
Anyway - glad to be back!
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I'm surprised that when they built it they didn't plan on having a system of some kind that would "absorb" a lighting strike.
I'm sure this is a common occurrence to facilities such as this.
Glad you weren't in there at the time and good to see you back.
3 days, not 1 spam!
Yeah!! 😀
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NIce to have you back! The anti spam login is working pretty well, I'm impressed.
Indeed. And I was glad to see myself stripped of my chief captain stripes, I didn't deserve them anyway!! 🍻 
Seriously, there seems to be some fresh air at flyaway, happy to see it.
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Glad to hear your station is getting back to normal 👍
KFRU news director: Dan Claxton wrote:
It’s being held together with rubber bands and chewing gum at this point
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Its true, Jolegg!! 😂 😂
I was running things with a cd player, a microphone, and half of a computer!
Lightning scares me now. 😳
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Good to see your safe and sound Faucett. Good luck with the station's recovery 😉
crosscheck9 wrote:
Good to see your safe and sound Faucett. Good luck with the station's recovery 😉
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Jamie4590
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NASA had a mission hampered recently after a ligntening strike.
Thanks, all, for your kind words - things are quite trying at the moment, but your generous empathy encourages me!!! 😀 😀
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