that would have been a total waste if one of the LED poles got knocked down... I know of a store nearby that went all LED and then one of the poles got knocked down and they installed a new pole with PSMH shoeboxes instead of another pair of LEDs. this was only like a month after they installed them too. the stupid thing is that the original lights were 400W HPS then they went LEDs which were much dimmer and the PSMH replacement looks like it's 250W and it's the same brightness as the LEDs and probably used about the same amount of energy. but 400W HPS to 250W PSMH is quite a difference in brightness...
pulse start metal halide. they're more effient MH lamps and use external igniters like HPS (so they cycle like HPS). Any MH lamp under 175W is PSMH but PSMH lamps also come in 175, 200, 250, 320, 350, 400, and 1000W.
The Twistpaks removal will probably be postponed until the spring due to ice and lots of snow. They are wasting electricity by having both the twistpaks and LEDs on at night
Normally it's common for them to disconnect the old lights before removal but I guess the ice and snow meant that even disconnecting them had to be postponed.
on a sunny day i suppose they could send a crew out to remove the photocells, which would disconnect the fixtures. the wires leading to the fixtures would still be live though.
They disconnected the powerlites down the road for a bit and because we got a lot of snow and the Ice storm they reconnected them because it wouldn't be an easy task. My city still hasn't finished recovering from the ice storm.
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I took a closeup of them before and it turns out the lamps were the new GE ones with the weird shape.