In response to Terry Carnes’s letter [“Don’t Chase Them Away,” Letters, February 13]: Those opposed to airport noise are not “fewer than 100”; that may have been the number of people at the meeting held in the dead of winter/early February, but it is far from the number of us affected by the noise.
The writer should try being in the inescapable flight path from Thursday through Monday, April to October, during the nonstop stream of jets and ’copters, trying to enjoy our yard or having windows open, trying to even carry on a telephone conversation or listen to the TV. The aircrafts sometimes come through every one or two minutes for an hour at a time. I guess the problem isn’t as severe in Ridge.
And, by the way, the writer apparently hasn’t been reading The Press’s coverage of the astonishing number of empty stores in Southampton, nor driven around town and actually seen all the windows papered over.
We don’t want to chase the rich away. We just want them to arrive and leave quietly. It may take them longer to get here, but I have no doubt that they’ll still come.
Frank Setteducati
Bridgehampton
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