{"id":12958,"date":"2017-11-15T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2017-11-15T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:49:12","slug":"portable-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/15\/portable-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you adore your leaf blower? Do you consider sleeping with it tucked under one arm because it makes fall so easy? David Dudley in\u00a0<i><b>CityLab\u00a0<\/b><\/i>would like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/life\/2016\/11\/the-case-against-neighbors-with-leaf-blowers\/506324\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/life\/2016\/11\/the-case-against-neighbors-with-leaf-blowers\/506324\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1510878986435000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFuQOIIOF69z8kuvuAePi8ijPP_yg\">some words\u00a0<\/a>with you:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<ul>\n<li>The crude little two-stroke engines used by most commercial backpack-style blowers are pollution bombs. \u201cSimplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles,\u201d [James] Fallows writes. \u201cAbout one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Those emissions\u2014plus all the other fine-particulate crap that the blowers kick up\u2014constitute a public health hazard for anyone in the vicinity, but especially for the poor bastard running the thing. In most cities and suburbs, those most afflicted are low-wage employees of landscaping companies, not residents or homeowners.<\/li>\n<li>SWEET JESUS THE NOISE GAAH MAKE IT STOP. A gas blower at full cry can exceed a 100 decibels for the operator (OSHA requires hearing protections at 85), as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonoise.org\/quietnet\/cqs\/leafblow.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nonoise.org\/quietnet\/cqs\/leafblow.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1510878986435000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-wXB_QAZmLCqcJwfDlF3lhYpygQ\">these Sacramento blower foes<\/a>\u00a0explain, and it carries for hundreds of feet in every direction, irritating all who dwell therein.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Having just raked again, yesterday, I still don&#8217;t have much sympathy for those who use the gasoline-powered things (I should imagine there are electrically powered versions). It may be another example of chasing leisure and labor-saving to the nth degree, and seeing as exercise has once again been singled out as a positive, this time in the realm of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1053811917309138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1053811917309138&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1510878986435000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOndseWOrpzQIHJDc4l4FHUDLw5Q\">memory retention<\/a>, I gotta say that these little beasties are not cute enough to keep around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you adore your leaf blower? Do you consider sleeping with it tucked under one arm because it makes fall so easy? David Dudley in\u00a0CityLab\u00a0would like\u00a0some words\u00a0with you: The crude little two-stroke engines used by most commercial backpack-style blowers are pollution bombs. \u201cSimplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minutes \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/15\/portable-hell\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12959,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}