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<\/a><\/p>\nI made a few calls to find out what the deal was since no one bothered to clue us in.<\/p>\n
This happened next, a couple days ago:<\/p>\n
Any guesses \u00a0as to what’s going on?<\/p>\n s<\/span><\/p>\n Update:<\/p>\n Most of the guessing took place on facebook, where I made the reveal that this is the location of a soon-to-be cell tower. I think I have made a point to tell everyone I know that we got “No Signal” here on our iPhone (with AT&T service). Some people with Verizon service, if they jumped through flaming hoops in the corner of the driveway with the stars properly aligned, could get 1 bar. We moved to this house in March and continued to keep paying a good chunk of change every month for no signal within a 5 mile radius of our house, because it worked in town…sometimes. We literally just cancelled the service about 2 weeks ago and now there will be a tower about 1\/4 mile away.<\/p>\n So, we’ll see what we’ll do once the tower exists. It was almost a point of pride for me to say that I lived somewhere with no cell signal. Maybe this is a lesson. There is also a highway about to be built through the woods just to the east of us, something we didn’t know about until after we had made an offer on the house (probably what is driving the construction of the cell tower). While I miss the iPhone, part of me is disappointed that the “machine” of development is taking some of the “lost” out of our forest. It seems to be inescapable unless you own so much land that you have a big enough buffer all around you that is “safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The photos below were taken across the street from the end of our driveway, near the mailboxes, on part of a \u00a050-acre chunk of woods owned by the county. First the sign went up a couple months ago. Then, the … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n