[jebartle]

Everyone on the planet probably knows this except "yours truly" but just found out that all of the blue reflectors in the road are to aid fireman find the hydrants.....Ok, what do you know?

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by jebartle

Everyone on the planet probably knows this except "yours truly" but just found out that all of the blue reflectors in the road are to aid fireman find the hydrants.....Ok, what do you know?

And which ever lane the blue reflector is in is which side of the road the hydrant is on!

Bill

[tainsley]

Just started noticing the blue reflectors. Been here a week. Wondered about them...never occured to me to ask. Thanks for the info!

[downeaster]

So that's how they find the hydrants after a snowstorm?

[swrinfla]

downeaster:

True! See, we don't need six-foot poles off the hydrant, because we don't get that much snow.

So, the little blue gizmos are sufficient. And, of course, they can be in the street because we never need plows - and plows would tear them out right quick!



SWR

[chuckinca]

The small white or yellow reflectors in the center of the road are called Botts' Dots.

"Botts' dots are named after Dr. Elbert Dysart Botts, a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) engineer credited with overseeing the research that led to the development of the markers."




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[FMF Doc]

Why the blue lights at traffic signals overhead?

[BobandSandy]

Originally Posted by FMF Doc

Why the blue lights at traffic signals overhead?

The blue lights indicate that the light below has turned red. This provides LEOs from any angle whether a car has obeyed a red light

[downeaster]

Originally Posted by FMF Doc

Why the blue lights at traffic signals overhead?

Those blue lights are for the benefit of emergency vehicles. Not to be confused with Kmart's blue light specials.

First sentence, serious. Second sentence, smart aleck.

[mulligan]

The smiley face was first drawn by a guy named Harvey Ball, an employee of the State Mutual Life Assurance Corp.(now known as Allmerica). as a morale-boosting gimmick on inter-office paperwork. Great things have come from Worcester, MA.

[graciegirl]

In every Max and Erma's Restaurant there is hanging the same exact copy of a large brewery workers family picnic in Columbus, Ohio taken in 1938. There are 17 members of my family in that picture.

[mulligan]

Are they all packing squirt guns??

[swimdawg]

If you measure the distance from your wrist to your elbow, it will be the size of your foot!

[BobandSandy]

Originally Posted by swimdawg

If you measure the distance from your wrist to your elbow, it will be the size of your foot!

So no matter who you are, that distance is always one foot (?)

[jblum315]

A dollar bill is exactly six inches long.