Tom Randy wrote:
: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 14:31:31 -0500, Lawrence Troxler wrote:


:
: If it's any consolation to you though, the remnants of the East Fishkill
: IBM plant is across the street to my south. Apparently they still have
: enough money to keep all the lights running all night. And aside from
: Aurora's, the south is what's important for astronomy.
:
: Larry


: Typical big business BS with those lights. My condolences. Layoff tons of
: people but keep the lights burning all night for nothing. Yeah, not TOO
: screwed up huh?

: I have to deal with the city of Poughkeepsie's damn lights, they wash out
: everything up to about 75 degrees from the S.E. to S.W.

: To get nice dark skies I have to go out to Millbrook or drive north about
: a half hour.


: Hang in there Larry, it could be worse I guess.

No, _MY_ condolences - you seem to have the bigger problem.

OTOH, It just occurred to me that I never actually talked to anyone in the
town government about this. Will do that on Monday.

Are you a member of the Mid Hudson group, BTW? Been thinking of joining.
Of course for me, the trek to Wilcox park is more of a trip than it is for
you. But then again, for all of about 20 bucks, I assume there would be a
phone call alert chain set up for events like these

Larry.