Oh, cool! San Francisco is being buzzed by the Blue Angels.

[EFerrari]

Try working through the horrible noise.

Try keeping your animals calm.

This is 32 flavors of wrong.

[Book Lover]

1. Oh! are you enjoying the aural symphony that is the F/A-18 Hornet, too?!

So much fun!

on edit: Typo

[EFerrari]

3. Gavin's number is 554-7111.

On hold right now. :mad:

[Book Lover]

7. The rest of his official contact info

Mayor Gavin Newsom

City Hall, Room 200
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102

Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

(Personally, I do better in writing than the phone)

[EFerrari]

17. Thank you. I just tried to talk to his Communications director

BUT HE COULDN'T HEAR ME.

[stimbox]

2. yep.

My kitties are hiding under the bed now.

What a collosal waste of tax payer dollars.

Chris Daly was right.

I wish he would run for mayor.

[EFerrari]

10. Chris is usually right and that's why they demonize him.

I had to let my four employees go home for the day. I just got through to someone on Gavin's staff and told him the same.

This is bullshit. But what do we expect -- the San Francisco Bay Area is HOME to a lot of defense contrators.

:grr:

[CreekDog]

28. You are right on the Blue Angels buzzing SF

But I can't stand Daly.

He spends more time alienating people who agree with him than anything else, unfortunately.

[EFerrari]

31. We must be talking about a different Chris Daly

The Chris Daly I'm talking about is always there for the most vulnerable residents in this town, and the powers that be hate that.

He gets smeared but good in the press, and I guess you have to believe the corporate media more than you believe your own lying eyes to buy into that shit.

[CreekDog]

32. Nope, same guy

I'm used to ignoring the comical as often as possible, but once in a while, they are right.

[EFerrari]

34. Chris took time out from having a baby to help me raise money

for the homeless in this town. He didn't send in the goon squad or go on camera to take credit. He showed up.

And he's done that over and over and over. For MoveOn's book, for the suicide hotline -- Chris Daly has never once said no to someone who needed his help.

Edit for language, manners, temper.

[CreekDog]

38. I'm not arguing his decency

But I don't think he's a good supervisor. But I'm not in your district and I live outside the city. He may have done progressives/liberals personal favors, but not political favors in my view.

[TomInTib]

4. They come in right over my house each morning.

One hundred pounds of Golden Retriever goes apeshit.

But I like 'em.

[renie408]

5. I have to tell you, we think it is COOL when it happens here

and yeah, our dogs and horses are scared of the racket. We live about 30 minutes south of Charlotte and they have fighter pilots fly over the stadium before the Panthers game sometimes. If they get to Charlotte early, they fly around RIGHT OVER OUR FARM waiting to go buzz the stadium. It has happened a couple of times since we have lived here. What I think is really cool is that you can tell when it is about two minutes to game time because they will be making these relatively lazy figure eights and then they suddenly go ZOOM!! And they're gone.

We don't get out much.

[alstephenson]

6. Is it Fleet Week???

Come on, it's fun! Of course, I was just a visitor last year during Fleet Week, staying down at the wharf. Didn't know about Fleet Week and the Blue Angels, first time they came over I nearly * my pants! Watching them was quite amazing!

[Book Lover]

9. Oh yes, pissing your pants is so much fun!

Try working through this noise, friend, instead of being a tourist when it happens. And I swear they are buzzing us heavier than previous years because of the stink some made about their presence.

[alstephenson]

18. I hear ya, Book Lover.

You sure do live in a beautiful city!

[EFerrari]

21. Yep. And if they expect us to shut up, they're delusional. n/t

[petronius]

11. That happened to me last year, too

I was driving through to Arcata and stopped on the GG Bridge to check out the scenery. Just minding my own business, and BOOM!, a couple of them went right over the bridge from behind me. I was lucky not to drop my camera in the water, but it was really fun to watch.

(However, I can definitely sympathize with the residents; my ears were ringing after 20 minutes, but I was able to drive off into peace and quiet...)

[EFerrari]

20. I had to let my people go for the day because you can't work

over this sh!t.

Amazing, my granny. Can't they be amazing on Saturday or somewhere else?

[proud patriot]

8. I've always loved the Blue Angles

I don't live where they fly though :shrug:

[EFerrari]

16. They're flying right over my head and I had to let all my employees go

for the day.

I sure understand the allure but, we just lost a whole afternoon of work. :shrug:.

Not to mention, my head hurts and now I have to coax my furry ones to their supper.


Why not do it on the weekend? Why do it over a working city? My parents met during Fleet Week, so believe me, I have no issues with that celebration.

But this is just dumb and worse.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. What are you, some kind of square?

(Yes, I'm making fun of your spelling :evilgrin: -- but it's done with love.)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. It's called Multiple Airplane Sensitivity Disorder.

F/A-18 molecules enter through the nose and destroy brain cells with their blood-to-brain missles.

It's very real.

[JuniperLea]

13. I don't like planes flying low in any city!

When it happens in Los Angeles, it really pisses me off. I don't want to see planes getting anywhere near high-rises!

And the waste of petrol is disgusting!

I love planes. I love going to air shows too. But right now we are having a huge problem with petrolium products. Are those our tax dollars being wasted? You betcha!

[mulsh]

14. thefirst time they did this they flew very low through

downtown. I was in that bookstore that used to be in the building on the corner of Post and Stockton, The elderly prorietor who was very quiet and reserved jumped up and shouted "what the fuck is that?" we ran to the window in time to see tails dissappearing behind the ST. Francis.

The blue angels have toned things down over the years.

[Tempest]

15. I was talking to a friend working downtown

She was getting pissed because it kept interrupting our phone call. She was asking me to repeat just about everything I said because of the noise.

[EFerrari]

19. Why the f do they have to do this during the working week?

:shrug:

[Tempest]

22. Maybe it was to intimidate San Francisco

Gots to keep those uppity Liberals down.

[shanti]

37. sfxpat2000

they are practicing for THIS WEEKEND! same thing happened here in sac when their navy counterparts had their airshow in the summer. i would say that they are trying to take the attention off the IMPEACH event in berkeley!

[CreekDog]

40. Ridiculous that this is to distract from the Berkeley event

Fleet week is twice a year and has been for as long as I can remember.

They haven't been scheduling fleet week this time of year for decades just to disrupt an impeachment rally decades later.

Give me a break or was that post in jest, it's just too ridiculous to even justify.

[Luminous Animal]

23. I know I'm being ridiculous

but the noise puts me near to tears. It is difficult to work and I am constantly on edge waiting for the flyover. Right now it is quiet but I am horribly nervous in anticipation.

[EFerrari]

30. That's not ridiculous. That's just being attuned to that sound.

:hug:

[juno jones]

25. I used to live under the practice area

For an air guard unit out of Springfield, Il. Usually, they were out a couple of times a month, flying extremely low over the poorer section of the city. I was at home with three children under 5 at the time. Lotsa fun. I used to freak a little when I'd hear of these planes crashing in another state. The assholes went on to be the unit that fired on CANADIANS during the initial Afghanistan occupation.

Frankly, I'm still pissed off at those bastards.

edit for bad grammar (blush)

[KamaAina]

26. We're getting 'em in a couple of weeks

though "Blues on the Bay" is at Kane'ohe Bay, on the other side of the island from me -- but not from Opihi! Zoooooooooooooom!

[CreekDog]

27. I work downtown, but didn't seem as bad today as it usually is

But this twice a year practicing drives me crazy. It's loud, I'm in a high rise and it's totally distracting, if not unnerving.

Was at a party in SSF few years ago and they flew over the house so low it was unbelievable, way out there, not just in the city.

Obnoxious.

I think the talent is amazing and I appreciate it, but save it for war and drilling away from populated areas and I'll appreciate it even more.

[Pastiche423]

29. The ONLY thing I do NOT miss

about living in SF is when those fuckers were wasting fuel and the noise and vibrations they caused.

I lived three blocks from the Bay. When they practiced, my windows would rattle so hard, I thought they would break. Moreover, it is an anxiety provoking practice in earthquake country. AND it really sucks when you have PTSD.

I was at the Marina Green once as I watched one jet fly UNDER the GG bridge. Is that still legal?

[CreekDog]

33. I dunno about any law, but they aren't supposed to fly under the bridge

anymore.

[Xenotime]

35. Get used to that sound....

War planes are in our future.

[shanti]

36. great timing!

:eyes:

[mvccd1000]

39. I used to work across the street from Williams AFB, so we saw a lot of them...

... when they would practice for the Phoenix show every year. We'd go out in the parking lot and watch all afternoon. Not much got done on those days, but they made a lot of new fans. :)

Most of the high-speed, low altitude flyovers went right over our heads, as we had 5,000 acres of undeveloped land for them to cross. We could just about read the names on the helmets in the cockpit. Definitely a fun show to watch.

Sorry you aren't able to enjoy it like we did.