And the roar of cars and motorcycles is annoying during an air raid, because it seems to me that I will not be able to hear and react in time to the sounds of an explosion, or a rocket flight, or the roar of an airplane.
I hate to sound cynical, but reacting to an air-raid by hearing the sound of the plane is a moot point. Flying faster than sound means by the time you hear the jet approaching, it's already passed by you. I count myself fortunate that when I was in Kharkiv we only ever heard planes flying overhead twice. For us, the danger was artillery, mostly fired from across the border in Belgorod (and safely out of reach of Ukrainian retaliatory strikes until Ukraine is ready to carry the war to Russia's soil). No less dangerous, but somehow a great deal less psychologically intimidating than a plane that reaches you before the sound of its approach does.
It gladdens my heart to hear that some aspects of normalcy are returning to Kyiv. I'm in hopes Kharkiv will soon be likewise so I can go back to the city I was perhaps too quick to start calling "home."
I understand your point of view. I don't have enough information to be sure, so my feelings may be irrational. In the first weeks, I often heard the roar of planes and often heard explosions. Sometimes explosions was our air defense, sometimes not, but I do know that there are planes carrying bombs. And we don't have many planes...
I watch the news from Kharkiv constantly. Now they are a little more encouraging. This is probably the only area where good news sometimes comes from. I want to believe that it will continue to be so, but it is still dangerous there, it is true, because it can still be shelled on from Russia's territory. take care of yourself!