So how about that half-time show - oh, you mean the one where Joe and I took turns driving around downtown Raleigh trying to locate this mind-numbing humming sound that has disrupted my sleep and sanity of more than one occasion?
About once a week, Joe and I hear this humming noise coming through our walls. It starts about 10 pm, sometimes earlier, and keeps going until about 4 am. Ear plugs and pillows don't block it out. It definitely isn't 440, otherwise we would hear it every night.
We have our list of suspicions: the dog food plant on Blount, the Amtrak station on Cabarrus, and freighters idling on the tracks downtown. Last night the noise was coming in about 5 second pulses and so we decided to try and locate it. Joe drove to the dog food plant and decided that wasn't the source. He could hear the noise around Tarboro and Lenior but not east of Raleigh Blvd and wondered if it might be coming from the women's prison but couldn't tell. I drove out towards the Amtrak station and couldn't really hear the noise anymore, but could hear it as I was on Martin approaching Tarboro.
Around 2 am I woke up and it was still going strong but had a hint of metal grinding mixed in to the usual hum. Has anyone else heard this noise? I think the elevation of our neighborhood and house in particular makes us particularly susceptible to noises. I am still holding a grudge against Nickelback for keeping me up late with their pyrotechnics out at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre two summers ago.
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