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  1. And there’s a cell tower and a water tower within sight.

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    p>And truckers like to jake brake in front of my house.

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    p>And motorcyclists use my street like it’s Sturgis East or Laconia South.
     

  2. Because the absolute cream of humanity congregates at a 24-hour Cumberland Farms parking lot around 2 am every July…

  3. I think ShillelaghLaw is my neighbor, because I have all those things, too.  

  4. on our regional high school site.  We’ve done the preliminary assessment for suitability and a more extensive site evaluation is in the works.   The wind is apparently “good,” (she said in layman’s terms).  

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    p>Personally, this bullet appeals to me:

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    Folks who actually like seeing windmills, think they are pretty, and see them as symbols of a bright future built on energy independence and freedom from slavery to fossil fuels and their producers.

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    p>I do think they’re pretty.  They represent a futuristic version of quaintness that I find appealing.  And their (perceived) simplicity is elegant.  

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    p>Tell you what:  I’d rather look at a windfarm than peer out my dining room window through the yards of my neighbors to see the incandescent glow of the Mobil sign in the center of town.  

    • I do think they’re pretty.  They represent a futuristic version of quaintness that I find appealing.  And their (perceived) simplicity is elegant.  

  5. I watch it while I wait to pick up my daughter from the train. It looks kinetic art, gracefully changing directional position and speed. I thinks it’s quite beautiful the way it reflects the nature of the wind and weather.

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    p>Nobody seems to to even see the ugliness of all those telephone poles and power lines strung everywhere. I think it’s simply because we’re used to them.  Let’s get used to windmills.

  6. I’m on board. I would swap for a week or two. I would be giving up my proximity to the gun club with their Thursday and Sunday night shoot ’em ups, the flight pattern of the F15s from the nearby Barnes Air National Guard base, and the drive-by daily litter assortment on my front lawn. But I’m in a lovely spot, really, and all those things fade away in context. But I offer this to the poor sufferers with their beachfront property – I pity their future.

  7. My dad grew up in a neighborhood on the water and adjacent to a farm. His sister raised a family and still lives there. But the farm was replaced by one of the filthy five (Brayton Point) and the water view is just not what it used to be, what with the giant coal pile out back.

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    p>Down there, they used to pass out coupons for car washes to get the schmutz off the cars. They even paid to have houses power-washed a a few times.

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    p>The noise when they blow pressure off was just nothing they could do anything about. The warm water discharge that has damaged the plant and fish live in the river has been a tough nut to crack, too.

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    p>But hey, the plant’s painted an interesting shade of green to match the Braga bridge.

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    p>Somehow, I think the neighborhood would’ve preferred windmills all those years. Then they could’ve kept growing pumpkins and other stuff, too.

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    p>Ask any of the folks that live within sight of a pollution spewing plant how they think their views and “natural resources” have been treated.

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