Anonymous
Post 07/09/2022 11:38     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is hysterical. We moved from Alexandria to a different Nova neighborhood because of rising crime in our immediate neighborhood and the public schools. But people are spending time and energy on leaf blowers?


We moved from downtown DC to NoVa for work reasons. Our leafy neighborhood is much noisier than central DC. The yards here are huge, and there are leaf blowers running at least 3 hours a day. I don’t understand why people need the leaves blown onto their lawns from under their trees, and then back under the trees from their lawns, except that it provides work for recent non-English speaking immigrants.


THIS! Every time we have a beautiful evening or Holiday my crazy neighbor puts in his sound cancelling ear phones and blows leaves from one side of the yard to the other. It’s fun for him.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2022 11:30     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The electric ones are just as loud. But pollute less.


They’re quieter (not silent). Just as my friend Dwight, who has ambushed by a Prius in electric mode.


Not ours. We have a 40v eGo blower, and it’s every bit as loud as the Stihl gas blower we replaced, according to the noise dB meter app on my iPhone. Both are 71dB measured from 6 feet away.

It was really disappointing.


Yes because you bought Chinese POS.


Show me any battery powered leaf blower that wasn’t made in China, either as components or fully.


There is made in China, which can be variable quality, and then there is designed and made for China and sold here.

Anyone who knows anything about that country knows there is no such thing as quality control (or intellectual property…cleanliness…honesty…)
Anonymous
Post 07/08/2022 15:08     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me glad I’m not so fragile that things like this bother me.

I really do pitty you poor creatures that are so bothered by noise I subconsciously tune out without even realizing it.


I expect you "subconsciously tune out" all the things you do that drive your neighbors insane.
Anonymous
Post 07/08/2022 13:51     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
This thread makes me glad I’m not so fragile that things like this bother me.

I really do pitty you poor creatures that are so bothered by noise I subconsciously tune out without even realizing it.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2022 22:25     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:The ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in DC has made a huge quality-of-life difference to me—in a neighborhood of 5000-square-foot lots where everyone uses mow-and-blow services that run multiple leaf blowers at once. Now I can actually open my windows, sit on my porch, work or read a book without having to wear headphones or sit in the innermost space of my house. Seriously, it’s been life changing.


Agreed 100%. Honestly life in upper NW DC is better than across the Western Ave border for that reason.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2022 14:24     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The electric ones are just as loud. But pollute less.


They’re quieter (not silent). Just as my friend Dwight, who has ambushed by a Prius in electric mode.


Not ours. We have a 40v eGo blower, and it’s every bit as loud as the Stihl gas blower we replaced, according to the noise dB meter app on my iPhone. Both are 71dB measured from 6 feet away.

It was really disappointing.


Yes because you bought Chinese POS.


Show me any battery powered leaf blower that wasn’t made in China, either as components or fully.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 17:59     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:Not signing something so ridiculous


Yup.

I'll sign something like this the second we also ban basketball goals in common areas, above ground pools, and other ugly sources of nuisance noise. Not before.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 17:50     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:This is hysterical. We moved from Alexandria to a different Nova neighborhood because of rising crime in our immediate neighborhood and the public schools. But people are spending time and energy on leaf blowers?


which has almost no impact on anything
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 16:53     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
I would move back to Alexandria to vote for this. Since we moved away, we stay with my SIL and in the fall I literally want to blow my brains out because of the constant whine of the leafblowers.

Let the leaves be, FFS.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 16:46     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Many butterfly and pollinators survive the winter in leaf litter. It's destructive to the environment and useless. Leave the leaves.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 16:20     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is hysterical. We moved from Alexandria to a different Nova neighborhood because of rising crime in our immediate neighborhood and the public schools. But people are spending time and energy on leaf blowers?


We moved from downtown DC to NoVa for work reasons. Our leafy neighborhood is much noisier than central DC. The yards here are huge, and there are leaf blowers running at least 3 hours a day. I don’t understand why people need the leaves blown onto their lawns from under their trees, and then back under the trees from their lawns, except that it provides work for recent non-English speaking immigrants.


Oh DC snob sweetie: recent non-English speaking immigrants are much more employable and useful than you will every hope to be.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 15:55     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:Alexandria Residents Petition to Stop the Use of Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/news/leafblower-noise-petition/

Petition
https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/reduce-leaf-blower-noise-in-alexandria.html

Initiative to ban gas leaf blowers in Alexandria, following Fairfax County.

Leaf blowers are inefficient and often just move debris from one home or street to the next, rather than actually collecting it, lowering air quality.


As soon as they ban gas-powered cars, I'll support this.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 10:15     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
The ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in DC has made a huge quality-of-life difference to me—in a neighborhood of 5000-square-foot lots where everyone uses mow-and-blow services that run multiple leaf blowers at once. Now I can actually open my windows, sit on my porch, work or read a book without having to wear headphones or sit in the innermost space of my house. Seriously, it’s been life changing.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2022 03:53     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The electric ones are just as loud. But pollute less.


They’re quieter (not silent). Just as my friend Dwight, who has ambushed by a Prius in electric mode.


Not ours. We have a 40v eGo blower, and it’s every bit as loud as the Stihl gas blower we replaced, according to the noise dB meter app on my iPhone. Both are 71dB measured from 6 feet away.

It was really disappointing.


Yes because you bought Chinese POS.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2022 15:28     Subject: Ban Gas Leaf Blowers in Alexandria
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The electric ones are just as loud. But pollute less.


They’re quieter (not silent). Just as my friend Dwight, who has ambushed by a Prius in electric mode.


Not ours. We have a 40v eGo blower, and it’s every bit as loud as the Stihl gas blower we replaced, according to the noise dB meter app on my iPhone. Both are 71dB measured from 6 feet away.

It was really disappointing.