Sound travels

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DeltaRed

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• Jun 15, 2011

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sitting here aeting breakfast this morning,I can hear the train 5 miles distant,and can hear the trucks on hiway50,3+ miles away.hear a helicopter and birds singing closer.What do you guys hear this fine morning?

 

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Phil Scarborough

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Cat D9 clattering round the coal heap at the power station 2 miles away.

 

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greenbeanman in Kansas

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Same as usual, being awakened by a yelping, whining dog attempting to get his irresponsible master's attention. Happens any time during the 24 hour day and yet they won't train him, but instead ignore him.

I sleep with my windows open, apparently they don't or have the ability to tune him out.

Sorry, irresponsible pet owners are a pet peeve of mine.

Typically I hear mourning doves cooing.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jun 15, 2011

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My inner self tellin' me to get off my duff and to work. :>)

Allan

 

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[email protected]

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• Jun 15, 2011

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I'm hearing thunder and a few cars on the not so distant road.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Hear trucks on highway out front,train 1/2 mile away and it thundering and raining here.

 

Goose

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Traffic on I-80 a mile south of my house. Train going past a mile west. Grandfathers clock striking the hour in the living room.

Actually, I no longer hear any of it unless I listen. Just absorb it. Just like in the military, airplanes go over the barracks all the time and you never hear them unless one doesn't sound right.

 

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Grampy

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Neighbor out checkin' his cows with the Piper Cub ! Otherwise quiet, 80+ miles from a railroad, 23 miles from the highway.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Traffic roaring up and down I-25 a little over five miles away, traffic on the dirt road a mile away, them stupid little airplanes that seem to have a direct highway over where I live, the computer fan motor sounding like it is in need of an oiling, my cats growling at each other. Wish I was back up in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming where the silence is so deafening you can't hear yourself think.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 15, 2011

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train 10 miles away 4 lane highway 7 miles early morning sounds like they are in the front yard

 

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cuttman

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Traffic on highway just 600' from house and train in the valley some 2 miles away as the crow flys and thunder now.

 

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David G

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Raining here

 

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big fred

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Tinnitus.

 

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Charlie M

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Rooster I am raising in an outdoor pen. He's going to find his way to the oven a lot quicker since he started crowing at 5 AM.

 

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Inno

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• Jun 15, 2011

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We can hear the stock car races every Saturday evening in the summer from about 15 miles west of us (as the crow files). Prevailing winds are from the west.

 

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GordoSD

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• Jun 15, 2011

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In August, 50,000 harleys headed west to sturgis on I-90. Need a south wind to really hear the roar though. It's fun to sit on the overpass on my Turbo Honda and give them the bird. Or ride on down and travel a few miles west and dust a few off

 

Blackhole49

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White Lake MI

• Jun 15, 2011

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Where I live in MI (southeast), here the train, it's going to rain.

 

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Chris(WA)

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Boeing 737 plant/ runway is about 200 yards east of me. Love to hear the planes. We refer to it as Boeing ringing the cash register!
Lots of private planes too. Most are fun to watch and hear. The small private jets are the most obnoxious noise and operation time wise. Guess they think they are special...

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 15, 2011

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(quoted from post at 07:41:26 06/15/11) Tinnitus.

Click to expand...

That's no joke......... Never lonely is it??????????

 

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Bryan inIowa

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• Jun 15, 2011

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ditto !

 

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Lamar Fudd

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Holy Mackrel dere, Goose. I live a mile north of I-80/35 in Iowa and it does get loud when the wind's outta the South. Also hear the trains that are a mile east of me; a lot more now that the Missouri has closed off the Union Pacifics tracks on the Western border. Otherwise, I hear constantly crickets or locusts, even in the winter.

 

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CLTX

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• Jun 15, 2011

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When I lived down on Galveston Bay, and the wind was out of the northeast during the winter, I would hear the EMDs in towboats pushing barges up the Houston Ship Channel (eight miles as the crow flies). Now all I hear is traffic on Woodlands Parkway.

 

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PJH

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Yeah, sound travels. One of the things that always amused me is how people in a motor boat will talk to each other over the noise of the outboard, thinking that no one else can hear them.

"Look at that gal fishing off of the bridge! Whooee!!"

Or worse. . .

And they wonder why they got the one finger salute. . .


We can hear the MoPac trains along the Mississippi river, and also towboats in the river, about eight miles away I guess. Some nights hear them better than others. Sometimes they will make you think someone has pulled in the driveway.

Paul

 

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farmerjohninpa

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• Jun 15, 2011

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good morn,,,,,,,Ah heck the wifes up,,got to go!!!!

 

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Phil in Pa

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• Jun 15, 2011

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Same here, we can hear the speedway Saturday nights about 10 miles across the Susquehanna.

When the air is right, it's crystal clear.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jun 16, 2011

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You should try getting up before lunch time Phil. MJ