Wind Turbines

[rareboy]

I am so missing out on rest today because the wind turbines 1.5 km away woke me up last night.

I get that we have to sacrifice that big box malls and unused spaces get lit like daytime 24/7...but c'mon.

Even the coyote on our front lawn didn't wreck me like this.

Anyone else have to deal with this?

 

[Essex Boy]

There are three in a field about 20 minutes' walk from my house. I can see them over the rooftops right now. It never even occurred to me that they made a noise, but there is also a very busy main road (night and day) which probably drowns it out. I can't leave the bedroom window open at night because of the traffic. But it's amazing how it can be noisy on one side of the house and quiet on the other. Years ago a police helicopter landed in the park at the end of the street in the middle of the night and I didn't know till someone asked me the next day if it had kept me awake.

 

[unloadonme]

There are no wind turbines near here. It's too urban.

 

[DantheManFL]

Quit being a pussy... they don't make that much noise.

P.S.: I love you!

Can me and Darren come live in your bunk house? We are so sick of the US.. And of course we couldn't afford to live Toronto.

 

[rareboy]

There are no wind turbines near here. It's too urban.

Lucky I suppose, but you have other urban noises.

It is the repetitive 'thud, thud, thud' of the blades slicing the air that becomes intolerable...although I gave up months ago registering a complaint, as I expect they expected us to, because the response was always 'according to the modelling studies'...the noise level is always within the allowable limits.

Today, though, when I was in an 8:30 am meeting without sleep...I would have bombed Turbine Number 5 if it meant I slept through.

 

[rareboy]

Quit being a pussy... they don't make that much noise.

P.S.: I love you!

Come lie next to me while we are trying to sleep after and we'll talk then!

 

[DantheManFL]

well that sounds intriguing.

 

[HoodedRat]

No wind turbines near my home. But I have to put up with police helicopters flying low overhead at all hours of the day and night, presumably looking for crims up to some nefarious activity or other.

 

[LeicsDom]

Lucky I suppose, but you have other urban noises.

I live not far from the M1 and you can hear traffic noise all the time. But you soon get used to it and screen it out

 

[Peloso]

I am so missing out on rest today because the wind turbines 1.5 km away woke me up last night.

Better get a cancer screening.

 

[Dargelos]

There used to be someone staying in our house who had a snore like a diesel engine starting up. I could only cope with it by playing white noise, that's the hiss you get on a fm radio between stations. It does not need to be very loud to be able to flatten out other disturbing sounds.

 

[Kahaih]

There have been studies done that seem to show that school students score significantly lower on exams given on high air pollution days.

Breath deep, and try to think of the song of the turbines as a friendly lullaby singing you and your farm to sleep in cleaner air.

 

[eddielee]

I doubt that I live within 100 miles of a wind turbine.

 

[LeicsDom]

There used to be someone staying in our house who had a snore like a diesel engine starting up. I could only cope with it by playing white noise, that's the hiss you get on a fm radio between stations. It does not need to be very loud to be able to flatten out other disturbing sounds.

I used to have a CD of white noise. I used it for sensory deprivation play

 

[PrinceCory]

I am so missing out on rest today because the wind turbines 1.5 km away woke me up last night.



Anyone else have to deal with this?

The nearest turbines to me are about 4 miles (6.44 km) South. There are a group of 185 turbines in a 20 mile stretch from West to East. It is just a rural area between my house and the line of turbines. I've never heard them. Even in the South edge of my town (which is 1 mile from the line of turbines) they can not be heard. Although admittedly, I have not stood outside at night (when it would be quieter) and just listened for them.

 

[rareboy]

The trick is to live far enough away. People in villages, towns and cities are likely never going to lie awake for part of the night listening to them.