With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lawn service blowers interfere with working at home. Why do people use them in the springtime anyway,

+1

No kidding. Rich folk be having a lawn service, complete with multi decibel leaf blowers in unison, for three leaves on their grass. Cut the crap. Some of us have to work.

[Anonymous]

Fo Real. Get over it. the flip side is people don't take care of their lawns and then you would be complaining about that. Move to the country if you don't want to hear your neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fo Real. Get over it. the flip side is people don't take care of their lawns and then you would be complaining about that. Move to the country if you don't want to hear your neighbors.

High decibel blows? To give your front walk a loud “blow job”? Is that really necessary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Score 1 for white privilege. You should be glad people
Are still paying lawn care workers at a time when most hourly service workers are struggling.

Sure. But if the owners stopped using the noisy, polluting gas blowers, then the risk to their workers’ health would be lessened. Why is it necessary to use a large blow dryer to bounce pollen and seeds around on the lawns?

There are a ton of new lawn services in Arlington and none offer this. I have to assume it is either cost prohibitive or the demand isn’t there. Maybe you should try.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the lawn services will have to stay at home through June 10 in VA....

[Anonymous]

There are loud leaf blowers running this morning on the DC street where we live. Are these considered an “essential” business under the mayor’s stay-put order??

[Anonymous]

there are these buildings in arlington where there are no trees or leaves and leaf blowers stand outside, machines running for hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With most businesses and work places shut down, many more people are trying to do their jobs from home now. The loud droning of gas-fueled leaf blowers continues unabated and now affects more people working or sheltering at home. For those nearby, the noise can seem deafening and certainly headache-inducing (not to mention interrupting calls and other work), particularly when several lawn service workers are using blowers simultaneously. And blowing more dust particles into the air is likely not the best thing when people with asthma, other respiratory conditions and acute allergies are trying to keep their conditions in check and not get sick and have to seek emergency care.

Can anything be done by local government to encourage lawn services to rake or sweep rather than use leaf blowers during this time, or to accelerate the switch to quieter electric/battery powered blowers? If you hire a lawn service, can you ask them not to use gas blowers so much? DC has passed a law to phase out the loud gas blowers, but it can’t take effect soon enough.

Thank you for the laugh OP.
Your pettiness in the midst of this pandemic brought me a big smile.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope, not kidding. Earplugs are uncomfortable and don’t work all that well anyway. Are you really that lacking in consideration?

[Anonymous]

You posted on this topic on Next Door and got slammed there. What makes you think your precious snowflake post will be better received here? Get over yourself. I have been WAH in your same neighborhood for 14 years. The leaf blowers don't run all day and if they coincide with a conference call, I simply move to another part of the house for the 10-15 mins. Landscapers are going to be economically impacted; asking them to change out equipment in the middle of an economic crisis proves your myopic, entitled world view. You are embarrassing yourself. At least here on DCUM you're anonymous.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You posted on this topic on Next Door and got slammed there. What makes you think your precious snowflake post will be better received here? Get over yourself. I have been WAH in your same neighborhood for 14 years. The leaf blowers don't run all day and if they coincide with a conference call, I simply move to another part of the house for the 10-15 mins. Landscapers are going to be economically impacted; asking them to change out equipment in the middle of an economic crisis proves your myopic, entitled world view. You are embarrassing yourself. At least here on DCUM you're anonymous.

Wow, someone put this on next door with her real name attached? I’m cringing in second hand embarrassment

[Anonymous]

Electric leaf blowers are just as noisy as gas powered ones. They all need to be banned. All they’re doing is spreading viruses around everywhere , getting it all over everything

[Anonymous]

Read this piece by James Fallows. Gasoline powered leaf blowers are a documented public health problem, from both a pollution and hearing loss perspective. Coronavirus’s impact on those with respiratory problems underscores the need to ban these noisy, belching backpack pests. Fortunately they will be illegal within two years in DC - unless the mayor’s business lobbyist friends prevail on her to delay somehow what the Council has mandated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/james-fallows-leaf-blower-ban/583210/