Daily Picture Challenge!

[empirestate]

March 2, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos showing uncharacteristic weather conditions for the area.

Rainy in Phoenix, sunny in Seattle, snow in New Orleans, hurricane in Denver...you get the idea!

[oscar]

March 2, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos showing uncharacteristic weather conditions for the area.

I lucked into a sunny day on my 2007 visit to the usually dreary Unalaska AK (the postcard Alaska weather summary labels the Aleutians "always shitty"). This photo is of the west end of Captains Bay Road, westernmost road in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, and by virtue of the Alaska Marine Highway auto ferry link between Dutch Harbor and mainland Alaska, the westernmost point on the continuous North American highway system.

[jwolfer]

March 2, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos showing uncharacteristic weather conditions for the area.

I lucked into a sunny day on my 2007 visit to the usually dreary Unalaska AK (the postcard Alaska weather summary labels the Aleutians "always shitty"). This photo is of the west end of Captains Bay Road, westernmost road in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, and by virtue of the Alaska Marine Highway auto ferry link between Dutch Harbor and mainland Alaska, the westernmost point on the continuous North American highway system.

Soon to have bridges and full interstate highway to Russia.  Unalaska could ha c e an exit with a few gas stations and restaurants, maybe even a truck stop.. at least in FritzOwl world

Z981

[paulthemapguy]

March 2, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos showing uncharacteristic weather conditions for the area.

See my car there in the background?  I walked from that spot back to this end marker on IL-155 in a t-shirt, and didn't pay any mind to it.  In fact, I was WARM walking outside--it was 77 degrees.  Now click on the link below the photo and see the date on which it was taken.  November 17, 2013.  The day of a freak warm spell and an even freakier tornado outbreak decimating Washington, Illinois.  This trip was entirely impromptu because of the bizarre temperatures in the 70s over the weekend.  With such nice weather, I ought to drive to Chester, IL to see the ghost town of Kaskaskia, I figured.  I didn't predict how terrible the severe weather would be across the state, though.  This is just one example of a whole slew of sign photos I took in southwestern Illinois that day.


IL-155-WT by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

See my car there in the background?  I walked from that spot back to this end marker on IL-155 in a t-shirt, and didn't pay any mind to it.  In fact, I was WARM walking outside--it was 77 degrees.  Now click on the link below the photo and see the date on which it was taken.  November 17, 2013.  The day of a freak warm spell and an even freakier tornado outbreak decimating Washington, Illinois.  This trip was entirely impromptu because of the bizarre temperatures in the 70s over the weekend.  With such nice weather, I ought to drive to Chester, IL to see the ghost town of Kaskaskia, I figured.  I didn't predict how terrible the severe weather would be across the state, though.  This is just one example of a whole slew of sign photos I took in southwestern Illinois that day.

Warm weather late in the year tends to lead toward severe weather like that; when that unusually warm, moist air mass collides with a more seasonal cold air mass = storms. I love that picture too–the END sign complements the foreboding clouds in the background.

[adventurernumber1]

March 3rd, 2018 Challenge => Post pictures of roads or highways that also contain cell towers:

This is from off of Interstate 20 Eastbound just east of its interchange with I-75/I-85 in downtown Atlanta, Georgia:




This is from off of Interstate 20 Eastbound in South Carolina about halfway from Augusta, GA to Lexington, SC:




This is from off of the newly widened stretch of Interstate 26 south of Columbia, South Carolina (heading Eastbound):

[Hurricane Rex]

March 2, 2018
Challenge: Post road photos showing uncharacteristic weather conditions for the area.

Rainy in Phoenix, sunny in Seattle, snow in New Orleans, hurricane in Denver…you get the idea!

Portland is cloudy like Seattle (although not as much), quickly found one in Kelso, WA:


Edit posting time: 9:05pm local time

[adventurernumber1]

And now I present you with some more pictures, since I have so many of these things:   

March 3rd, 2018 Challenge => Post pictures of roads or highways that also contain cell towers:

This is on Interstate 26 Eastbound in South Carolina, at what I believe is the Weigh Station just east of I-95 and US 15:




This is from off of Interstate 20 Eastbound in South Carolina somewhere between Augusta, GA and Columbia, SC:




This is from off of I-26 East in Columbia, South Carolina going under the interchange with Interstate 77:

[paulthemapguy]

If we run out of ideas for daily challenges, we can just create challenges where you have to satisfy multiple conditions!!

March 4, 2018.  Post a picture where you can see a yellow arrow on a signal, AND there isn't a cloud in the sky.


IMG_1262 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

March 4th, 2018: A picture where you can see a yellow arrow on a signal, AND there isn't a cloud in the sky.

I surprised myself by being able to actually find one that I took. Looking south, intersection of 2nd Ave and Euclid Ave (IA-415 and US-6, respectively), Des Moines, IA.

[US71]

March 4th, 2018: A picture where you can see a yellow arrow on a signal, AND there isn't a cloud in the sky.

Liberty, MO

[Big John]

^^ That's a strange signal setup to the left.  Howis it supposed to behave.

[US71]

^^ That's a strange signal setup to the left.  Howis it supposed to behave.

Steady Red
Straight Green Arrow/ Straight Yellow Arrow
Left Green Arrow/ Left Yellow Arrow

[Big John]

OK, this is why a bimodal straight ahead signal is odd:

MUTCD 4D.05

09 A straight-through RED ARROW signal indication or a straight-through YELLOW ARROW signal indication shall not be displayed on any signal face, either alone or in combination with any other signal indication.

[empirestate]

March 5, 2018
Challenge: Post a sign that completes the sentence "In Soviet Russia..."

iPhone

[JasonOfORoads]

March 6, 2018: Post examples of keming on highway signs.

Hopefully this hasn't already been done.

[empirestate]

March 7, 2018
Challenge: Post photos from southeastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula.

Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the countries formerly part of Yugoslavia. Feel free to throw in Moldova and the European part of Turkey as well. :-)

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

[US71]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

[formulanone]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

If any state is going to have a keming example, it's going to be Oklahoma.

[MNHighwayMan]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

I'm just going to +1 that opinion.

[empirestate]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

I'm just going to +1 that opinion.

That's fine, but...if you want to just move on, why mention this every time it comes up? Why not just, you know...move on?

[US71]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

I'm just going to +1 that opinion.

That's fine, but...if you want to just move on, why mention this every time it comes up? Why not just, you know...move on?

Instead of saying "this challenge is still open" ?    

[empirestate]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

I'm just going to +1 that opinion.

That's fine, but...if you want to just move on, why mention this every time it comes up? Why not just, you know...move on?

Instead of saying "this challenge is still open" ?    

No, not instead of that, because it's me that writes that, not you. Does it bother you that I do?

[US71]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

I'm just going to +1 that opinion.

That's fine, but...if you want to just move on, why mention this every time it comes up? Why not just, you know...move on?

Instead of saying "this challenge is still open" ?    

No, not instead of that, because it's me that writes that, not you. Does it bother you that I do?

Does it bother you if someone else does it besides you?   

[empirestate]

(Also note, the March 6th Challenge remains open, pending a qualifying submission.)

Strictly my opinion, but if there are no submissions,  then just move on. We can always revisit the challenge at the end of the month.  YMMV

I'm just going to +1 that opinion.

That's fine, but...if you want to just move on, why mention this every time it comes up? Why not just, you know...move on?

Instead of saying "this challenge is still open" ?    

No, not instead of that, because it's me that writes that, not you. Does it bother you that I do?

Does it bother you if someone else does it besides you?   

No, not at all. It is how the game works, after all; why would it bother me?