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I was really confused by the full-moon-like whitish light spilling over the back fence into the yard just now. Isn't it near new moon, I thought? Maybe I got way off in my memory of the lunar cycle, somehow? ... nope. They've apparently just replaced those orangey sodium vapor streetlights with white LEDs. Normally I'd be in favor of LEDs as longer-lasting, drawing fewer watts, etc... but do they have to be THAT bright in that color? Why not dimmer and a bit warmer (even if not as orange as the sodium ones)? Really. If I was fooled at first into thinking it was moonlight, what about animals that respond to it? I mean, it's bright enough it might compete with, if not wash out, the actual #@*$^ing Moon, never mind the stars (AAAAUGFH--*?!), which were already not exactly bright in suburbia.