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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
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Thank you for the laugh OP.  
Your pettiness in the midst of this pandemic brought me a big smile.[/quote]

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