It was nice having the clouds today that are part of TS/TD — or whatever — Alex. It was still humid and sticky but at least the clouds shielded the sun. Hopefully, Alex will not develop into more than a Cat 1 hurricane and will not head toward the Upper Texas Coast while all the forecasts call for it to stay in South Texas and Mexico. We could use a little more rain although the showers and thundershowers we got today were not unwelcome.
Now for something completely different. I was driving east on I-10 just west of Vidor when I saw cars slowing down and quickly coming to a crawl. Anyone who lives around Southeast Texas probably knows I-10 has been in a state of perpetual construction for quite awhile. This is true especially in spots east of Houston, such as at the Trinity River bridge, and between Beaumont and the Texas-Louisiana border.
So I wasn’t very taken aback when I saw a sign that said: “Left Lane Closed.” I’m sure I muttered an expletive though. But what raised my conciousness to the WTF? level was then seeing a portable road sign indicating traffic should move to the left. I thought: “Huh?” Now if the left lane was to be closed shouldn’t the traffic shift right rather than left?
Imagine how metagrobilized I was when next I came across one traffic sign saying “Left Lane Closed” in the left lane and “Right Lane Closed” in the far right lane. Just how perplexed this all left me is a little reminiscent of the joke about a truckload of thesauruses crashing. “People were astonished, bewildered, bewildered, blown away, bowled over, confounded, dazed, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, floored, overwhelmed, shocked, startled, stupefied and thunderstruck.”
Yes, it even blew my mind.
It seems like a “One Lane Road” sign would have been more explanatory in this situation. But there wasn’t one and I will eventually get over it.
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