I made this for Facebook but it’s an important message that I think people should hear, so I’m sharing it here as well.
Listen to the tugboat’s stuck fog horn at Port of Everett that kept my neighborhood up all night
Sunday night just as I was about to go to bed, I heard a strange noise coming from outside. It wasn’t too loud so I didn’t think much of it, but then I got a notification that someone had just started a thread on my neighborhood’s Nextdoor page: “Boat horn/siren 11pm?” When I got onto Nextdoor, there were two other threads that were rapidly filling up with people complaining about the noise, which was apparently really loud in parts of the neighborhood. There was speculation that maybe it was coming from a train, or maybe a boat at the Port or the Navy base.
So of course, instead of going to bed I decided to hop in my car and go try to find the source of the noise and get it on video:
It turns out the noise was coming from a tugboat with a stuck horn, as first reported that night by My Everett News:
Annoying horn blasting @PortofEverett is from broken horn on a tug boat. Workers trying to fix.
— MyEverettNews.com (@MyEverettNews) June 26, 2017
The tugboat horn did not stop until around 3:30 AM, keeping many people awake for most of the night. In the follow-up story the next day on My Everett News, they included a photo of the offending boat, which you can actually see in my video starting at around 1:25:
Tugboat with stuck horn at Port of Everett (click to enlarge)
A lot of people must have been disappointed that they missed out on the sound of the horn, because my video turned out to be fairly popular. It was featured on a handful of local news sites, radio reports, and even the national Fox News site:
- Everett Herald: Tugboat horn blares for 4 hours; dogs howl, and so do humans
- KOMO News: Port of Everett: Oops, sorry for the blaring tug boat horn all night
- Fox News: Boat’s horn blares for hours overnight at Washington port
- Warm 106.9: Everett Tugboat Mishap – What’s Trending
- Follow-up: Tugboat Tim
- Seattle’s Wolf 100.7: Port of Everett Apologizes for All Night Tug Boat Horn
So I guess I’m officially a video journalist now.
Best Protein Shake Ever
I had to post this excerpt from the Malcolm in The Middle episode “Malcolm Holds His Tongue” (Season 4, Episode 7) for my buddy Phil.
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Best protein shake ever.
The 100 Peeps Challenge: “How can something so simple be so delicious?”
Time to share another of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite television shows of all time, Malcolm in the Middle, in which Francis takes on the 100 Peeps challenge (okay technically they’re referred to as “candy quacks,” but they’re obviously a reference to Peeps).
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I won’t ruin the ending for you. If you want to see how the 100 Peeps challenge turned out for Francis, you can check out the full episode on Netflix (Season 2, Episode 1).
Guess who has obtained over 200 Peeps and thrown down a 100 Peeps challenge to his friends?
Some Kinda Big News Guy or Something
Thanks to my weird real estate fetish, I’ve been in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television more times than I can even remember. Even so, I’ve never had a week quite like this one.
Tuesday: Quoted in a Bloomberg / BusinessWeek story:
Agents encountered multiple bids on about half of offers in Seattle, Boston, Washington, D.C. and Oregon this year through March 15, said Tim Ellis, real estate analyst for online brokerage Redfin. In the San Francisco area, Redfin agents reported that three of four offers involved competition, he said.
Tuesday: Appeared live on Q13 5:00 News:
Wednesday: Appeared on separate Bloomberg radio and separate KOMO radio news briefs (which unfortunately I was unable to record).
Wednesday: Appeared in a KING 5 story.
Thursday: Appeared in a KOMO 4 story.
Friday: Appeared on the nationally-syndicated NPR program Marketplace Money
Throughout the Seattle area, the number of homes for sale is down more than 30 percent from a year ago. In some parts of San Francisco, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the shortage is even more pronounced.
Tim Ellis: Inventory is just dropping like a rock. I think that’s really the big story.
Tim Ellis is a real estate analyst with the property firm Redfin. He says housing inventory always picks up after the holidays. But in many markets in the U.S., inventory has dropped for the last two months. Why is this happening? Ellis calls it a hangover from the housing bubble.
Ellis: You know, the traditional, kind of, buy a home and then hold it for a while and then sell it, that cycle on average lasts about 7 years. Well, when you think about where were seven years ago, that was kind of right at the peak, is was right at the height of the boom, so the people who bought seven years ago might be today’s sellers in a normal market, they can’t afford to sell.
Seven media appearances in one week, spanning print, radio, and television. Doubt I’ll manage to beat that without committing a major crime or something.