Anger building in Kalorama neighborhood over noisy protests [Video]

It’s just not right.

“Kids don’t want to come home for holidays,” said ANC2D Commissioners Carole Feld. “People don’t want to host friends at their home.”

For nearly two hours most mornings, protesters descend on the neighborhood with megaphones to air grievances with the Chinese government. At volumes so loud, the noise reverberates for blocks.

WUSA9 took sound readings with a digital reader and recorded levels over 104 decibels. Sound experts say the noise levels neighbors routinely wake up to is equivalent to a freight train passing by. Or sitting in the front row of a rock concert.

The protesters blare the megaphones from 7 a.m. until shortly after 9 a.m., when the ambassador leaves for work. Some days they also return for a couple hours around dinner time. It’s been …