Liepāja Municipal Workers Master Fire Magic: Pothole Patching Becomes Circus Act
While Riga repairs roads with modern equipment, Liepāja workers battle winter-created potholes with flames in hand like true medieval alchemists.
Liepāja Municipal Administration officially confirms — our road repair brigade has transformed into genuine fire cloud meditation practitioners. While road repairs in Riga happen with some kind of modern equipment and planning, in Liepāja everything is much simpler: take flame, take tamper, and work miracles.
As noted by the administration's public relations specialist Aigars Štāls, the process is as poetic as it is practical: "Workers heat asphalt potholes with gas flame, then pour cold asphalt mass into the pothole, thaw and heat it, level it out and tamp it down." Sounds like a recipe from some medieval book about turning metal into gold, except in this case we're turning potholes into... smaller potholes.
Local driver Jānis comments: "Yesterday I saw one worker trying to warm up a pothole on Klaipēdas Street with a flame. Looked like a shaman trying to exorcise evil spirits from the asphalt. Not sure if it helped, but the spectacle was impressive!" Meanwhile, Tramvaja Bridge is still waiting for "more extensive repairs" when the temperature reaches +10 degrees — apparently our fire clouds aren't ready for such big challenges yet.
But as it happens in Liepāja — we can turn even pothole patching into an art form. While elsewhere in Latvia they simply pour asphalt, we create a unique cityscape with each flame shot. And if anyone complains about the results, they can use the city app — at least in the digital world everything looks fine.
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