NOISE

Posts : 515 Join date : 2012-07-31

http://news.sciencemag.org/environment/2015/02/new-map-shows-americas-quietest-places?rss=1

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Surprisingly, Orange Beach has a noise ordinance, but it does not include trucks, motorcycles, or screeching WOOOO HOOOOOing Bama women (the number one reason it lights up yellow on the map above).
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Posts : 554 Join date : 2014-11-22 Age : 63 Location : FL

Just returned from the north Georgia mountains...sooo peaceful. Looks like my little neck of the woods in Niceville is quiet. Well...except for the AF jets. But that's only a few times a week.

Posts : 432 Join date : 2013-02-04

The trucks are simply beyond belief. You can literally hear some of them 2 miles away

Posts : 554 Join date : 2014-11-22 Age : 63 Location : FL

Our favorite spot for beach time is Henderson Beach State Park. Just over the bridge and around the corner from Niceville. Those big ol' LOUD cigar boats come roaring through the Gulf breaking the serenity of the quiet beach. I don't see the need.

Subject: Re: NOISE Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:31 am

The go-fast boats make up for owners' "shortcomings", lol.

Posts : 3139 Join date : 2013-08-07

Linda wrote:: Just returned from the north Georgia mountains...sooo peaceful. Looks like my little neck of the woods in Niceville is quiet. Well...except for the AF jets. But that's only a few times a week.

The sound of freedom.....

Posts : 554 Join date : 2014-11-22 Age : 63 Location : FL

Yep, that's what they say.

Posts : 432 Join date : 2013-02-04

The Blues regularly "smoke" us while surfing. Whats cool is you. Can't hear them when they are coming straight at you until they are past you lol. A Marine told me about how they use this in combat...it's really freaky when they do it

Posts : 554 Join date : 2014-11-22 Age : 63 Location : FL

I once saw the B2 stealth bomber over a cornfield in Kansas - not far from where we lived at Ft. Riley. I rounded a curve in the mom-van and there it was pretty low over the field. I slammed on breaks, don't know why, and yelled to the kids "Look it's the Stealth!" My son said, "Can't be...we can see it."

Har har har...

Posts : 432 Join date : 2013-02-04

Now thats funny!

When you get really deep out in the backcountry it is amazing how silent it is! And peace comes from this silence. There really is such a thing as noise pollution and I think it robs us of peace even when we don't realize it. After a day deep in the forests mountains you come out totally changed.

Posts : 554 Join date : 2014-11-22 Age : 63 Location : FL

Just spent the weekend in the mountains, private land, 123 acres. Amazingly quiet. Of course the breeze rustling in the trees, the bubbling water over the rocks, occasional bird calls...but quiet. The kind of quiet where we didn't want the tv or music. Just rocking chairs on the porch watching the mountains.

Posts : 1157 Join date : 2012-07-31

Sounds wonderful. I love the outside noise.

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