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This pothole could cost you $500
Pioneer Press ^ | 2-26-14 | John Brewer

Posted on 02/26/2014 4:46:00 AM PST by TurboZamboni

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To: hal ogen

So, asphalt plants just stop operating in the winter just because they have bad attitudes?


21 posted on 02/26/2014 7:01:01 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Yorlik803
I may not know a lot about fixing potholes

Exactly. Why not google for a bit about the availability of hot asphalt in the winter?

22 posted on 02/26/2014 7:02:23 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: IronJack

LOL!


23 posted on 02/26/2014 7:26:33 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: TurboZamboni

I know a guy that invented a shovel that would stand on it’s own. Didn’t need the three guys standing around holding theirs while one guy did the work.

It was not a big seller in the shovel ready community.


24 posted on 02/26/2014 7:41:49 AM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: SoothingDave

If memory serves asphalt needs a certain temp to be used. they may not stop making it, but it is usually stock piled for spring through fall repaving seasons. Most patch jobs done in winter don’t last long, a big pot hole is better served with a metal plate over it.


25 posted on 02/26/2014 8:02:30 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: SoothingDave

Use propane to heat the hole and the mix.


26 posted on 02/26/2014 8:04:13 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TurboZamboni

After Katrina I saw a photo of a pothole on Calhoun street that had a stove in it. And you could not see the stove from street level. Now that’s a pothole.
I was down there in November after the storm. My son’s place had ten feet of water. The whole area was deserted. No people, no birds, no insects, nothing. No sounds etc. It was like a Twilight Zone episode. And that was three months after the storm.


27 posted on 02/26/2014 8:08:18 AM PST by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: GailA

You’re right about the temperature. But if it were that simple the DOT here wouldn’t be such a big joke:

When you see DOT trucks/employees doing road work with asphalt in this neck of the woods, it’s guaranteed not to last. Private contractors: Roads that last.

Go figure.


28 posted on 02/26/2014 8:18:32 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: hadaclueonce

If you don’t clear your sidewalk of the snow you get fined.(St.Paul/MPLS/etc)

If the city doesn’t fix the roads and you break your suspension, you complain and are told to pound sand.


29 posted on 02/26/2014 8:26:04 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: logi_cal869

Same in TN, guess it is the same all over the US. Cause the patch jobs they did after the big TN flood that hit more than Nashville, did not hold up very well. Secondary rds were never repaired unless the pot hole was in the middle of the road way.

The area just out side Memphis which is made up of many small cities and counties were hit just as hard. The Navy Base in Millington, had to evacuate housing, Entire E side was flooded out. Serve Pro was called in. City residents had 1 lone Fema bus to take applications. 3 trailer parks were wiped out like in Katrina. Plus homes and businesses.

We did not have C & W stars to hold concerts for us, we rolled up our sleeves and did it our selves.


30 posted on 02/26/2014 8:34:43 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: GailA

This isn’t a flood or natural disaster or “unexpected”- this happens every freaking year.

The only difference is every year it gets less funding to fix.


31 posted on 02/26/2014 9:16:15 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Yorlik803

Road work seems to be a continual source of make work income in union states.


32 posted on 02/26/2014 9:18:29 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: cripplecreek

Billions in Highway Taxes Diverted to General

Only one-third of fees collected by state and local government from motorists goes directly to road construction and maintenance.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/14/1494.asp

old news, but it’s probably even worse now.


33 posted on 04/02/2014 7:08:22 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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