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SeattleShooter
12-13-2007, 05:50 AM
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=20c_1197520665

That could kill someone!
tarzan
12-13-2007, 06:46 AM
That's crazy!!!! I'm glad I don't live up north anymore.
villagevidiot
12-13-2007, 08:58 AM
Thats in OKC which is just above Dallas....freak ice storm...we had about a dozen cars hit...
stargazer
12-13-2007, 09:11 AM
I worked at a station where the building was directly underneath the tower. We parked our news vehicles under the tower, but we had three layers of chain link fence built over the parking lot. The ice would come down and hit the fence, then break into small pieces. You still got pelted with ice, but it wasn't the large sections that would fall from the tower. The building itself was not protected, and the company would have to replace the roof every other year.
B&T
12-13-2007, 09:32 AM
I worked at a station in the midwest, where the tower was next to the building. Everytime an ice storm hit the heaters would melt the ice and we could hear the ice hitting the roof. We had an ice storm one day and snowfall the next. We had just gotten a new female reporter right out of college, from southern CA, and she had never seen snow before. She heard the ice hitting the roof and we told her that it was snow. The rest of the night she was afraid to go outside because she was convinced that snow could kill you.
engphotog21
12-13-2007, 09:47 AM
We have that problem every year at my station. Most people move there cars to the gravel lot that is farther away from the tower, only problem with that is, they have to run into the danger zone to get back to the building... Just Monday my news van got hit twice while pulling around to the back of the lot to get to the car port... Just minor dents though... It is rather scary...
Sore Shoulder
12-13-2007, 10:36 AM
Had that problem when I lived in NC. People parked in the church across the street.
long521
12-13-2007, 11:12 AM
The rest of the night she was afraid to go outside because she was convinced that snow could kill you.

They don't call it white death for nothing.
photogguy
12-13-2007, 12:24 PM
The first station I worked at is in Northern Michigan, and the tower was right next to the building. There was an auxillary parking lot where we'd park during winter months, with a covered walkway so we didn't have to dodge falling ice walking to and from the lot.

The ice chunks would hit the building so hard that viewers could hear the thuds during the newscasts. It sounded like we were being bombed!