I'm truly sorry to hear that you've had to go through this, I can't imagine what it would be like.

I wish you only the best in the future, both in you and your moms health and happiness.

Sorry to hear your passing on your father.  My late father passed away in 2015.

Take care of your mother and be well.  You can just hold off or find a member around your area to give your collection away safely on good hand

We've got another potential severe weather event possible, but mainly in the form of flooding. Check out the interactive radar... Indiana is in
a random/not so common occurrence, where thunderstorms keep developing right around Muncie Indiana, then they move over the same areas points
southeast, before they dissipate as they enter the Ohio line. This has been the case for quite some time now on radar, and places like Connersville
Indiana are getting hit by constant very heavy rain. Looks really weird on the radar loop. Unfortunately all of this is moving East towards my area,
very, very slowly.
If those storms continue to develop and train over the same areas here, my area will likely see a good amount of flooding, along with flood warnings.
Those storms have been developing and then hitting the same areas in Indiana for the past 5 hours.

The storm comes from nowhere in the video. We don't have such situation here in Israel.

@Hertz2006 I dont have any low wattage HPS ballasts for trade sorry.

As for MV ballasts 175w, I currently sold all my 175w ballasts that I was willing to sell but am keeping the other 175w ballasts so I won't be able to provide a ballast at the moment. I can provide the 3 bulbs though. I got plenty of

400w Metal Halide lamps if you interested. You would need a 400w metal halide ballast to use them though. They got plenty of cheap 400w MH ballasts on eBay if you want to be able to use 400w lamps.

I’ve decided I’m probably not going to be getting any more streetlights unless they fall across my lap. At 37, I still can’t afford a place of my own, so I can’t really use them or obtain much more. I just lost my dad to cancer this summer after a seven month downhill battle, and now I’m taking care of my mom who has advanced Alzheimer’s. It’s really draining and I work part time and then the rest of my week is caregiving, so I don’t really have the mental or physical energy, let alone time for hobbies anymore.

 I’m just trying to survive right now and pay her and my bills, so I can’t really do much else. Like I said, I’m getting up there, so it’s not looking like I’ll ever be able to afford a home where I can use this stuff, and I don’t know how many years this will go on anyway where I just can’t get into the hobby. And I don’t have the skills to run wiring and put up poles and stuff like that. I really miss my dad who helped me with a lot of stuff. Most of my collection isn’t worth much, so I guess I’ll just hold onto what I have for now and figure out how to liquidate later.

We had a second line of pretty intense thunderstorms roll through our area again not too long ago, this time we got severe weather.
Earlier today a pretty impressive situation occurred on a HPS lit highway in north Columbus Ohio. Winds flipped a car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nvMTyh2dQ.
This video got almost 4,000 views in just 5 hours. This looks a lot like it may have been a short lived F0, maybe even an F1, tornado.
Not sure if the people in the car survived or not, though I'm betting they're okay, but with injuries.
*Edit*... that video, just minutes later, already has over 4,400 views.

Does it even exist? I'd like to know about it. It's one of the only lighting "ages and stages" I know absolutely bupkis about.

We had a severe line of storms that was racing towards our area as a "bow echo," but for some odd reason, just before it hit my area,
the storms completely fell apart, and all that energy shifted towards the Springfield Ohio area, heading towards Columbus. Our thunderstorm warnings
dropped, but we still have some... somewhat decent lightning from this storm. The rain isn't too heavy compared to what it was before the storm
entered our area.
Those who live in Columbus are about to get some rough weather.

I have couple TVs with only RF input. The Sony VCR is used as the RF modulator here.