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[thenetwork]

Akwardly contorted sign on I-90 in rural SD. Oddly, the route marker (SD-63) is missing too.

Man, what a fugly font on that sign!  No wonder why someone tried to kill it!

[US71]

In this case, the sign isn't damaged, but the post is, and someone tried to hang one sign off another.

[STLmapboy]

Another destroyed BGS.

[US71]

I'm sure if one went to Louisiana this week, there would be quite a few.

[cjk374]

I'm sure if one went to Louisiana this week, there would be quite a few.

Yep. One of the brand new BGSs for the new exit 83 on I-20 folded backward on its posts.

[JoePCool14]

Akwardly contorted sign on I-90 in rural SD. Oddly, the route marker (SD-63) is missing too.

Series C(M)?

[Mergingtraffic]

A relic in Hackensack, NJ

[STLmapboy]

Here, a box of "left turn only" signs in NY (like this) has been stripped.

[thenetwork]

A relic in Hackensack, NJ

I know S. Hackensack is how it's spelled out, but it almost looks like Shackensack -- aka a no-tell motel just minutes off the Jersey Turnpike.

[Truvelo]

^^That relic needs saving, if not only for the button copy.

[LilianaUwU]

This sign off exit 2 of A-973 has been suffering from sign peel ever since I first saw it.

[STLmapboy]

Hanging by a thread in Lawrence, MA.

[rte66man]

Eastbound Kilpatrick Turnpike approaching I-35 in north Oklahoma City. The letters are missing likely due to hail damage

[ErmineNotyours]

Hanging by a thread in Lawrence, MA.

There's also a memorial next to the sign, making me wonder if whoever clipped the sign is the subject of the memorial.

[STLmapboy]

Eastbound Kilpatrick Turnpike approaching I-35 in north Oklahoma City.

That's pretty bad. Missouri has the same problem with their late 90s/early 00s reflector signs (peeling letters), but I've never seen it to that extent.

[STLmapboy]

At this point, it's easier to county what remains on this sign than what doesn't.

[thenetwork]

At this point, it's easier to county what remains on this sign than what doesn't.

Never have I seen a sign gantry with a yellow clearance sign.

[Android]

For some time now I have wanted to put in this image. But I will give some background.   I have no idea why this sign still even exists. 

I live in Douglas, Wyoming.   The historical route of main routes US 20 and US 87 ran through the town back in the day. Then Interstate 25 supplanted them, and those roads became "business routes".  To retain such designation, the City would have to do some major work on the road.  They started to do so, replacing the bridge over the North Platte River. But they balked at widening the road through town.   Lots of trees would have be cut down to do so.   And they didn't do it.  They actually banned through truck traffic and put up signs directing such away from the center of town.   

I'm pretty sure they lost Federal route designation/funding.  Thus, Business Route I-25, US20, US87 and US26 no longer has any meaning.  Yet the signs are still there, sort of.  You can see the WYDOT date codes, 2008 in this image from when this sign was still rather new:   




Sun Damage Time:  Look what the Wyoming Sunshine did to the black numerals 12 years on:

 

[JoePCool14]

How kind of the sun to automatically convert those shields into fresh blanks to be reused!

[1]

I don't think it's the sun. Why is the background still fully black?

[Scott5114]

Could be that the sign shop mass-produces blanks using one type of ink (or a vinyl overlay), and then the numbers were overprinted with another type of ink.

In any case, I don't think they could be reused, since the sheeting is aged, and would probably do weird halation effects at night.

[Android]

I'm pretty sure that is sun-fading damage.  I saw it get progressively get worse over the last 10 years.

The latest picture above, I took that in July, and at that time, I took a couple of other pics from different angles.

Now, on anther shot I took maybe because of the different sun angle, while in person it looks blank, on camera zoomed in, I can sort of see smudges where the numbers should be.     

That led me to go hog wild on the Gamma and Contrast settings and:




UPDATE EDIT, FEB 06 2021.   I drove by this at night a couple of times and realized that the three faded signs must have had some kind of glass bead (reflective) paint for the numerals, because they showed up in the headlights.   But a couple of days ago I noticed that these had been replaced, finally.   Kind of odd regarding the new date codes though, one from 2015 and two signs from 2020 and they left the old I-25 sign in place.   Oh, and I preferred the US shields on the old signs. 

[STLmapboy]

At this point, it's easier to county what remains on this sign than what doesn't.

Never have I seen a sign gantry with a yellow clearance sign.

The case of the missing shields part two.

[JoePCool14]

At this point, it's easier to county what remains on this sign than what doesn't.

Never have I seen a sign gantry with a yellow clearance sign.

The case of the missing shields part two.

The shield on the right has been missing for almost a decade.

[MCRoads]

After the March 2020 tornado outbreak in Nashville, this happened.

That's a pretty common mode of failure for signs in a weak tornado; I've seen it here a lot. That's actually due to a hinge that's there as part of the breakaway safety feature. Easily fixed.

Strong tornadoes do weird stuff to signs. The May 19, 2013 tornado in Moore, OK blew one sign off a gantry but left the other panel (and the gantry itself) untouched.

I saw that when it happened. I had a picture of it, but that phone crapped out not long after... oh well.

There is a video of an exit gore somewhere on YT that shows a truck driver plowing through an EXIT fore sign trying to get back on the highway (I want to say it was in FL), but I cannot find it.