It gets even worse: my end of my block alone (in pricey Cambridge, MA), has multiple properties that routinely use multiple gas leafblowers at once, and gratuit

It gets even worse: my end of my block alone (in pricey Cambridge, MA), has multiple properties that routinely use multiple gas leafblowers at once, and gratuitously. One apartment building sometimes gets three workers using big backpack gas leafblowers simultaneously. One house on a small lot seems to pay two workers to walk around it with gas leafblowers, going on for ages, like they're charging by the person-hour. Another apartment building -- which seems to use a leafblower as a way for someone to kill time, just waving it around the asphalt, while the property is shabby-utilitarian -- switched to an electric for awhile... (which wasn't as bad as gas ones, but had a high-pitched component to the sound, like maybe metal parts scraping, which I'd guess was pretty hard on the operator's hearing). Random other leafblowers on and off throughout each day, for maybe 3/4 of the year, not just fall. I recently tried leaving neighborly notes to the property owners with the worst leafblower problems, and might have to refresh that again in the spring, if I don't move first. Or take my busybody-ness to the next level, and try lobbying local government officials for bans on leafblowers, and on the other main unnecessary noise pollution sources.