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Thursday, March 25, 2004


Jet engines are noisy? There's lots of noise by the airport? Surely this is the first instance of this happening, ever, in the course of recorded human history.
Johnson, 39, and other residents in about a dozen nearby subdivisions want officials to lessen the noise or buy their homes through Federal Aviation Administration grants before property values tumble.

They admit they knew airport expansion was a possibility when they bought their moderately priced homes, which were built in the 1970s. But they were assured such expansion would not significantly increase the noise.
Airports are noisy. So they build airports out in the middle of nowhere, like Bush Intercontinental, and then people move out there for the cheap housing and pre-existing infrastructure. Forgive me if I don't bust out crying because they built a runway that puts the 8:15 flight from Detroit right over your wading pool. Maybe you should have found a "moderately priced" home somewhere farther away from final approach from IAH.



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