Daily Picture Challenge!

[empirestate]

Hmm, I maybe could have excluded floods since we recently did them, but what the hey. :-)

July 8, 2017, Challenge: Post of a photo of a road approaching a city skyline:

Long Island Expressway (I-495) westbound approaching the Midtown Tunnel into Manhattan:

That was yesterday's; we're doing emergencies today...

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Abandoned PA 61 near Centralia:

(maybe?)

Well, I'm not sure it still qualifies as an "emergency", but...

Here's mine:

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Wildfire near Holbrook, AZ (coming out of Petrified Forest NP, as I recall).

[Eth]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Possibly stretching the definition of "during", but this is the intersection of Church St and E Ponce de Leon Ave in Decatur, GA (where, decades ago, US 29 entered from the right, turned, and continued into the background) in the aftermath of the infamous inch of snow that crippled the region in 2014.

[Michael]

While heading home from Binghamton with a few friends on November 23, 2013, there was a major backup on I-81 just south of Hoxie Gorge.  I got out of the car and stood in the middle of the road to take this picture just to say I stood in the middle of I-81:


There were two crashed cars, one on each end of the Hoxie Gorge bridge.  Here's one of the cars, which I think was at the north end of the bridge:




A little over a week ago, I was visiting my friend who lives in Oneida, and I had to detour around this on NY 365 south of Verona:


Here's more pictures from the storm (and tornado, which I missed).

EDIT: I forgot to mention the flooding in Utica.  Here's a picture:


Here's the page the picture is from.  There's a few articles with pictures on the Big Frog 104 website, so look around.

[jflick99]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

This 6-car wreck was on I-70 EB west of Topeka last August. We hit the heavy traffic about 1 1/2 miles behind this. We couldn't see over the hill so we didn't know what was going on until we got much closer. Both lanes were blocked, so all traffic was forced to exit. It took well over 30 minutes to get past this mess. By the time we got there, crews had made considerable progress on the cleanup. A local TV station got some pictures of the more immediate aftermath: https://twitter.com/wibwRick/status/769281581542354944

[hotdogPi]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

[Jim]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

I've posted it before elsewhere, but it fits here.  Alaska Highway.  June 13, 2001.

[US71]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Shreveport, LA


Bunkie, LA


Near Texarkana, TX


Ute Pass Summit Colorado


Staunton, IL


1935 Texaco in McAlester, OK

[AsphaltPlanet]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_dv_619_east_May16_24x16.jpg

[Eth]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

A $1200 fine for littering on I-985:



An upside-down construction sign on I-20 giving you a 1000-foot warning:



And some sort of designation bestowed upon the town of Auburn, GA in the year 2013:

[7/8]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Lakeshore, ON - population 35 000 (on the 401)

[JJBers]

First 1,000 mileage sign, for US 50.

Capital Park Radio

[paulthemapguy]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Indian Route 8094 along US191 in northeast Arizona


AZ-US191-IR8094S by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[dgolub]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

US 11 northbound at SR 1323 in Winchester, VA:

[AsphaltPlanet]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

km 1000


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_17_images/17_cl_1000_south_24x16.jpg

[SignGeek101]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Long Distance Sign to Thompson, Winnipeg by Sign Geek, on Flickr

This is the farthest distance sign I have.

[Jim]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Sounds like this one has been replaced, but I haven't been out the Mass Pike in a while so I don't know what the new one looks like.  This was as of August 30, 2007.

[jbnv]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

A four-digit number in a pentagon:


Volusia Cty 4116 by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[formulanone]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Pike County, Alabama's dizzying numbers:


Weed is higher than its population:


West Point, Virginia:

[bassoon1986]

LA 3194 just before the newest open stretch of I-49 in Shreveport, LA



LA 3094. I'll never understand why Shreveport has so many similarly numbered highways in the same vicinity



And one of my favorite alternate routes to I-35E to use thru the DFW burbs: FM 2499




iPhone

[jflick99]

July 10, 2017: Numbers 1000+ on road signs, in as many different formats as possible, e.g. route number, distance in miles, distance in feet, house number, AM radio station, weight limit in pounds, population sign, elevation sign, etc. Try to get as many different types as possible.

Douglas County Road 1055 (E 1500 Rd.) (Lawrence, KS)

[TravelingBethelite]

July 11th, 2017: Post photos of signs that subtly hint as to their location but do not immediately give it away.

I've been saving up this challenge for quite a while! I first tried posting it in April, actually Here's my photo:



For example, in my photo, the routes are  "M" and "O", which equal MO, Missouri, and the destination is Lexington, therefore this is in or near Lexington, Missouri. I suppose the secondary letter routes kind of give it away as well. This one, its location is a little more obvious than I intend for the photos you guys will post.

[JJBers]

July 11th, 2017: Post photos of signs that subtly hint as to their location but do not immediately give it away.

CC 2.0 BlahBlahBlah (Me)
I don't get this challenge very well

[Mapmikey]

A good one for you would be to find a city in Connecticut with a connector route that was signed for example Hartford CONN

[JJBers]

A good one for you would be to find a city in Connecticut with a connector route that was signed for example Hartford CONN

We only have 2, one in Killingly, Connecticut (Next to the RI border) and one in Milford (Near the shore)
But, CT. could work...

[Mapmikey]

You were correct that you didn't get the challenge.

In my example CONN would be short for Connector but would also inadvertently say Hartford was in Connecticut because CONN can be an abbreviation for Connecticut.

CT would not work in this context unless it was being used as the abbreviation of court.