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There is nothing like the sounds of chainsaws and generators (Original Post) JonLP24 Aug 2016 OP
Check your local government agency (County and/or city) Baitball Blogger Aug 2016 #1
I live right in downtown, 2 blocks from city hall JonLP24 Aug 2016 #2
... or leaf-blowers, garbage trucks, ... surrealAmerican Aug 2016 #3
Oh, man, bummer. Sleep is so precious. Laffy Kat Aug 2016 #4
Earplugs are a lifesaver. n/t MicaelS Aug 2016 #5
It's wood chippers all day after last week's storm... Phentex Aug 2016 #6
I'm a chronic insomniac who once had a graveyard shift job while living... NNadir Aug 2016 #7
I count my blessings pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #8

Baitball Blogger

(46,700 posts)
1. Check your local government agency (County and/or city)
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 10:49 AM
Aug 2016

There are noise ordinances that generally apply to prevent these kind of disturbances.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
2. I live right in downtown, 2 blocks from city hall
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 10:56 AM
Aug 2016

Landscapers often start this early because it gets very hot later in AZ. It has happened often in my lifetime living here.

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)
3. ... or leaf-blowers, garbage trucks, ...
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 11:16 AM
Aug 2016

... street cleaners, roofers, tuck pointers, and workmen screaming to one-another over the noise.

ah, the sounds of home

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)
4. Oh, man, bummer. Sleep is so precious.
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 11:57 AM
Aug 2016

At least sirens don't wake me. My very first apartment was next door to a fire station and a cross the street from a hospital!

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
6. It's wood chippers all day after last week's storm...
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 01:39 PM
Aug 2016

trees down everywhere so the tree people are very busy at the moment.

NNadir

(33,512 posts)
7. I'm a chronic insomniac who once had a graveyard shift job while living...
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:11 PM
Aug 2016

...next to a guy with a yappy dog and a penchant for sawing wood day after day after day after day 365. days a year.

I have no idea what he was sawing or why but, man, that was the worst two years of my life, or would have been, were it not for the joy of being a newlywed.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
8. I count my blessings
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:49 PM
Aug 2016

Only once in a while does the lawn guy come by my apartment with the leafblower to clear the 2nd floor walkway. The mowers come once a week.

The refuse guys come twice a week, but their truck won't fit in our narrow driveway so our building owner pays extra to have a guy walk all the way down the drive to grab the 2 dumpsters in the back and haul them all the way out front to the truck. One at a time. If I'm in the bedroom (overlooking the drive) those dumpster wheels are noisy, especially when they hit the speed bumps, and I notice. Otherwise, it's a stealth operation to me.

One of my friends here has a loud motorcycle and he usually drives in late at night. Two minutes of noise, and he's a friend. The chickens in the neighborhood are louder and longer.

This is all minor piddly shit and I have no complaints. Check back with me when I have jackhammers in the courtyard.

As I said, I count my blessings.

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