OK, so I don't get around as much as I used to ....
While evacuating and "revacuating" during Hurricane Irma, I passed through Screven County for the first time in probably eleven years. I took note that the original WSYL tower is down and that the building looks like it has been abandoned to the elements for quite a while. I asked a long-time friend in Newington what had happened there, noting that the place looked like it had been bombed from above, and I was told that high storm winds had taken down the tower and the station had relocated to another location; but another friend says, no, that the tower was struck and brought by equipment being used to remove trees which were damaged in a storm. Does anyone know what did happen and when it happened. I used to use that tower as a landmark while travelling to and from Athens during my gloriously misspent youth, and I was quite sad to see the shape everything has fallen into. I was in Oklahoma from 2003 to 2006, and I have not been farther up GA 21 than Newington since I returned to the Savannah area. It seems if a radio tower had fallen in the area, something would have been in area media, but I can find nothing about the tower either falling or being intentionally demolished. From what I saw, whatever happened was neither planned nor intentional. The site looked eerie in the gathering twilight.
While evacuating and "revacuating" during Hurricane Irma, I passed through Screven County for the first time in probably eleven years. I took note that the original WSYL tower is down and that the building looks like it has been abandoned to the elements for quite a while. I asked a long-time friend in Newington what had happened there, noting that the place looked like it had been bombed from above, and I was told that high storm winds had taken down the tower and the station had relocated to another location; but another friend says, no, that the tower was struck and brought by equipment being used to remove trees which were damaged in a storm. Does anyone know what did happen and when it happened. I used to use that tower as a landmark while travelling to and from Athens during my gloriously misspent youth, and I was quite sad to see the shape everything has fallen into. I was in Oklahoma from 2003 to 2006, and I have not been farther up GA 21 than Newington since I returned to the Savannah area. It seems if a radio tower had fallen in the area, something would have been in area media, but I can find nothing about the tower either falling or being intentionally demolished. From what I saw, whatever happened was neither planned nor intentional. The site looked eerie in the gathering twilight.