FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

During a terrible storm, all the highway signs were covered with snow.


The following spring, the state decided to raise all the signs twelve inches at a cost of six million dollars.
“That’s an outrageous price!” said a local farmer, “but I guess we’re lucky the state handled it instead of the federal government.”

“Why’s that?” asked the state trooper that was talking to him.

The farmer paused for a minute before he responded. “Because knowing the federal government, they’d have decided to lower the highways.”

nadine10 Loc: Portales New Mexico

good one!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

--Bob

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

Several years ago we had 6 feet of snow in just under a month. I had never seen so much snow here in my life.

Pulling out of a side street or a parking lot was extremely challenging and dangerous as you could not see approaching traffic. After about a week the town sent crews out to cut down the snow banks at these locations to improve line of sight.

In the spring I noticed that they raised all of the stop signs by 2 feet. I have no idea how much it cost.

Stephan G

Speaking of raising a sinking highway. There was a situation in which building a road around a quicksand area was going to be very costly. They opted to lay it right across the quicksand and laying a new road on the old pavement on an annual basis. My first introduction to it was when I dropped about three inches at 55 mph. I do not know what is the situation it is in presently. It was in Indiana.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Now, that’s a good one! And, sadly, probably true.

Stephan G

I tried to pinpoint with Google the particular roadway that I drove on back in 1975. I have not been able to work up the verbiage. I do remember it crossing East-West somewhere between Indianapolis and Muncie. May have been US35. I forget how many layers of roadway was below the road.

In 2014, Indiana DOT had to close a road due to shifting ground. I will have to say that Indiana isn't the only place for these situations. For example, middle Florida has the issues of sinkholes. A few years back, the hotel we stayed at was exactly 2 miles East on the road from the hotel that had a section of its building swallowed up. Fortunately it was so slow in the process that everyone was able to get out of the building, safely. (Read about a 17 story hotel building in South Africa going down. The authorities could not dig down far enough find it. And being a primarily transient hotel, those that went down remain unknown. (Of course, I had to read the news article when I was on the road. )

Sorry. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Back to normal programing. I will keep my comment on my almost becoming a Sky Marshal.

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

fantom Loc: Colorado

Sad thing is that the farmer is dead right.

There was a serious elk problem in Rocky Mountain National Park and they needed to thin the herd by 1200 cow elk. Rather than sell licenses to experienced hunters for $1000 to 1500 per head they decided to contract out the project for a cost of $19,000,000.

Instead of making about a million and a half bucks they wanted spend/waste, (kickback??)) $19mil. Your enlightened government at work.

I think eventually more thoughtful and intelligent heads prevailed and the exercise was not an outrageous expenditure.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Vlemasters

Pretty common occurrence where the old coal mines under the road collapse as the miners pull out the remaining supports and let it collapse in on itself. Highways over the mines sink as well!