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Old 21-02-2018, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by AstroJunk View Post
Rather naughtily I personally thanked the poor gentleman that collected the annoying streetlight outside my house last night. Thankfully he was fine; I was standing in the garage when I heard the crash Lesson: don't drive tired.

And massive kudos to the unsung hero's of the incident - the engineers who designed the lamp post to crumple in such a way that the car occupants would be completely unhurt. My father was a lighting engineer and in his day he designed these things to be still standing after the nuclear winter. Those engineers have saved many, many lives.

The even better news, chatting to the Energex man who came to make the electrics safe, there is a minimum three to six month wait for new installations and he has put a note on the job to consider shielding the light from our property

Glad to see you're reclaiming the night,Jonathan,even if it is as the result of a fender bender.
No problem in having find someone knock down a light pole to gain access to a dark sky here at My abode at Cambroon.
Enjoy your dark sky while you can,as you know time seems too travel fast.
Cheers
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