"Every day. Nearly. Every. Damn. Day. Maybe twice a day. Shooting rigidly awake from blissful sleep into the literal warzone of bleating death engines. My complex is surrounded sometimes by several dudes just running their nozzles over the same already clean patch of grass. It sends my dog into a mania. It sends me into a depression. Running a commercial gas-powered leaf blower for one hour"
"is roughly equivalent in air pollution to driving 1,000 miles in a car. They are changing more than the climate up here. Breathing in that sweet, sweet exhaust. I pay exorbitant bills to be in my own personal sound torture box. I try to walk it off but it is just blowers everywhere no matter where I try to hide. This ban could not come soon enough."
Gas-powered leaf blowers run daily and often multiple times per day, abruptly waking residents from sleep and creating a constant, intrusive noise environment. The loud, persistent racket provokes extreme stress reactions in pets and contributes to depression in affected residents. Multiple operators sometimes blow the same already-clean grass, amplifying unnecessary disturbance. One hour of commercial gas-powered leaf blower operation produces air pollution comparable to driving 1,000 miles, worsening local air quality and health risks. Residents face high living costs while enduring continuous noise, and a ban on gas-powered blowers is portrayed as urgently needed.
Read at Portland Mercury
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