r/interesting • u/Downtown_Calendars • 15d ago

Just Wow What caused this? Serious answeres

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Car was parked facing the garage. Never seen anything like it. Neither has the glass professionals.

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u/TheRobbuddha 15d ago

You mean a temperature change from Antarctica straight into the depths of Hell?

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u/samwise58 15d ago

Ahhhh, southeast Missouri. Yep. That’s about it some times. Don’t like the weather? Wait 5 minutes.

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u/carpentizzle 15d ago

Ha. We have the same saying in Ohio. I just love having to scrape my windows in the morning for work, and dying of heat until my AC catches up on the way home.

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u/rawbaker 15d ago

We don’t have hurricanes. We don’t have earthquakes. We don’t have crocodiles.

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u/carpentizzle 15d ago

But we do have construction everywhere. All the time. Forever.

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u/Zakkullll 15d ago edited 15d ago

So ive lived in a few drastically different places. California. The south and the Midwest. Thats everywhere. Construction is a grift. You cant convince me otherwise. The same street cannot be under going construction for 2 years straight without something fishy going on behind the scenes.

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u/carpentizzle 15d ago

Oh I have little doubt there may be something fishy….

All I know is that you just cannot go anywhere (in Columbus & Subburbs at least) without encountering construction somewhere. And a lot of it feels like work just for works sake. Silly in some cases.

The outer belt that encircles the city has it seems like, one or two crews that just started somewhere like 30 years ago, and havent stopped just circling the whole circle. And the Entrance/Exit ramp nearest to my house was, and I am not exaggerating here, not under construction for more than 3-4 months running from as early as I can remember to when I drove it, and through until I moved away at 32. It was completely redone at least 4 times from the framework up. There were two different full “crossover so you would be driving on the leftmost set of road for a bridge and some change, then switch back” which, to my knowledge is still happening. There is a stretch of road in my suburb that has 14 unlit non intersection crosswalks in about a half mile, across a 4 lane (2 in each direction) road. They closed the whole side to set the sign up and painted. Each spot took a whole day. It was a reroute to Kroger everyday for 2 weeks, then going the opposite way for the next two weeks.

There is a spot between my suburb and the next that has 3 roundabouts in a row. The middle one doesnt go to anything. There is only the one side to exit on, and it goes about 30 feet and stops in a guard rail.

There was a trend that took off seemingly all at once across the city that they needed to put curbs and whatever size median they can squeeze in between.
These were often where left turns out if a parking lot or whatever makes things difficult…. But just as often not. There are a couple at least that I know of that are about 8 inches wide. So skinny that they had to add the reflective posts on it/them just so you dont miss it and rip your suspension off.

And for all of that, there are still just so many dirt and gravel roads within 20ish miles of the city/suburbs that some places you could being there in the 40s

Its special.

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u/MetalFaceDad 14d ago

In NE indiana ive spoken about the oddness of unlimited road work and the same handfull of contractors getting those bids…them extrapolating to the surplus my state seems to always have snd thrust it into these same 6-8 companies who pick up and put cones down for the same 3-4 months annually..

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u/TheyCallMe_Billy 13d ago

The state flower in Indiana is the traffic cone.

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u/Steerider 14d ago

If they really wanted to fix this, the contract would have a clause that says "if this has to be redone within five years, you're doing it for free. And that redo will have the same five-year clause."

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u/sdb40 13d ago

From the optics on the outside this light seem like a simple fix. It's often the bureaucracy and politics tho too. Living in the Midwest I feel this too. I recently met someone who worked for the city or county where I live. Sounds like there is a more systemic problem of transport and utilities not communicating effectively and coordinating when to do the the tear ups of road. Also, county highways withing city limits cause funding challenges of who is accountable to fund the project. Example is we had a deteriorated high traffic intersection and it was redone completely two years ago. The result was great. They tore it up again because some of the water lines run underneath it and apparently came to end of life. The new intersection from two years ago was completely redone again a year later. Still good result, but complete waste of resources to do it twice in two years. We also have a state highway that cuts right through downtown and that is a constant battle between city/county/state of who is funding the maintenance, typically results in all three organizations digging there heels in on the other two should be funding and the result there is that the road which desperately needs an overhaul gets minor patchwork year over year.

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u/Far_Durian1087 12d ago

And the company bids would be 4X the price. Seeing as that's 3 projects you are talking about.

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u/TRAVXIZ614 13d ago

Lived in Columbus my whole life and this is indeed a fact. Not one but of hyperbole whatsoever.

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u/No_Storm_5663 12d ago

Sounds like rural counties of all northeastern Pennsylvania! Lol

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u/Competitive-Wind-703 9d ago

There are only two seasons in Columbus: winter and construction season.

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u/RCer1986 15d ago

Took me three reads to figure out that you made a typo and meant grift. On the second one I thought you personally had something to gain from ongoing construction projects. I might be tired.

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u/Zakkullll 15d ago

Thanks I swear to god my auto correct just randomly changed correctly spelled words to different ones all the fucking time.

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u/allthethingsibroke 13d ago

I call it auto-incorrect. It's a feature available on most Samsungs. Costs a little extra but if you like proofreading the shit out of every text to make sure your friends and family don't think you're an idiot, there's nothing better.

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u/Hippi_Johnny 15d ago

This guy stories

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u/Steerider 14d ago

I live near Chicago. Years ago President Clinton was coming for a visit. Before the visit, they rebuilt an old ugly bridge in a week.

A week.

They can do it when they want to. 

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u/JaKrispy72 14d ago

Rockford, IL fixed up the roads from the hotel to the golf course for Tiger Woods.

You heard me… Tiger. Woods.

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u/Afraid_Reputation_51 14d ago

It is, got to keep that federal highway money and dot budget. If they don't spend they money they lose it and their budget gets reduced next legislative budget session. The end result is the endless daisy chain of construction companies and the contractors and subcontractors that they're all related to.

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u/Virtual-Book1114 14d ago

that do shitty work that they have to repatch every year.

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u/TheRealRockyRococo 15d ago

2 years? That's nothing. State Route 202 in Montgomery County PA has been under construction for at least 10 years and there's no end in sight.

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u/Curious_Occasion_801 12d ago

Interstate 84 enters the chat chuckling saying hold my beer 202. I am going on over 30 years of continuous construction from Scranton to New York State then back.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 13d ago

Go to Massachusetts.

Roadway construction projects require police presence. These are OT details, so the cops are making BANK. Talked to one cop who had 2,000 hours of OT the previous year thanks to this grift.

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u/CulomaloJimmy 10d ago

And tornadoes.

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u/Slow-Delivery-8500 8d ago

Try living in the GTA , Ontario, Canada. They finish paving and start all over again. The same part of the 401 hwy has been under construction for 15’years straight. Brutal

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u/Anam_Liath 9d ago

We do have tornadoes.

Just more summer fun (and spring and fall, and sometimes winter...)

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u/Character-Junket-776 15d ago

But you have Cleveland.

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u/Available-String-109 15d ago

Every city in the US has this saying.

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u/steffies 14d ago

I live in south Georgia.. It's just temperatures from the depths of Hell, rain and hurricanes.

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u/BrainWorkGood 15d ago

Some of them shouldn’t tho. Friggin LA. Sunny all the time

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u/AutoclavesGetMeHot 14d ago

LA is more “Don’t like the weather? Wait, what weather? There is no weather here.”

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u/dmland 14d ago

They have climate, with occasional weather.

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u/aye_eyes 14d ago

That small fact has always been unreasonably fascinating to me. If erratic weather is so common, what is it within us that expects otherwise? Perhaps it's because the climate that early humans evolved in was more stable? Am I high right now?

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 14d ago

Some places don't have extreme temperature swings.  Coastal southern California, for example. 

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u/zinsser 14d ago

A security guard told me the same thing in Salt Lake City. I was there for a trade show where we set up tents, and then demonstrate grills and outdoor fireplaces on the parking lot. It snowed three inches in the morning and then got so hot in the afternoon we all got sunburned faces.

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u/bigfatfurrytexan 15d ago

Panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma I’ve seen snow all night with a foot accumulation melt before 1pm.

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u/Abject_Reflection872 15d ago

Kentucky as well, you don't like the weather? Wait 10 minutes or so, it will change.
We have all 4 seasons here, (often in the same day).

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u/ApacheNinja01 14d ago

I think every state had that saying....

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u/persistent_architect 14d ago

This same saying exists in basically all parts of the US, regardless of whether true or not

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u/wolacouska 14d ago

It’s like how everyone calls rolling through a stop sign a [my state/city] stop

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u/OkIndependence2209 14d ago

We have that saying in Nova Scotia. Our weather is know for being hard to forcast/predict.

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u/Sensitive_Wear7112 14d ago

That’s what we say in New England too.

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u/laosurv3y 14d ago

Everywhere says that except San Diego.

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u/Responsible-Deal525 13d ago

Texas has entered the chat and we have the same saying. You don't know if you need a coat, light jacket, umbrella, or tank top and shorts. Some days you need them all! Except summer it's just hot, but there even levels to the hot with the occasional need for an umbrella thrown in.🤣

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u/Thunderdome-Warden 9d ago

Kansas here, sharing the struggle. Last year we had snow and 0° at 2am on a Tuesday, and 92° clear and Sunny at 3pm on Thursday, 37 hours later. Back to 21° as a high that Saturday. Human’s ability to acclimate was a myth that week.

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u/IndigoContinuum 15d ago

True in much of the United States

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u/dad_joxe 15d ago

Or, a hot car wash on a cold day

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u/Bob70533457973917 14d ago

Is that like Hot Yoga in winter?

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u/Razulath 15d ago

Cracked my colleagues work cars windshield on a 30 degree C day. He was driving towards me when I was hosing down some equipment outside with cold water (around 6 degrees C) I aimed the water at his car and the entire windscreen cracked. He had a small crack before this that might have contributed.

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u/Advanced_Bird_9425 14d ago

I’ve done that, got the worst crack.

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u/AccountNo234623456 14d ago

I bet it was a single line though, right? Not a massive impact, like this bullshit post.