Have You, Too, Been Blinded by the Brunswick Water Tower?

Brunswick has a new water tower, which is fantastic, because this is a growing town that needs more clean water to satisfy the needs of its expanding body of citizenry. No objection here.

The new water tower has a blinking light on top of it to alert low-flying helicopters and aircraft of its prescence, which is a safe and smart thing to do. No objection here either.

What I do object to is the fact that the light on top of the new water tower blinks at strobe light speed, and is very, very bright white like a strobe light, and, in fact, when driving late at night, is incredibly distracting and blinding, much like a strobe light. The first time I witnessed it, in fact, I thought it was the blink of an emergency vehicle, and I found that after looking at it for a second I could no longer see the road properly--all I could see was one of those blue sunspots that your eye generates as a warning as if to say "Hey! Stop looking at that bright thing! It's gonna hurt you!"

I also started to get the feeling that if I looked at the warning light on the water tower any longer, I'd go into a seizure.

Hmm, drivers going into seizures. Not good.

I suggest that Brunswick either make the light blink at a slower, less seizure-inducing pace, or else tone it down a few lumens, or both. I can imagine the residents of the new housing complex on the hill near the tower also want the throbbing disco light effect coming through their curtains at night to cease. Don't worry, guys, down at our end o' town you get to hear the blaring fire siren at 3 AM instead!*

* No, I am not the person who wrote to the firehall complaining about the siren and refusing to donate money to them until the siren stops. Check out my next post about charities and you will see that my family indeed gave the fire hall some money this year.