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Post #65539

Author
starkiller
Parent topic
Country Differences
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Date created
20-Sep-2004, 8:38 AM
In Cleveland, OH, our fire hydrants are dark red/brown and above ground. That are the classic 3 plug style.

Our firemen use classic red trucks.

Our cops wear all black uniforms and drive white-with-some-black Crown Vics.
(In fact, most of the cities fleet of vehicles is made up of Fords. We've got at least a couple Ford planst in the immediate area).

The temperature can get into the mid-90s (don't think we've hit 100 for quite a while) in the summer, and has dropped well into the single digits in the winter (then you add windchill for -15 to -20). Where I live, snow isn't too bad, but about 20 miles to the east, they usually get completely hammered. Its a lovely thing we call Lake-Effect. Any storm coming out of the Northwest runs across Lake Erie, gathering moisture. It just so happens that the east side of Cleveland lies on one of the widest parts of the lake (in a NE to SW direction), so they often get 2-3 times more snow than us.