Going Bonkers!
By DianneN
@DianneN (246452)
United States
March 1, 2021 7:40pm CST
Our driveway lights have a motion detector and set to turn on automatically when it’s dark out. It lights the way for us or any car coming down our driveway.
However, it will also turn on when a person, deer, or even a strong wind passes down our driveway. The lights remain on for 15 minutes then automatically go off.
~Please excuse the sight of the ugly snow~
This evening it’s rather windy. Can you imagine how annoying those lights are? On Off On Off On again!
I just asked hubs to turn them off (using the light switch in our house) before the neighbors think we are doing it on purpose. Besides, it’s driving me bonkers!
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21 responses
@much2say (53664)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Mar 21
Oh my gosh, an airplane might make a landing in your driveway . The motion detector on one side of our house goes nuts that way . . . it does a weird on and off thing with the sun setting - so sometimes I have to turn it off until it actually gets real dark.
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@FourWalls (61315)
• United States
2 Mar 21
They are nice to have, but they can be a pain. The motion sensor on my old lights went bad, so it'd come on at the drop of a hat (or a leaf, or a lightning bug). I replaced it. I keep the back light by my garage turned off at night (because it'll shine right into the next-door neighbor's bedroom (and I'm sure that's annoying to them!).
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@FourWalls (61315)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@DianneN -- and your hubby is going, "Oh, your myLot friends are helping you do your 'honey do' list now????"
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@FourWalls Shhhhh....don’t tell him. He wants me off myLot.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
2 Mar 21
Ours hasn’t gone that crazy yet, but if it does, we will replace them, too.
Your neighbor would definitely become annoyed. Btw, we noticed our light bulb in front of the garage was blown. Hubs has to replace it tomorrow. You reminded me to jot it down on my notepad.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
2 Mar 21
We have some very windy weather coming up this night I think that is a wise idea.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@DianneN March is one of my favorite months I live wind!! Lol
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@BelleStarr Pardon me, but you're nuts.
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@RasmaSandra (72494)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Mar 21
That almost sounds spooky. Those lights would up my anxiety. You could write a story The Phantom Lights,
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@moffittjc (118204)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Mar 21
I have a streetlight in front of my house that used to go on and off throughout the night. It drove me crazy. Thankfully, the utility company switched out all the bulbs for LED bulbs last year, and it hasn't been a problem since then.
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@moffittjc (118204)
• Gainesville, Florida
6 Mar 21
@DianneN I love the fact that they switched to LED, which uses less electricity and fixed the flickering problem, but I don't like how much brighter the LED bulbs are. The streetlight is in front of my house and lights up the spare bedroom at the front of the house like the 4th of July.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
2 Mar 21
or that you are secretly sending a morse code message to the aliens!
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@DocAndersen I wouldn't do that to you!
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@DianneN what message are you sending the aliens? send snow to DC?
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@MarshaMusselman (38469)
• Midland, Michigan
2 Mar 21
I would say to quit looking out that window. But at least no one should be walking up the driveway at night in the winter and a card headlights would light their way enough.
We had high winds here too.
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@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
2 Mar 21
I have motion detecting lights as well. Not on the driveway though
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@LindaOHio (153180)
• United States
2 Mar 21
Those are nice lights. Maybe they need to be adjusted?
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@Michellekidwell (29263)
• Sonora, California
3 Mar 21
I would get annoyed too, I don't blame you for turning them off!
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