Like 'living in a war zone': Washington-area residents say increased helicopter traffic is giving

[TexasTowelie]

Like ‘living in a war zone’: Washington-area residents say increased helicopter traffic is giving them nightmares


The helicopters typically come in threes.

As the first one flies by, the walls of Kathy Daniel’s Bethesda, Md., home start to shake. When the second follows, the chains on the metal lamps in her living room begin jangling. The brass lamp her father brought home from the Bahamas goes “clink, clink, clink.” The lamps with sailboat finials make a “boing, boing, boing” sound.

“Then the third one goes by, and at that point my nerves are rattled,” said Daniel, 63, a retired communications expert who has lived in Bethesda for more than 30 years. “It’s loud enough where I can’t think straight. It makes my heart pound, actually — I can just feel my blood pressure going up.”

The cacophony lasts at least three minutes and repeats over the course of the day. Helicopters fly over Daniel’s home in the morning, about noon, in the evening and again late at night. Monday through Friday. The air traffic was not always this bad, Daniel said. As best she can estimate, it got much worse starting three or four years ago.

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. When we moved to rural TN in the early 2000s

There were black helicopters over our mountain at least once a day sometimes 3 times a day. They would come in the middle of the night and wake me up. I think they were looking for cannabis fields. They sometimes directed lights into our woods. But they never found anything. They slowly decreased throughout a 2 year period. They finally stopped altogether about 10 years ago.

Bunch of idiots wasting our tax dollars.

[grumpyduck]

2. And in the three or four years this has increased,

apparently it hasn't occurred to anybody to see what direction they're flying and where they might be headed or coming back from. Seems pretty helpless to me.

[Historic NY]

3. In 2010 Joint Base Anacostia - Bolling

was created by merging Naval Support Facility Anacostia, the former Bolling Air Force Base. There are lots of helicopters there, Marine, Navy, Army, US Park Police at short distance away, Andrews AFb compliments.


https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/these-elite-military-helicopter-units-fly-washingtons-p-1704260996

[demigoddess]

4. after quiet days we get a lot of jets flying over at night. I think they

reroute the airport traffic at night to let the people who live nearby sleep in relative peace. But we hear them a lot more.