Welcome to the north country.
"..I hit one last week that was so deep, when I yelled down it the echo came back in a foreign language"
Not just in the north. Houston now has a pothole watch going on. Street department has fixed 2000 potholes in the last three weeks or so. Probably three times that remaining. Guy who runs that department had no idea there were so many or why they weren’t being repaired. Just amazing.
Everytime I have to drive up there I have to get my car aligned and tires balanced when I return. Watching them work is rather like watching the Keystone Cops. Don’t expect their repairs to last long.