Road closed for Winter

[GordonThree]

If a road has a barricade on it, saying "Road Closed for Winter", and the date is April 3rd, which is officially part of the Spring season in the Northern Hemisphere... shouldn't whoever placed that barricade either open the road, or update the sign??

[Harvard]

Reminds me of the couple from BC in N. Nevada blindly following their GPS instructions. They ended up stuck on a logging road. Eventually she was found alive but he left the vehicle for help and died in the process.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/seven-weeks-in-wilderness-rita-chretien-recalls...

[s1214]

As DrewE said. Up here the definition of Winter is 'fluid'. Roads close when they become impassible and don't open until the snow disappears in the spring (or summer depending on year).

[dons2346]

GordonThree wrote:
If a road has a barricade on it, saying "Road Closed for Winter", and the date is April 3rd, which is officially part of the Spring season in the Northern Hemisphere... shouldn't whoever placed that barricade either open the road, or update the sign??

I would think that whoever placed the sign knows more about the road conditions than those reading the sign

[DrewE]

I would guess that it's still winter along the road, regardless of what the calendar says, at least for some reasonable definitions of winter (such as being socked in by snow drifts).

Along the same lines, is it wrong for a business to be closed from July 1st through July 9th for Independence Day?

[Tom_Barb]

I think that gibberish on the sign translates to "road still closed"

[Tiger02]

I think that depends on the level of snowfall more than dates. I know there are roads here in WA State that don't normally open until late May or early June. Frustrating if you're trying to plan a trip through those areas.