Whidbey Island residents file lawsuit over Navy's Growler jet noise
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- More than three dozen residents of the Admiral's Cove neighborhood on Whidbey Island filed a suit seeking compensation for 'inability to use their home.'
I was stationed at NAS Whidbey Island from 1972 thru 1975 and my Navy Parachute Jump club used that facility for our landings. I lived off base about a mile from there and yes the noise from the Grumman A-6 and EA-6 aircraft could be quite loud, but it was a part of life. Logic would be that if noise bothers you dont buy or build next to an active airport or airfield.
'Make the navy fly less' pfft, they need to fly as often as they do to be at the top of their game, and so they are trained for conflict if it ever broke out. Keep doing what you're doing boys, god's speed and god bless the growler
YES we r basically in a war with russia right now
Well, maybe you shouldn't of moved into a house within a mile of a active military base. Same kind of people complain about race car noise when they build a house near a racetrack.
Having grown up in Coupeville, I can relate as this is literally 13 MILES from the main Oak Harbor Naval Base. And to suddenly have all this noise WOULD be distressing.
@@MetalJesusRocks except it wasn't sudden. They signed paperwork acknowledging the airfield. They do this every year and lose. They can get on a carrier flight deck during flight ops then cry to me.
"I did all my planning..." Nope
Ikr, what did they expect when they moved right next to the OLF?? I live near Paine Field and when the Dreamlifter flies over at 3 in the morning I definitely get woken up by it but it's just one of the things with being near an airport, and I love when that thing flies over too
You move next to an airport....... and not expect aircraft at an airport? My god America has lost the plot.
The fact she said she researched the area means she did not do a good job. Part of the research, is there an airport nearby. It is like people living next to SeaTac. Poor life decisions.
I don’t know what she expected with ‘naval air station’ 🙄 my ex in laws live there & I got used to hearing jets just like I did here in 🇬🇧with trains at one side of school and an extremely busy road
NAS Whidbey Island has been in operation since 1942. Anyone who buys land or a home on the island has been required to sign a noise disclosure which includes a map of the flight areas since 1979. Don't move next to an airfield and then complain about the noise. I live on the island and bought near the NAS. I love the sound. I'm guessing those who complain the most moved to the island from places like California.
I almost completely agree with you, but even as a lowly E5 jet mechanic, the noise does suck. I'm not excusing these litigious self entitled assholes. The base has been around a lot longer than the majority of the populace here. I don't pop a freedom boner every time a jet rumbles my windows and overwhelms everything else I'm trying to hear. I love my job, I love the Navy, I love my country, but the noise is not enjoyable after the 10000 times you hear it. With freedom comes pain and sacrifice, don't be blind to that, or be mindlessly proud. Or maybe you enjoy sniffing the taint fumes of the man you hot racked with on a sub. It's not all picture perfect, my friend.
@@soulbend Well said. Besides, even if these people signed "noise disclosures," residents are complaining of their homes shaking and being able to feel the vibrations and shockwaves in their bodies, which is way outside of a "noise" only issue. I'm going through something similar with my property somewhere else, and many people don't seem to understand what it's like to have your home feel like a perpetual Earthquake. Take care
@@RR-gw2uj sounds like you bought the wrong house then.. I hope you didn't over pay. Move on and get on with your life instead of being a victim.
we get shook pretty good in the afternoons and evenings over on northKitsap Peninsula from what I assume are these jets,
Seriously you need to realize that the increase in noise and vibration has increased dramatically in the last few years with the increase and strength of the newer jets. These same Navy jets now refuel at our local small airport in western Colorado and due to their speed have to take off over my neighborhood or they would not clear the mountains. I am okay with an occasional house shaking experience, but they do touch and goes every day for practice. That was never in the agreement with the airport and neighborhoods.
You signed a noise disclosure when you purchased your home, just like I did. Anyone who gets a payday out of this silly lawsuit should be required to sell their home and move .... or is the money going to make the jets quieter?!
I would live there no problem. Jet noise is so awesome, there just isn't anything like afterburners, and the sound going through your chest, and the ground shaking.
My ex in laws live there, there’s a light on the top of their barn that they use for navigation. Every so often the navy comes to check it.
Of course I’ve not heard these new jets (bit hard from the uk) but when I was staying there I got used to it. The parents & two sons were in the navy. My ex was just a lazy beep so he didn’t enlist.
It’s a really nice place though if you’re ever close by 😀
I don't mean to be rude...why did you move there? It's not like the airfield just popped up.
“I’d like to see a navy person come out here and try and be where I am and have to live with this noise”. Yea. We live in the barracks. Guarantee it’s a lot closer and a lot louder lol
These people. It's like that everywhere, race tracks, shooting ranges, highway noise. You accepted the consequences. Now get over it. I hope none of them get to see a dime.
It's the sound of freedom!!
If they were able to rid the island of the NAVY, nobodys house would be worth much, there would be a glut of foreclosures and the island wouldnt have industry to support the residences.
True, it wouldn’t.
*Laughs in childhood Oak Harbor military base proximity*
My ex in laws are there, how weird to think you might have grown up with them. I just got used to it whenever I was there.
That bloody stupid sigh she did! Ugh! There’s a naval air base on the island, what was she expecting 🤦🏼♀️ People like her irritate me! In laws have a barn light they use for navigation, they aren’t far from the base, so although I’ve not heard the new ones I want to give her head a wobble! Would she prefer to live in a country with corrupt military or worse?
It’s a lovely place, don’t know what she’s whining about.
I wish we had fab craft shops like in OH in the uk near my house 😂
If you don't like it, then why the hell are you living near a Naval base. Move away, jet noise is the best thing ever, the sound of freedom.
What does jet noise have to do with her “not being able to live her life out” is it going to kill her
People are just upset cause people can’t sleep without them I hear them every night they help me sleep
So is money from a settlement going to make this frequent jets stop? Nope.
Is it going to buy you a new house, someplace else? Maybe.
Maybe you can just go buy some great big ol ear plugs and extra nails for your frames on the walls.
Why would someone with PTSD move in next to an Navy base?? Whaaaa
Navy base and they never get money from these settlements. They lose annually.
@@parzeveltheblunt139 thanks, i corrected
Whidbey Island is beautiful tho. The views and the fauna.
Have you been on an aircraft carrier?
Then move. Apparently, you didn't do your homework very well before buying.
Just looks at the sales activity for Coupeville over the last 24 months. Apparently there are plenty of people who want to buy nice, expensive homes here. Case dismissed.
Maybe don’t buy a home by an airfield? Maybe you can afford the nice house for a reason?
You should have known that you were going to be directly next to a NAS. You signed up for it.
Here’s a few suggestions to help with your fragility.
1. Ask your doctor about anti anxiety medication.
2. Sound proof your home and get ear protection.
3. Sell your house at a profit. I can recommend a couple real estate agents.
4. Buckle up, build some inner fortitude. Because the Navy is not going anywhere.
5. Hug a stuffed animal, get some coloring books, talk to a councilor.
6. Form a group where everyone whines and cries about jet noise and have meetings about the oppression of the military while they protect your right to complain...wait you already have that group.
7. Refer to #3
National security vs people who lived near ‘naval air station’ and didn’t expect planes! Sheesh!
This interesting thing about what the man said is that those people in the Navy do live near there on base don’t they?
As far as PTSD is concerned. Sir I’ve had to learn to either deal with it or move far away from anything that will trigger me. I’ve done both. ✌🏽
These people will be the very first to ask for the military if war were to break out. Only need or not need them when it’s convenient.
Thank you for your service U.S. armed forces! 🇺🇸
After seeing this I'm not sure what to say other then the fact you folks knew this is a a real military base and the jets have been doing this long before you got here and they will be here long after your gone.
Thats what freedom sounds like. I loved it there and the jets added to the enjoyment.
Well You shouldn’t have lived there in the first place if you can’t handle the noise.
Maybe some of those folks should go back to California. I have a friend with five acres. Two developers bought off the land next to him some years agp and built a dozen custom mini mansions. Californians moved in and sued my friend for odors relating to his three beef cattle and his chicken noises. They lost, but that was 20 years ago. I doubt they would lose the same case today.
Compensation could be the sound proofing of plaintiffs homes.
Did planning but no research? K.
I used to live in Oak Harbor and to be honest I didn't really care. You guys need to deal with it or move somewhere else.
Move out if you can’t handle the noise
Wait till they get some F-35's over their house.
these people are bums, id pay extra to live near a navy base and hear jet noise
There houses need sound Proofing that what
Ridiculous..move
Bro 😎 I love ❤️ listening the jets
I live under the flight path and I signed a disclosure about the noise just like these whiny ass crybabies did. If you can’t handle it, then move. The world doesn’t revolve around petulant homebuyers who lack common sense. You moved to an island with a Naval Air Station, of course there’s going to be jet noise!
i live across the water on Kitsap facing double bluff and you can feel the jet noise more than you can hear it. like right now it's 11:19pm and every minute or so there is a rumbling crescendo coming across the water. you can feel it a bit like an earthquake. I lived in NYC for 13 years and am no stranger to loud noise, but it's certainly noticeable until the wee hours, and we haven't signed any noise waiver here
such bs, they think the navy will just apologize and leave the airbase LMAO
Awwwww. Karen and Chad do not like the noise. They're so cute when they complain...so privileged. I hope they get what they want and deserve...a nice warm blanket and fuzzy pillow for their comfortable couch-of-societal norms.
Karen and Chad 😂😂😂
Yeah, jet noise sucks but these people willingly bought homes there. Did they think the Navy was just going to miraculously stop flying there someday? The complete absence of logic is just baffling.
The jet noise activates my PTSD. But I don’t want millions. Lol. Why buy next to a NAS.
The realtor who sold it to her probably only showed the house on weekends when they were not training
You sign a noise waiver acknowledging.
Get some earplugs or move
Between the hysterical comments and the melodramatics of these anti Navy posts; light is being shed on the anguish of what it is like to be in a constant state of victimhood.
Here’s a few suggestions to help with your fragility.
1. Ask your doctor about anti anxiety medication.
2. Sound proof your home and get ear protection.
3. Sell your house at a profit. I can recommend a couple real estate agents.
4. Buckle up, build some inner fortitude. Because the Navy is not going anywhere.
5. Hug a stuffed animal, get some coloring books, talk to a counselor.
6. Form a group where everyone whines and cries about jet noise and have meetings about the oppression of the military while they protect your right to complain...wait you already have that group.
7. Refer to #3
Thats the sound of freedom lady enjoy it
"all they want is compensations", omfg they just want money out of it smh.
Whideby Island wouldn't exist without the Navy. It'd be more desolate otherwise. Very sad hearing this from a "VET." GO NAVY, without us you'd have nothing.
I love growlers! Lucky them!
I am sympathetic to these people. I have the same problem here in western Colorado where the Navy jets are supposed to only refuel and leave. Of course they do touch and go's and in and out over our houses because of the topography they have to use an alternate flight pattern which is right over my neighborhood. It happens every day now. Before you trolls say but you signed an airport agreement, the problem is the increase in use and the improper use for which this small airport was never designed for. My whole house physically shakes. It was never designed for the use of these low fighter jets. My neighbors kids hold their hands over their ears and run screaming into their house. It is quite sad that they can no longer play outside. I have lived in this same area in Grand Junction, CO for over 30 years and this is a new problem. Once again, the problem at Whidbey Island is really the increase in use and the use by these more powerful jets. The Navy needs to be seeking new solutions for a new problem.
Quit your bitching and move then!
That’s freedom ... don’t like it move out the country ....
Anyone of y’all who say it isn’t loud don’t live near and airfield. These things are loud and crazy loud. When she says they shake the houses she isn’t wrong. It’s too much. Oh btw their favorite time to do these touch and goes is at night. Until about 12 or sometimes 1am.
HAHAHA these are not as loud.. i live near March ARB right in there downwind path. love it.. but back when the B52's where active here. haha THAT was Loud!. you buy a home near a AFB/ARB/Navy Airstation. etc etc the base was there before you was.. don't like it.. Leave simple.
I feel that they have grounds to also include Boeing in the lawsuit.
Give me your home, I will gladly move there...knowing they've got my duppa.....