South entrance road

[Dash Riprock.sixpack]

Sorry to take anyone away from Sweet Baby Freezus, but I drove the south entrance road this weekend and it looks to be a couple of weeks from completion. All that is lacking is applying the final wearing surface (1" or so) and a little TLC to the shoulders. It will be ready for the first game, and probably sooner. BTW, I was surprised how long it is at over 4 miles.

That is all; now back to all Freeze, all the time.

 

[o_LandDawg]

My wife is an employee on campus. At a staff meeting last week, they were told it would definitely not be ready by Sept 1 due to a shortage in asphalt.

 

[bigiron.sixpack]

Damn oil refineries are doing their job too well.** (Asphalt is essentially refinery waste; at least, that's what I heard from a MDOT director.)

 

[coach66]

Shortage, they sure aren't using any in Jackson that I can tell.

nm

 

[patdog]

Definitely not downtown. This place looks like a war zone where somehow all the bombs missed the buildings and only hit the streets.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Damn oil refineries are doing their job too well.** (Asphalt is essentially refinery waste; at least, that's what I heard from a MDOT director.)

Yes, it's the bottom of the barrel. I don't know of an asphalt shortage, but if you have sand on your property, get it tested. Prices up and only going to get higher.

 

[coach66]

What kind of sand?

nm

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Construction. Florida is eating it up. Beach sand and desert sand is poor for constuction use. If by chance it specs out for fracking sand, even better.

Whoa, be careful spelling out "fracking" with autocorrect

 

[rem101]

Do you know anything about the timeline for 12 to be finished? I was up there this weekend and saw some of the medians they are putting in filled with water.

 

[57stratdawg]

I worked with an asphalt company for a couple weeks once out of Houston. They told me they could only lay asphalt between when the temp is above 60 degrees (something like that) and there is no rain in the forecast for 3 consecutive days.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

There's currently a lot of sand in v***nas in Oxford.