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Old 08-13-2008, 09:38 PM   #16
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But wierdest of all is the lack of patronage on the Mt. Washington. Good lord, how can they afford to run the Mount with very few paying passengers? Scanning her with binoculars from afar, she seemed a ghost ship. With fuel costs being what they are, the owners have got to be losing
On the Mount Washington this summer, I noticed that its' bow to smokestack to stern, overhead run of bright white lightbulbs, aproximately 50 bright whites, has been removed for this season.

Could be to save electicity?

It doesn't look the same without all those lightbulbs.
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Between the higher cost of electricity, heating oil, & property taxes, along with much tighter mortgage money and the cold and wet rainy weather: waterfront home prices are falling so fast that you can hear them fall as you drive down the road.

.....timber....look out below for falling waterfront home prices!
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