City Says Keep Watch for New Potholes Caused By Mondays Blizzard
By: Meredith Hillgartner
Updated: February 27, 2013
"There hasn't been anything major its been pretty
normal operation as far as snow goes," Lair said.
Kevin Lair with the Lubbock Streets Department said
there has not been too many issues since Mondays blizzard- but drivers may
notice a few more potholes around town.
"We just started getting some calls in yesterday
afternoon," Lair said. "But we actually shifted to that today to be in
offensive mode. Our crews are actually driving the streets looking for those
situations."
Lair said potholes are caused when water gets into
cracks in the asphalt.
"It weakens it," Lair said. "You get the freeze thaw
cycles and that weakens it down there."
A pothole can take anywhere
from 15 minutes to a couple of hours to fix Lair said.
"Well in this type of situation when you have the
moisture sometimes you have a throw and go when you've got to make it safe and
then you will come back and try and spend a little more time. I think a lot of
times a lot of people think that we drive all 3,000 miles of our streets
everyday and we don't and we would like for them to call us when they see
situations."
Lair said the Texas Department of Transportation is in
charge of issues on major highways like the
Luckily, he said we did not have any problems there.
"I think we are fortunate that we didn't have many
days under 20 degrees we could have definitely had some more issues with our
water lines," Lair said.
