ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The National Weather Service, as of 3:00 Tuesday afternoon, is predicting anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of snow in much of the St. Louis area. After it falls and the salt trucks and plows finish their work -- it's time for pothole repairs.
Related: WINTER STORM WATCH: 2 waves of ice, snow to hit St. Louis this weekCity crews are scrambling to keep up with the proliferation of potholes this winter."When we are patching, we'll cold patch," explains St. Louis Street Director Jamie Wilson. "It's a good stop gap, a band aid to put on a situation. But it's something that's inevitably going to fail. It's just a filling of something during a bad application time as far as cold weather. We're doing our best to keep up."The city patches around 7,500 potholes a year. Street crews decide what to patch based in part on how many people use the road every day, and how much complaining they hear."Whether it's on a major street, a residential street or an alley -- we have three dividers there, or classifications I should say for the complaints to come in," Wilson says. "We take a look at those and dispatch them to our guys to go take a look."
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