POTHOLES

The weather is too random to fix potholes now. In fact it fluctuates between 6 to -6 IN THE SAME 24 HOUR PERIOD. That causes whatever filling they use to crack and lift because it expanded and contracted too quickly. We have to wait until the weather is consistantly warm before the filling would possibly take. Right now, with slight sun and constant temperature drops that is not feisible. You just have to tough it out until the weather is actually better.

The thing about filling in an a pothole is that you not only have to deal with the hole, but you have to deal with the integrity of the road as well. Think of it like filling in a tooth, if the root of the tooth is still spongy/soggy then no matter what filling you put in, it will fall out. Same with the road that is flash frozen and heated in such a short amount of time. For the hole to exist there has to be water that allowed to go solid and liquid so many times that it caused the load from cars or a snow plow to cause it to rise and then crumble. The only way they can do anything is to remove a large section of the road and repave and THAT isn’t wise as it would cause MORE problems than the hole you were looking to repair in the first place.