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One need not expect their being advertised.
How true.
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As dear ol' Dad usta say : "New York will be a great city - if they ever finish it."
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isn't much on the Wondervue scale. Wondervue is a town in the foothills (pronounced foo-thills by some) west of Boulder, Colorado.
The anemometer is a twenty-four foot (7 meters plus) tall steel pole set into bedrock. There's a big ring at the top of the pole that holds a logging chain. By town ordinance each link on the chain has to weigh 1 pound (ca 500 g.)
If that chain isn't moving the locals start heading further up the mountain because they consider the air so still that breathing's impossible.
They start to get comfortable when the bottom part of the chain is wagging back and forth.
When the chain stands out from the pole at a 45 degree angle they break out the kites.
But the kites come down when the chain stands straight out from the pole, and when the links start snapping off the end of the chain they admit that it's starting to get a might breezy.
One old timer still talks about the time the wind whipped off all the links and then bent the pole right over flat but most of the locals think he might tend to exaggerate just a bit and they say the pole only bent about 60 degrees from vertical.
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A bit of Googling reveals something about a top wind speed of 140 mph (224 km/h) in Wondervu, compared with 120 mph (193 km/h) in St. John's. So they're really not that far off. Last night we had gusts up to 144 km/h (90 mph). The house was shaking on its foundations, our pictures were rattling on the walls, the windows were rattling, the usual...
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Mod God got it right, dxb, it is the boxes that you are most likely to get a ticket or fine in that are marked with the diamond shapeds grids.. and a fine of $350 (225 pounds sterling or so) is not to be sneezed at.. and it might have gone up with the last round of increases..
common parking tickets in NY are now $115 dollars, (for stopping in a no standing zone, or a time out on a parking meter) Blocking the grid also results in "points"- a notation on your drivers licence, and 3 or more points will result in higher car/driving insurence premiums, and 6 results in your right to drive being revoked.
and, yes, it is a general rule no to enter an intersection unless there is room to proceed through it... and if everyone followed the rules, no fines or police would be needed.
driving in NYC (all of the boro's in places, more places, of course in Manhattan) have high pedestrian traffic and NY has lots of jaywalkers... driving in Manhattan is so extra-ordinary, NY state does not give driving tests in Manhattan-- no part of manhattan is considered 'normal driving' and all you need to be able to do is normal driving to get your licence! the pedestriams make it hard to be sure you'll be able to clear the grid.
in many (US)cities, walking is a novelty, or done just from the parking garage. NY is one of the few US cities with a large percentage of the population that not only doesn't own a car, (and when crossed against income graphs, its is really skewed!) and a significant percent that doesn't know how to drive! i know middle class, educated, employed men that live in Manhattan and don't know how to drive. inspite of this, NY traffic jams are ledgendary.
i think gridlock started as NY traffic term, and it has come to mean a traffic jam (which is a term that did originat in NY!)
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here in civilised New Hampshire, the sign says :
Do not block intersection.
Harumph ®
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