Perhaps this shot shows the lean more viscerally. I’m starting to think that it may come down on its own. The removal by the Parks Department may have been delayed by the wet weather today. But the rain may be exacerbating the lean, making mud of the soil beneath the tower. And on second look the eastern base is flimsier than I was thinking. Who knows maybe only the roots of the tree it is built around is holding the tower up. Photo from around 2 this afternoon.

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I based my imagined plumb assuming that segment of roof is horizontal and the fence pole I was resting my camera against is vertical. Not that scientific, but close enough. It does seem to have a slight lean to the west, away from the sidewalk. It is such a web of wildly varied materials, that it is hard to say what may happen. I’m most worried about the western base, any sinking or rotting in those timbers could easily make it leans even further. But then again the massive eastern base could cantilever it, as there are so many interconnections. It is a woven structure, something a bower bird might build. This was around 9 this morning.

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