> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel Orgrease
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:47 AM
> 
> Leland Torrence wrote:
> > We call this "Quiet Shoveling".  "I don't want you to stop, 
> > but can you jack hammer a little more quietly?"

> We may or may not get a gig simply making noise at various 
> points on a 
> building in order for them to determine if they will hear the jack 
> hammer, or not.

After Hurricane Fran hit, we had to mobilize all the city staff to aid with the downed tree cleanup. The City Manager sent out the chainsaw-armed office staff with these stirring words intended to reassure the general citizenry that the cavalry-in-aid was there:

"Work safely...I don't care how much wood you actually cut, just make a lot of noise." 

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Raleigh Historic           be thinking, and the thinker
Districts Commission              often to be working."
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