"Frostheaves"
I titled this post "frostheaves" because these giant waves in the concrete we drive over the winter need to be renamed. If you drive any kind of moderately low car you risk bottoming out even when doing 5 mph, and heaven forbid if you swerve to miss one and land in a crater looks like it belongs on the moon better than on pavement.
Why aren't some roads ever like this? Proper drainage? Proper construction? Different materials? Better paving? Better plowing?
I don't want to have to drive a truck that is jacked up just to get around town (read: the state) just to avoid scraping my gas tank all over the place. There should be something we all can do. Maybe start a frostheave/crater blog so the towns and cities and state can be on the lookout for these?
The Hazards on Living in New England.
I remember not too terribly long ago that shredded tires were being put into dirt roads to help stabilize them from frostheaves and Mud season. What's happened to that??
As a kid growing up in Northfield, we had a pot hole which appeared every year on our road. You could count on this pot hole to foretell Mud season, frostheaves, when the sap would run. No matter how much we filled this hole with crushed gravel, dirt and rocks, it still came back every year. I wonder if it's still there???
The south has it's tornados and hurricanes. California has it's earthquakes and mudslides. New England has it's unpredictable weather and roadways that don't weather well. It's part of the "charm" of living in the northeast. Don't worry, mud season is right around the corner and before you know it road construction season will be upon us.