San Antonio family pulls the plug on awesome holiday light show days before Christmas

Johnson Family's home is decked with more than 7,000 programmed lights, and was even featured on the ABC TV show "Christmas Light Fight."



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The Johnson family has pulled the plug on their amazing dubstep holiday light show after its popularity outgrew the gated West Side neighborhood where it was located.

“It is with great regret that I inform you that Melissa and I have chosen to shut down our Christmas Light Show effective immediately,” the Johnsons said on Facebook Saturday. “It is not due to any pressure on us from our HOA. Our streets and neighborhood are simply not equipped to handle the level of traffic we experienced tonight.”

This was the third year Matt Johnson and his family produced their 11-minute show, but this year was particularly special since charity was at the heart of the project. The festive family was hoping people who visited their home would donate to a fund created to build a fresh water well in the Central African Republic, as well as lighten the mood of a tense world.

“With so much negativity in society, it’s nice to have something positive to entertain people,” Johnson told mySA.com in a phone interview last week.

The show with 7,000 lights programmed to a soundtrack of dubstep-inspired holiday music quickly became a popular sight in the San Antonio area, too popular for the usually quiet Windgate Ranch community to handle.

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Johnson continued in his Facebook post to say that the show garnered an unfathomable amount of attention and he fears it would only intensify as Christmas day neared.

“This decision does not come easy for me as I have spent so much time putting the show together for the people I am now having to turn away,” he said.

The news disappointed commenters who said they had plans to visit.

Although he realizes it is a “weak substitute,” Matt Johnson is directing the public to a YouTube video of the entire show and promises to let fans of the home know of any changes.

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