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January 21, 2010 at 6:14 pm #686225
GoGoParticipantWe live on Pigeon Point and I must say I’ve never heard this “hum”. Heard noises that sound like dinosaurs and great crashing noises that shake the house, but no “hum”……hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
January 21, 2010 at 6:34 pm #686226
KBearParticipantI suspect people are hearing noises from a variety of sources. It just depends on what’s making noise on a particular night, what the weather conditions are, and who’s awake to hear it. We live in a big city. There are lots of things that hum.
January 22, 2010 at 3:42 pm #686227
LesleyBMemberMaybe it may never happen again, but if it does and I am near a microphone, I will record it and let you all hear it. Just heard on the news that the LaFarge plant is going to reign in its emissions (yeah!), so maybe the hum will go away, too!
February 14, 2011 at 9:31 am #686228
StringCheeseParticipantMy question is, what is operating in the middle of the night? Ferries aren’t running, Boeing isn’t running engine tests… Does Nucor operate a noisy graveyard shift?
February 14, 2011 at 1:31 pm #686229
KenParticipantI had never heard this sound before here. I live near the OP in Highpoint on the hill facing the Duwamish. I could hear the barge traffic quite clearly but also an overarching continuous sound that I estimated to be oscillating between f# and G above middle c. This seems to be similar to the Wikipedia 400hz sound sample.
Some nights I can hear the forklifts and backup alarms from Nucor quite clearly, but this night the ambient sounds carried by atmospheric conditions seemed to be predominately what I had previously associated with river traffic.
February 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm #686230
TDeParticipantSame area as MTM. Woke up at 1:15am and thought it was a car running as well. Got up to look out the window and the sound seemed to be coming from a different direction and realized it was that darned hum. At about 1:55am it dimmed down… like there were two motors and one turned off. Then I managed to get back to sleep… Right before I dozed off I wondered if anyone would mention it on the Blog. Glad to know I’m not the only one who heard it.
February 14, 2011 at 10:47 pm #686231
Garden_nymphMemberIt sounds like parking lot cleaners at Westwood. It was very loud the other night.
February 14, 2011 at 11:40 pm #686232
pigeonmomParticipantNever heard it when I lived in Sunrise Heights but I heard it last month in Westwood.
February 15, 2011 at 9:35 pm #686233
pattMemberWhen I lived in Belltown (with 1/2 the space under ground) I would hear a hum over the clubs. I thought it was the drilling for the Beacon hill tunnel. Been back to WS for 6 years and have heard the hum off and on for the last two years. (mid California Ave) …hummm interesting. Glad someone else hears it too
February 15, 2011 at 10:49 pm #686234
flowerpetalMemberFunny that some of us hear it and others do not. Upon retiring at the end of the day; laying right next to my partner in the same bed (don’t worry, this aint going in “that” direction) I will ask, can he hear that constatnt hum/drone. He replies, “you mean the fridge?” “No” says I. “Is it that small plane going over the house?” he asks. And again I reply “no.” And on and on it would go if I allowed it, with him never hearing it.
February 15, 2011 at 11:34 pm #686235
WMOParticipantMy wife insists it is my snoring. The sound travels all the way down the west coast.
Sorry to hear I am keeping all of West Seattle awake.
Anybody have effective snoring relief?
February 16, 2011 at 12:57 am #686236
KenParticipantMarch 24, 2011 at 1:02 pm #686237
SeaFJMemberI live near Jefferson Square and I heard this all night last night. I can hear it right now. I wish the person (on similar blogs) who has sound equipment could assess this annoyance right now…
March 24, 2011 at 6:59 pm #686238
oddrealityParticipantWe heard it all night last night also. We are about a mile south of Jefferson Square.
March 24, 2011 at 8:23 pm #686239
KeithMemberNoticed it last night, north of the Junction. Could it be freight trains idling? We can sometimes hear them hooting their horns.
March 24, 2011 at 10:03 pm #686240
casabobaMemberThis reminds me of the refrain in a song by Frank Zappa called “Dynamo Hum.” “G rated” lyrics below.
Dinah-moe humm
Dinah-moe humm
Where this dinah-moe
Comin from?
Done spent three hours
An I aint got a crumb
From the dinah-moe, dinah-moe, dinah-moe
From the dinah-moe humm…….
March 25, 2011 at 5:11 am #686241
JillParticipantI, too, was kept awake all last night from this (oddreality, looks like we’re close to you). I can’t even describe it except to say it sounded “industrial,” and at about 4:30 it got worse, at times as if it were a plane or helicopter approaching.
We get some train noise, too, but I don’t think it sounded like trains idling. Unless it’s trains idling with some kind of fans blowing at the same time??
I also am not sure that this would be considered The Hum. This was less “beneath the surface,” so to speak. To me, a hum means not only is it not placeable, it seeps its way into your very being, and earplugs actually make it more focused. Last night’s noise was not placeable, and it had potential to get under the skin, but when I put earplugs in, it was less present…
Either way, I’d love to know what was causing it, grr.
November 27, 2011 at 10:17 am #686242
ws4everMemberI’ve been bugged by this noise in Arbor Hts. Sounds like someone has a low-pitched generator motor going, or a distant cargo plane…but the sound goes on and on and on. Sometimes in the morning, sometimes at night. Thought a neighbor had music with a too-loud lower register. It’s raining outside, so plenty of clouds. I don’t remember this from previous years at all, just this year. Like being in a very boring suspense movie. Arrrrgh.
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