Posted on 10/21/2013 10:13:52 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy
Sue Hobart, a bridal florist from Massachusetts, couldn't understand why she suddenly developed headaches, ringing in her ears, insomnia and dizziness to the point of falling "flat on my face" in the driveway.
"I thought I was just getting older and tired," said the 57-year-old ...
Months earlier, in the summer of 2010, three wind turbines had been erected in her town, one of which runs around the clock, 1,600 feet from her home.
"I didn't put anything to the turbines -- we heard it and didn't like the thump, thump, thump and didn't like seeing them, but we didn't put it together," she told ABCNews.com.
Hobart said her headaches only got worse, but at Christmas, when she went to San Diego, they disappeared. And she said the same thing happened on an overnight trip to Keene, N.H.
"Sometimes at night, especially in the winter, I wake up with a fluttering in the chest and think, 'What the hell is that,' and the only place it happens is at my house," she said. "That's how you know. When you go away, it doesn't happen."
Hobart and dozens of others in this small Cape Cod town have filed lawsuits, claiming that three 400 feet tall, 1.63 megawatt turbines (two owned by the town and one owned by Notus Clean Energy) were responsible for an array of symptoms. A fourth, much smaller turbine, is owned by Woods Hole Research Center, but it receives fewer complaints.
The wind turbines have blown up a political storm in Falmouth that has resonated throughout the wind energy industry. Are these plaintiffs just "whiners," or do they have a legitimate illness?
In 2011, a doctor at Harvard Medical School diagnosed Hobart with wind turbine syndrome, which is not recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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I know in my 1999 Blazer, I have a Bose stereo with a subwoofer and there are times the subwoofer gets to my mother when she rides with me, even though I mainly listen to talkshows. There are times I have to adjust the treble up to lessen the effect.
One more thing, most of the time, I can hear the high-pitched flybacks of TV sets too.
LOL
Yep
I used to be able to hear that, on the old Picture Tube sets. If the diagonal hold was off, it made a sound I could identify from the other room. My grandmother would call me in to fix it, but when I heard that sound, I'd just go to her room to fix it. Used to freak her out, like I was psychic or something. LOL
With AM and talk radio I can hear the whistle but with the AM static breaking it up it’s not really as annoying.
On some FM stations I don’t hear or just don’t notice because I never turn the music up, what little I listen to music, and on others I can hear it even if I turn the sound way down. If I turn the music up to what most people call normal it becomes annoying. Turn it up loud it’s almost all I can hear and it hurts my ears.
Normal loud noise is loud to me but doesn’t bother me.
Gunfire, hammering on steel, engines running, power tools no real problem.
Yep. Low frequency vibrations that might not be able to be heard can drop a person a long distance away. I lived near a bunch of very large generators once and when they got in tune, and they tried never to let them get in tune, it could drop a guy a mile away.
My road is calachie (SP?) rock. I live almost a mile from my front gate.
Every morning, even weekends, about 6-6:30 it sounds like someone in a large truck is coming down my road. Sometimes it’s loud like it’s close and sometimes it’s like a truck about a 1/2 mile away.
For the life of me I can’t figure out where that sound is coming from.
My closest neighbor is about 1 1/2 mile away and the main county road, which is a rock road is about 2 to 2 1/2 miles away and there is no big trucks.
I also used to be able to hear the drag races over in Baytown, TX when I was about 20 miles away and about 40 miles away but not when I was about 30 miles away.
The sound just hit certain spots and not others.
Same thing with those windmills I guess.
Just curious when this happened do you have spasms in your upper body after a few minuutes. I'm serious. I have a severe auditory processing issues and certain sounds put me into seizures that cause me to shake violently for a few seconds at a time.
Places like LOWES Home Depot etc with back up alarms set me off as does Walmart PA systems cranked way too loud.. I've had this over 18 years. It effects concentation as well.
It doesn’t affect me that way.
It’s a high pitched sound that kind of gives me a sick headache sometimes, almost like a really bad hangover.
A friend of mine used to listen to loud music then starting about 15 years ago he started turning the music down because it bothered him.
With his job he’s around loud noise every day.
He works building and rebuilding drilling rigs, mainly offshore rigs. Steel on steel banging around him for hours.
Because of the noise he has to wear earplugs. When he takes the earplugs out everything is loud to him.
Even with earplugs he’s lost some hearing in certain sound ranges but at the same time he can hear or possibly just pays attention to sounds he never heard or paid attention to before.
That’s almost exactly the same with me.
I’ve wondered if all people can actually hear the sound but the brain just doesn’t process the sound until you loose some hearing then the brain starts processing the sound to compensate for the loss.
Yeah, we have a local dirt track for racing and I swear I can hear them racing even though it is like 10 miles away or so. At night, I can hear trains travelling adjacent to the Ohio River even though it is like 3 miles away or more. Sound can carry given the right conditions.
Oh it’s ok to kill bald eagles
http://news.yahoo.com/study-wind-farms-killed-67-eagles-5-years-160226373.html
but one one woman complains and it’s a crisis.
One doctors theories on this deals with the Cerebellar/Vestibular System where the Inner Ear's signals are processed in the brain. Any breakdown or dysfunction in that communication loop can result in anything from almost unnoticeable symptoms to disability like my cases is.
I've also worked around loud machinery. I've worked around Centrifugal Chill Water A/C units used in large commercial applications. They have a real high pitch sound. But I've had life long Vestibular {Inner Ear} issues. I'm at 60% hearing loss in the talking range and over 40% loss overall. IOW without my hearing aids I can't even hear birds.
BTW Vestibular Disorders are a major culprit in persons having Panic Attacks and being misdiagnosed with Anxiety Disorders. SSDI has me listed as having General Anxiety Disorder. I pinned down the Vestibular origin of it a few years later. I had to retire over 18 years ago at age 36.
I always wondered if thousands of years ago since people needed better hearing to survive they used they hearing more and it was developed better, but now not needing hearing as much to survive the brain does as you said filters the sounds out as unnecessary.
I guess that’s why some people are lite sleepers and some aren’t. An unusual sound can wake you up while a normal sound, even a train going by, wont wake you up.
It’s the survival instinct I guess.
A lot of times I can hear people talk but I can’t understand what they are saying because of background noise.
It’s almost as if nothing gets filtered.
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