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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can buy quiet generators. Quieter than an idling car, but they are expensive. Your neighbors are cheap and/or inconsiderate.[/quote]

I agree. The most selfish, boorish, neighbors usually have the biggest loudest generators and never offer to share with anyone. A [b]plague on their houses,[/b] I say. [b]A plague.[/b][/quote]

You sound pretty entitled!  Why should they share with you anyways?  They don't owe you anything. [/quote]

Not that poster, but if you are annoying your neighbors with something as loud as a lawnmower, when you know everyone's got their windows open to get some cooler air, then at the very least you should offer fridge space, fresh brewed coffee, or something to make up for it.

Seriously, something that loud can cause hearing damage in just 8 hours.  Not cool at all. [/quote]

Agree that a generous offer of fridge space is nice, but honestly it does not make up for being kept up all night.  In my neighborhood in Arlington it's very rare that a power outage lasts long enough for the stuff in the fridge to go bad anyway.  If you are someone who insists on running loud equipment late at night, you should be living out in the country where there's nobody to disturb.  (And obviously the municipalities agree, hence the noise ordinances.)[/quote]

Not the PP's but I'll take a noisy generator with a considerate neighbor taking in our food (and anything else we need) over no generator any day.  We were grateful for our neighbor's generator.  This is the second or third time they have taken our food and anything else we needed.  They would have run us a line if we were next door (which they did do for others) but we are across the street and we couldn't figure out how to do it safely.  Its time limited.  After about 8-10 hours our fridge food and freezer food was getting ready to turn (which is when we brought a lot of it to the neighbors, pitched some and kept some hoping to eat it - what we left in the fridge by night two was moldy/gross - mainly veggies and I should have brought it to the neighbors but didn't want to take up that much room in case someone else needed it.  We'll be buying a generator at some point.[/quote]

You were across the street.  Trust me it's way different from being right next door in a dense SFH neighborhood.  It truly is loud enough to make your whole day unpleasant.  In any case, it's all well and good to share a generator if you agree to it in advance, but it's NOT reasonable to just assume that all neighbors will be OK with generator noise in exchange for using the generator.  The power rarely goes out long enough around here to lose your stuff, and when it does there has usually been at least a few days of warning so you could eat through your perishables, turn down your fridge temp, and stock up on ice.  On the other hand, a whole day of close-up generator noise can make you lose your mind, let alone even trying to sleep. [/quote]

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