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A holiday highlight or ‘miserable event?’ Family’s Slidell-area lights show frustrates neighbors (LA)

/ Owner - December 11, 2017

More than 100,000 individual lights, 7.2 miles of cable and synchronization to Christmas music on a radio station — that’s what goes into the Morris family’s annual Christmas light show in the Chamale neighborhood near Slidell.  For the thousands who stop by to see it every year, the show is a highlight of the season, but for many neighbors, it means a nightly traffic nightmare that makes their holiday season anything but happy.  “We have a couple battles. The first is just putting it up. The second battle is there’s four or five neighbors that just fight. They fight,” said Steve Morris, who spends three months a year putting up the decorations with his wife Mikhael and two teenage daughters.    In the latest round of that fight, the Chamale Homeowners Association board has approved a modification of the neighborhood covenants that would prohibit spectator-drawing displays like the one the Morrises have at 125 Chamale Drive.     Read the article……………….

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