Our Burgeoning Pollution Problem

[Champakian]

Let us set the argument over Glow Ball Warning aside,
like abortion, no one ever wins and rarely is a mind "got right."

The big problem is noise pollution.
I was out last night and the assault on the ears
was more caustic cacophony than southing symphony.
The frogs and the Canadian Geese were pounding on the brain.
It made my mini-wiener dog crazy. She tried to scare them away by bark.

She ended up hoarse after an hour as she fought valiantly to get in the last word.

I honestly think that she posts here on the Politics Board...

 

[sigh]

Heck, I thought the firetruck roaring down my street at 4am (because some pissant freshman thought he was the first one ever to think of pulling a fire alarm in a dorm) was noisy.

But frogs and geese! And a barking dog too. You need some kind of noise-cancelling tech, I think.

 

[Champakian]

You need some mother's little helper...

 

[Champakian]

Fire trucks are not dying species about to disappear forever.

At the current rate, the fire trucks are more likely to turn Fahrenheit 451...

 

[Champakian]

Pond full of eggs and tadpoles
and still the untimely symphony continues unabated.

On the upside, the geese have moved on up to the North side...

 

[Champakian]

Now, we wonder which upstanding member of the board is hiding behind this alt.


Because it is what it is...

 

[Champakian]

No, I'm not going to play guessing games as to who you are
when you so ably demonstrate what you are...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I live close enough to the airport to hear an airliner sometimes. Like just now.


I knew a guy who lived very close to a train track, and it was a busy one. He said he had learned to sleep right through them, and I believed him.


I think that there is a fair amount of white noise in more urban settings which makes one immune to a lot of noises which sound like an invading army out in the sticks. Like the time the ex's Uncle Bill came to visit and couldn't sleep a wink. His house was out in the woods.


This is the guy who retired early with zero debt and earns his keep by riding his HfD from city to city and playing in pool tournaments. I guess he stays out in the woods and counts his winnings.

 

[Champakian]

We have a lot of small aircraft pass through.

Like the geese, I think they follow the river.

 

[Champakian]

... or he's put in the woods with his buddies plotting...

 

[thør]

On occasion I can hear highway traffic on the Seward Highway; it's .6 miles away, line of sight. The train tracks are another 100 feet or so and I hear an occasional train. At 3 am, the air freighters start to leave the airport, and if conditions are right, I hear them in the background even though they're 9.5 miles away and I can see the airport.

If I lived in the trees, there wouldn't be as much noise.

At the cabin, the trees muffle most noises. I did hear the unmistakable "thumping" of a loaded Huey earlier this year out there. Huey was slinging out an airplane, likely a little Piper. It was difficult to see in the fog.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Apparently forum member Champakian likes to frequently throw shit
against the wall to see if it sticks.

Also he's an insomniac and has no social life except for this forum.

He's a trumptard to the core.

 

[thør]

A Chinook just flew over making a racket. We generally don't see too many south of JBER.

 

[Champakian]

We get the 46s passing overhead all the time.
It rattles the house, especially when it's a formation.
The latest addition to the chorus is a piercing frog cry with lasting power;
it penetrates the house walls too.

The Replacement Geese were at the ponds yesterday.
I don't know if any of them were named Sorvino
or if any of the Ganders were Fat...

 

[IsItBad]

Let us set the argument over Glow Ball Warning aside,
like abortion, no one ever wins and rarely is a mind "got right."

The big problem is noise pollution.
I was out last night and the assault on the ears
was more caustic cacophony than southing symphony.
The frogs and the Canadian Geese were pounding on the brain.
It made my mini-wiener dog crazy. She tried to scare them away by bark.

She ended up hoarse after an hour as she fought valiantly to get in the last word.

I honestly think that she posts here on the Politics Board...

in a house we had 2 houses ago, at a certain time of the year, there would be literally hundreds if not thousands of frogs in our pool at night. the pool was pretty close to the back of the house and was surrounded by trees. it sounded like a national geo special being broadcast on 1000 amp speakers. it was so loud that when it would first start our dogs would sit at the back door barking their heads off for a long time. after a few days, they would get use to it or tired of barking and just ignore it. our bedroom had a sliding door out to the pool, though, and every night at that time of year, we would have to lay there and listen to those frogs til we fell asleep. it was SUPER LOUD !!