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northfulton.com | Johns Creek Herald | April 3, 2014 | 5
Balloon party narrowly misses unscheduled dip By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com ROSWELL, Ga. – A party of five or more in a balloon just missed out on a dunking in a private lake off King Road in Roswell. Neighbors who share frontage around Kind Lake got quite a surprise Saturday morning, March 22. They got to look out their decks and windows to see a hot-air balloon descending to less than 10 feet above the water of their suburban lake, before generating enough thrust to get airborne again. Marsha Kowalski said she didn’t know what was happening until her dogs started raising a ruckus barking at the back door. “The dogs didn’t seem to like the noise they heard. I went outside and that is when I saw the balloon right off my deck. I thought they were going to take a swim,” Kowalski said. “I got the impression some alcohol might be involved. Anyway, they didn’t seem to be worried about anything.” The balloon was getting quite low and they seemed to be having trouble getting up again, she said. The balloon did manage to stay out of the drink, but then it barely made it over Kow-
I thought they were going to take a swim.” MARSHA KOWALSKI Roswell Neighbor
alski’s neighbor’s house and did get snagged by the trees beyond for a minute or two. “There were five or six in the balloon. Like I said, they didn’t seem to be alarmed or anything. But the people in the chase car were going crazy trying to follow. They watched it get out of the trees over Hamilton Park subdivision and keep going,” she said. The balloon passed over Marion Vinson’s house, another neighbor on the lake. She said she heard a lot of yelling and went outside to look. “I was probably the only one on the entire lake who did not think to take a picture,” Vinson said. “They got caught in the trees on the other side of my property, but all they did was laugh like crazy. I would have been scared of power lines or something but not them.” It was stuck in the limbs for a few moments but then pulled away and flew on, Vinson said.
MARSHA KOWALSKI, SPECIAL
A hot-air balloon makes a surprise visit to King Lake, a private lake off King Road in Roswell and the balloonists nearly got their feet wet.
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