In this city without cars, water buses and taxis are the primary ways to get around.
By contrast, green technologies are a lurking cauldron of dangers: high-speed charging for electric cars; water processing systems that turn sewage into fertilizer or fresh water; experimental cement.
Board games, sing-along videos, books, tea sets, action figures, dolls, dollhouses, plastic animals, remote-control cars, water guns, and on and on everything had some strange, horrible, sickening twist.
For example, many suggested that in their birth country there was less reliance on cars; water was derived through water pumps located some distance from the home; homes had bare floors that required sweeping daily; and there was less access to labour saving devices such as vacuum cleaners and washing machines.
Successive winters of minimal snowfall followed by hot summers have forced local officials to issue new guidelines for washing cars, watering lawns and even flushing toilets.
The village board passed a resolution in October banning the use of water from the municipal system for washing cars, watering lawns or any outdoor use -- the same kind of restrictions that are just now being imposed elsewhere.
When filling your overheating car with water, never use cold water.
Firefighters doused the car with water before carting the remains away.
Less than halfway to the car, the water was shin-deep, the current overpowering.
A crane was used to retrieve her car from water about 12-feet deep.
