Posted on 12/07/2005 8:31:33 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
DEERFIELD TWP. — Sheriff's deputies asked the owner who lit up his house with 25,000 Christmas lights synched to music to turn off the display after a traffic accident Tuesday night.
Deerfield Twp. resident Carson Williams agreed to shut down his holiday decorations indefinitely.
Williams told a Cincinnati television station that sheriff's deputies could not reach the traffic accident because of the traffic lined up in his neighborhood.
The display caught attention across the nation on network TV and on the Internet because the lights on the Williams house and filling their yard are synchronized by computer with music broadcast to car radios. There are three songs in the 12-minute display: Frosty the Snowman by the Jackson 5; God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood and Wizards of Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Williams turned his display on the week of Thanksgiving and motorists have lined up between 6 and 10 p.m. ever since.
For the time being, the only place to view the Williams' display will be online.
"He told us if we start having traffic problems that he would shut the display down for a while," Warren County sheriff's Lt. Ed Petrey said Wednesday morning.
Two cars collided in a minor accident at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Simpson Creek Drive, which leads to Winding Creek Court, where the Williams live near Mason in southern Warren County. No one was injured.
Williams is an electrical engineer who said his family spent about $10,000 on the display. He had promised his neighbors they would shut it down if there were problems.
"If I get a single complaint I'll shut it down," Carson had said Monday night.
He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
http://www.oxfordpress.com/hp/content/shared/oh/stories/1205lightsweb.html
Warren County holiday light extravaganza
DEERFIELD TWP., Warren County — To say that Carson Williams and his family love Christmas — or rather decorating for the holiday — would be the understatement of the year.
Consider this:
• They've lit up their Deerfield Twp. home in southern Warren County with 25,000 colored lights.
• Carson, an electrical engineer, computerized the display so that the lights are synched up to music by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
• Ever the courteous neighbors, the Carsons broadcast the music not over loudspeakers but with a low-power FM transmitter so that people driving around to view decorated homes can listen on their car radios.
The Williams' light show runs from 6 to 10 p.m. each day through Jan. 1. The family appeared on NBC's Today show Monday morning and has numerous Internet sites burning with chat about how they pulled it off, what people think of all the illumination and links to Web sites offering computer software and other tips for do-it-yourselfers who want to do the Williams house one better.
Maybe the accident was because the prior article in that paper gave incorrect directions? LOL
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I just showed the video of this to my hubby tonight! I can't even get him to put the wreath up on the barn!! LOL!!
this link to the display is still active....its awesome
http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv
Video of the musical light display, before Sheriff Grinch stole Christmas:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4315957898354226173&q=christmas+lights
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As Peter Griffin says. Thats frickin sweet.
How fun. Too bad he has to be punished because of someone else's incompetence.
As a HUGE Trans-Siberian Orchestra fan (and as one who is playing lead guitar in an upcoming series of concerts playing their entire "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" catalog)......I loved the video of this house's lighting display synched to the TSO song. Just awesome. Check it out and turn UP your speakers when you do..........
It is great but he ruined the whole thing with the stupid peace symbol in there.
Yeah, we noticed that too, when we watched it at work today. Still, just goes to show you what you can do with a computer and too much time on your hands!!
Thats fine with me. Maybe he is a peacenik, or he is using the symbol for peace on earth goodwill towards men.
Tons more of pictures can be found here:
http://www.planetchristmas.com/
Merry Christmas!
The notion of peace is not stupid, and it's arrival would be welcome openly and gladly by most.
Granted, given the current set of circumstances, it may be an objective that is beyond the realm of reason.........wait a minute, maybe the idea of peace is stupid.
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Awesome!
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