Flamingo Park goes deaf when Trump’s in town
That’s because 90% of PBIA flights get rerouted over the area.
WEST PALM BEACH — Flamingo Park residents know when Donald Trump’s in town: They can’t hear each other talk.
The security needs of the parttime Palm Beacher and president have led the Secret Service to order Palm Beach International flights rerouted away from his Mar-a-Lago winter White House.
That means that if a flight’s destination is to the south, immediately after takeoff it must veer to the right, over the neighborhoods south of Southern Boulevard, before heading out over the ocean. If a flight is headed for the Northeast — as the vast majority are — it must veer left after takeoff, over Flamingo Park, then El Cid and other historic West Palm Beach neighborhoods.
“I’m on the phone with some- one in Flamingo Park and they say, ‘I can’t hear you, hold on,’ and then you say to them, ‘I can’t hear you, hold on,’” El Cid resident Nancy Pullum said.
Gregg Weiss, a Flamingo Park resident for 12 years, said after the president arrived last weekend, the jet noise was almost unbearable.
“It would start at 6 in the morning and at times it was every three minutes or almost constant at some points,” said Weiss, a member of the county’s Citizens Committee on Airport Noise (CCAN) for the past six years. “It was loud and it was disruptive. You had to stop talking.
“We are used to it during the season: If it gets busy at times,