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Why are these wires on this water tower? What do they do?
Update:
Caught it with the curtain up!
The easiest easy for a small town to make some easy money is to turn their water tower into one of those carnival rides that spin people around on long ropes.
Are they always there? Looks like they are getting ready to hang a curtain around it before painting it, or some other type of maintenance.