A NIMBY TREE

Everyone desires the best cell phone coverage that they can get! And how is that possible? Obviously -more cell phone towers. But that always brings out the NIMBY response " Not In My Back Yard".

Recently Pat & I was driving in our neighboring city to the west - O'Fallon. At almost the same moment we both said "I have not seen that tree before. How did that grow here so fast?"
As we got closer it was even more obvious what this tree was used for and why it appeared out of nowhere so fast.
This "tree" was a new kind of cell-phone tower. This tree which dwarfs its neighboring trees took all of two days to grow to its height of 120 feet. It is also a "money tree" for the homeowner whose backyard it stands in, $700 per month from the original provider plus an additional $300 per month for every cell-phone provider that puts a transmitter atop this mighty spruce.

Are his neighbors happy about it, read about that in this newspaper article. As the article mentions cell-phone transmitters have been placed in church steeples, towers that resemble telephone poles, street lights, observation towers, palm trees, even a mammoth cacti.

Here are two different cell-phone towers in our city of St. Peters. This one is in the back of the parking lot at the St. Peters Assembly of God church.
Another is a huge flag pole in a memorial honoring Korean and Vietnam veterans This tower was featured in my photo blog titled "Got Lemons - Make Lemonade".