Talked to my Audiologist

[digitS']

About driving around with my window down. A motorcycle passes ... snap, snap, SNAP!!!

The hearing aids have feedback overloads from the excessive, outrageous noise! Pocket Rockets with ridiculous mufflers. Diesel trucks!

Oh no, not the 500 horsepower semi. Just a little 5 liter, big enuf to push a 4-wheeler around!

And, mufflers, are they even required anymore? Are there noise standards that are enforced? Does anybody care or is it only the near-deaf?

Steve

 

[so lucky]

It is not only folks who are wearing hearing aids who have issues with noise. Living right on a busy highway, I am particularly aggravated by loud tires and obnoxious mufflers. You can't stand out side the house and have a conversation except after 10 PM, when the offenders are home already.

 

[aftermidnight]

Our house is on a bit of an island between a now one way street, used to be a two way and the four lane island highway. When we moved here in 65 the highway was only two lanes. A few years back they put in a bypass which cut down a lot of traffic on the highway but now it's back to what it used to be, I'd hate to think of the noise level today if that bypass hadn't been put in. That being said, I've got used to the highway noise and only notice it when I'm near the fence in the back yard. What gets me is all the sirens, police, ambulance and fire trucks roaring down the highway sirens blaring, not bad if two or three times a day but in the summer windows open it gives me the jitters after the 10th one, so far this morning before 9 I've heard four. Out front hardly any traffic now and there is a nature park across the street, that helps a lot.
I absolutely love living here, to be able to look out the front room window and see nothing but trees and not houses, there is a muffled sound of the highway out back but that doesn't take away from the natural beauty of the old growth trees across the street. Lately with climate change and all the fires that have been happening I've been pondering having a sprinkler system installed on our roof.

Annette

 

[Nyboy]

I live on a very busy street, the only road to county airport. I don't even pay attention to street noise any more.

 

[digitS']

natural beauty

have a conversation

What's wrong with natural beauty and having human conversations for some people?

What is it with these "in your face" noise demonstrations!?

Steve

 

[aftermidnight]

What is it with these "in your face" noise demonstrations!?

Sadly it's a sign of the times Steve, today's society is spiraling downwards at neck breaking speed. Respect and common courtesy for one-another has already gone down the drain.

Annette

 

[thistlebloom]

I know what you mean Steve. It's not just you. I get internal road rage when I get passed by one of those super loud bikes. Or sitting at a light next to an idling diesel pickup truck.

What's amazing is the people who live right next to the train tracks. How in the world do they ever sleep? We're about 3 miles from one crossing and in the summer when the windows are open it sounds like they're blowing their horns in my driveway.

 

[Nyboy]

The country house is on a road that is pretty quite at night. But summer nights are filled with frogs and cricket noise. They can get pretty loud. And if the coyotes are hunting forget about quite.

 

[Larisa]

I also live in the noise and did not hear it. But I do not wear a hearing aid. Of course, it dramatically changes a lot. Noise standards exist, there are health standards. But they are ignored. I know that digital hearing aid more than other devices eliminates noise. But unfortunately it does not protect completely. I'm sorry, Steve. Country house in a quiet place, I appreciate it.
Of course, motorcycles - it's awful. I sometimes jump up in surprise when someone rides fast with great clatter. For some reason, some people put silencers and go quietly, and others do not. But on the whole polite grows, it can be clearly seen here. I hope this will be reflected in aggressive driving.

 

[Smart Red]

It is a protective 'mechanism' built into our audio system to become used to often repeated noises in our environment.

We purchased an apartment unit. Before buying it, we spent time driving around the neighborhood at different times of day checking for area problems. Didn't seen any that caused alarm. Then I spent a few nights cleaning the apartments for renting.

What a shock when the first train rumbled through the night. Seems we had thought the tracks out back were no longer being used. WRONG! I worried that we would never get or keep the apartments rented. After a few nights working there, however, my internal alarm system totally tuned out the sound of the trains and heard each noisy vehicle or barking dog.

That is NOT to say the cumulative effects of high noise levels are not dangerous to our ears, Our survival once depended upon the ability to hear things in the night were not expected so the brain adapts to expected noises.