Off topic, but speaking of foreshadowing, I watched this weeks episode of Shōgun on FX where there was a [they called it] “baby earthquake”.
50 years ago, I remember reading the James Clavell novel and recall that there will be a massive earthquake in which Blackstone rescues Toranaga from falling into a fissure and gains much respect.
The article does not mention if the soil around it was dug up seeking the ground-plane metal. That would be much easier to steal and have more value per pound than scrap aluminum. The wavelength of an AM station is so long [The formula involves the speed of light and a pie or two] that the entire tower acts as the active element while the ground soaks up the negative portion of the signal, hence swampy locations [especially salt water] are prefered. It did say there had been a few floods at the transmitter.
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