So the NIMBYs can relax and worry instead about a micro hydro plant destroying the Corp of Engineers handiwork, St. Anthony Falls...
On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Jay Clark wrote:
I would like to make a request for any cell phone towers on park property:
Please put red dimmer lights on top of the towers, not white strobe lights.
Sorry, but the FAA decides what color lights go on top of towers. While it would be entertaining to let our Park Board light up the city like a christmas tree with their choice of colors, it would be quite confusing to pilots.
I think those strobe lights are ghastly to look at, and can destroy otherwise beautiful night-time scenes.
Airplane crash scenes are even uglier.
Try standing on the hill at Farview park at night, and look at downtown
Minneapolis. The view is badly damaged by the nauseous strobe lights on
top of the garbage burner.
An academic issue, because it isn't safe to wander about Farview Park at night anyway.
And hasn't anybody driven at night along, say, I-90, enjoying the brilliant starry sky, only to have the scene destroyed by epileptic pulsing white strobe lights blasting away?
Those of us who drive a lot at night appreciate the lights- they give us landmarks to chart our progress by. If you're not familiar with the road they also give you an idea of a town's size and likelyhood of services, etc..
Maybe I am the only person on the planet who thinks that these white strobe lights are ugly visual air pollution, but please save us.
No, please save us from air crashes and such.
Jay Clark Cooper
P.S. Responding to urgent queries from concerned Nokomis residents: the loons I saw waddling around Lake Nokomis are of the winged variety, not the two-legged variety.
P.P.S. Weird bird update. As of 8:00 P.M. last night, there were still
loons on Lake Nokomis.
Their ancient and melancholy calls pierce straight to my heart. They
have been joined by pie-billed grebes and flocks of mergansers. Great
blue herons have also made their first majestic appearance. And while
not quite qualifying as weird birds, I have also seen bats darting
around street lights at 50th and Woodlawn.
A hint for those who enjoy watching great blue herons: go out to Lake
Nokomis (or Harriet, Calhoun, Grass, etc.) after 10:00 P.M., and
unobrusively approach a street lamp that is near the water. There is a
good chance that you will see a great blue heron in the water opposite
the street lamp. I think the herons are using the light from the street
lamps to help them hunt for fish at night.
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