Pothole Britain.

[bigpaul]

it wont take long for the rural roads around here to be unusable, we have seen it for ourselves, first the ditches fill up with water, that overflows into the road, the water recedes but leaves behind mud and silt, first we get grass growing in the middle of the road then weeds followed by scrub, eventually saplings start to appear. ice and snow help to break up the surface of the roads, as water freezes the ice expands and splits the road. that's without fallen trees blocking the road and huge piles of leaves in the autumn. without anyone clearing the debris and repairing the roads the effect will be that the road becomes unnavigateable.

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quite recently 2 rural roads we use A LOT literally FELL into the river, (due to heavy rain- our normal weather around here- swelling the river) these took several months to repair, the road was CLOSED for all the time the repairs took and vehicles had to take a long detour, as I type another road is out of service for exactly the same reason, post SHTF with no one to repair them these (now) 3 roads would be totally impassable and unusable.