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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Vancouver area weather
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:13:40 GMT
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- References: <1jmv7mINNdq4@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan21.204409.6776@cs.sfu.ca> <1993Jan22.002649.22341@cunews.carleton.ca> <1993Jan22.163435.3144@cs.sfu.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan22.163435.3144@cs.sfu.ca> jstrickl@cs.sfu.ca (James Strickland) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.002649.22341@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsswag@alfred.carleton.ca (The Charlatan) writes:
- >
- >I'll answer your P.S. for the benefit of those who have never seen
- >this (i.e Vancouverites :-) :-))
- >
- >more than a metre above the fire hydrant. At the top is a small octagon.
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- >I seem to recall that there are also tall markers at the edge of
- >some curves in rural areas, so that the snowplows know where the
- >road is supposed to be.
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- We have the road markers if you leave the lower mainland. And if
- you head up to Whistler there a lot of the signs are on poles
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- The signs are about 8 feet up and there is 3-4 feet of clearance
- and they still get covered up :-)
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