Streetlights in Lakeland are turning purple. Is it just a fluke — or a warning of the chaos to come?
The sky over the City of Lakeland is starting to be the color of a television tuned to a Prince concert.
OK, maybe not the whole sky. But enough of it that people noticed. A bunch of streetlights — a few out of thousands — had suddenly changed on Harden Blvd.
What had been moonshine white was now blue, purple, or even violet. They weren’t any less bright, objectively speaking. But purple doesn’t exactly illuminate a sidewalk the way white does. The spectrum of Lakeland lights had taken a hard left turn. It didn’t look bad. It wasn’t unsafe, particularly. It was just weird…