12-01-2010, 01:07 PM
MDD7000,
I don't think there would be any appreciable difference between a canvas yurt and a typical Puna home with all the windows open to let in the trade winds. Surely you aren't suggesting we should all have to close up our homes, install AC, and give up the outside living lifestyle so many of us enjoy here, just to provide a few jobs in the helicopter tourism industry?
There needs to be some reasonable limits placed on how thoroughly certain neighborhoods and communities are impacted by the tourism flights. I recall reading that the last time the FAA tightened up helicopter regulations the Big Island was specifically exempted from the changes, at the behest of the helicopter tourism industry. People should be able to enjoy their homes in peace, without being bombarded by intrusive noise that can terrify pets and livestock, just so someone off a cruise ship can have a once in a lifetime experience to videotape. I am obsessed with that volcano, I take students there on field trips, check out the web cams throughout the day, and read the HVO updates daily, but I will still never take that helicopter flight as long as indulging myself that way deprives someone else of the right to live in peace on their own property.
Carol
I don't think there would be any appreciable difference between a canvas yurt and a typical Puna home with all the windows open to let in the trade winds. Surely you aren't suggesting we should all have to close up our homes, install AC, and give up the outside living lifestyle so many of us enjoy here, just to provide a few jobs in the helicopter tourism industry?
There needs to be some reasonable limits placed on how thoroughly certain neighborhoods and communities are impacted by the tourism flights. I recall reading that the last time the FAA tightened up helicopter regulations the Big Island was specifically exempted from the changes, at the behest of the helicopter tourism industry. People should be able to enjoy their homes in peace, without being bombarded by intrusive noise that can terrify pets and livestock, just so someone off a cruise ship can have a once in a lifetime experience to videotape. I am obsessed with that volcano, I take students there on field trips, check out the web cams throughout the day, and read the HVO updates daily, but I will still never take that helicopter flight as long as indulging myself that way deprives someone else of the right to live in peace on their own property.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb