For those of you heading to the mounds for spotting you may notice something a little different. Sometime during the past week there was a fire, not sure how it was caused or why. Most of the brush beyond the mounds has been burned away and now is open and accessible for spotting. Some of us were out spotting this afternoon and took advantage of the new views.
Can you say NO MORE TREES....
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Wow, the trees are gone?
Who's the arsonist that I have to make a statue of?! ;)
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As long as the views FROM the mounds is improved, I will be very happy. Not sure I like being closer but under the flight path ...
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The trees are still there, but you can go beyond the trees now. Its all open.
The actual mounds still have an obtructed view, but you can now walk about 400ft east of the mounds.
There was a large brush fire there Monday afternoon around 1:20PM. It took about 90 minutes to extinguish. It burned away a large area of thick brush leaving approximately 100-150 yards of burned flat ground open.
The easiest way to access the area is to walk down to the end of the mound and follow the burnt area in.
Just be careful if you stray from the blackened area you can easily sink into the marsh. Sinking up to your knees is easy.
Also if you go out into the burned out area you may want to wear old shoes as the ash is going to pretty much ruin whatever you are wearing. Also if you tape your pants legs closed this will prevent the ash from going up your pants and you winding up with black sooty socks and legs.
During the fire they were on the 31's not the 22's.
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I wonder if this had anything to do with my Rockaway Turnpike was randomly and mysteriously closed in that area early this morning, causing traffic chaos.
Rockaway Turnpike was closed to some watermain break from what we've heard. When I was heading for Bayswater this morning there was a ton of traffic all being diverted to Brookville Blvd if you were heading west.
My mom was stuck on Peninsula for 30 minutes before someone told her to turn around because Rockaway was closed near the runways. A watermain break would make sense, I guess.Originally Posted by Zee71
Yep it was, there was still some standing water visable when I drove to Hobe and back.
You are not even near the flight path, from the soccer field it seems the flight path is closer than it is. Once we walked out the flight path was still a ways.As long as the views FROM the mounds is improved, I will be very happy. Not sure I like being closer but under the flight path ...
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I think Mark did it not Manny... :) actually I wouldn't be surprised if they both did it.....Nice work, Manny!
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Well, it sounded better than it seems to be (for me anyway) ... I want to be up on the mounds itself with no trees... so I guess it is business as usual. I wouldn't even mind the trees but the stupid little bushes that get all over your shot near the path! ugh...
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I plea the 5th Amendment to the constitution!
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BRING BACK THE KJFK/KLGA OBSERVATION DECKS
4 days later? Nah.
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