Cincinnati is never truly quiet, and Marella Porter from LOCAL 12 starts there for a reason. In her report, she notes the obvious truth: cities hum, whine, clank, and rumble all day and all night, and most of the time residents tune it out.
But for weeks now, Porter says people in Northside, Clifton, and Camp Washington have been hearing something that doesn’t blend in. It’s not the familiar roar of traffic, not the steady rattle of normal rail activity, not even the occasional construction racket people expect to fade after a day or two.
This is the kind of sound that reaches into bedrooms and sits there. It’s loud enough that people are losing sleep, and strange enough that neighbors can’t even agree on what they’re hearing…