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Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley => Road News => Topic started by: jay on March 18, 2011, 07:21:13 PM

Title: Pothole Victim
Post by: jay on March 18, 2011, 07:21:13 PM
Here is another victim of a Youngstown pothole.
I can only guess how much it is going to cost to repair this car.
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: northside lurker on March 18, 2011, 08:51:19 PM
You might have heard at the GDNA meeting, one of my neighbors said he broke an axle on S. Lakeview. (not this year, although it's pretty bad this year, too.)
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: iwasthere on March 19, 2011, 03:05:04 PM
the car was a foriegn car that had a bent tire rim. maybe if the owner bought an american made car he/she would never had a bent tire rim. ;D
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: Rick Rowlands on March 19, 2011, 05:09:13 PM
The pothole bent the rim and blew the tire.  My wife's car did that three winters ago on Henrick's Road.   But since that rim was steel when I got back home I heated up the bent portion and pounded it back into place. 
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: AllanY2525 on March 19, 2011, 08:08:18 PM
I had a similar experience, except that I was paying attention to the road,
slowed down my car, and drove over the pothole without further incident...


LOL

:)
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: Rick Rowlands on March 19, 2011, 08:40:15 PM
Yeah yeah yeah.  Try dodging potholes at night on roads with no streetlights.
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: AllanY2525 on March 21, 2011, 02:40:22 AM
I was only being silly....
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: Rick Rowlands on March 21, 2011, 07:11:48 AM
I know Allan. 

I heard that a car got one of its tires stuck in a pothole.  The hole was deep enough to take the tire down to the frame, and just narrow enough for the tire to get wedged in.   

There is a drainage problem directly in front of my house and water under the pavement froze resulting in several holes.  All of that pulverized blacktop ended up in my front yard and I spent half a day yesterday raking up six wheelbarrow loads of stone off the grass. 
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: Youngstownshrimp on March 21, 2011, 08:05:37 AM
My wife aims for potholes, I do not know why?
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: iwasthere on March 21, 2011, 06:02:21 PM
Quote from: Rick Rowlands on March 19, 2011, 08:40:15 PM
Yeah yeah yeah.  Try dodging potholes at night on roads with no streetlights.
the stimulus monies should have helped that situation.
Title: Re: Pothole Victim
Post by: Rick Rowlands on March 21, 2011, 09:54:29 PM
It didn't.  Decades of deferred maintenance cannot be fixed with a one time influx of money, especially when only a small percentage of the stimulus went to infrastructure.