What a completely uninformed comment. Moore has a significant lead over Cox according to the latest polls. Not even close!

As a musician and recording artist with a next door neighbor who blows his leaves EVERY DAY, usually MULTIPLE TIMES per day, I feel your pain. I legitimately think he has OCD because there is no other excuse for being that anal about having some leaves around. Not only can I not record while this is going on, but I have a baby whose naps are sometimes disturbed by the noise as well. The neighbor is super nice, so I don't want to get him in any trouble... I just wish there were something I could do without jeopardizing our friendly relationship.

Feld, I think you are on mute.

Can you unmute.

I see you talking but… wait… there you are!

They need to be banned. Leaves are good for lawns and the environment. Bugs need them, so birds need them. they do not hurt the grass. Just another corporate contribution to environmental catastrophe.

I have noticed way fewer dead bugs everywhere these days.

OIOH. half the Hispanics would be unemployed without them.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/09/26/county-residents-torn-about-proposal-to-ban-gas-powered-leaf-blowers/

Sounds like you would be a better fit for Montgomery County.

Tell them to just mow over them. It’s way better for the soil and they will biodegrade relatively quickly. It adds nitrogen to your dirt if I’m not mistaken.

The microphone will still pick up the noise which is the main issue

It never fails that the leaf blowers and zero turn mowers show up right before a big meeting. It certainly seems like an inefficient way to move leaves around.

He still going to the battlegrounds though. Biden has already been to Pa.

The Turn House porch is pretty nice - fun to watch people chip into 9 and generally a nice breeze.

Leelyn's is fine f&d wise but depending on where you sit it's not too shabby and they have a porch with huge windows that open for those in between fall afternoons.

Neither is amazing but I'll keep thinking about it. Unless whatever replaces Clyde's is a dumpster fire it should be decent too.

I've never experienced anything like what's going on in my neighborhood. It literally goes on for hours a day, multiple days a week. And now looking outside, their yards are once again full of leaves because we (checks notes) live in the woods.

Dive Bar in Savage Mill has a large outdoor seating area overlooking woods and the Little Patuxent River.

Great food too.

Noise cancelling could, in theory, be done by zoom, but it takes a lot of coordination between speakers and usually a couple of microphones to figure out the distance of the sound and pin point what to cancel out (both in terms of the headphones and the microphone side of noise canceling). This is why Apple was able to get noise canceling microphones on calls faster than android - they only had to deal with one physical phone. Either way - you can purchase noise canceling microphones - though researching it is a pain since "noise canceling" in headphone refers to the playback side of things, and OP would want the microphone side. They do exist though.

Edit: found this article with some suggestions - https://expertworldtravel.com/best-noise-cancelling-microphones/

The noise ordinance is only for certain situations and mostly at night.

I had a bad neighbor running an extremely loud generator less than thirty feet from my bedroom and the police couldn't do anything unless it was a)after 10 PM, I think, and at a certain decibel level measured by the police's calibrated equipment.

I feel for you. Columbia can be a freaking noisy place.

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Zoom should have background noise cancellation. So. Shouldn’t be an issue for those that are listening to you. Gas blowers are annoying and polluting so I agree with you there. I do use one though so I’m part of the problem. We also live in a heavily wooded area so if you dont do them regularly (a couple times a week) it becomes a whole day affair or an unmanageable task to clear them. It’s also expensive to have people take care of them for you. It’s also more difficult when you have neighbors who dont take care of their leaves and let them blow onto your property then forcing you to continue to solve the problem of clearing all the neighbors leaves. Not saying that’s the case as I have no idea if you have trees, or are in an apartment etc) You are not the problem here. This is a temporary problem thankfully. And isn’t an un-winnable war. You could always cut down all the trees…shrugs…Winter is coming friend. I guess welcome to the suburbs.

If you have a HOA they might take action if they're explicitly violating a daytime noise-level rule—which they probably aren't. The county won't bother at all.

>Does anyone know if the county is considering regulating this shit?

Oh sweet child. Find a coffee shop. The county isn't going to do shit.

Are you able to use headphones during your meetings? That helps cut down noise for me in Zoom meetings.

Ordinances likely exist. Enforcement also unlikely. There may be an uptick in daytime noise related complaints due to the large increase in the work from home workforce, so who knows?

https://www.howardcountymd.gov/sites/default/files/media/2016-09/OPS-05%20Noise%20Ordinance%20Enforcement.pdf

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Edit to add: the leaf blower brigade is now outside my house as I'm working from home. Although we also have a contractor who uses one at our residence. (The current one at my immediate neighbors). But all those guys are like 20 mins once a week. Not every day for hours.

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It is funny that he is not going to states with close races. Shows what a liability he has become.

Does he even need Useless Joe’s help? There is no chance in Hades that Cox can win. The White House admin staff should just put Joe to bed early on Election Night. He can only do harm at this point.

Also, no wonder the Dems are going to get swept out of power on Tuesday. They can’t even read a map. Crownsville is not Columbia LOL.

The goal is to change people's minds, it's to motivate them to get out and vote... And more importantly to the DNC donate money. At the end of the day Money almost always dictates who wins.