A homegrown piece of horror history is up for sale in Tampa Bay.
The relic in question is none other than the house used in the film Edward Scissorhands, which was shot in and around the city.
Owner Joey Licalzi purchased the home for $230,000 in 2020 and has furnished the interior and exterior to make it look like it did in the movie.
“This is all I’ve been doing for the last two years,” Licalzi said. “I mean it was preparing the house so you can see it the way it is. And now it’s time for me to get back to my old life.”
The current asking price for the home is $449,000, and Licalzi is denying offers from buyers not interested in what’s inside or keeping the house as a shrine to the film.
However, not everyone is happy with the idea of having a museum in their neighborhood.
“What I’d like to see happen to it, people move into it,” said neighbor Greg Holmes, “treat it as a residential neighborhood. That’s what it is.”
Homegrown traffic solutions aim to make roads safer after hurricanes
With hurricanes comes damage, and with damage comes danger, especially on the road.
When Hurricane Ian struck, over 168 traffic lights in Hillsborough County were shut down, turning ordinary intersections into danger zones.
To stop this from happening, county engineers developed an entirely new technology they’re calling POEBs, or Power Outage Emergency Beacons.
Kyla Fischer is the county section manager of traffic operations. She said the innovation was a team effort.
“Our traffic signal technicians worked with traffic engineering, they came up with a design, they patented it, they manufactured it here in house…,” Fischer said.
So how do they work? And how do they help drivers?
County Traffic Light Supervisor George Aubel said, “These beacons flash red in all directions, to allow them to identify that there’s a signal there that is not working.”
There are 150 POEBs installed in the county, keeping our roads safer in dangerous times.
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