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Road snakes can be another cause for concern. (Wade can probably explain them better and why they are done)



OK, here we go : improperly compacted base on a roadway leads to deflection cracks when heavy loads roll over it. Water will percolate down in the cracks and freeze, lifting up the sections and create "potholes", or simply make the base even softer.

A Moldavian illegal immigrant named Jedediah Tarsnik who worked for the Georgia DOT proposed a novel idea, coat the fractures with hot viscous bands of melted "tack, "AC" or asphalt tar, the same stuff asphalt aggregate is cohered and homogenized with.

So now, 22.47 years later we have DOT crews slowly slithering on the highways laying down bands of "tarsnakes" in a vain attempt to repair the roadways from premature failure.

So now these tarsnakes are imbedded in our lives. Slick, bumpy, nefarious, black as the insidious attempt of a reckoning against America, as Jedidiah hated this country, and motorcycles as well. His cat was killed on a road by a US Marine riding a Montessa.

It has been said that revenge is a dish best served cold, slick, prostrate, winding, waiting...................

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