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The 'Windsor Hum': where is the noise plaguing a city of 210,000 coming from?
TheGuardian ^ | 7 Jun 2016 | Ashifa Kassam

Posted on 06/08/2016 8:25:07 AM PDT by shove_it

It’s been compared to a subwoofer blasting Barry White’s greatest hits or an idling diesel truck.

Others say the low, rumbling noise that has stalked residents in the Canadian city of Windsor for years sounds like Star Trek’s Enterprise gearing up for warp speed.

“Very destructive,” is how Mike Provost, a 62-year-old retired insurance salesman describes the so-called Windsor Hum. “If you think of thunder, and you take that thunder and constantly repeat it for hours and days, weeks, that’s all it is.”

Residents on the west and south side of Windsor – a city of 210,000 people that sits just across the river from Detroit – began complaining of a mysterious noise some six years ago, blaming it for rattling windows and trembling wall hangings.

“You can’t get away from it,” says Provost. “You go outside to work in your garden, you go outside to enjoy the sun, the noise is there.” [...]

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To: JimRed
Who is tunneling underneath, and why?

Little known factoid: There is a giant active salt mine lying beneath downtown Detroit and the Detroit River..........

41 posted on 06/08/2016 12:51:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: The Toll
So you ARE the culprit!

I'll direct your question to my attorney.......

42 posted on 06/08/2016 12:53:31 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: Hot Tabasco

This HUMMMM has been going on for over two years. See reply #11.


43 posted on 06/08/2016 1:14:48 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it

Get a medium to contact Frank Zappa. Tell him to quit playing”Dynamo Hum.”

That was bad.

5.56mm


44 posted on 06/08/2016 1:23:49 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: shove_it
The rumor is it's coming from a mysterious man-made island in the river.

Gosh. What aren't those Chinese up to nowadays?

45 posted on 06/08/2016 1:30:32 PM PDT by x
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To: shove_it
This HUMMMM has been going on for over two years. See reply #11.

I'm well aware of that since I had a neighbor who worked there..............

There is nothing going on at Zug Island that hasn't been going on for several decades and now people are questioning it?

All the attention on Zug Island has been instrumented by environmental wacko groups who have forever been trying to shut it down.........

46 posted on 06/08/2016 1:33:26 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Just move to Montana, raise a crop of dental floss.


47 posted on 06/08/2016 2:34:25 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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