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Old 01-19-2009, 11:28 AM   #1
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So who else was woken up by foghorns?

They are pretty loud is you live near english bay and have your window open! Even louder when 2 or 3 of them are overlapping!!
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Old 01-19-2009, 02:11 PM   #2
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Was this Sunday night? It's only because there was a container vessel berthing at Centerm in the harbour in the fog. He was only warning vessels to get out of the way. But there was no traffic for him anyway.
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i heard him last night too. but i was out, i was going to explore but i decided to go home
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There was a whole bunch going off this morning. Unfortunate for those woken up by it!
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yup, i can hear the foghorn at my place
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Old 01-19-2009, 03:02 PM   #6
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yeah this morning - it's my day off, and the damn things were blaring incessantly all morning in english bay. (i live in kits)
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yup every few minute it went off
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I heard it this morning around 8am while on a road test. Funny thing... foghorns being used when there's fog.
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I heard it this morning around 8am while on a road test. Funny thing... foghorns being used when there's fog.


live by the water, and hear ships.. omg!

same can be said for living next to a park, and seeing kids play in it, or living in downtown, and hearing the nightlife... etc ...et c
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hahah i live too far to hear any foghorns
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hmm i think this is what i'm hearing at night, i live in richmond tho. i thought were was a ship by the steveston waters.
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Sorry, Rich. I had bad gas last night and it kept reverberating my bed.
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Old 01-20-2009, 08:21 PM   #14
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back at my old house i woudl always hear them as well as the train horns and boat horns, annoying as hell
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Heard it wen I was getting into my car to work this morning... I was like damn... an 18 wheeler getting jacked up FnF style? I better go out there and help vin diesel.
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