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Old 02-11-2016, 07:45 PM
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The weather here is breaking a little, so it's about time to go for short spin. Pot holes are terrible here so I might have to wait. How's this problem in your area??? I'll share some, if your area is not effected..
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Take a short drive to Omaha, it is worse!
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I live in Pa. Enough said
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Originally Posted by 61corv
Take a short drive to Omaha, it is worse!
I think your right. Last year at this time had to go to air port there and found out ours wasn't so bad.
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Our potholes are so big in Florida we call them sinkholes.
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4 of my neighbors are 'pot' holes..
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Well in New York City when it comes to pot holes we can compete with just about anywhere. The roads are coming apart at a pretty good rate already and with very low single digit temperatures over the weekend followed by next weeks warm up we should be fighting for the top spot in the country again.
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No potholes and no governmental ineptitude that allows them to exist exceeds that which are found throughout Massachusetts. Sorry.


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Old 02-12-2016, 12:03 AM
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Our pot holes are so bad some streets need to be marked for use by 4x4's only.
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I always said that potholes were how they enforced the speed limit in Tulsa, OK.

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Our potholes in Northwest NJ are as big as Cam Newton's ego......and that's huge.
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Originally Posted by 66jack
4 of my neighbors are 'pot' holes..
Ain' t that the truth!
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I did a 163 mile jaunt yesterday for lunch with some buddies. More of them than potholes. Dennis
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Originally Posted by dplotkin
No potholes and no governmental ineptitude that allows them to exist exceeds that which are found throughout Massachusetts. Sorry.


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But RI is trying their best to pull off an upset!!!!!
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Not to worry, $10/barrel fed tax on crude oil All used for INVESTMENTS in infrastructure and all paid for by the oil companies. :-)
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Pots holes?

No, Rare as hens teeth.

But, we have mexican drainage here on side streets, which means road dips with concrete bottoms to let the water run across the road. After half a dozen chip seals on the asphalt leading up to what used to be shallow gentle dip, you now have sudden dropoffs into the concrete runnel.

Not ideal for slammed cars. They turn into a reverse speedbump, but worse

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I found the potholes so bad during our 7 years living in Minnesota that I put off buying a Corvette until we returned to Florida. I already had the car picked out and it was in my driveway 2 weeks after I was back in Florida.

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I'm happy to report that the pot hole season here in central Arkansas is actually not too bad this year so far. A$$hole drivers is another story.
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Originally Posted by DansYellow66
I'm happy to report that the pot hole season here in central Arkansas is actually not too bad this year so far. A$$hole drivers is another story.
There everywhere. Doesn't matter when or where. Norm
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We have an Italian section of town here and the locals fill them with grapes and use them for making wine.... No one complains.


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