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Post by lugg on Mar 24, 2021 5:32:10 GMT
Is the compressor noise from your building work Bixa ? It's been an early start for me today, woken by squawking seagulls at 5am ...the one downside to being on the coast.
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Post by casimira on Mar 25, 2021 4:04:17 GMT
Thunder, lightening and torrential rain.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2021 5:03:15 GMT
I hope it's not a bad storm, Casimira. The rain part sounds pretty nice. Is the compressor noise from your building work Bixa ? Yes, Lugg. As of today, the ex-patio really looks like a room, although there is still stuff to be done. One of the things today was to remove the metal back door from its place in the kitchen & move it to its new place in the new room. Thus, the sound around me today was the shrieking whine of metal cutting, plus the snapping crackle of welding.
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Post by htmb on Mar 25, 2021 5:12:07 GMT
I’m hearing trains. Lots and lots of trains.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 25, 2021 6:58:16 GMT
I have the pleasant patter of light rain on the roof.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 25, 2021 12:00:48 GMT
Livia purring, but also pleading to be let out on the front balcony. Insistent little creature. Very quiet here in terms of any kind of traffic, and no roadwork on the more major street at the corner. People cycling to work, but that is very quiet. Idem a few cars. Fortunately no emeergency vehicles.
My best non-co-op friend on the block has moved to Regina Saskatchewan. I'd be bored silly there and the Prairie winters are much colder, but she has a full professorship there so it is worth the Siberian exile. I'll also miss their two sweet dogs, but at least one of them had to be put down due to multiple serious ills of old age, so I won't mention the issue when are in touch.
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Post by bjd on Mar 25, 2021 13:06:06 GMT
A long time ago a good friend of mine moved from Montreal to Regina too, saying he would advance much faster in his career than in Montreal. He stayed out there and now lives in Saskatoon.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 25, 2021 14:20:37 GMT
Yes, I'd certainly be farther along if I could stand such a delocation-dislocation. I'm terminally urban.
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Post by casimira on Mar 25, 2021 14:35:08 GMT
Bixa, I LOVE the sound of rain but, when it's this this heavy I get stressed out because of our "situation" with the asshole who put in the double wide driveway directly across the street. I wake up as does T. in the middle of the night to go and check the water levels.
Lagatta, with regard to being an "urban person", I identify completely. I love visiting the countryside (in mild weather), but, I would be miserable if I could not walk or cycle to the local markets, cafes, music clubs, parks and friends homes etc. in my neighborhood.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2021 14:43:43 GMT
Casimira, is your friend Drew -- a hero for his attention to NO's drainage woes -- on your street? Even if he's not, maybe he would be willing to guide your neighbors in drawing attention to the thug's driveway. One of those local tv exposés might get something going to force the neighbor to rectify what he's wrought.
LaGatta & Casimira, I agree with you all about urban vs rural. Whereas I like where I live & it is a city, it's not big enough to really deliver the excitement and stimulation of a true large city.
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Post by casimira on Mar 25, 2021 14:57:51 GMT
Bixa, EVERYONE in the immediate neighborhood including Drew is aware of our situation however,, the asshole was slapped with a fine ("chump" change given his millions) and not enforced to remediate it. He is building a monstrosity around the corner and when I saw that he was initiating this project I immediately alerted the immediate neighbors many who are very civic minded and they watch him like a hawk and he has complied "somewhat". Plus, their street configuration is different than ours. That being said, each time I walk by there with a close friend (Jennie in particular), she steers me across the street from this when I see him and his "new" monstrous project for fear of my going off on him which I did do on one occasion. Our future plan when the NY property comes through is to remediate our own sidewalk and areas that cause the flooding with permeable materials. We have folks we know who know what has to be done. Too bad and infuriating that it's going to be on "our dime". It sucks but, I'd rather this than constantly live in this stressful type of situation every time there is flood like weather conditions.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2021 15:25:46 GMT
It is particularly infuriating because you all live on what passes for high ground in New Orleans, so should not (& did not pre-neighbor's driveway) have that problem from mere rain.
Side note: my keyboard is too sensitive on certain letters & tends to double-type them. It did that just now when I typed "neighbor", rendering it as "neighboor". Appropriate, right?
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Post by casimira on Mar 25, 2021 15:37:02 GMT
What's really funny is to see Jennie scope out the construction site as we approach while on a walk past there. She's so meek and mild, and, it infuriates her as well, she is not an aggressive person and she grabs my elbow and as gently as she can, steers me across the street a half a block away. (We know what his truck looks like)! P.S. Remember, our house is not raised so, it makes us much more vulnerable. That being said, we never had a problem until this asshole did his "handiwork".
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 25, 2021 17:15:35 GMT
It is particularly infuriating because you all live on what passes for high ground in New Orleans, so should not (& did not pre-neighbor's driveway) have that problem from mere rain. Side note: my keyboard is too sensitive on certain letters & tends to double-type them. It did that just now when I typed "neighbor", rendering it as "neighboor". Appropriate, right? There is indeed a mistake bixa. It should be neighbour.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2021 17:41:12 GMT
But no. Along with that whole monarchy, taxation-without-representation, etc. thing, we got rid of y'all's risible, outdated, and really, rather prissy spelling.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 25, 2021 18:14:07 GMT
I thought it was just too many letters to cope with.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2021 18:17:06 GMT
Har de har har
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Post by mich64 on Mar 25, 2021 18:56:40 GMT
Overnight I listened to thunder storms and the rain pounding on our roof.
This afternoon I am listening to the sounds of rushing water. There is a culvert up at the road that runs between our property and our neighbours and each spring we basically have a waterfall for about a month that allows the spring melt from the hillside above the road and spring rains to rush down to the lake.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 25, 2021 19:11:34 GMT
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Post by casimira on Mar 25, 2021 19:19:46 GMT
All that snow from "up North" eventually makes it way "down here" each Spring as it melts. Many years it causes the Mississippi River to flood. While we here in NOLA have a levee protection system for the river along with 2 spillways to protect the city, the folks in the rural areas North of us don't have that type of protection system and many farmers and homes near the riverbanks flood and many of them lose their Springtime crops and homes. I have an inkling that this year is going to be one of them. (And, I am not referring to the levees that "broke" and caused the Katrina disaster. That flooding was not from the Mississippi River levee protection system. It was from the other surrounding waterways poorly built and maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers around the Metro New Orleans area and low lying areas in and around the city).
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2021 3:22:58 GMT
I am listening to loud cursing in English. It's my next-door neighbor who does this routinely. He uses all the standard US curse words, but the twist is that it always seems directed at someone, i.e., instead of just yelling fuck like a normal person, it's always a litany of fuck you, fuck you you piece of shit, etc. It's always loud, too. I'm in my dining room & I think his bellowing is coming from the front of his house. Seriously, this goes on all the time!
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Post by Kimby on Mar 29, 2021 4:01:43 GMT
We sat in the hot tub tonite listening to the wind in the pine trees. And the occasional clang of my Cosanti wind bell.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2021 10:01:28 GMT
Kimby, I'll take your soundbyte rather than Bixa's.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2021 16:29:38 GMT
The loud grinding noise of heavy duty electric drilling into concrete. My security grates are being installed on the porch.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 30, 2021 16:31:40 GMT
The loud grinding noise of heavy duty electric drilling into concrete. My security grates are being installed on the porch. That should keep your fire safe then.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 30, 2021 17:31:15 GMT
High pitched peep-peep-sip-sip coming from our neighbour's car port...there are robins nesting in there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2021 0:52:34 GMT
Good grief! I think every siren on every emergency and police vehicle in the city is going off right now. This never happens here. No idea what's going on.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2021 14:43:32 GMT
Lots of car horns and yelling at least twice this afternoon in impromptu motorcades. Muslim weddings have returned, and they are on Friday. But it doesn't match the atmosphere of Cairo.
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Post by mossie on Jun 25, 2021 18:49:19 GMT
Some rumbles of thunder which hopefully are not getting any nearer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2021 21:42:16 GMT
I finally found out the cause of all the sirens yesterday. It was the celebration of EMS Day.
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