Dec 31 or Jan 1 - when is the last show?

[drlucas]

My wife says tomorrow night is acceptable for lights to be on. I thought it was today. What is the consensus for the end of the show?

[UncleBuck]

I run mine until 12.30 tonight and then it goes dark until next year. I do run individual songs that I'm working on for the following year just to see how they look but that's just while I'm outside working on them.

[Steve Gase]

all of my flood lights and most of my coroflakes stayed on after the show Sunday night... I power-cycled everything and they continued to stay on after power was restored. 

It was uncommonly cold.

Rather than try to figure out the problem I decided Sunday was the end of my show this year.

Today was very nice and half of the stuff is now down.  Tomorrow the rest will be down...  and I will begin my testing and repair cycle.

[twooly]

The 26th was the last night for me  Took everything down when it was 50 out, very odd for us this time of year.  I'd rather be warm taking things down then freezing my butt off.

[tjbrickner]

-15 here without the windchill.  Waiting for it to at least hit a positive number before tear-down, but tonight is the last show.

[smeighan]

i will run my show to jan 10th.  last year the same, 2nd week of january.

[tbone321]

I will tear it down this weekend so the lights will stay on thru Friday but will shut down fairly early on Friday night.  The wife likes to see them when she goes to work in the morning and when she gets home so she gets to see them for 2 more mornings and nights.

[maffeirw]

Usually run to the night of the Epiphany (when the Magi arrived on Jan 6) but this year I will keep everything going until the 10th so my daughter, who's been in Florida for the last 8 months, will have a chance to see it when she visits. Then if we're not under 10 ft of snow teardown begins on Sunday the 12th.
Happy New Years all.

[meman]

+1 on the Epiphany. My eldest son (15) was born on Epiphany day, so I will usually run till whatever weekend follows.

Mike E.

[bassmants]

I will run the last schedule tonight.  However, I usually leave it up for a couple more weeks and run it on-demand for people who couldn't make it by and for testing/filming purposes.

[duane.mosley]

I will run the last schedule tonight.  However, I usually leave it up for a couple more weeks and run it on-demand for people who couldn't make it by and for testing/filming purposes.

same for me

[Rich Renn]

My last show was last night December 31st and started tear down right after since I had to put it up in the rain might as well take it down in the snow as we are under a winter weather advisory.








Richard

[drlucas]

We are going to have a windchill of -24 here tonight....but on the weekend will get back up to 30 or so.....The verdict: I am going to change my schedule to run tonight only and then continue the tear down this weekend (I started with the LEs and other items on the ground that got impacted by the freezing rain a couple of weeks ago, but have kept all the other RGB items up) .Hope I can get the spikes and other things out of the ground with the frost, will see how that goes. I had to put in a bit of rebar for my arches....and those candy canes use plastic spikes....if I try to pull them up they will snap for sure.

Happy New Year!
Ryan

[TexasStingray]

Today begins my break-down day this year. My wife usually wants it all down the day after Christmas.

[tomwb301]

I always run mine up until New Years Eve then off and start packing them away. 11 months of work for 1 month of lights.