If it’s not snowing, street crews are probably filling in potholes.

“Winter is always a bad time for potholes,” said Levi Lloyd, street manager for the city of Durango.

Frost pushes or “heaves up the asphalt,” Lloyd said. “It makes it very brittle. As people drive over it, it breaks apart.”

During winter, workers must often melt ice with blowtorches before they can clean out and patch a hole.

Lloyd said there is not a part of town that is worse than another because water from precipitation can penetrate any street surface.

“We are repairing potholes all over Durango right now,” Lloyd said.