Got My Crack Filled
!!! Got My Crack Filled this Morning !!!
!Oh baby!
I woke up this morning to the sounds of my crack getting filled!
All hot and gooey ... you could see the steam rising up from my freshly filled crack. First they blow all the dust, dirt, and pine needles out of your crack, and then pumped it full of almost boiling thick and black and sticky liquid goo! And they fill your crack more than full. Pump it in until the crack is filled and they don't stop until it oozes over the top! Actually, coming clean here, all my cracks, holes, and crevices too, got this royal treatment. All told, it takes a crew of four to completely fill my crack.
The yearly ritual of getting our cracks filled is yet another sign winter has passed and summer is just around the corner here in Tahoe. Not nearly as smooth as a newly built road, bouncing along over the tar stripes is preferable to plunging into the potholes that would eventually pockmark the roads if the cracks were left unattended.
Earlier this morning the streetsweeper scrubbed and sucked up the accumulated crud from the surface of the road. After setting up the cone-zone to direct traffic around the work area, one member of the road crew blows out the cracks with heated high pressure blasts of compressed air to remove any chunks left behind by the sweeper.
Next, another crew member pumps hot liquid tar into the cracks until it flows up above the surface of the road. The tar wand has a small flat paddle area on the tip to help flow and smooth the hot tar as it rises slightly above the crack. The tar then cools and hardens in the crack and seals to the surface of the road.
As you can see from the cone-zone laid out before them, this crack filling crew has many many more cracks to fill, and miles to go before the end of their day ...
