And it isn't some grand conspiracy, though lots of people saw in the synthetic twilight the effects of 5G radiation or government surveillance, a sign of the times. "I've had people call and ask if this was because it's Halloween, or because their football team in that area wears purple." "It's something we began seeing about two years ago," says Jeff Brooks, a representative for Duke Power, which is responsible for streetlights across the Carolinas and parts of Florida and the Midwest. Reports stretch back to 2020 and across the hemisphere - Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, New Mexico, California, even Ireland. Because the Great Purpling didn't start - or end - in Vancouver. LED streetlights are supposed to shine for the better part of a decade. The new bulbs, basically arrays of computer chips that convert electricity to light, are cheaper, less power-hungry, and longer-lasting. Like most other cities, Vancouver has spent the past few years switching from old sodium-vapor streetlights to LEDs. And after all the hue and cry, Vancouver rolled out the utility trucks and set out to replace the chromatic aberrations - even though the lights were still pretty new. So people placed worried calls to the city. The spectrum of Vancouver had taken a hard left turn. But purple doesn't exactly illuminate a sidewalk the way white does. They weren't any less bright, objectively speaking. What had been moonshine white was now blue, or purple, or even violet. A bunch of streetlights - a few hundred out of thousands - had suddenly changed. The sky over the city of Vancouver was the color of a television tuned to a Prince concert. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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