With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
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Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Lol. |
Anonymous
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When white-collar workers agree to use a typewriter instead of a computer, sure make the landscaper use a rake.
Otherwise, they need to work just as much as you do. |
Anonymous
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Where are you? I’m in Bethesda and our cleanup hasn’t been done yet and very few houses in our neighborhood have been done. I don’t think I’ve heard a single leaf blower this season.
Anyway I normally WFH and don’t find my neighbors lawn care to be disruptive. We have smallish lots and lawn mowing typically takes 15 mins. Leaf removal in fall is worse but hopefully we will be off our quarantines by then. |
Anonymous
If they use a rake, isn’t there more work for them? Most leaf blowers in the spring seems used to blow just and twigs of front walks. Wasteful. |
Anonymous
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OP, are you serious with this post? Like you literally sat down with your laptop to put this into the world?
I’m hoping this was a (fairly decent) shot at satire. |
Anonymous
Very frequent now in NW DC, where hoses also tend to be closer together. |
Anonymous
| Lawn service blowers interfere with working at home. Why do people use them in the springtime anyway, |
Anonymous
| I picked my house to not be in a commercial/business district and live accordingly. You are now working from your house and are actually the interloper in the neighborhood. Let the rest of us keep living our home lives the way we want and adjust how you now work in a non-commercial area. |
Anonymous
| If you heard it near our house, it was a chipper making mulch from the tree prunings, not a leaf blower. |
Anonymous
Yup. This is America. If I want my lawn service to blow-dry my walk and manicured lawn once a week, then that’s my Constitutional right, by Jesus. |
Anonymous
Omg you are really lacking in empathy OP. They have to work. Outside. Every day. |
Anonymous
Noise cancelling headphones. You’re welcome. |
Anonymous
| Um, what? You are wfh bc of covid-19, yes? Local government is likely all hands on deck w this. They are not really focused on leaf blower laws and enforcement. But you are providing good entertainment! |
Anonymous
| Don't worry, I am sure we will be taking down trees the wrong way as well according to OP. |