| ▲ | imglorp 10 hours ago |
| If you really want to make an impact on the noise floor, ban gasoline leaf blowers. |
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| ▲ | dstroot 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I was 100% in your camp until my neighbor bought an electric blower. The loud, high pitched whine is somehow louder and more ear piercing than a gas blower. |
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| ▲ | jauntywundrkind 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Hey, DC resident. We've banned gas leaf blowers. Maybe perhaps possibly, but this is not my experience at all, ever. Even if you are sensitive and impacted, even if someone buys a particularly shrill one: I can sit indoors and hear gas leaf blowing from blocks away. At least the disturbance you are hearing is localized. |
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| ▲ | tanseydavid 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >> ban gasoline leaf blowers These things are indeed "The Devil's Hairdryer" |
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| ▲ | bloudermilk 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Air quality, too. Leaf blowers re-suspend carcinogens like brake dust and other fine particulate matter. Honestly just an awful practice all around. |
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| ▲ | weinzierl 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| As someone who grew up near an US military base with constant low altitude aircraft noise: No thank you, I'd prefer the leaf blower any time. |
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| ▲ | donkey_brains 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Weed wackers too |
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| ▲ | foobarqux 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The proposed limit is around the level of standing right next to a leaf blower. |
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| ▲ | imglorp 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's fine. The occasional boom, assuming business success this time, will last a few seconds. Leaf blowers last for hours in some neighborhoods. It's not the hearing damage, it's the psychological stress. | | |
| ▲ | foobarqux 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The initial boom is less than a second but it's like standing right next to the leafblower (not across the street) and is accompanied a lasting thundering-noise which is also extremely loud. | | |
| ▲ | jauntywundrkind 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, and it's entirely unexpected. Just, out of the blue, boom. A deep shaking sound wave blasts you. The people defending this don't seem to know what a sonic boom is like. Even if you diffuse it some, it's a ridiculous force. These are huge jets. This is going to be a new ambient disruption that makes every single day worse, filling the world with din, every day, for possibly billions of people. This is such a downgrade to the world. While the ultra-rich Tiphares style look down on the world. |
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| ▲ | Rekindle8090 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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