Snow Plow got me again

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   Well this year's show was going good. Only about 2 - 3 inches of snowfall late last night followed by sleet then rain.  No snow plows down the street the last snowfall but they sure found their way down the street during the wee hours of this morning!

Even though nothing took a direct plow hit (things should have been far enough away) they took out my donation box and a few other items enough that I had to tear apart that section of the display (while we were getting 2 inches of rain)  and bring things in for a quick repair.  At least I believe it was the snow plow - there's some things that got pretty dented and bent up. 
I guess the bright spot is that not a single bulb appears to have broken. 

Pretty soon I'll start painting plows on the donation box adding one everytime it gets taken out by a plow. 

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bdkeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Location: Easton,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 380	Quote Reply Topic: Snow Plow got me again Posted: 09 Dec 2009 at 10:59am
	Well this year's show was going good. Only about 2 - 3 inches of snowfall late last night followed by sleet then rain. No snow plows down the street the last snowfall but they sure found their way down the street during the wee hours of this morning! Even though nothing took a direct plow hit (things should have been far enough away) they took out my donation box and a few other items enough that I had to tear apart that section of the display (while we were getting 2 inches of rain) and bring things in for a quick repair. At least I believe it was the snow plow - there's some things that got pretty dented and bent up. I guess the bright spot is that not a single bulb appears to have broken. Pretty soon I'll start painting plows on the donation box adding one everytime it gets taken out by a plow.


LightChristmas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Dec 2009 at 11:53am
	If all your display is NOT on the city right-of-way; you need to videotape the bum in the act, then tell the city you plan to file charges under the Hate Crime laws, vandalism, criminal trespass, and aggravated ignorance.


Slinkard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Location: El Cajon CA Online Status: Offline Posts: 243	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Dec 2009 at 12:44pm
	OR Move the donation box.
	Coming soon www.computerizedlights.com

bdkeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Location: Easton,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 380	Quote Reply Posted: 10 Dec 2009 at 7:28am
	Funny thing is the donation box is right next to the mail box the same distance from the curb - they miss the mail box. It's just not concreted into the ground (yet ). Video camera is mounted on the donation box post. It's a shame I wasn't recording the video, I'll bet it would have been a cool video clip. It took a pretty hard hit and survived remarkably well considering. Although things are fairly stable I'll be rethinking some of the curb-side portions of the display for next year making things a bit more plow proof. Sometimes it's not really the plow but the weight of the slush and snow flying off the plow. And the distance that stuff flies is sometimes dependent upon who's driving the plow. Some things were moved back a bit after experience some of the same last year. Just one of those things we in the colder, snowy regions need to contend with. Despite the work to repair the damage I can still find the humor. There were enough foot prints around the box to see that someone tried to set it back up and make it look like nothing happened. A bit hard with things busted, twisted, dented, and hanging. It's things like this that help make the display memorable.