Pot Holes Start To Appear in Michigan Roads

I swear when I drove down Telegraph yesterday the roads were fine, this morning I felt like I was playing a video game were I had to dodge a pot hole every couple of feet.  It is likely as a driver on Michigan roads you are going to hit a pot hole that feels like you left one of your tires behind, no matter how alert and attentive you are.

Road salt is a destructive way to melt ice, not only does it destroy the roads it also takes havoc on our cars.  Although I don’t really see as many rusted cars around as I did when I first started driving some 27 years ago, salt still eats away at your car inside and out.

This winter we have been hit pretty hard with snow and ice storms leaving some counties with a shortage of road salt.  The Gladwin County Road Commission said that a couple hundred tons were delivered on Tuesday.  Road crews in Gladwin County spread over 2,700 tons of salt on the roads by January 30 of this year, more than was used the entire season of last year.

 
The county is considering using sand on some roads to stretch out their supply of salt.  Most of the counties in the Upper Peninsula and the northern part of the Lower Peninsula had more than enough salt.  While in Lower Michigan counties like St. Clair have used 16,000 tons of salt this year, double the amount used all of last year.

So the facts are simple with Michigan winters comes snow and ice, which leads to a lot of salt used on our roads leading to pot holes.  Next we will see the road crews throwing asphalt into the pot holes, making an entirely different mess of our cars.  If the road crews could only spend a few extra minutes on each pot hole, packing the asphalt into the hole their work might actually make a difference in the pot hole riddled Michigan roads.

Tim Somers
MichiganBusinessHub.com