7mo ago

Good luck getting that off of your car...

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If that person didn't either drive over or move cones and signs, it's the construction crew's fault, not theirs.
- She tries to turn around as soon as she sees the workers. That should say enough.
- At the end of the video, you can see the tracks come from around the bend. Can't see the end of the street so we don't know if there's cones or signs at the intersection
- I assume they lived on the street and the residents were ill informed
- They allied this stuff to my street. They just applied it and said it only needs 15 minutes to dry and I was clear to go. I said well I won't risk it I'll go to the store for a few min. I came back an additional 15 min later and left similar tracks to my house.
  Either the worker was an idiot or they prepared the material wrong. Either way at least I went slow enough to not get splatter.
Maybe I'm just a dumb Australian but what are they doing exactly? Painting a street? Why? Is it purely decorative or is there some functional purpose eg "seals the surface so ice during winter doesn't crack it"
- Applying sealer to asphalt every few years extends how long the asphalt lasts before it has to be replaced.
  
  Thanks. I can see how our Australian tradition of letting roads just go to shit confused me.
  I guess we don't really have freeze and thaw cycles. Only hot and even hotter cycles.
- I just think it's a thin layer of tarmac? Maybe to smooth out the road more and reduce noise.
Spent a summer doing that work. Shit is nasty. I had a 5g bottle of acetone and had to scrub for 30 minutes every evening.
What is Gandalf doing there?

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