Lightning strike disables airport tower radios and closes tower 

Transcript:
Middle Beach Traffic, Spirit Wings, Airbus 320, lining up for a 1A, departure southbound, Middle Beach traffic. Middle Beach traffic. Middle Beach Highway, a lookout for 9-033-4-5. How do you hear this radio at 9-0, 3, 4, Fox, you guys, tell me? Yeah, we hear you loud in clear. Tower might not be listening, no, their radio's down right now from a lightning strike earlier, Rail Beach. That's why I was getting carried around. So, okay, are you guys in that name from Middle Beach? We're departing runway 1-8 right now, we're an Airbus 320 Spirit. Okay, how do you guys do with that, right signals, or what's the game's right? Yeah, just talking on CTAP. It's not controlled right now. Okay, big tap. Okay, very good, sir. So you'll be under frequency where we're going to be training to see the area with the low level on the beach. Okay, please. Metal Beach traffic here at Wings, Airbus 320 on the roll, southbound 1-8. Taken out by a lightning strike. Something about a backup frequency. This is the only frequency we have in the building right now is ground. And it's not even our normal frequency. It's the handheld radio that I'm on. Our tower is currently closed. Contact Jacksonville Center on 134.37 for your clearance and your release. And the airport is currently under C-TAC. Okay, sounds good. 3437. shoot you letting us know, hopefully y'all get some figured out soon. Thanks for the thumbs up all close.

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