Ravenwood - 11/15/04 06:45 AM
Once again, people build houses next to gun ranges and then bitch about the noise.
Denise [Rice] and her neighbors have been firing back. They've sued the range and conducted several noise tests of their own to prove the gun blasts are well over the legal limit of 65 decibelsThe range has reportedly been there for decades.Denise Rice: "At my location it was like 90 decibels."
Now, a judge's order may soon end the controversy by demanding the noise stop all together, which would essentially force the closure of the range.
Denise Rice: "That was never our intention to put them out of business. We just wanted peace in our neighborhood. That's why we moved here, it's scenic and so quiet."
UPDATE: They're throwing the bullshit flag over at Westerblog. Something about fuzzy math.
"Denise Rice: 'At my location it was like 90 decibels.'"
I call bullshit on that one. 90 dB is loud...90 dB at a mile and a half is damn loud.
Posted by: MMW at November 15, 2004 12:03 PMGood work. I think most people don't realize that sound levels are measured logrithmically.
Posted by: Ravenwood at November 15, 2004 1:06 PMI did some more poking around...146 dB is the max sustained level for the LRAD (about 145 dB is needed to get 90 dB at a mile and a half)...if guns were even close to that loud, people would go deaf after the first shot without hearing protection.
Rice probably doesn't even realize she's overstating the sound level by a factor of 100 or more.
Posted by: MMW at November 15, 2004 2:40 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
