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Citizen complaint of the day: Pollution screaming leaf blowers on Savin Hill
By adamg on Fri, 11/10/2023 - 9:47am
A distressed citizen files a 311 complaint about pointless leaf blowing at Savin Hill Park in Dorchester:
5 more leaf blowers blowing leaves around in a long pile and nobody picks up. Trees are full of leaves how many more days of pollution screaming leaf blowers residents endure. Waste leaves just sit in piles blow away and ruin grass etc. please bring leaf pick up truck instead of blowing around leaves for weeks.
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And yet they are fine with
And yet they are fine with the City Council doing the same thing?
Yes
They are fine with Boston city councilors using leaf blowers, something the Boston city council is widely know for.
lol
Back from timeout, I see.
They are..
They are pretty annoying, especially if you need to concentrate.
God put them there; God can
God put them there; God can take them away.
This is the only time of year I’m glad ….
… there are no trees on my street.
Sounds beautiful
/s
Ah, the Zen of leaf blowing.
Ah, the Zen of leaf blowing.
Same people
Who complain that they want the leaves removed. It’s the only efficient way to do it. And no electric leaf blowers are not nearly as good.
so who does it
I've always said (with absolutely no supporting evidence whatsoever) that the people who hate the leaf blowers aren't people who themselves have to deal with clearing the leaves. They hire someone else to do it (who will probably use leaf blowers anyway, unless specifically told not to).
Nope. I hate leaf blowers,
Nope. I hate leaf blowers, and I rake my own leaves.
Really?
According to whom?
I know one thing that electric blowers are not as good at ... permanent hearing damage.
Earplugs
They work if you use them. And only the operator or anyone within 50 feet needs to worry about that. People “working from home” on the couch are safe but tend to be the ones really concerned.
Respirators are necessary too.
But landscapers don’t provide them for their employees. Anyone else nearby or downwind is out of luck from leaf dust and fumes.
Rarely do they provide ear protection either.
The documented destruction to the environment, plants and small animals, is of course, ignored.
A homebound elderly person with COPD I know has no where to retreat to when the noise from her neighbor’s landscapers starts up. The neighbors are never home. I wonder why.
If it happens on 2 or more of her neighbor’s lawns at the same time, her visitors have to leave because conversation is impossible. She is left to suffer alone. If the window are open, she can’t shut them to keep out the dust and muffle some of the noise.
Every once in a while ….
…. I hear the sound of someone raking leaves.
Like the sound of a manual typewriter.
Back when our sounds were enjoyable.
This should serve notice to everyone
Get off Lee’s grass-less, tree-less lawn!
There is a marvelous invention
It is called a rake. More efficient since the leaves are not blown from one place to another. Provides exercise. Pays dividends by not creating conditions of one neighbor hating another.
There is another alternative
Don't remove them. It really won't hurt the lawn.