Column By Mike Bibb
Here’s something you don’t see every day, unless you happen to be looking skyward around 10:30, Friday morning, Nov. 8. Look closely and you’ll see a couple of telecommunications techs at work near the top of the tower behind the Dairy Queen on Thatcher Boulevard in Safford.
It takes a special person, with specialized knowledge and training to climb up a 100-foot-plus telecommunications tower to perform certain tasks in order to keep folks on the ground happy and content with their cell phones and computers — and whatever else is dependent upon the signals received and transmitted by these giant steel skeletons, adorned in wires and antennas of various shapes and sizes.
Friday, around 10:30 a.m., I was waiting for my wife as she was shopping at the Enchanted Boutique on Thatcher Boulevard, across from Dairy Queen, when my eye caught the movement of something high up in the nearby telecommunications tower.
Two technicians, clad in work belts, jackets, hard hats, and safety harnesses, were diligently performing their unique occupations on a clear and chilly morning.
Accepting the difficulties and dangers of the job, at least it comes with a benefit not ordinarily experienced by most — the views must be spectacular!
