General => Lounge => Topic started by: Thunder Chicken on March 12, 2008, 05:14:25 PM
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Thunder Chicken on March 12, 2008, 05:14:25 PM
So as with most areas pr0ne to frost/cold/snow, spring is the season of potholes here in Nova Scotia. Our roads have been getting worse and worse as the government ignores them. The road I live on is particularly horrible, though the stretch right in front of my house isn't too bad when compared to the rest of it. I only have one pothole in front of the house.
Today the NSDOT decided to make some "repairs" to the road. I watched with no small amount of amusp00get as they performed the classic repair right in front of my house. Picture it: Two yellow 3/4 ton Ford trucks. The lead truck has a load of asphalt and a few guys with shovels standing in the back, slowly driving along, and when they come across a pothole they toss a shovelful of asphalt at it (without even stopping the truck). The second truck travels about 200 feet behind with flashing amber lights, essentially a rolling "construction ahead" sign.
They don't pack it down, they don't smooth it out, they don't even bother stopping. Toss some asphalt at it and continue merrily along. As you can see in the photo below it's actually a patch on a patch on a patch. Their masterpiece repair (after a few cars had driven over it):
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: 1WLD BRD on March 12, 2008, 05:50:17 PM
its similar up here, but at least they stop to make sure they hit the target....
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Beau on March 12, 2008, 06:03:52 PM
awwwwwww....at least you guys have folks attempting to make a (small) ...lol Here...we get shiznitted on for pothole repairs!
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: ZondaC12 on March 12, 2008, 06:13:43 PM
I think our guys might actually stop and specifically put it ONLY where its needed but the patches are always too big. End up with a bump as you go over it anyway. I just learn to treat the roads like a slalom course lol :hick:
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: 32VFoxBird on March 12, 2008, 06:17:36 PM
at first, i though it was a pic of oil from somebody's oilpan bottoming out in the pothole. :hick:
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: daminc on March 12, 2008, 06:26:33 PM
That pic looks like WNY. They let it spill off the truck sometimes and leave it. I've seen them run into the road between cars and toss a shovel full until there's a lump in the road too. He must be the low man on the job. lol
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Haystack on March 12, 2008, 07:40:00 PM
asphalt won't ebven settle this early in the year. and i'm south of you by a ways. here they dump down road fill with alittle bit of ashpalt just to fill in the pot hole. about half way through the year they fill them right about the time it starts snowing and dig em up again.
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Carl on March 12, 2008, 07:57:45 PM
A giant hole in Guatemala swallowed more than ten houses on Friday. This huge sinkhole is said to be more than 100 meter (330 feet) deep, it's located in a poor district of Guatemala City.
Residents say the big hole suddenly appeared. The earth started shaking and loud noises were heard, several houses collapsed into the sink hole but no one got hurt. Locals say the air which arose from the hole smelled bad, just like a sewer.
Initially, a man and two teens were missing but according to BBC News they turned up later.
According to Guatemala City officials the hole was caused by leaking sewer pipes, which eroded the earth.
Guatemala City's major Alvaro Arzu says the sewers will be repaired and help will be offered to those affected.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main.
The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or others could open up.
Rescue operations were on hold until a firefighter, suspended from a cable, could take video and photos above the hole and officials could use the documentation to decide how to proceed.
The dead were identified as Irma and David Soyos, emergency spokesman Juan Carlos Bolanos said. Their bodies were found near the sinkhole, floating in a river of sewage.
Their father, Domingo, was still missing, according to disaster coordinator Hugo Hernandez.
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: 1WLD BRD on March 12, 2008, 08:33:54 PM
thats unbelieveable......^
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Cougar5.0 on March 12, 2008, 08:34:23 PM
I just saw a two-truck caravan doing this yesterday on the road I'm off of. Cold patches don't hold anyway, I hardly blame the guys for slackin' it :hick:
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Thunder Chicken on March 12, 2008, 08:45:44 PM
How in the hell can a sewer leak erode a 330-foot deep hole?!?!? 20 or 30 feet, I can see (in fact one opened up on a major highway near Dartmouth NS a few years ago), but 330 feet?????
Also, where did the sewage go afterward? One should think that the hole would have to be full of something, unless a 330+ foot cliff is nearby and the sewage leaked out...
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Cougar5.0 on March 12, 2008, 10:09:24 PM
I almost stepped off the curb in Manilla, Philippines into an open hole in the street into an open and rapidly flowing sewer. After I mentioned it to one of my Philippino co-workers, they casually mentioned how a woman fell into one of these open sewers and was dragged through the pipes and recovered elsewhere where the pipes were open. I still get sick when I think about being sucked through a rapidly flowing sewer pipe full of shiznit. YUCK!
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: ZondaC12 on March 12, 2008, 10:50:39 PM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;208884
I almost stepped off the curb in Manilla, Philippines into an open hole in the street into an open and rapidly flowing sewer. After I mentioned it to one of my Philippino co-workers, they casually mentioned how a woman fell into one of these open sewers and was dragged through the pipes and recovered elsewhere where the pipes were open. I still get sick when I think about being sucked through a rapidly flowing sewer pipe full of shiznit. YUCK!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. I.......Im at a loss for words. Dragged THROUGH a sewer pipe? :wtf: :shoothead That's like...enough to be traumatizing. Wow.
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: HAVI on March 12, 2008, 11:17:16 PM
where I live, they would have to plow the roads to see the potholes.
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Cougar5.0 on March 12, 2008, 11:45:07 PM
Quote from: ZondaC12;208889
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. I.......Im at a loss for words. Dragged THROUGH a sewer pipe? :wtf: :shoothead That's like...enough to be traumatizing. Wow.
It was almost too shocking to believe and I probably wouldn't have if 1) the hole I almost fell into was large enough to fit through 2) another person joined in agreement telling the story & 3) Philippinos rarely lie. I am getting more claustrophobic as I get older and just hearing about this story made me feel a little bit ill. Imagine being carried by the current (you should have seen the current in the water//toilet paper flow down there) through a pipe with no light. It's amazing that they were able to save her at all. :toilet: Just to lighten things up a bit - imagine if it wasn't a 4' 11" 90 lb. Philippino woman, but a 300 lb. American woman - :hick:
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Blackout on March 13, 2008, 01:16:57 PM
LOL that last pic looks like some of the streets here in Madison. NO JOKE. We have a couple of potholes/craters/ect that are a good 3 feet deep and about 5-6 feet across.
And that patchwork looks EXACTLY like it does around here....its BS
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Beau on March 13, 2008, 01:23:22 PM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;208884
I almost stepped off the curb in Manilla, Philippines into an open hole in the street into an open and rapidly flowing sewer. After I mentioned it to one of my Philippino co-workers, they casually mentioned how a woman fell into one of these open sewers and was dragged through the pipes and recovered elsewhere where the pipes were open. I still get sick when I think about being sucked through a rapidly flowing sewer pipe full of shiznit. YUCK!
That's a shiznitty deal. I'd also have to say that's no shiznit, but the apparent abundance of excrement herein gives lie to that statement. So in this I have one more thing to say; shiznit happens.
and...That's a big hole in that pic...in fact..you could say it's one hell of a shiznithole, if in fact, leaky sewer pipes DID cause it..
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: blu84302 on March 13, 2008, 10:58:29 PM
.... If I loose control of my bike, because I hit a pothole that hasn't been repaired, can the state/county be liable for my injuries and bike repairs?
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Haystack on March 13, 2008, 11:45:59 PM
i don't think so.
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: daboss351 on March 13, 2008, 11:57:04 PM
Quote from: blu84302;209044
.... If I loose control of my bike, because I hit a pothole that hasn't been repaired, can the state/county be liable for my injuries and bike repairs?
Would be hard to do i would think. My assumption is that you would have to prove neglect by the state/county to repair the pot hole, and it was in fact the pot hole that caused the accident.
Title: Pothole repair, N.S.D.O.T. style
Post by: Thunder Chicken on March 14, 2008, 08:16:31 AM
'Round here you'd have to prove that the state/county (or in my case, province) knew about the pothole and that they'd had a reasonable amount of time to repair it or post a warning sign after finding out about it.