Paul_Sengupta wrote:"9000 people without power, that's the entire city."
They have a strange definition of city over there!
In US, 'city' is often used for a municipality which has 'incorporated' according to the law in its State, allowing it to raise its own property and other taxes, run its own schools and (very commonly) police force, independent of State or County ones, ..
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It's one reason why there so many different and mutually independent police forces, with very different standards of training (and conduct
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There's an apocryphal tale of how Bangor, Maine got its name. When the town had grown to a size where its residents decided that it ought to 'incorporate', they send the Episcopal Minister to the State Capital in Augusta to do the paperwork. Having found the right clerk who got out the right forms and started filling them in, the Minister sat down and started humming a hymn tune. He was interrupted by the clerk asking "what's the name ?". Without thinking, the Minister replied 'Bangor' and spelled it out, which was the name of the hymn tune. The clerk wrote that down as the name of the new 'city' on the form. It was not the name the residents had chosen (which was 'Sunbury'), but they realised only when the Minister got back and read his copy of the forms. But it would have cost money to change it, so they never bothered
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