Bring out the ol’ Chanclas for these degenerates!

Well you say that but I’ve seen quite a few videos of people just standing in their driveway doing it without getting out of a car but I definitely can’t wait to watch the next challenge lol.

Dancing to the song isn’t the challenge, it is getting out of a moving car to dance that is a challenge. (or maybe the challenge is to then get back into the moving car, possibly also while dancing.)
I hear his next video will feature dancing while jumping off a cliff, only to catch oneself in the trees below.…

Dear god society is becoming dumber by the second (not like I needed to point this out).

If you thought it was a good idea to attempt this ‘challenge’ initially, an NTSB warning won’t a change a thing. Hell, I doubt most of them even know that the NTSB is a thing that exists.

It’s a great thing to do. I just hope they don’t overdo it like the approach of some other municipal governments will do. Some have lofty tree canopy goals, which is great, until that forces too many trees around utilities, or making visibility difficult on curving on ramps. 

I’ve got maybe ~300 yards of trees between my condoand a no-wall section of the I495 beltway in the Virginia part of the DC Metro Area.

I’ve heard this salt argument before however the grass on the side of the highway look healthier than my lawn.

There are some trees which are... evergreen...

That’s consciously created in some states, whenever possible when Michigan builds new highways they create a big vegetated median and thick bands of trees and shrubs on both sides

Also ask where the nearest rail lines are. Trains, both commuter and freight, can be cause of one hell of a noise problem, especially if the area isn’t designated “no horn”. 

The weekend after I bought my first house we heard some very intense gun fire that sounded relatively close. I got on Google maps and discovered that we bought a house about a mile away from a small military training base that I thought was much farther north. It was pretty common to hear semi or automatic gun fire at…

The house doesn’t have line of sight - the sound is being reflected or diffracted. Which means it’s being directed at the ground from the sky, so you have the same issue. It’s not like it just curves around the barrier and then goes straight from there.

It tougher when you’re building a house in an undeveloped neighborhood near the highway.  When I built, the noise didn’t seem bad at all, but once the other houses in the neighborhood started getting built, it got much worse.  I guess it’s because the sound waves bouncing around all over the place.

But that’s not true, either. Same issue - the sound that goes up to get around the wall is coming down to hit your house, above any wall you built.. Also, the most effective place to absorb sound is close to it.

Barring all actual help, Google Earth was my best resource. Being able to look from above and see what is over the hedge was a Godsend and we still forgot to check for train tracks. Luckily they are far enough away and the trains aren’t frequent.

That’s a bugger. As illustrated in the diagram, the sound-wall needs to be close to the location you wanted shielded from the noise. In your case, you want to build a ‘sound-wall’ at the edge of your property - which might be possible if the interstate is off the back or sides of your property. Evergreen trees are…

1. Get a better realtor.

And always look up the flight tracker to see how close the planes are coming. Many people come to the city council meetings to complain about the planes when they moved within 5 miles of an international airport. Be aware that the planes may take off from a different direction at times. 

I stupidly bought a house a quarter of a mile from a very busy interstate highway. Still stuck in it, many more tens of thousands of dollars underwater than I care to think about.