Re: Late Evening Loud Music
Many people often have no clue how far sound travels, maybe because we often relate it to conversation where we have to be reasonably close to the person talking to hear and understand. In NY the back of our house faces the Shawangunk Ridge, through which there's a pass on which the state highway was built. As the crow flies (we don't, however, fly like a crow...) we could be as far as two miles from the opening of the pass on our side of the ridge. However, on a quiet summer's night, when we sit out on our deck facing in that direction, we can hear the sound of tractor trailers coming through that pass! It's not loud or obtrusive, at least from this distance, but we can definitely hear it.
Being close to LSL or SS kind of invites hearing the sounds from there, whether canned music or entertainment or whatever, and as mentioned earlier, wind can carry the sound even further. And if that's true for supposedly pleasant sounds like the music, it's true for sure for the trains. We're in Belvedere, with only one street behind us and then the preserve that marks the end of TV, so we're relatively close to the train. To us it is a pleasant sound, but again this is 'in the ear of the beholder.' What makes it harder is that the tracks are outside TV and the number of trains is increasing (and likely to increase more with the increasing cost of truck transport...). Geez, I have no idea for a solution!
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