DC concil to ban leaf blowers!
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Anonymous
| Please let this happen! I can’t wait for craigslist to be flooded with $10 like-new leaf blowers! I could use a new one. |
Anonymous
| My prediction is contractors will respond by buying generators and running them in the back of their pickup trucks with an extension cord to the electric leaf blower. Which will result in more noise and air pollution than gas-powered leaf blowers. |
Anonymous
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Electric leaf blowers are just as loud as gas ones. What is this supposed to accomplish?
Use a rake, dammit!!!! |
Anonymous
They pollute a lot less, though. |
Anonymous
This poster is just writing to blog. They have never raked a leaf in their life. Get angry about something you know about please. |
Anonymous
NP. I rake, and I can tell you're right. It's a lot of work. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Well I will just leave the leaves where they fall, in the street, on the sidewalk, in the grass doesn't matter. |
Anonymous
LOL. |
Anonymous
Correct. I pay lesser-skilled people to do my raking for me, just as someone more skilled than you pays you to do whatever menial thing you do, for them. |
Anonymous
Yup. And leaf blowers are out for only 2 months out of the year. I'm in my mid 30s. Raking and bagging leaves is back breaking work for ME. I can't even imagine my older neighbors doing this. My neighbor's ginko and oak trees literally dump hundreds of pounds of leaves on my property in the fall. I have a cordless electric leaf blower and it's a lifesaver. Just yesterday I collected two more garbage bags of leaves in my backyard (and this is after the big drops just two weeks ago). Overall, I'd say I've collected about 15 bags of leaves in addition to the 12' x 4' x 4' pile I left in the gutter for the city to suck up and mulch. So many leaves and there's no way I could do it without the blower. Impossible. |
Anonymous
| If it were just homeowners cleaning up their leaves once or twice in the fall, it wouldn’t be a problem. I live where about half of my neighbors hire a mow-and-blow service to come WEEKLY from spring through fall. Which means we hear the loud, high-pitched whine of blowers multiple times a day, often two or three running at once. Those of us who work from home, or have young children at home in neighborhoods with small lots, cannot sit on our porches or patios, or enjoy open windows Even with the house sealed up I can hear them daily. For me, it is a huge quality-of-life issue. We have tried respectfully asking our neighbors to find alternative services or to have the blowing done only when it’s really needed, to no avail. We’ve also tried asking the workers to be more thoughtful, when we see them just blowing leaves or grass clippings into the street or onto another property, or when they are blowing away at a single leaf they could just pick up. I’m all for legislation, even if it would be hard to enforce. |
Anonymous
The people who contract the work out will keep doing that, and the people who do it themselves will just do it with an electric leaf-blower, not a gas-powered one. And I will continue to rake. |
Anonymous
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I work from home. I also rake my leaves in the fall. I listen to my neighbor's landscape service "broom clean" the lawn of leaves weekly in the fall, using multiple, very loud gas-powered blowers. In the spring and summer, they use them as well, bouncing particles of pollen and dust from their walkways.
Ban these suckers! |
Anonymous
+1000 |