Nope...'tis not a joke. Go henceforth and follow the links!
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Trust me... it isn't the McDonald's that's going to be bothering everyone so much as the Pilot station's quad floodlight that towers above the golden arches. Camped in full sight of it at War Practice and it is bright. Very bright. Not bright enough to say, hurt your eyes or notice it when you are in your tent but it is definitely something that cannot be missed any more than the moon can. Hopefully the foliage will have grown in enough by the end of July to shield most of it's *a-hem* "brilliance" From the looks of it, the Micky D's sign will probably be at least mostly obscured. IIt was partially covered even at WP (when viewed from the lake, anyway.) It's the "truckstop special" I'm worried mostly about.

I was wondering if there is any official request or idea for such a request to have the light towers shut off or at least dimmed after X-o'clock. I doubt the latter is possible short of draping something... i imagine parking lot lights don't typically come with dimmer settings. Anyway, for my eyes at least I think the glowing presence over the hill is more than a little distracting and disheartening. I suppose if I'm going to be TOTALLY honest about it though, it isn't as though we don't have a constant flow of electric lights everywhere already. As annoying as the new additions to the horizon are, it probably won't be as intrusive and bothersome as the continuous presence of motorized vehicles on site so perhaps I shouldn't get to sore about it. *shrug* I guess it would be hard to take a request to shut down the lights seriously when we allow them everywhere AT Pennsic.