Part of an antenna has just been removed from the tower and is being lowered to the ground.
When there’s work that has to be done at the top of a cell phone tower, someone has to go up there and do it.
That much is obvious, but I had never much thought about it until Wednesday morning, when I glanced up and saw what you see in the photo above.
It was about 11:30 and I had just come out of the Goin’ Postal store off Hickory Street in North Albany. That’s when I saw two men working away at the top of the mast across the way, on the far side of North Albany Self Storage.
Watching for a few minutes I realized what they were doing. They were disconnecting and taking off antennas from that part of the monopole tower.
From the ground, those antennas don’t look all that big. But obviously some of them are bigger than a man. And evidently they aren’t exactly light either. Their weight and the height make it necessary to use a mammoth-size crane to get them safely to the ground.
Below the tower, another man was dismantling the antennas as they came down. When I spoke to him across the fence, from parking lot of the Samaritan medical center there, he told me they were replacing antennas, not just removing them. If I understood him correctly, they were doing this for AT&T.
The crew up on the mast was working deliberately and methodically, just as you would expect of skilled technicians working high up in the air. (hh)
Cutting apart the old antennas on the ground.
This is the view that first caught my eye on Wednesday.
This story, although interesting, needs to be edited so neutral language is used.
Please delete “men” and “man” and insert “they”, “person(s)”, “individual”, or “people.”
Those who control the language control the culture. And those in control of today’s culture assert that a person’s appearance does not reveal their biological category or gender construct.
Hence, only unbiased, neutral language is acceptable.
Resistance is futile.
We all control the language. Well, perhaps Merriam Webster does:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year/vaccine
No problem defaulting to the male singular/plural, if Mr. Hering’s eyesight doesn’t tell HIM anything different, nor if any of the skilled technicians do not inform HIM otherwise.
The movement to tailor 3rd person references to what the referent asks is one of common courtesy and familiarity. It’s a bigger, more interesting world every day.
Made a mistake mispronouncing someone? (new word for me, thank you.)
https://www.mypronouns.org/mistakes
Apologize and give them the opportunity to accept gracefully.
Screw ‘em!
Typical troll response…
Just tired of the drivel that you two spew. Maybe you both should get jobs at CNN, or better yet, on The View.
LOL Like the promising BS, propaganda and BIG lie propagation of Faux News and OAN. I like your original sources much, much better STG. LOL
Who Could It Be? Title Song from Men At Work (Australian guys)
Here comes 5G !!!
Time for the conspiritualists (good search word), anti-vaxxers, Qanoners, and anti-5G crowd to come out and ,,,!
Sorry, Gordon’s post made it irresistible. Of course I have no knowledge of what they are installing. My mind is made up, don’t bother me with the facts!
Just because I can’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not out there… :-)
The truth is out there