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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 . . .
[...] So you, good citizen, get to decide whether hotter-than-normal weather is acceptable here. Just click HERE to go to the Friend of Lou Weather [...]
FAIL
Idea: Have everyone bike instead of driving their cars. Not only will it be a lil cooler without all the noxious gases in the air, but surely the spinning of the wheels will create a nice breeze for the city to enjoy.
Plant gardens on the tops of buildings, or paint the tops of buildings and houses light colors, such as white.
When it gets hot, think of the former Louisvillians who now live in Houston – poor bastards – and realize that maybe it’s not so bad, considering.
Suspend a massive Derby type hat over the city for the next 2 months. Not only would it shade the city and be attractive but it can also be a promotion for the Breeders Cup!
Give all the politicians the summer off!
Have UPS drop pallets of ice pellets in the clouds as they take off and land to cool the air. Besides the cool mist will feel good and water the flowers at the same time.
I say seed the clouds with mint and ice, then let it rain Mint Juleps. If you’re not any cooler, after a few glasses you won’t worry about it. LOL
Have the Governor put a cork-in-it.
The heat is a direct result of Hot-air coming from Frankfort.
e.g. “casinos at race tracks are the ONLY way to balance the budget”
Enclose the city in an air conditioned dome. Sell advertising space to help pay for Museum Plaza, which will automatically make the city “cooler” if it gets built!
Volunteer – with one of Metro’s incredible Olmstead parks or help build a Habitat house or with Center for Women and Families or Healing Place or with your faith community – when you’re being of service for others, you won’t be thinking about yourself and how hot it is!
Get the workings from the failed Fleur de Lis River Fountain, put them inside the Hillerich and Bradsby Big Bat and make a giant sprinkler for the city.
Erect several thousand wind turbines on the Knobs in Indiana and let them blow air over the ohio river valley and then sit on the waterfront and drink “mudslides”!
Since the heat is not the main problem the hot air is so let get rid of all the politicians until winter. Then bring them back in late november to provide all the warm air we need to keep the snow and ice away. A win win for all
Speed the hands on the Colgate clock up to a very fast pace and blow the river air across the Ville!
On December 31st, 1864 the weather was 45 degrees. By the next morning on New Year’s Day 1865, the temperature was -25 degrees. A 65 degree change in the weather is entirely possible… would we rather it be 35 outside right now?
Think about it.
The thing about the Ohio Valley is that our weather is always changing. We don’t live in the desert, we don’t live in the bayou, and we certainly don’t live in Indiana for goodness’ sake. We live right her in Louisville, Kentucky, and I’ll take the hottest June on record to living somewhere else any day.
xoxox
Relocate the city to the San Diego area where the temperature is in the mid to upper 60s or build a bubble over the city to create a climate controlled environment where we are protected from hurricane force winds and ice storms. Consider the possibility of no power outages, no snow and ice covered roads, no 100+ heat index days…
Be as energy efficient as possible. Do as much as you can online. You can even pay your bills online. This reduces the need for paper and saves time and money. More trees equal a cooler climate so don’t use them up by making a lot of unnecessary paper. In addition, I wish more non-retail businesses would go to a 4 day workweek. This would not only save electricity for the companies but fewer trips in the car by emloyees would cut down on gas emissions. Some government offices in other cities and states already have 4 day workweeks with good results.
TURN ON THE FIRE HYDRANTS!
In Bagdad it is 114. Give thanks we live in the Possibility City. Need I say more?
Stratigically located around the city deploy numerous “BIG ASS” fans! This action will create a whirlwind vortex type result allowing continuious air flow. Periodically, include large blocks of ice to add cool temperatures!
What a great city, Louisville!
Move the water park from “Kentucky Kingdon” to the waterfront. I here they’re not using it right now
Idea: Turn all the water sprinklers in the parks so that they sprinkle cool water on the walking trails. People could then cool off while getting excerise.
Louisville and the entire Ohio River Valley are, basically, a geographically-shaped giant armpit of nature, trapping heat and the sometimes odorous humidity of mankind and nature. I propose blanketing the city and environs in a light coating of invisible to the touch, no white residue, 24/7 antiperspirant – dispersed from an altitude high enough to provide uniform coverage. This plan, unfortunately, would require daily reapplication. Another option would be to use a personal feminine hygiene-type spray, for an all-day fresh feeling result.
Move the water park from KY Kingdom to the Waterfront. I here they are not using it right now
Turn the city into a gigantic splash pad, say from 2nd to 6th and from Broadway to the river downtown with similar swaths on frankfort Ave and Bardstown Rd. I know this would require some engineering, but, hey, this ain’t the Possibility City for nothin’!
Night Racing seemed to be the “COOL” thing to do at Churchill. Maybe from June til August we should do everything at night!
How about if we get a ton of transport cargo helicoters and carry the snarled Kennedy bridge traffic into Louisville.. that would get the air circulating in the city!
We need misters. Lots and lots of misters.
Have the Friends of Lou pull on the Earth’s wobble a widdle and make the summer solstice go southish.
Have all of the ice cream stores donate all of their ice cream into one humongous bowl and have it at the Waterfront for one big ice cream social and maybe the cold ice cream will cool down the temperature.
HTFU
Get Pecos Bill to lasso up an artic whirlwind, hog tie it to the Kennedy Bridge, and let it spin and cool off the city.
Get a Huge Heat Exchanger (device that converts heat to cold): Put on one side all the people from BP and our Government that have messed up the Gulf of Mexico, and Louisville’s favorite spot Destin: from all the hot air from all these people, the air on the other side will be like an ARTIC BLAST!!!
I think it would be great if we had misters to gently spray out water on people walking our city
Have free ice dispensers everywhere
Get rid of all the asphalt and concrete and we’d drop a good 5-10 degrees…. maybe get more snow too
Hot is hot and there isn’t much you can do. How about in the “Possibility City” you have some of those smart guys in glasses come up with a drug that makes you think it is cold outside. (legal one)If that doesn’t work we could always go to Afghanistan where it is 130 right now. It would sure make our 90 feel much better.
I say we fill the Ohio with ice cubes until it freezes. Not only will it cool Louisville, but it will cool Southern Indiana as well. :0)
Everyone just sit back and CHILL with a Louisville Water Company pure tap water bottle!
what we need is a alberta clipper , and we could all get a couple snow days,and just chill,let it snow,let it snow,let it snow!
Pipe in a steady stream of water from the Ohio River that creates lovely “Street Streams” a la Venice, Italy. They would flow down 4th Ave across Broadway, down Bardstown Road, Taylorsville Road, Hurstbourne, etc. It would create a waterway around and through the city in which people could hop on and off public boats as a new form of public transportation and dangle their feet and hands in to cool off. You could even turn some of those TARC buses into those “duck” boats that travel on and off land. Name the boats/buses after famous thoroughbreds.
Put Slugger field in charge of summer, they can have those guys go around the city spraying you with those little fan spritzers and cooling off your seats. Just think you walk out of work to a sulgger feild guy in a bright yellow shirt, squirting you with the spray fan all the way to your and car and then cooling off your seats and stearing wheel before you get in. Sounds like a great “possibility” to me lol.
Let reopen the city swimming pools that were closed last year to help cool off our urban fellow citizens!!
I was in Yellowstone from 6/17 to 6/23/2010. It snowed 1″ at Old Faithful while we were there on the morning of 6/18/2010 with 27 deg. being the temp that day. The rest of our visit was in the upper 30′s in the AM to upper 60′s in the after noon. It was quite a shocker to come back to the 90′s. I’ll be happy when this heat wave passes.
Take the Belle of Louisville’s paddle wheel and put it on top of Aegon Center. Attach a motor to it and let it spin as fast as possible to create a nice breeze throughout the city. Let the evaporational cooling begin! (and maybe we’ll get a Guiness World Record for having the highest-placed historic riverboat paddle wheel!)
We should cut the lock at Ky Kingdom and reopen the wave pool free to all residents one day only with pic id
We should take a crowbar to the lock on KY Kingdom and allow all jefferson county residents (with pic id) 1 free day
Lets take a crowbar to KY Kingdom waterpark and fill the wave pool for 1 day only with valid jefferson county id