Winnipesaukee Forum - View Single Post - Lightning danger versus no-wake zone rules

wildwoodfam · 06-23-2008, 06:37 PM

Hi Kona,

I wasnt trying to single any of the waterfront folks out (though I guess I did

) - I know there are many who would have been out there waving for that boater to head to their dock to tie up and wait out the storm. We would do the same - in fact we have as have our neighbors in bad weather. We always make room to give shelter in a storm.

Just seems more often there are homeowners out on their docks letting folks have it - some with justification and sometime without. My point was that we have become meaner. We feel quite at ease to blast somebody - perfect strangers even - to just yell and give them heck.

There is a loss of civility all around us, and I would have hoped that the "shangri-la" aspects of a lake I have visited and call home in the summers (for nearly 40 years) would not have fallen victim to such a negative behavior, but it seems to have, especially in the past couple of years.

06-23-2008, 06:37 PM	#25
wildwoodfam Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Andover, MA & summers up at the BIG lake Posts: 285 Thanks: 5 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Didn't mean to point fingers at the h2o fronters.... Hi Kona, I wasnt trying to single any of the waterfront folks out (though I guess I did ) - I know there are many who would have been out there waving for that boater to head to their dock to tie up and wait out the storm. We would do the same - in fact we have as have our neighbors in bad weather. We always make room to give shelter in a storm. Just seems more often there are homeowners out on their docks letting folks have it - some with justification and sometime without. My point was that we have become meaner. We feel quite at ease to blast somebody - perfect strangers even - to just yell and give them heck. There is a loss of civility all around us, and I would have hoped that the "shangri-la" aspects of a lake I have visited and call home in the summers (for nearly 40 years) would not have fallen victim to such a negative behavior, but it seems to have, especially in the past couple of years.