In the righting processof thetower, the internal member forcesaren'tover thanthe critical bearing capacities except thehorizontalslip, and the tower is in a safestate.
Fayette said he agreed to talk to the newspaper for the Irene story because of some of the critical media coverage, including an Enterprise editorial, DOT received that summer over the repaving of state Route 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid.
Once you know what to look for, this kind of scaling shows up all over the place in natural systems that are poised on the edge of change in a criticalstate.