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[Teresa]

What sounds do you hear at night, while in your bedroom?

At the old house - we lived close (10 miles) to the airport, and right under the flight path of Fed-Ex. They mosyly fly at night, with 75% of planes landing or taking off between 3 & 4 AM! Add that to 1/2 mile from I70!

New house: Well, we're a mile from the rail-road switch yard, and most freight trains come in between midnight and 5 AM! And, one of our neighbors has chickens! Their kids raise them for 4-H, and they crow day and night. I actually like that.

[graygables]

We can hear a train whistle on occasion. Mostly we hear tree frogs, frogs in our creek, and crickets (but only when the A/C is off! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) In the winter, it's very quiet.

[BritDisFan]

We sometimes hear an owl that seems to sit just outside our bedroom window [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img].

Karen

[dejavu]

Just house sounds. I leave the fan running all the time because I don't like the sounds of the furnace or ac when they cycle on.

One of our prior houses was 10 miles from an airport too. Drove me crazy hearing all those takeoffs and landings!

I grew up in the woods with crickets, whippoorwills, and an occasional coyote howl.

[gwugirl03]

Just house sounds here also. Occasionally I will hear a car drive down the road, but for the most part, the neighborhood is very quiet.

[luvnwdwgal]

Our house sits back off of a state highway although in a rural area so we hear vehicles, tree frogs, crickets, locusts, sometimes the neighbor's dog, train whistles, and even the occasional coyote! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] Those creep me out!

[JoanW]

Our first house was off a main road, where cars sped fast every day at 65 mph. Try pulling left out of that driveway in the morning!

Our house for the past 14 years is in a farm area, and we hear cows mooing and horses neighing in the morning, and frogs in the pond and crickets. We don't hear the cars as much and we have a good tree buffer, but sometimes we hear the medivac helicopter, as they land on the farm next to us for pick up. We live less than a mile from US Route 50, and there's always major accidents.

[koalamom]

I grew up in a house near a major airport and had the same problem - FedEx planes! After we got married, lived 9 nears very near railroad tracks - but got used to this, including the one crazy engineer who liked to lay on his horn because he new someone in our neighborhood and was saying "hi". Now we live further out in the county and we run fans all night so that is basically all I hear unless DH or our dog is snoring. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[simbarel]

I get a few train whistles and airplanes, but mostly moving cars.

[FanOfMickey]

Mostly just cars driving by. We are not really on a busy street, but get the occasional car. Some times in the early morning hours, you hear teens coming home chatting rather loudly, some young adults too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[LBAK]

I"m in a suburb so we hear a car or 2, we're 12 miles from JFK airport so we do hear planes day and night but after a while you don't notice them. Now the Cicada's are out and you constantly hear them and we have bullfrogs in our backyard pondn that we hear.

[DrDolphin]

I get a car or two racing down the street at late hours, other than that - house sounds and cat sounds.

[clio]

Mostly cars and trains if it's humid. Early in the morning I hear birds and the neighbors dogs. I live near a small airport but the planes usually don't fly in and out of it at night.
Liz

[Luvsun]

Frogs, crickets, quiet. Occasionally we hear a train - if the wind is blowing just right....but usually just quiet. In the summer, after it rains, you an almost hear the corn growing! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[loobyoxlip]

OMG, chickens would drive me batty!! I live right by a road, so I hear cars going by, but I've grown accustomed to that. Lately, though, all I hear is my fan [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]