We had new landscaping planted 18 months ago, they're really shredding a few select, tasty trees we have.
My friend loaded a decibel meter on his phone, and my yard's consistently getting around 72db. However, we did a hike around the 'hood and one place we were consistently cresting 80. I'm not up on how the scale works, but he hiked in Shenandoah and the sound levels were 1,000 higher in his yard than in SNP, which has few cicadas.
