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On "The Tower"

Spoiler: The "Family Tower" in Louisiana has partially collapsed. Below are links to some 2018 UAV videos when it was still standing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejGSR2GLaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8jbxfcGEDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdZl453YveQ 2023 UAV video of the remnants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ir_nqAUtCE The Story Post-COVID 2020 Christmas week, we hitched up the "Cajun Edition" RV to head to Louisiana to visit family. We arrived at mom's house after dark, parked the RV, and mom invited us in, handed me a beer (love that woman). She sat down with me with a serious face, and said "honey, I've got some news". OK, I'm thinking...did someone die? "The tower fell down." I'm shocked. " What?? " I stepped outside to see for myself...of course, it's pitch-dark in her area at night and with no moon I couldn't see a damned thing. And it probably wasn't a good idea to be wandering aro