Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down due
to the ice, portable generators.

Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid of
the screaming leaf blowers.

Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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| Andrew Sarangan wrote:
| As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious
| lawn mowers, not just one, but a whole battalion of them, I can't help
| but wonder what happened to all the peace of quietness this day is
| supposed to typify. Whats up with this riutal of mowing your lawn
| early Xmas morning, in below freezing temperatures? Our whole family
| was up angry and irritated at the high decibel noise outside our
| bedroom windows. We live under a busy airport traffic pattern, and I
| can't ever remember being woken up by airplane noise. But the same
| neighborhood that complains about airplane noise seems to think
| nothing of lawn mowers and leaf blowers that run for many hours
| straight right outside their windows. It's much worse in the summer,
| but it seems winter is no exception either.
|
| I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn
| mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution.
|
|
|
| You obviously live too far south. The snow here in PA keeps the
| lawnmowers silent for 6 months of the year at least.
|
| Matt