Blinded by the Light - New light bulbs in DT street lamps?

[effulgent]

So my husband and I wake up from a light nap after work, and we walk into to our living room on the second floor of the Wilson building and realize ... it's awfully bright. We look outside to discover what we're pretty sure is a new lamp bulb in the street light at Elm an Ervay. This thing is putting out so much light that the entire living room area is bright, with the windows drawn, and at the desk near the window the light is so bright that we can read from it!

Yeah, we're going to probably have to invest in curtains now, as well as pull-down shades for our top window. Bastard lights. Did any other DT residents notice that the streets have recently become exceedingly bright and white?

[freewaytincan]

Glad to know Dallas doesn't disappoint in the light pollution department...

[gc]

Glad to know Dallas doesn't disappoint in the light pollution department...

Glad to know you are still taking interesting pictures of yourself and using them as avatars...lol...jk

[Boredkid]

I know, one of my nighbors had problem with that before i moved in, took him over a year to get it resolved. I will have to ask him what he did to solve the problem.

[Lakewooder]

Do you have a BB gun?

[Tnekster]

^Just shoot it.

[dizzy]

So my husband and I wake up from a light nap after work, and we walk into to our living room on the second floor of the Wilson building and realize ... it's awfully bright. We look outside to discover what we're pretty sure is a new lamp bulb in the street light at Elm an Ervay. This thing is putting out so much light that the entire living room area is bright, with the windows drawn, and at the desk near the window the light is so bright that we can read from it!

Yeah, we're going to probably have to invest in curtains now, as well as pull-down shades for our top window. Bastard lights. Did any other DT residents notice that the streets have recently become exceedingly bright and white?
Until you have a 9 sets of fluorescent lights 50 stories high across the street... I don't want to hear it! :)

just kidding. I noticed the lights on the Davis Bldg garage when they were changed and I lived a couple of floors above them.

[drumguy8800]

Dallas' street lamps are annoyingly blocky and urban. When I was in Houston Sunday & Monday I noticed that a lot of the lamps there are more the faux-antique style type.. that you see in residential neighborhoods, just a bit bigger and taller. I also like the way they have the traffic signals set up. Just a vertical pole with the single light sitting on the side of it so its unobtrusive, but obvious.

[Tnekster]

^How are all those new sidewalk lights working out downtown. I don't think I have seen them all lit up yet, just wondered how they are looking.

[carousel]

Dallas' street lamps are annoyingly blocky and urban.

I am surprised that someone in this forum would use urban and annoying in the same sentence.

[gc]

I am surprised that someone in this forum would use urban and annoying in the same sentence.

Especially from a moderator...he's banned!

[drumguy8800]

Ahahaha crap.

[Columbus Civil]

Urban Landscape is nice

[monogodo]

I feel like I'm in a High Security Prison the light is so bright.

[freewaytincan]

I feel like I'm in a High Security Prison the light is so bright.

Welcome to life like it is here in Huntsville!

[Boredkid]

I have a glock if you need to borrow it to turn off the lights.

[drumguy8800]

Welcome to life like it is here in Huntsville!Is there a reason that thing is right next to the highway?

[X Factor]

Prisions are everywhere in Huntsville!!! Its Texas Number One Resort Community!

[Boredkid]

Always love the signs telling you not to pick up hitchhikers around prisions.

[RobertB]

Is there a reason that thing is right next to the highway?
The Club Fed in Seagoville (soon to be home to a South Texas sheriff (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Sheriff_Sentencing.html), I hear, for a quarter-century vacation) is right off of US 175. Next door is the city park, with a sign saying "Seagoville: City of Opportunity". I wonder if the inmates see the sign and despair... oh, well, at least the train tracks behind the prison haven't been active for decades. "I hear the train a'comin', it's comin' round the bend..."

There's a topic? Sorry. Um, there's lights at the Seagoville prison, too. ;)

[SMU211]

Always love the signs telling you not to pick up hitchhikers around prisions.

If I didn't pick up hitchhikers near prisons, that would really cut into my social life.

[Boredkid]

Jail Officials: Pink Cell Is Calming
By Associated Press

Tue Dec 13, 8:18 PM
MAQUOKETA, Iowa - Jackson County Jail may have Iowa's most passive drunkards. That's because Sheriff Russ Kettmann has painted the jail's drunk tank pink _ a color some believe has calming effects.

The idea was inspired by former Iowa football coach Hayden Fry, who decades ago painted the visitors' locker room pink to give the Hawkeyes an edge.

Except Kettmann added his own touch _ the cell's ceiling is filled with stars and moons.

"Hayden Fry said it would have a soothing and calming effect on the visiting team, so I figured this would soothe the prisoners," the sheriff said. "I really looked hard to find those half-moons to add to the decor."

Kettmann had the cell decorated about five years ago when the other cells were being painted the traditional gun-metal gray.

Fry's idea drew ire from some who claimed Kinnick Stadium's pink locker room promoted sexism and homophobia. Two members of the university's law school complained this year to the administration, which refused to abandon Fry's decorating strategy.

Meanwhile, jail officials said people tossed into Jackson County's drunk tank have been agreeable to their surroundings.

Jail administrator Mark Pape acknowledges that prisoners in other cells have told him the color is "ugly," but prisoners who have actually seen the cell from the inside have not complained.

"I think the color could have an effect on them," he said. "They do calm down. But, of course, they are drunk and tend to either sleep or pass out."