…well, that’s the impression I get from this post, at least. David (not Steven) is apparently especially exercised over this plan (registration required):
Tom Overby is a man with a big idea.
His idea is so big, in fact, that it would dwarf the skyline of his hometown — Kansas City, Kan. — edge out Kansas City’s tallest building, One Kansas City Place, by 18 feet and replace the Gateway Arch as the nation’s tallest monument.
Overby is also a man with what some may call an unusual idea: He wants to build a 650-foot replica of a tornado and place it at the eastern entrance to downtown Kansas City, Kan.
This is roughly equivalent to wanting Elizabeth, NJ to erect a five hundred foot tower with the abstract form of medical waste products, or perhaps petitioning Buffalo, NY to let it be encircled with a hundred-foot high wall of synthetic glacier, complete with shadowy outlines of mammoths and slow Cro-Magnon men buried deep within. In other words, I’d imagine that there’s not many people living in Kansas who want to be constantly reminded of the fact that they live in the place where the tornadoes roam…
I’ve learned that people in Kansas want nothing to do with anything that could possibly remind them of The Wizard of Oz.
OK, that too.
Moe
Violently so, sometimes.
FYI: Yours is the first blog where I’ve ever bothered to hit “refresh” on a comments page. When will the broader blog world wake up to the joys of e-mail reply notification.
Yes, I’m a LiveJournal blog snob — just because it goes against the grain.
I dunno man, that synthetic glacier idea sounds pretty neat…
–tFM from wintry Colorado
We can only hope that a real tornado will take out the momument.
Actually, I have to agree with tFM – the synthetic glacier’d be pretty cool. I’d go boost their tourism revenues for a few days, anyway.
(That sounds like an awful euphemism, I know. But it’s not.)
OK, OK, the glacier would be neat to see. I dunno if the inhabitants would agree, though. 🙂