It worked!

It worked! It really, actually worked! Okay, it didn't entirely work. Honestly, I don't know that it really worked at all. But, it's possible that it worked, and that's exciting enough, isn't it?

My pothole patch got fixed today! Sort of. Remember a couple posts ago when I touted this new site, SeeClickFix? You go to this site, give it your zip code or other neighborhood information, and it sort of patches you into a network of local folks - including community officials - so that you can post pictures, videos, and messages about potholes, broken curbs, fallen signs, etc. with some hope that somebody might do something about it. I figured it couldn't hurt, so a few days ago, I went up to a particularly bad patch of potholes a mile or so up the road, took a picture with my iPhone, uploaded it to the site along with a description/complaint about how long the potholes have been there, put a pin on the virtual map, and crossed my fingers.

Imagine my amazement when, traveling up that same road this morning, I saw a big orange sign: "Pothole fixing, next 2 miles" ! Sure enough, there was a crew and a couple trucks, and they were working their way up the road. (There were other potholes, but I figured if I could lure them to the area with the biggest patch, they'd likely find and fix the others along the way.) Now, I'll grant you that the "fixing" consisted largely of just dumping in some gravel, but the point is that an actual crew of live humans came out within a week of my having posted the issue on SeeClickFix. Was it my posting there that did the trick? I'll probably never know, but considering how long those potholes have been there, I like to think it would be an incredible coincidence if this just happened to be hole-patching week, unbeknownst to me.

SeeClickFix. New favorite site, yessir.

http://www.seeclickfix.com/citizens