Hey, DC resident. We've banned gas leaf blowers.

Maybe perhaps possibly, but this is not my experience at all, ever.

Even if you are sensitive and impacted, even if someone buys a particularly shrill one: I can sit indoors and hear gas leaf blowing from blocks away. At least the disturbance you are hearing is localized.

Gas blowers pollute which is the primary reason to ban them.

But imagine if you were fantastically rich and you could pay people to do leaf blower things at the crack of dawn. That would be true luxury, bossing around 'little people' that depend on you for a job waving around a leaf blower, or else they will starve, and die.

If it was your slave doing the leafblowing then I am sure it would be music to your ears. You could imagine your place to be Mar-a-Lago. You would also have people washing your many cars at an absurdly early hour, so they looked shiny and leaf-blown.

Your problem is having a poverty mindset. If you had a billionaire mindset then you would see that noise to utility ratio very differently, it would be proof that you had so much money.

I wish I was joking, however, I have had bosses lord it over me where leaf blowing and car polishing is what matters most to them.

As someone who lived near Luke AFB, I used to ride my bike to the flight line and watch the F104's blast off with full afterburners!

Great memories.

That's fine. The occasional boom, assuming business success this time, will last a few seconds. Leaf blowers last for hours in some neighborhoods.

It's not the hearing damage, it's the psychological stress.

Up next is boom's line of of landscape blowers