Who needs a sign to figure out all except the speed limit. If you can't figure that out by looking then you certainly shouldn't be driving.
"No kidding" signs
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"slippery when wet"
No crap!
No crap!
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Ruger Guru
I agree that many signs can appear to be stupid & the conditions obvious. Quite often too!
However,, the "Loose Gravel" and especially the "Broken Pavement" signs we have in several places all around our roads here currently due to damage from Helene are appreciated.
There is so much road damage & construction repair going on, that we can be on a road,, it be normal & paved,, then a few days or weeks later,, it receives work, and the pavement is gone & we have gravel or broken pavement, where it wasn't that way.
Yet,, one place,, where that has happened,, (road repair & it's now gravel,) is not marked,, and you go around a curve,, and suddenly you are sliding in the gravel. They haven't put in any signs on that spot. It almost wrecked Miss Penny a few weeks ago.
However,, the "Loose Gravel" and especially the "Broken Pavement" signs we have in several places all around our roads here currently due to damage from Helene are appreciated.
There is so much road damage & construction repair going on, that we can be on a road,, it be normal & paved,, then a few days or weeks later,, it receives work, and the pavement is gone & we have gravel or broken pavement, where it wasn't that way.
Yet,, one place,, where that has happened,, (road repair & it's now gravel,) is not marked,, and you go around a curve,, and suddenly you are sliding in the gravel. They haven't put in any signs on that spot. It almost wrecked Miss Penny a few weeks ago.
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Safety first.
Also Slippery When Wet!!!
The only signs on county roads here are the ones indicating the road may flood--usually placed about 50' from where the flooding is most likely to occur and WELL BEYOND ANY PLACE TO TURN AROUND. 
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My high school had a sign on the road in front of the school that said SLOW SCHOOL. Some of us were. Slow.
Lots of overkill, but when riding a motorcycle I do appreciate a heads up on loose gravel…
Most of us are aware of the old fable "The boy who cried wolf". After so many idiotic warnings we become conditioned to ignore warnings. We quit reading signs.
Have you ever heard the term "overstimulation"? When you kill a bull Elk and try to load the quarters on a horse, he might get spooked at the smell of blood and refuse to cooperate. So you put your hand in bloody gore and paint his nostrils with it. That way he smells the blood whether it's loaded on his back or not and he cooperates.
If we are overstimulated by warning signs and we ignore them, we are always in violation in the eyes of the law. We drive down a country road and the speed limit is 45, then 50, then 35, then 40, then 35 and then 55, we eventually choose our own speed and drive with the flow or at what speed we feel comfortable with.
Have you ever heard the term "overstimulation"? When you kill a bull Elk and try to load the quarters on a horse, he might get spooked at the smell of blood and refuse to cooperate. So you put your hand in bloody gore and paint his nostrils with it. That way he smells the blood whether it's loaded on his back or not and he cooperates.
If we are overstimulated by warning signs and we ignore them, we are always in violation in the eyes of the law. We drive down a country road and the speed limit is 45, then 50, then 35, then 40, then 35 and then 55, we eventually choose our own speed and drive with the flow or at what speed we feel comfortable with.
Diesel smoke, dangerous curves.
I have seen a few "Warning! Fast childeren playing!" signs.
Some people need all the help they can get. Rubber duck, about the microbus movin up next to the suicide jockey.
What I don’t understand is the road construction signs that stay up months after all work is completed and heavy machinery removed.
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So the cops can still give you tickets in the construction zone.
Around here , tickets double in construction zones.
Same here
"What I don't understand is the road construction signs that stay up months after all work is completed and heavy machinery removed."
Around here, quite often the signs put up during bigger construction jobs are owned/provided/erected by the construction contractor. Many times, these are left in place until the contractor needs them somewhere else. My take: leaving the signs in place gives the contractor some 'wiggle room' in case their work doesn't pass inspection or something goes awry (as in one case where a washtub sized chunk of pavement popped out like a bad zit).
Around here, quite often the signs put up during bigger construction jobs are owned/provided/erected by the construction contractor. Many times, these are left in place until the contractor needs them somewhere else. My take: leaving the signs in place gives the contractor some 'wiggle room' in case their work doesn't pass inspection or something goes awry (as in one case where a washtub sized chunk of pavement popped out like a bad zit).
In that case they're supposed to be lying face down on the shoulder of the road or any digital signage should be turned off.
I'm always confused when I'm in a work zone and there's nobody working, but I still feel like I have to watch my speed, and I have people blowing by me and others up my butt.
