“Dear PoPville,
I have a question about music that I hear all day long for hours and hours at a time, basically nonstop. Today it started at 6am and is still going strong. I’m attaching a video (above) with the sound of the music. Do you know what this is from? It plays all day long.”
Thanks to J. for sending – an entire engine?!?
“Dear PoPville,
I live up in upper northwest 3900 block of Harrison and I often see foxes at early in the morning, in my yard walking my dog, some are pretty surprisingly big, like 35ish pounds, which can be a little concerning with when walking my very petite golden retriever, she is only 60 pounds. But recently I have been seeing what is clearly (more…)
17th and S Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
There must be a trunk of doubloons buried beneath 17th Street, NW, by the S Street dog park. I’ve been here 7 years and (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Was playing tennis by Nats park and at least 15 of these streaks across the sky appeared with tails lasting for 20 minutes, as many as 3 or 4 at a time and crashing down…have you heard from anyone else on this?”
Twitter/X tells us they are just contrails:
“The angle looks so strange but apparently it is just normal planes, I saw a bunch tonight around sunset from my rooftop.”
16th and Shepherd St, NW
Thanks to Emma and LB for sending over the weekend:
“Looks like a car hit it, there were black pieces of frame still scattered about.” (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
This is odd, for the past few months (at least since mid-summer) there have been 6 relatively new Toyota Camrys with Florida license plates parked in the alley that runs behind Zips and Bread Furst in Van Ness. 4 of the Camrys are in the former Burger King drive thru lot and 2 are in the larger parking lot where the car wash folks dry off customers cars. The Camrys all now have stickers indicating that they will be towed and impounded, and a couple have flat tires. (more…)
photo by Peter Freeman
“Dear PoPville,
Was woken up by a barrage of helicopters over Adam’s Morgan around 6am. Not sure if it was the same ones circling but at least 5 flyovers in 20 minutes. Any idea what’s going on? Thank you!”
and (more…)
This has been the scene on MacArthur Blvd in the Palisades for the last few weeks. (more…)
Thanks to Joe for sending: “Any idea what this is in the bike lane on Florida Ave NW near the new Whole Foods? It’s on both sides of the street in the bike lanes on Florida Ave NW between the Rhapsody and the Floridian, one block south of the new Whole Foods.”
Update: “It’s a bus island. Allows the bus to stop in the lane instead of pulling to the curb and reduces mixing of buses and bikes.”