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Our water tower just got a paint job

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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The scaffolding involved is pretty impressive to say the least. Been like that for several months. They had tarps over the whole thing for a while too. Imagine the job setting that up.
 
Wow, seems it would have been a lot more efficient to simply use a couple of guys with some ropes who could rappel down the side and use a paint sprayer.
 
There are several water towers in my city. The most prominent one gets re-painted way too often...like they're just trying to find ways to spend an excessive budget or something.

They had the city utility's new logo about a year ago and took ages getting it juuuust right. The whole thing was covered so the design would be a surprise or something. That lasted a matter of months. Then, almost overnight, it was re-painted with a giant collegiate-style "N" - for some reason I can't figure.
 
They've almost combined Tim Horton's into one word. Every town in Canadia could be named a variation of that.
 
Red Squirrel said:
They should have made it look like a beer can, actually. That would have been cool. Then comes all the jokes about beer bashing. "Your beer taste like tap water!" 😛
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Moose piss. Damn you Canuckians can't even get your own jokes right :colbert:
 
T9D said:
Moose piss. Damn you Canuckians can't even get your own jokes right :colbert:
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Moose Piss is reserved for American beer. Bad Canadian beer is tap water. 😛

Honestly not sure how they keep it warm enough, I'm guessing it's either heated, or there's agitators that keep the water moving. Or maybe just the natural flow of water being added/removed through usage is enough.

We do get lot of water main breaks though... so really not sure how they keep the tower itself from freezing. If I stick a temp gun in my sink with water running the incoming water is barely above freezing. The chemicals in it probably give it a slight lee way where it can stay liquid below freezing, but I'd imagine the concentration is so small that it's probably negligible. Maybe a fraction of a degree?
 
I saw a fire hydrant painted to look like the minion from despicable me. Almost caused me to crash from laughing so hard.
 
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