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Old 09-28-2022, 10:06am   #107
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Originally Posted by Torqaholic View Post
Did a Cat 3 in the Bode Island Lighthouse once. Not without worry even though it had 5 foot thick stone walls. Storm lasted all night. Next day after the winds stopped howling I went up the stairs with another guy to get a view of the surroundings. There was a wooden door leading out to the catwalk. We thought we'd not go out there but just open the door and take a look from inside. When I turned the handle the door ripped out of the wall and sailed a quarter mile away. Lucky it didn't suck me out too. Holy crap!


Wonder how the Key West lighthouse is doing these daze......wife Linda went up in it when be visited some 8 years ago, but me is chickenshit, scared of dizzy heights unless I have an ENGINE some how reASSuring me from the noise/vibration....
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