Be Carefull When Driving In Quebec!

[ghYHZ]

Be carefull to avoid those Hydro Poles!

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2012/11/20/20370781.html

[Brian556]

Do they have immunity from lawsuits?

How could they not get these moved before even building the new alignment?
Why are there no channeling devices protecting the poles?
This has to be the most rediculous things I have ever seen.

[NE2]

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/875444-bungling-workers-in-china-put-up-electricity-poles-in-middle-of-street

[Dr Frankenstein]

Yeah, basically they didn't tell Hydro Québec in time, so when the contractor arrived, the poles were still there.

[kphoger]

Small orange-striped signs were the best they could manage?  Not even cones....

[vdeane]

I'm surprised the contractor didn't have a "WTF?" moment and just built as if the poles weren't there.

[ARMOURERERIC]

In the early 1980's, when Pittsburgh reconstructed 5th Avenue in Oakland,  a strike occurred that prevented the delivery of the new mast arm traffic signal poles and masts.  The city opened the road with the old yellow and black signal poles sometimes as much as 2 feet out from the curb.

[Alps]

Eh, whatever

[Scott5114]

What exactly is a hydro pole? I take it that it's some sort of utility service, like an telephone pole, but "hydro" makes me think water...

[MVHighways]

Eh, whatever

Duh keep left, it's painted on the road. LOL.

What exactly is a hydro pole? I take it that it's some sort of utility service, like an telephone pole, but "hydro" makes me think water...

I was thinking water too. This is odd.

[ghYHZ]

What exactly is a hydro pole? I take it that it's some sort of utility service, like an telephone pole, but "hydro" makes me think water...

It's the common term here for the electric power utility. The poles would be owned by "Hydro Quebec"  which generates most of its power from water turbines at Hydro Electric Projects such as James Bay. (and a lot of this powers finds it's way into the Northeast US on an interconnecting grid)

There's also Ontario Hydro/Hydro One and in British Columbia, BC Hydro.

Here you would refer to getting a "Hydro Bill" not a "Power Bill" and it's not for your municipal water consumption!

[Duke87]

Yup. Due to the prominence of hydroelectric generation, the electric grid in Canada is referred to as the "hyrdroelectric system":


("hydro" for short)

[NE2]

And in Albany:

[Grzrd]

And in Wenling, Zhejiang, China:

[Alps]

And in Wenling, Zhejiang, China:

And already posted by SPUI in Reply #3

[Grzrd]

Oh well ... thanks for the kindly moderator warning to read threads more closely before posting. 

Sorry, NE2.

[Alps]

Oh well ... thanks for the kindly moderator warning to read threads more closely before posting. 

Sorry, NE2.

I wasn't sure if I was really going for that emoticon, but what the hey, emoticon.

[Grzrd]

^ :jumping:

[NE2]

Nope, not the same obstruction

[Grzrd]

And already posted by SPUI in Reply #3

Oh well ... thanks for the kindly moderator warning to read threads more closely before posting. 

Nope, not the same obstruction

Incorrect moderation = Overmoderation? bugo's warnings coming to fruition?

[Alps]

Nope, not the same obstruction

was appropriate, then.

And already posted by SPUI in Reply #3

Oh well ... thanks for the kindly moderator warning to read threads more closely before posting. 

Nope, not the same obstruction

Incorrect moderation = Overmoderation? bugo's warnings coming to fruition?

Please point to where there was any moderation done...

[mgk920]

And in Albany:

(From the car plates, I'll assume that that is Albany, NY.)
I'm kind of surprised that the city didn't build a small landscaped median there.

And - in Oconto, WI:

http://goo.gl/maps/q514M

Mike

[Grzrd]

Please point to where there was any moderation done...

At the top of the list of the Forum Guidelines is the following:

By posting in our forum, you automatically agree to the following:
What's not allowed:
-Duplicates posts/topics. Please use the search feature before you post!

You alleged ("kindly") that I duplicated SPUI's post.  With a prohibition against duplicative posts being at the top of the list, I assumed that violation of this guideline is in some sense a violation of a Forum Prime Directive (BTW my middle name is not Tiberius and I cannot ignore the Prime Directive as I wish).  You are a moderator and you alleged a duplication.

Looks like moderation and smells like moderation...

Above said, of course I am gravitating to the absurd.  I have no problem with the moderation on this Forum, to date. [emoticon deliberately omitted]

[kphoger]

http://goo.gl/maps/q514M

That sort of thing is fairly common, especially in other countries.

Michigan City, Indiana, anyone?

[cpzilliacus]

And in Wenling, Zhejiang, China:

Now gone, apparently.

Slate.com: China Demolishes Highway House That Became Internet Sensation

A five-story home that had been left as the only house in the middle of a highway was demolished Friday after becoming a worldwide sensation and the latest symbol of the frequent resistance by Chinese homeowners who are forced to make way for massive infrastructure projects. The house was demolished Saturday after the owners, a duck farmer and his wife, agreed to accept the $41,000 compensation, according to the Associated Press. The owner had previously said he had spent $95,000 to complete the house.