“Residents in a Sunnyvale neighborhood say a secretive Apple facility is changing the face of their neighborhood, for the worse,” Len Ramirez reports for CBS San Francisco. “‘At three in the morning, they have deliveries. It’s very dark, very secretive. We don’t know what’s going on, but almost every night there is noise that wakes the dogs up,’ Joann Porter told KPIX 5’s Len Ramirez. Neighbors on Bartlett Avenue near the facility say security guards tail them when they walk their dogs. ‘You have security guards following you in their cars,’ Porter said.”
“But, it’s the noise that really has neighbors speaking up,” Ramirez reports. “‘You’ll hear like sheets of metal slamming, clanking, almost a grinding sound,’ Jim Porter said.”
“Neighbors say one sound in particular has them wondering,” Ramirez reports. “They say it sounds like motors being tested.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Has to be construction sounds since advanced, market-disrupting fuel cell motors are very quiet. 😉
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