Faucett
Faucett
First OfficerFirst Officer
Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Missouri, USA
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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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RadarMan
RadarMan
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Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17928 Location: U.S.A
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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.

Radar

3 days, not 1 spam!

Faucett
Faucett
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Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Missouri, USA
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Yeah!! 😀

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hms_endeavour
hms_endeavour
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Joined: Nov 03, 2004 Posts: 1351 Location: In the sky
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NIce to have you back! The anti spam login is working pretty well, I'm impressed.

Faucett
Faucett
First OfficerFirst Officer
Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Missouri, USA
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Indeed. And I was glad to see myself stripped of my chief captain stripes, I didn't deserve them anyway!! 🍻 ROFL

Seriously, there seems to be some fresh air at flyaway, happy to see it.

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Jonathan (99jolegg)
Jonathan (99jolegg)
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Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4112 Location: UK
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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

Umm... 😂

Faucett
Faucett
First OfficerFirst Officer
Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Missouri, USA
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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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Kareem El-Sadi (crosscheck9)
Kareem El-Sadi (crosscheck9)
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Joined: Oct 07, 2005 Posts: 804
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Good to see your safe and sound Faucett. Good luck with the station's recovery 😉

Greekman72
Greekman72
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Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 5418 Location: Hellas
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crosscheck9 wrote:

Good to see your safe and sound Faucett. Good luck with the station's recovery 😉

Yes Yes Yes 👍

Jamie4590
Jamie4590
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NASA had a mission hampered recently after a ligntening strike.

Faucett
Faucett
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Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 452 Location: Missouri, USA
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Thanks, all, for your kind words - things are quite trying at the moment, but your generous empathy encourages me!!! 😀 😀

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