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(meteorobs) What light-pollution activists in Florida are up against



From joe rao:

      Two teenagers were electrocuted by "an energized streetlight."  After
the electrocution, the county ordered all streetlights extinguished until
they could be rewired. Then, a man was struck and killed by a car while
crossing
the darkened street and a motorist killed in a two-car collision in the same
area.  [Summarized by Martin Minow, minow@pobox.com]

<http://www.miamiherald.com/content/today/news/dade/digdocs/062954.htm>

Quoting from the article:

      Some residents complained Sunday that the precautionary order by the
county to turn off the 92 streetlights has made matters worse.  Now passing
motorists see only with the illumination from their headlights. ...  It's
unclear how long the maintenance work on the streetlights will take,
Miami-Dade spokeswoman Rhonda Barnett said.