"You know what that means: the calm-shattering roar of leaf blowers. It's not just the noise from the leaf blowers. It's the fact that the people using them rev them up really loud, then throttle them back to a lower but still-annoying volume, then crank them up again. Then the leaf blowers will fall silent. You think you're saved. But then they roar back up again."
"After the landscapers had departed I heard the low, grating, whistle-like whine from what looks to be a brick re-pointing job being done on the apartment building around the block from me. It's a subtle, piercing noise, like a dentist's drill, that gets right inside your head. It would be a good sound to use if you want to torture captives. How do I know what the noise was?"
"I don't know who's driving like a drag-racer in my general vicinity at night, but I can hear them. I can hear their fart-fart engines that snap, crackle and pop like firecrackers as they blaze by. I can hear cars and motorcycles at night when I'm trying to sleep and they're the only thing disturbing the quiet. I can hear them even after they've left my neighborhood and are driving miles away."
Early-morning and late-afternoon attempts at extra sleep are frequently interrupted by neighborhood noise. Leaf blowers produce a calm-shattering roar and an aggravating pattern of revving loudly, throttling down, then revving again. Construction work emits a low, grating, whistle-like whine that pierces the head like a dentist's drill. Loud cars and motorcycles race at night with popping exhaust that carries for miles and keeps sleep at bay. Seasonal weekend music from lower areas adds to the soundscape. Locating noise sources by walking the neighborhood provides slight relief through understanding the causes.
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