{"id":1276,"date":"2008-11-23T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2012-02-02T08:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:18:51","slug":"wind-turbines-are-loud-letter-from-somerset-county-pa-112208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2008\/wind-turbines-are-loud-letter-from-somerset-county-pa-112208\/","title":{"rendered":""Wind turbines are loud!" Letter from Somerset County, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 22, 2008<\/p>\n

I live in Somerset County, one and one-half miles off the main road between two ridgelines.<\/p>\n

On the west side of our home is an 18-turbine wind facility with six turbines located 1,390 to 1,500 feet from our back door.<\/p>\n

Don’t let any one tell you that they are not loud! They sound like a huge jet hovering above our home. I have been getting readings anywhere from 55 to 70 decibels late at night.<\/p>\n

Some people in our area are complaining about the noise a mile away. We checked and, yes, you can hear them that far away.<\/p>\n

Now there is another wind company planning to put a wind facility on the ridge 1,800 feet from our front door on the east side of our home. The wind power company did a noise study after we asked them. We are still waiting for the results. The man who did the study told me that we will never be able to live with the noise.<\/p>\n

As I write this letter, I am getting shadow flickering from the turbines. The flickering passes through my kitchen this time of day. It makes you dizzy<\/span>. The only way to avoid it is to pull your blinds and drapes shut. I don’t like living like a bat!<\/p>\n

We were not totally against wind turbines when they put them there, but since they began running in September our feelings have changed. They ruined the mountain, and the peace and quiet we once loved is gone.<\/p>\n

We were told that the turbines would not cause any problems; in fact we would not even know they were there. They lied.<\/p>\n

I would be glad to talk to anyone who would want more information on them. We love Cameron County and own land there; I only hope they never put any on those mountains.<\/p>\n

Ginny Deeter
\nginrn@wpia.net<\/a>
\nBerlin, PA<\/p>\n

Reprinted from The Endeavor News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ginny Deeter (Berlin, Pennsylvania) says her family was deceived by the wind developers, who told the Deeters the turbines on the ridge wouldn’t be loud. “They lied.” “We were not totally against wind turbines when they put them there, but since they began running in September [2008] our feelings have changed.” “They sound like a huge jet hovering above our home…. Some people in our area are complaining about the noise a mile away. We checked and, yes, you can hear them that far away.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}