Yup. When I was a kid we had a creek on an old dirt that we named 'cold creek'. I was by there a couple weeks ago for the first time in 30+ years and the road is paved and the creek has a county sign, 'Cold Creek', neat. Made my day.
Ok, I'll give you an example you can understand. Think snow. Being from Colorado, it's been with great amusement that I've watched Southerner's panic over the odd freak snow storm over the years. I still remember a Sheriff's deputy stopping by our house in Pineland, Texas to make sure we were ok after a rare freeze/snow, years ago. Highway 96, well, it was closed for 2 days with just a little dust of snow and ice. It wouldn't have been worth sending the plows out in any clime that was used to snow. Motorists would have just had to have driven over it.
Same deal with these heat waves in areas that aren't used to it. It's like Southerners and snow.