What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear

The Windsor Hum, it is being called. And it is driving some local folks to ill mental health.

It was bad enough this time last year when the logging trucks rumbling past our front porch was the only noise that broke the maddening drone of chain saws. But at least I knew the source of the noise, and I had the hope that when there were no trees left standing on the neighbor’s acres, the noise would stop.

The poor people in Windsor Ontario seem to have reason to blame the near-neighbor Americans for the incessant low-frequency rumble and hum that is disturbing tens of thousands.

But so far, even the experts (seismologists, audiologists and other scientific sleuths) have failed to explain the maddening hum.

Tests coming up in the next week or two with new instrumentation should fill in some of the gaps.

I can say from personal experience, it is possible for noise to be a stressor that can literally make you sick.

However, if the noise is industrial and from the American side, the hum may sound like money to those who produce it. Stay tuned to see how this one is going to end.