It's not really the decibels - it's the frequency. Rise and Shine!!!!
"Well, I'm aware that the guy must do his work,
But the Pile Driver Man drove me berserk"
- Captain Sensible, "Wot?"
We are in year two of the street work out in front of my Philly shop. Last fall they tore up the streets all the way up to my stoop to put in new gas lines, and this time around they are finally taking out the whole street altogether to do the sewers. To start, they just have to drive in a few tiny beams. Then the real fun begins.
200 years of shipbuilding and heavy industry here on the waterfront have left a rich chemical history in the ground throughout this neighborhood. Tearing up a few square kilometers of it shouldn't be any big deal. Anyway, it will be another fun year!
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13 thoughts on “Wake up call”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars steviebboy69 says:

    That kind of sounds like one of those really big Hit and Miss engines , like one with a massive flywheel.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Lozyniak says:

    If only the powers that be were to declare a, let's say, 10-year moratorium on inventing new toys (iWhatever, etc.) and have inventors concentrate on what matters (such as reducing the noise made by heavy machinery), this world would be a much better place.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Buddy Jeans says:

    consturction begins 0600 so workers make most of daylight.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Helios Haul says:

    Imagine that with a hangover .

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eliot Brown says:

    I'm Eliot from New York, I can dance to it, I give it a 7.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lordmuntague says:

    So that's what that noise was? And I'm in Liverpool!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SubSonic says:

    i couldn't deal with that with a migraine. 🙁

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rob McGowan says:

    96dB? Must be time to head out of town and do another dino den!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dan b says:

    that is TRUELY an EVIL thing to wake up to! ;(

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars USWaterRockets says:

    Jarvis, gimme a fat beat!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Robinson says:

    I can feel it from here !  Work is being done on a power sub station about a 1/4 mile from me. They are using pnuematic
    hammers to break the bedrock – i can hear and feel it in my basement. I totally get it.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Calk Jr. says:

    That's one annoying alarm.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars VWestlife says:

    Sounds like a hit-and-miss engine!

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