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July 8th, 2010 by admin | See what 84 other Friends of Lou had to say about this.
First, we think this is a place where we everyone should have a say in how things are run. So you, good citizen, get to decide whether hotter-than-normal weather is acceptable here. Vote early and often on the the Friend of Lou Weather Poll.
Loading ...Once you voted add a comment below that tells us the best way to lower the city’s temperature. (Fill the Ohio with ice and bourbon; give all the polar bears and penguins at the zoo TARC bus passes; turn up the AC at the new arena and stop work on the roof until Fall gets here; and so on. You get the picture.)
The best ten ideas will receive something from the following weather-inspired pool of prizes:
- Possibility City Snowglobes
- Louisville Umbrellas
- Louisville Sweatshirts
- Louisville Water Bottles
- And more . . .
Little swimming pools all around within the city. And huge blocks of ice all around the outside of the city, with huge fans behind the ice blowing cool air at the city.
Sponsor a race for 1000’s of cyclists to ride clockwise around the 3 major Parkways between and through the Olmsted Parks and create a HUGE fan effect.
We need to develop miles of underground caves to move in when the temperature plus humidity gives up heat indexes of 95 and higher.
So..we should make the Spirit of Jefferson and the Belle of Louisville spit out liquid nitrogen instead of steam. Same thing w/the TARC buses. Then hang huge fans over the streets:)
Get some of the race horses in every neighborhood and tie some sort of streamers on there tails and have them run around the block and make like a giant fan.
Let it be Christmas in July and have multiple Santa’s around the city passing out sprinklers & snow cones as presents
Turn the Ferris Wheel at Kentucky Kingdom into a giant fan, add water and make it a misting fan.
WOWSER!
When Museum Plaza is built, it could also double as a giant water sprinkler!
Fans with misting water all over the city on every block. Free bottles of water in the neighborhoods.
Make the 95 degree and above days weather alert days and give people the option of going to work or not!!!
Bring in enough shaved ice to coat the freeways. Invite the city for a ski to work day!
Expand MegaCavern so Louisvillians can enjoy the cooler temperature and then wait a few days… after all, this is the place where it’s possible to wait a few days to have different weather.
I think that we should all be given our own personal air conditioners that we can wear around our necks to keep us cool.
Place those huge fans they use in Hollywood to create wind and a fine mist to them and place them around the city and parks, oh the would be great at the out door events thruoghout Louisville to keep it cool. After all we are one Cool City.
For everyone, free self-refrigerating jumpsuits.
Create a cool blast from the past …
Reinstall Barney Bright’s Louisville Clock at its location formerly known as the River City Mall. That’ll rewind us to Dec 1976 and we can relive normal, pre-obviously-global-warming, temps.
Develop air conditioned, lite rail system. Especially great for those of us with broken car a/c. Would reduce energy consumption, clean up the air, and we could get to work cool! Or, we could just jump off the tall buildings to create a cool breeze, albeit a very temporary fix.
Christmas in July: give people free A/C repair for their car with broken A/C so they can stay cool while driving to beat the heat.
Indoor walking/running track and swimming pool in every county of Louisville so people can enjoy excerise indoor with sunroof on top of the building to bring in nature light
i think louisville should adopt a green approach to getting the most from the hot sun that seems to have come down on us this past june (and now it is going into july). i think louisville should start finding ways to use solar panels to power things, and cool things off. there can be a credit for homes, business, vehicles that can use the power generated by the sun. if it’s there, we may as well use it!
Recruit a number of the 21C penguins to do community outreach. They can go all over the city spritzing people and conducting workshops on staying cool.
Create a complete indoor sli resort with ski slopes, snowshoe, cross country ski trails, sledding hills, amd igloos.
Create a complete winter ski resort inside, with ski slopes, sledding hills, snowshoe and crosscountry ski trails and igloos.
We need to keep cold fronts and rain away from louisville in the summertime i want major heat and humidity and all 90s and 100s all summer long it is how summer should be okay carry on all
Ask the politicians to wait to campaign until the weather cools down
Try not giving out prizes that are made of petroleum products.
Giant psychedelic umbrella that emblazons cool designs on all the streets below as it spins.
Establish a tax incentive for more tree planting. For example, provide an 80% tax credit toward the cost of the purchase and planting trees from Louisville-based sellers. The remaining 20% of the cost would ensure the recipient is committed to the survival of the trees.
Allow this tax credit only if the tree’s are actually planted in locations that the tree-sellers verify have a good potential to survive.
This program would help provide jobs, decrease carbon dioxide in the air, and increase shade – thereby lowering our temperature!
Don’t allow the politicians to talk, speak, campaign until the weather gets cooler and only one week before the election. Then they must learn sign language to communicate. Less hot air around.
- Have misting fans or areas to encourage walking or riding a bike to work
- Provide tax credits for people who purchase street legal scooters and to merchants who provide more bicycle racks and scooter parking
- Provide watering stations for people and PETS
- Provide tax credits for planting trees and creating more greenspace especially in urban areas.
- Utilize solar power – if it’s going to be hot – embrace it, and piggyback the power it provides
While you’ve got the smart folks figuring things, how’s about they figure a way to supply (affordable, if not free) drinking water at those phenomenal festivals our fine city is hosting?
Louisville Water Co. boasts about the quality of their tap water, and I’ve even seen their little decorated bottles to put it in.
So, why not join forces?
Here’s part 2 of my idea: The containers should be re-usable souvenirs of Louisville – our residents are proud to use Louisville merchandise, visitors could take them home (which would help advertise), and it would reduce waste all at the same time.
Ta-dah!
I vote we all enjoy our cityfor all of its quirks. During the peak hours all who are hot should utilize the cheap attractions around town that are intown or enjoy the day at a park in the shade. The best recommendation for all who are hot, go to the water front or Belvedere and splash in the fountains.
Flood.
Have all Louiville citizens and businesses agree to set their clocks back 12 hours. That way, we can all sleep through the hottest part of the day and do business and have fun during the evening and night when its cooler.
Every household should be supplied with a fleur de lis fountain like the past one from the Ohio River. Running through chilly water in the Louisville emblem shape should cool everyone down!