Stay-at-home noise Seeing as we're doing our best to curtail non-essential travel and put limits on non-essential businesses, can we also, as respectful beach cities neighbors who live in close proximity to one another, be mindful of non-essential, personal construction projects and home-related "nice to haves?" I understand that we've been living under quarantine for the majority of the last 10 months and people need to engage in activities so they don't go stir crazy, but there are kids trying their best to focus with at-home learning, parents on critical Zoom calls, and some people who are simply trying to carve out some time to ease their heavy emotional burdens â only to get woken up at 8am on Saturday by a neighbor's table saw or experience mini tremors all Sunday afternoon from someone's air compressor.