[CPEO-MEF] NOISE: Navy jets from Whidbey Island (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How Much Noise Can a Person Survive? Navy Jets Plague the Lives of Washington Residents

By Dahr Jamail
Truthout 
February 06, 2017 


The loudest jets ever built fly so close to Puget Sound that residents' dishes rattle and they become physically ill. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)

Imagine living in a place where the loudest jets ever built regularly flew so close, your entire house vibrated, dishes rattled and fell off shelves, and the noise was so loud you became physically ill.

Your sleep was impacted, you couldn't work, and literally every single aspect of your life was affected negatively.

"The noise has impacted my life in every conceivable way," Cate Andrews told Truthout.

She lives in the Puget Sound region of Washington State, near Naval Air Station Whidbey on Whidbey Island. Along with thousands of others there and other islands and locations throughout the Sound, Andrews is afflicted by health-endangering levels of noise from Naval EA-18G "Growler" warplanes, the single loudest aircraft ever built.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39247-how-much-noise-can-a-person-survive-navy-jets-plague-the-lives-of-washington-residents

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Lenny Siegel
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