The Navy Blue Angels are dive bombing my house!!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

At least that's how it sounds. They are here for the Chicago Air & Water Show, and I live close to Lake Michigan.

I was just in the kitchen emptying the ice cube trays and thought the damn building was collapsing on me. Even my deaf-as-a-post 92-year-old mother jumped about 10 feet -- and we have 9-foot ceilings!

And we get to repeat this experience tomorrow afternoon.

[terrya]

1. I know what you mean, greataunt.

I live on Kenmore, right off Granville. Just right off the lakefront. It sounds exactly like we're under attack.

Yep, one more day of this.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I'm a bit south of you and a bit west.

But.... :scared:

Look forward to meeting you on the 5th!

:toast:

[Placebo]

2. Those people woke me up!!!

UGH it's annoying as hell!

I'm around bridgeport/chinatown and I am trying to listen to music and such in my kitchen with the window open because it's such a beautiful day and they keep blasting by so i can't hear a DAMN thing! GRR :mad:

*ugh, as i am typing this it JUST happened again*

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Please join us on Sunday, September 5 at the Chicago DU party.

The details are in the link. Hope you can come.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x9768

[Placebo]

8. Thanks great aunt!

I will try my best to make it. :)

[Leilani]

3. Did you ever see their show?

It is fantastic!

People who live near military bases, especially air fields, know what you mean.

They go through the noise every day.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. I can see parts of it from my back yard.

With a million people down there on the beaches, I prefer to stay home. Too damn much to do on Saturdays, anyway.

On edit: The show stretches Chicago noise ordinances. The powers-that-be never allowed the Concorde rights to fly in and out of O'Hare.

[miss_kitty]

4. they wer 50 FREAKING FEET above my place

the first weekend of this month. can you imagine that noise if you were expecting a strafing or missile attack as well? that realisation hit me over 20 years ago when my sister-in-law and i could not escape it and could not get her 1 year old to stop crying. it was gut wrenching.

it should be outlawed until everyone has health insurance and a place to clean themselves, poop, sleep and eat, with dignity, peacefully and privately.