A typical water tower has a motor that pumps water into the tower, usually from a well, whenever it gets below a certain level and then uses gravity to supply the water to the community it's meant to serve. This means that it has to be at a higher elevation than anything with plumbing in the area and it needs to be large.
In many cities, postmen in America used to walk up and down the streets and slip the mail into a slot in the door. But as people moved out to the suburbs and the houses got bigger and further apart it got to be too much walking, so many people were required to have postboxes on posts out at the street and the postal workers (including females now) would drive up in a special van with right-hand drive, and put the mail in the box. Now the trend is for newer neighborhoods to have postal box stations scattered around the neighborhood, with 20-30 people getting their mail there in locked boxes, a block or more from their house.
Part of the reason they do the names on the ones you can see from the highway, is so you know where you are at. It gives you a visual marker in case of emergency and so you can keep track as you find your way to where you are going.
BTW the 'educated fleas' joke the guy made in the video comes from the song "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love" by Cole Porter. Written around 1928. There are several recorded versions of it but Ella Fitzgerald's is probably the best known.
White picket fences aren’t a rich thing. Rich people would have something taller and more secure. Wrought iron maybe. White picket fences would be more of a decorative middle class suburban thing to partition the front yard from the public space and neighboring yards.
Also, I am not a fan of the white picket fence at all. Some of us absolutely despise them. Mine personally is the much taller 8ft privacy fence. Like the 6ft variety you would see in the movie The Karate Kid. I just prefer a little taller.
The purpose of a water tower, is the ability to move a great deal of water with relatively small engines, up through relatively small pipes. The tanks cab them be filled slowly, with the height and volume becoming sufficient to serve a small community - or in some cases, single dwellings or farmhouses. - in old houses in the UK, it was absolutely normal to have a cold water tank in the loft. The same idea is used in older British toilets with the cistern mounted six feet or more above the bowl. When water is flowing, it gains around 1psi for every foot of elevation. Using a smaller low flow pipe to raise the water significantly reduces the power required for pumping and is also less likely to put too much strain on the aquifer. In practice, the water tank will be filling to its highest at night when people are sleeping and during the day, while they are at work. That way, when they get up in the morning and when they get home from work,they’re is ample supply and pressure to cope with everyone using water at the same time. With tv on demand and lower viewing figures on popular shows in the UK, I’m not sure if the water companies still have staff on hand - I believe the electricity companies still do, they have staff who sit with a tv schedule and a tv, and controls to the power grid (and once, the countries water supply). As the clock ticked down to the commercial breaks or ends of show, technicians would raise the amperage or pumping capacity of the water lines, to accommodate people flushing toilets, filling kettles and then turning those kettles on
Water towers are usually only seen in cities with flat terrain in the midwest and great plains. Places with hills will just use a large tank on a hill somewhere near town.
It’s not my town bc I live in the city but a quick hour jaunt down the road and you get to Florence KY, with the literally famous water tower that says “Florence Y’all”. The town baseball team is named after it and their mascot is the Florence Water tower it’s so funny and the games are an absolute blast. Florence water tower is my landmark so many things lol. also in American it’s really common to have Injury Lawyers have billboards EVERYWHERE so they’re kind of famous and every city or sometimes state has their big personal Injury Lawyer. Ours in the Hammer and he was in a Jack Harlow song 😭😭
Yellow School Bus - Why yellow? Back before WWII a study was made on what color was unique enough to be seen under many different environments and the committee found yellow was the color, but not just any yellow, a very specific yellow which became standard for the entire nation. That is why a school bus in California and a school bus in Texas would be identical. Yes, there is a little sign that comes out and says STOP and you best stop because there is a heavy fine if you pass a stopped school bus.
I live where all the towns have water towers like that. I haven't thought about them much but I think water is pumped and maintained in them to give water pressure to the town's water supply. I assume it's cheaper and not reliant on electricity if power outages happen for a little bit that way.
We have a fire hydrant in front of our home (painted yellow, not red). Interesting there is a blue reflective dot in the middle of the street which the driver of the fire truck could see in the day or night that tells them that there is a fire hydrant here.
About the mailboxes. Every house I've lived in had the stand alone mailbox in the front yard, but the house I live in now has cluster mailboxes. You can Google it to see what they look like.
Watching this as a born and raised American, it is odd hearing about these. Things I just assumed they had everywhere. Like school buses? They're everywhere because kids are everywhere, and that's how most kids get to school. I just assumed that kids all over the world had school buses 🤷♀️.
The specific mix of yellow used on busses is a sign of caution
A typical water tower has a motor that pumps water into the tower, usually from a well, whenever it gets below a certain level and then uses gravity to supply the water to the community it's meant to serve. This means that it has to be at a higher elevation than anything with plumbing in the area and it needs to be large.
In many cities, postmen in America used to walk up and down the streets and slip the mail into a slot in the door. But as people moved out to the suburbs and the houses got bigger and further apart it got to be too much walking, so many people were required to have postboxes on posts out at the street and the postal workers (including females now) would drive up in a special van with right-hand drive, and put the mail in the box. Now the trend is for newer neighborhoods to have postal box stations scattered around the neighborhood, with 20-30 people getting their mail there in locked boxes, a block or more from their house.
Part of the reason they do the names on the ones you can see from the highway, is so you know where you are at. It gives you a visual marker in case of emergency and so you can keep track as you find your way to where you are going.
And advertise the town.
as long as it falls within guidelines anyone can pay to say whatever they want
BTW the 'educated fleas' joke the guy made in the video comes from the song "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love" by Cole Porter. Written around 1928. There are several recorded versions of it but Ella Fitzgerald's is probably the best known.
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One of my favorite billboards said YOUR MOM'S HOT! and then advertised AC company. Lmao
White picket fences aren’t a rich thing. Rich people would have something taller and more secure. Wrought iron maybe. White picket fences would be more of a decorative middle class suburban thing to partition the front yard from the public space and neighboring yards.
Also, I am not a fan of the white picket fence at all. Some of us absolutely despise them.
Mine personally is the much taller 8ft privacy fence. Like the 6ft variety you would see in the movie The Karate Kid. I just prefer a little taller.
The purpose of a water tower, is the ability to move a great deal of water with relatively small engines, up through relatively small pipes. The tanks cab them be filled slowly, with the height and volume becoming sufficient to serve a small community - or in some cases, single dwellings or farmhouses. - in old houses in the UK, it was absolutely normal to have a cold water tank in the loft. The same idea is used in older British toilets with the cistern mounted six feet or more above the bowl. When water is flowing, it gains around 1psi for every foot of elevation.
Using a smaller low flow pipe to raise the water significantly reduces the power required for pumping and is also less likely to put too much strain on the aquifer. In practice, the water tank will be filling to its highest at night when people are sleeping and during the day, while they are at work. That way, when they get up in the morning and when they get home from work,they’re is ample supply and pressure to cope with everyone using water at the same time.
With tv on demand and lower viewing figures on popular shows in the UK, I’m not sure if the water companies still have staff on hand - I believe the electricity companies still do, they have staff who sit with a tv schedule and a tv, and controls to the power grid (and once, the countries water supply). As the clock ticked down to the commercial breaks or ends of show, technicians would raise the amperage or pumping capacity of the water lines, to accommodate people flushing toilets, filling kettles and then turning those kettles on
Water towers are usually only seen in cities with flat terrain in the midwest and great plains. Places with hills will just use a large tank on a hill somewhere near town.
Why do Europeans always say Americans have no culture I see that on TikTok constantly. I never really get it but would love a perspective.
It’s not my town bc I live in the city but a quick hour jaunt down the road and you get to Florence KY, with the literally famous water tower that says “Florence Y’all”. The town baseball team is named after it and their mascot is the Florence Water tower it’s so funny and the games are an absolute blast. Florence water tower is my landmark so many things lol. also in American it’s really common to have Injury Lawyers have billboards EVERYWHERE so they’re kind of famous and every city or sometimes state has their big personal Injury Lawyer. Ours in the Hammer and he was in a Jack Harlow song 😭😭
Yellow School Bus - Why yellow? Back before WWII a study was made on what color was unique enough to be seen under many different environments and the committee found yellow was the color, but not just any yellow, a very specific yellow which became standard for the entire nation. That is why a school bus in California and a school bus in Texas would be identical. Yes, there is a little sign that comes out and says STOP and you best stop because there is a heavy fine if you pass a stopped school bus.
I live where all the towns have water towers like that. I haven't thought about them much but I think water is pumped and maintained in them to give water pressure to the town's water supply. I assume it's cheaper and not reliant on electricity if power outages happen for a little bit that way.
We have a fire hydrant in front of our home (painted yellow, not red). Interesting there is a blue reflective dot in the middle of the street which the driver of the fire truck could see in the day or night that tells them that there is a fire hydrant here.
Billboards are no more distracting the regular highway signs,yellow school busses are used in Canada,Mexico and many other countrys.
About the mailboxes. Every house I've lived in had the stand alone mailbox in the front yard, but the house I live in now has cluster mailboxes. You can Google it to see what they look like.
Watching this as a born and raised American, it is odd hearing about these. Things I just assumed they had everywhere. Like school buses? They're everywhere because kids are everywhere, and that's how most kids get to school. I just assumed that kids all over the world had school buses 🤷♀️.