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Originally Posted by LockDoc
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I wonder how long it has been since it has been tested. Supposed to be tested yearly. I don't know if that is close to you or just a random picture, but I would be trimming the weeds from around it if it was close.... Even painted yellow or red they can be hard to see when you are in a hurry.
LockDoc
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It's not as obscured as the picture appears. It's very visible from the street. This is at a 1925 cabin along the Severn River near Annapolis, MD that I worked on for a few years. That's all English Ivy. I bet it gets regular inspections. It's ready for some paint.
They have a vintage sign posted, too. Probably bought that new
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Originally Posted by Steeveedee
I don't know about elsewhere, but here the cities have blue reflective markers planted in the middle (or sometimes the sides) of the streets, where the hydrants are. Given a large city, the firefighters can't be expected to go and memorize the locations like they used to.
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This is no city, it's an old Chesapeake Bay summer home community with mostly fulltime residents now. I bet every firefighter in the Arnold VFD knows where this one is. The road into the community winds down to the river level, then turns left up a hill. If you go straight you are pulling into this cabin's driveway and you see the hydrant right there. To the right is the community beach, dock, and bath house. The cabin is on a point.
View off of deck
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Originally Posted by Steeveedee
City trees with lots of water at the surface, not much water to send a tap root deep to get. Plus, even if there is a tap root (which these do not appear to have), it's dried up in the drought. So little at the base, and a good wind takes them right over. We see this all over the dry states that have to be irrigated for things to grow.
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I never thought about trees not putting down roots in dry areas. But isn't this tree in coastal Washington? I guess the trees people plant aren't native, so not adapted to the dry. Because cactus is just the opposite. It survives due to the tap root it sends deep to find water. I have a monster maple tree, biggest I've ever seen. It grew up next to a building with a concrete slab, so the ground on one half of the tree is under concrete under a building, yet roots grew under the concrete. I guess the tree knew there was water to be found beyond, so kept growing until that happened