The last hour or so has been interesting.
For at least a half hour, around midnight, we could hear motorcycle racing in the distance. Since we could hear the Indy racing the last two mornings, and those were at least five miles away, I know these were at least halfway closer...likely not far from the Chrysler/Jeep plant on Conner, my best guess.
The bulk of that noise went away not long ago, but the din from the city in both the west and north from us is borderline anarchy. Loud partying...hootin' and hollerin'...people are getting DOWN tonight.
But the sound that drove me from the bed and outside to identify more clearly, was a loud fight happening nearby...turned out to be the foster home around the block. Someone owes someone else money...and it sounds like trouble. This is only the second time in four years there've been any issues from them.
I guess Summer is here, and if this much insanity can happen on a Sunday night...during a New Moon...I'm wondering if anyone else is feeling the same anxiety as I do now. Not a full-blown fear, but an unease that is disturbing.
Before anyone asks sincerely, or jokes inappropriately, I DO sense The Hum more strongly tonight...almost as strong as it gets when it rains. This is not the first time I sensed it after shutting down the house for the night, then noticed the whole damn city electric with activity. I feel there is a correlation, but without keeping a journal I have no solid tracking or any other proof.
I heard a series of car alarms, which seem to be coming from the plant as well...we have seen bunches of cars flashing while we've passed the lot on the Mack Bridge, and even witnessed a high-speed escape of a white Jeep one early morning...it was obviously stolen off the lot around the same time fifteen to twenty cars were flashing and honking. We wondered then if they had been set off deliberately as a diversion. They have an electric fence around that lot, so they've obviously had trouble in the past.
All that we're missing, so far, are the gunshots, there are usually a decent volley of them at some point between one and two-thirty. No, I'm not cheering 'em on, just describing what I hear.
But all in all, it has been a semi-wild night on the near-east side. Churning anarchy...but in the fifteen minutes since I began writing this it seems to be calming down quite a bit. All I hear are occasional hollers to the north. Way more than normal for a Sunday night.
Sincerely,
John
