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phazle5499
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"Sure would like to see 150 folks rockin a cable. That would be awesome."
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CUSalin
Joined: 11 Mar 2001
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Location: Hood River, OR
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: I have an idea... |
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| timsaunders wrote: | Just a thought..... Lets build up the gorge with soo many hotels and fun parks and bars and kooks and box stores and coffee shops and we can build build build build to infininty. It will be epic for real estate values and employment and we can all get rich..... YES... Then when we finally get fed up with the traffic, trash, poor water quality kooks everywhere we can just pick up and leave. We were never from here anyway.
Just think how epic the gorge would be if every development went through. We would have casinos, 250 homes at the hatchery, cable parks paris hilton would fly in and shake her ass at the new Hilton. Mega coal trains spilling money thru every town. Floridated water sooo thick we could have frootloops with cocacola for every breakfast. Not just a super walmart A SUPER SUPER walmart. Our lives would be soooo much radder in every way. Oh the glory. Trophy wives would quite L.A. and move to Hood River.... I want I want I need I need. More more more...... YEEeeeeSSSS.... I'm jizzing in my pants..... |
....a SUPER, SUPER, SUPER Walmart! LOL! |
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scooter_bell
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| ericandholly wrote: | | Sunday there will be zero kiters--no wind--close to zero basin users too. Sure would like to see 150 folks rockin a cable. That would be awesome. |
How do you know there will be "close to zero basin users"?
I was down there Friday and the Kite school had all its SUP boards rented a good portion of the afternoon.
Also...
Just because a particular place in our community doesn't have freeway traffic like use doesn't mean we should build an amusement park ride there. That's not very sound logic.
I was at the new waterfront park today and it had lots of people there. just think how many more people from out of town and in town will be able to enjoy the waterfront without having to be athletically inclined.
I think it wise to make sure everyone kind of person is able to enjoy the waterfront, not just the jocks.
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merriam
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="scooter_bell"
I think it wise to make sure everyone kind of person is able to enjoy the waterfront, not just the jocks.
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Except the people who would enjoy a cable park. |
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merriam
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jsampiero
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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I think the sucktasticness that is SuperDuperEpicWalmart is something we can definitely all agree on. If we're going to have a mega-corp expand in Hood River, I wish it could have at least been a Trader Joe's!
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merriam
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| phazle5499 wrote: | | Eric and Merriam, you guys can't be offering your surveys with a straight face. If so, here's another one to add to yours. The other day I looked out my window and saw 3 paddlers in the basin and 0 kiters at the sandbar and 0 windsurfers at the event site. Three hours later I looked again and there were 7 paddlers in the basin, 0 kiters at the sandbar and 0 windsurfers at the event site. |
I agree, turn the event site into a cable park. |
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phazle5499
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:10 am Post subject: |
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"I agree, turn the event site into a cable park."
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Actually, I was thinking the sandbar might be a good location for a cable park. Wait, maybe that would be a better place for the ferris wheel. We could light up the whole waterfront. That will bring 'em all into Hood River. Lots of new jobs, great for the economy, cotton candy and ring toss out on the wharf. A water slide. Yipee!! All the fun found at Orlando right here in the heart of the beautiful scenic gorge.  |
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tweeky
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| phazle5499 wrote: | tweeky writes:
"CUsalin is right, its pointless to try and discuss this online."
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Exactly. That's why the Port has been asked to join in seeking a declaratory judgement from the court to see if a cable park that obstructs navigation can be built in the Columbia River waters in the boat basin. |
That's actually a fair response... I'd sincerely like to ask you, if the courts decided against you, instead determining that a cablepark could be built, would that end your opposition, or would you simply seek other avenues to continue your opposition to the park? |
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columbia
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| jsampiero wrote: | | I think the sucktasticness that is SuperDuperEpicWalmart is something we can definitely all agree on. If we're going to have a mega-corp expand in Hood River, I wish it could have at least been a Trader Joe's! |
Josh - after reading your last post I can't help but think that you're a funny guy! Trader Joe’s would in fact work here in HR (Note to Naito group – business opportunity worthy of your time).
I wanna get this straight - we want to put metal towers in the boat basin cause the basin is protected from the wind so people can get dragged around (I wanna write senseless but didn’t – damn I just did ) exactly back to where they started. This will occur in the boat basin cause there ain’t no wind/waves in the basin even during the windiest days. Me thinks we got a problem here. It’s windy in the corridor most of the summer and fall (spring for that matter) so let me ask of the financial wizards that put this plan together – when it’s windy – won’t your best customers (and wanna bees) be kiting or windsurfing? Last time I checked – being dragged behind a metronome rates second to doing the real thing! (For the love of Dog – if you’re learning - it takes a week of lessons to learn how to kite! Spend money on kite lessons not the metronome…)
We do the best we can to keep things moving in a direction. But I’m a romantic at heart, with memories of the basin. You have to understand, I have a memory of a first date (ok – second) with a gal from out of town (yes a Portlandia type) but of course I made the mistake of trying to unseat this voluptuously young maiden from her paddleboard by pushing her ever-so-diligent steed forward. (In the days of yonder it would be with a riding crop but in my case it was with a paddle). Little did I know that, 1) a buddy was at the far end of the boat basin, and 2) I pushed her ever-so-diligent steed forward not sideways, nor forward or any ways other than backward. Damn, she fell on her ass and tumbled backwards on top of the board like a cheap date at Jack’s on First Friday. Of course, I felt like a heel and tried to regroup and pull young maiden from the basin hither only to hear from further hither… “he always was an asshole”… it sounded like it came from above. How could the powers that be have been so reticent when I’d sinned so badly in past? But that’s when I realized how friends can turn... I digress. But let it be known that when fair maiden and I returned to my ever-so-humble HR abode she flipped me like a pancake and tied me up like a turkey on Thanksgiving. Young vixen that she was she shoved the novel Shades of Grey in between my butt cheeks and I’ll be damned but I didn’t repent my sins pronto – well at least my indiscretion at the boat basin… but I digress again.
I am thankful for many things, 1) we live in a place were people care for wind, waves/swell and scenic beautimus (sorry I love this word) of what we’ve preserved and conserved, and 2) and more importantly, my fair maiden was reading the paperback edition and not the hardcover…
Humor aside, last time I checked we’re rippin’ the shxt out of the metal and damns that everyone thought was the power savior for de “man”. Now we’re hopin’ the fish will do their thing… hope and pray.
Stop and think. Why the cable park now? Why not consider the metronome after the soon to be implemented hotel and related esplanade has been ergonomically engineeeeered into our scenic Gorge? Financially, won’t the cable park still “work” after the new hotel and “improvements” are added?
BTW - Josh, I wish there was a happy ending to this story but according to fair maiden, I’m still an assxxle. I’m truly hoping you don’t run into fair maiden – perhaps by then she’ll have switched to eBooks (for your sake)! |
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