SUNBURY -- With all the cold weather we've had, it seems pothole season is here a bit early this year. Because of Mother Nature, there are bumps and cracks in the roads.
Newswatch 16 spent the day in Sunbury where the frigid temperatures took a toll on some of the roads.
Street Foreman Mike Bordner says in extreme cold weather, the moisture tends to get inside the cracks and move the streets a little bit. That's when potholes start forming.
"We just dig them out and put some cold patch in. It should hold it for the winter until we get some hot mix in the spring," Bordner said.
Bordner says his crews are doing what they can until the spring when they can hot patch the potholes and crack-seal them.
The street foreman says even though there are cracks and potholes in many of the roads in Sunbury, he says the problem was much worse last year.
"That was the main thing last year, a lot of snow, but other than that it's not that bad," Bordner said.
Some of the people Newswatch 16 spoke with say they disagree and the road problem seems worse this year.
"I see roads opening up, cracks and it finally breaks up and you've got a pothole," Kermit Long said.
"You just go like this when you ride! Yeah, they're bad," Barb Leiby said.
This isn't just a problem in Northumberland County. Sunbury's street foreman says it's just what happens when the weather is this cold. Again, when spring comes along, crews can hot patch the potholes, which is a permanent fix.
