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Originally Posted by red-beard
The issue is...usually the road surface is the least of the issues. The road surface is the easiest to fix. The road bed, especially the drainage is the problem.
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We made a 90 mile road trip to Enid, OK last weekend. Part of the road around Kingfisher, OK on highway 3 has been prone to flooding since it was built long long ago. They are raising the bed of the road several feet. To remove the old concrete, they have a neat toy, well it would be neat for 10 minutes then it would suck. Anyway, it was a large truck with vertical pile driver like hammers, likely 20 or more hammers, just pummeling the road. It was breaking up the concrete and a large front end loader was behind it scooping up the debris. About a mile ahead we came to the section where they were grinding up the old asphalt road surface. It was a 10 mile stretch at 25 MPH.
Kingfisher has had real issues with road flooding for along time. In a flooding event, there are few other options to get in or out of town without that highway.