Dodging Potholes

It looked like a winter wonderland outside my window.  Light fluffy white specks flooding down from the sky.  Everything seems so beautiful but looks can be deceiving.  I walk to the parking lot that morning and I couldn't even see my car.  It was completely covered with snow.  I spend about 20 minutes between shoveling the snow off the car and moving the car out of the parking space.  There was so much snow on the ground.  So now I got out the spot and I'm driving on the road to get to my 10:00 am class at Bronx Community College.  The roads where completely covered with this soft and grayish mud.  I couldn't see the black asphalt and the roads where slippery which made driving conditions extremely dangerous.  As I'm driving on the slush, I happened to come across a large pothole on the road.  I couldn't see the pothole ahead of time because the roads where covered with all the excess snow that was left.  All of a sudden my car begins to vibrate heavily and I begin to panic.  I stop on the side of the Bronx River Parkway and got out of my car to check for damage.  I take a look around the car and my front right tire is completely drained.  I have blown out my tire. It was completely destroyed.

"Potholes are holes in the street with circular or ocular shape and a definable bottom.  The bottom may be the concrete roadway base and may be partially filled with mud, dirt, or loose gravel" (DOT).  Potholes are like acne in New York City roads.  Just like the pores on our face that absorbs dirt and expand in size, so do potholes.  Potholes are caused by cracks on the ground that eventually absorbs water and when the temperature drops it freezes which expands the crack. The opening will thaw when temperatures are not freezing, if unattended it will eventually absorb more water and freeze again.  This will expand the opening even further causing large potholes like the one I in countered. 

I eventually got my tire changed by a repair service and proceeded to drive to school.  As I am driving down the parkway I see more potholes on the road and I begin to lurch across the road like a zigzag line.

Work Cited

New York City Department of Transportation. DOT Customer Service.N.d.Web. 13 Feb. 2014