While driving in S. Texas I passed a road sign which read only “B9901 clock room”. Several miles later curiosity got the better of me. I turned aroud, went back to the sign and turned down the little dirt road. I came to a little unmarked gatehouse and was turned away with no explaination of what the facility was (if there was one) or what the sign meant. Back at home I called the Tx Dept./ Transportation for help. It was, after all their sign. Long story short - they denied such a sign existed.
I turned to the Net, search-engined everything. Nothing.
I humbly turn to you, T.T.M.'s. Any ideas?
Ooh ooh, where?
I’m in Houston. I wanna see the clockroom that keeps the big time table for the black helicopters to fly over Washington and declare the New World Order.
Let me find a Texas map. I’ll get right back to you.
I can’t find a map right now, but it was somewhere south of Freeport. I’ll try to narrow it down further soon.
Oh my god, dark. I’m less that 5 minutes from Freeport!
Where oh where is this mysterious sign??
And its just a WAG, but it more than likely belongs to Dow or Phillips or another of the big chemical plants here.
The sign you are talking about is located on state highway 288 between clute and freeport and the clock is owned by dow chemical company,what it is for I don’t know.
Maybe, but it was green w/ reflective white letters - stanard state issue. I was intrigued enough, after being so curtly turned away, to photograph the sign. If no one comes up with an answer in a day or so I’ll dig it out and scan it in.
The thing that really got me going was the T.D.P.T.
The first guy I spoke with sounded like he knew what I was talking about, but turned me over to his ‘supervisor’ who immediately denied any knowlege of such a sign. I ask about records for signage, he went away, came back and said no such sign existed as far as he was concerned. Matter closed.
I know someone else who has seen the sign and he, too, could not find anything out about it.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Since its a local call for me, tomorrow I’ll call Dow, they have some ‘community relations’ kind of thing and they will probably be able to help.
I asked the BunnyPapa and while he hasn’t worked for Dow, he’s worked in Dow, he thinks its a place for workers to clock in and out of work when there aren’t any manned offices in a particular area.Some of the ‘blocks’ in Dow are really out in the sticks, and they don’t have any offices in them, just the clock rooms.But that’s all hearsay for now.
We’ll see what morning brings.
funny thing, everytime i try to tell you what it means the computer chip in my head gives a electric zap and i forget what i’m doing and have an urge to find my sniper ri… what were we discussing?
I’m not for a minute doubting that the guy from the Texas Dept. of Transportation said such a sign didn’t exist, but I do doubt he said so because of any cover-up. Seems to me that if you want to hide the existence of the B9901 clock Room, placing a roadside sign isn’t the way to go about it. Anyway, the fact that it has a state made road sign doesn’t mean much of anything; I’ve seen signs for all sorts of minor attractions that have nothing whatsoever to do with the state (this is in Illinois, mind you). I would assume that out in Nowheresville, they’d have to put a sign up for near about anything, lest you miss it while zipping down the roadway.
As for the Dept. of Transport. guy? He probably just didn’t feel like looking or else just had no information about the sign.
Ok, kids.
I called Dow this morning and told them my son wanted to know what a ‘clock room’ was(they are really good about answering questions for kids).
The official word is that, yes, it’s just a place for contractors to clock in and out of work. Although this particular sign, if its where I think it is, isn’t out in the boonies. Dow Chemical just happens to be large enough to justify having a clock room anyway. It just saves the hassle of having everybody clock in at the ‘block’ where they will be working.
So now you know.
And I agree with Jophiel - the D. of T. guy might not have been able to tell you what the sign meant. Probably a case of “I don’t assign 'em, I just sell 'em…”.
O.K. I’ll let the D.O.T. guy off the hook but
aR¥da]i]Originally posted by three bunny mama *
** It just saves the hassle of having everybody clock in at the ‘block’ where they will be working.
seems to me it would be easier to clock in at the block where you would (will) be working.
But what do I know?
Glad I could help out for once, dark.
I’m thinking that perhaps Dow wants people clocked in as soon as they enter the plant. That way, if there were an emergency, they would know exactly who was in there, even if they hadn’t made it to their block yet. But that’s just another WAG.
Aliens use the clock (a perfectly accurate clock maintained by alien technologies) to aid in hyperspace navigation. The clockroom is near a supermarket or quickiemart- am I right? The aliens only come to earth for the purpose of icecream. The greys get Haggen-Das and the Amorphous Blobs get Ben & Jerry’s. Both buy pepsi- the Amorphous Blobs tend to buy diet, as they are sensitive about their “blob” status. The Dow Chemical Company is just a front- All of their “chemical wonder” products have come from alien technology which was given in exchange for the use of the strategic clock building locations.
The black helicopters are owned by competing chemical companies- they try to steal the alien chemical secrets.
This is as good as the Exit off I-15 in Southern Utah that says, in the usual reflective white lettering on Interstate Green sign, “Graze”. It looks like an exit to the town of Graze. Only there’s nothing there. If you drive off the exit, you find that it takes you right back onto I-15. There are a lot of private Ranch exits in that area, so it’s not unusual to have an exit with no town. But this one doesn’t have a ranch, either.
It turns out that “Graze” is just that – a Deer Graze. Apparently the Forest Service people feed the deer here in hard times, or something.
But they probably clock in at that exit in Texas.