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They’ll soar right over any billboards from “insufferable, fringe activists.”
Cost and the environment, apparently, are not an object.
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron will be back over the skies of Seattle and buzzing Capitol Hill this week.
It has been a tradition broken only for two wonderfully quiet, military propaganda-free summers of the pandemic. Continue reading
The $69 million a pop sounds of freedom will return to the skies above Seattle this week. It is time again for the Boeing Seafair Airshow. Below, you’ll find the schedule for the week’s practices and performances including when the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will be buzzing the Seattle area. The old days of bridge closures are gone thanks to changes in the locations for the performances and practices but the roar of the jets is apparently not going anywhere anytime soon.
From The Museum of Flight:
Blue Angel Flight Schedule
Aircraft arrival and flight times are approximate subject to change without notice. For the full Boeing Seafair Air Show (Aug. 4-6) schedule, please visit Seafair.org.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Aircraft arrival and flight times are approximate subject to change without notice.
- 8:15 AM – Blue Angel #7 Media Flights
- 12:20 PM – Fat Albert arrival
- 12:30 PM – Blue Angels #1-#6 arrival Continue reading
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Seattle may finally get its ban on gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Friday morning, the Seattle City Council’s Sustainability and Renters’ Rights Committee will consider a resolution that will call on the the city to phase out the noisy tools by 2025 and for the machines to be banned in the city by 2027.
Brought forward by by Councilmember Alex Pedersen, the resolution cites worker health and noise as the main drivers for the effort that would begin preparing the city for legislation to enable the restrictions.
“Transitioning away from gas-powered leaf blowers will be a multi-year process, and a resolution — as opposed to an ordinance — is an effective tool to initiate the process,” a council spokesperson tells CHS.
The resolution restarts a process that has been kicked around City Hall over the past decade and started anew in last year’s budget process that included a line item targeting the machinery asking city departments to “develop a plan to phase out the use of all gas-powered leaf blowers in Seattle within two years.” Continue reading
Beat:E1, DISTURBANCE, OTHER at 5XX BLOCK OF BOYLSTON AV E reported on 1/26/2016 1:49 AM, Call# 16000029985
— SeattlePD Edward1 (@SeattlePDE1) January 26, 2016
anyone know what the 3 or 4 explosion heard just now in vecinity of 10th and aloha were? Cc @jseattle
— Gregory Heller (@HungrySeattle) January 26, 2016
In the grand scheme of things, finding out those booms in the night are fireworks and not gunfire could bring a sense of relief. But after another night of sleep-shattering booms on Capitol Hill, we’ve heard from a lot of you with questions about what, exactly, is happening with all of the pyrotechnical activity going on around the neighborhood.
We don’t know either. But we do know the CHS inbox and Twitter feed blew up with reports of loud explosions again Tuesday morning. According to East Precinct radio (listen above), 911 calls “spiked” to more than 20 reports of the overnight explosions. Here is one of the emails we received:
Have you heard anything about the loud explosions/fireworks early this morning around the block of Harvard/Boylston and mercer/Roy? There were a series of probably a dozen between 2am and 3am. It wasn’t the first I’ve heard them in the area around that time, but definitely the most extreme. Not fun waking up to a game of “gunshots or fireworks?” Curious, irritated, concerned and very tired.
Another reader sent in these photos showing debris and smoke before police checked things out on Broadway overnight: Continue reading
You’ve probably seen this map from online real estate service Trulia that shows the “noisiest” areas of Seattle. Depending on where the editor took a screen grab from the animation — which is showing noise complaint locations by month, by the way — Capitol Hill and the University District either look really “noisy” or really super “noisy”
While it’s true that Pike/Pine noise is significant enough that leases for new buildings in the area are including clauses stating that tenants acknowledge they are living in a “vibrant” area for nightlife, we took another look at noise issues that shows a slightly different view.
Looking at SPD incidents involving noise — not just the formal complaint filings — shows a much noisier city as a whole. Continue reading
“35 years old and originally from Rhode Island, Joe has been living in Seattle for about 13 years but has been homeless for the last several…” (Image: Tim Durkan)
While local businesses are making calls for increased police patrols and the city is putting up money to study a pedestrian-only block of the neighborhood, maybe it’s also time to consider a busking permit program in Pike/Pine. Especially if Joe the street drummer ever gets his buckets — and his glockenspiel — back.
Slog reported on the apparent arrest of Joe Buckets last week. CHS was also working on finding out more about the situation after learning Joe had been taken into custody during a Saturday night performance in Pike/Pine. CHS has learned that Joe was interviewed and released but police placed his gear — “4 plastic buckets, 4 high-hat cymbals, a glockenspiel, a plastic bell, and other assorted percussive instruments” — into evidence pending the outcome of his case which is in the hands of the City Attorney. Continue reading
SPD has its own problems to solve right now. And while there are bigger questions about our neighborhood identities, and smaller but important questions about those identities, too, CHS has another riddle of living in the big city to solve: At what hour should the bucket drummers of Pike/Pine cease operations?
Here’s an email we received from a reader:
I live on the corner of E Pine and Broadway. Bucket drummers have been playing at all hours and the SPD have done nothing about it. This has been going on since the summer. I figured that when the weather turned cold it would cease but that has not been the case. It is my impression that during the day this may be legal but that noise ordinances kick in at 11pm. Last night they started at 10:30pm and ended a little after 4am. This has become the norm. Sometimes they start around 1am or so. Myself and other tenants have called the police many times (including last night) and nothing is ever done. I have asked officers about how this gels with noise ordinances and have not once been given a straight answer. Can you assist? Can you throw this problem out there so more people who are affected by it can chime in?
