Noise!
I can't believe it's June the 11th already. In spite of these strange, at home-times, the weeks are going fast for us. Here on Kenora, we are surrounded by six active construction sites. It's the noise that we mind the most. It wakes us up every day at 7 am sharp. (Some days earlier!) My first question of the day is usually, "Which site is that noise coming from? Who is first off the mark today? " Is it the huge project at Elmdale School or some of the residential re-builds? It could be the rumble of heavy machinery, the buzz of a saw, hammering, the rat-a-tat-tat of an air hammer, the hiss of a truck's air brakes, workers yelling to each other, the hum of a generator or the high-pitched beep beep of a truck backing up. The variety of sounds is endless. So, once you are awakened, you lie there and they all gradually start and there you are, right in the middle of a symphony of construction noise. It goes on all day long.
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| Cement being poured in the footings at 77 Kenora |
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| More cement being poured at 65 Kenora |
While it's hard to say which noise is the worst, this particular monster is at the top of my list. The steel pole here, bangs the cement relentlessly, breaking it up into pieces. This photo was taken the day after the house demolition, as they worked to take out the basement and foundation walls.
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| 77 Kenora |
Even louder that the pounding on the concrete were the enormous thuds, as the concrete chunks were deposited into dump trucks.
You might think that a holiday like Canada Day might guarantee you some peace and quiet but no. A huge load of gravel was dumped in front of 77 that day and a bobcat was busy all day long, bringing the gravel to the back of the site. Nothing says Happy Canada Day like the beep beep of that machine, all day long. We called the city but were informed that construction sites are allowed to work on statuary holidays starting at 7 am, which they did!
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