ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Throughout the streets of Rochester, the signs of winter are everywhere, even after the snow and ice has cleared. On Tuesday, the unusually high temperatures for February afforded the city of Rochester's maintenance crews the chance to fill in some of those potholes with an asphalt crack sealant.

"It's the freeze thaw; water will take it's path of least resistance. So while the frost is in the ground, it picks up anywhere there is weakness," said Karen St. Aubin, from Rochester’s Department of Environmental Services. "Potholes over the last week or so have really been coming up, we have crews out every day that the weather permits us to patch them.”

However, it's hard for crews, who are proactively looking for the potholes, to get everything. They often will start on major roadways, eventually making their way to residential streets to address the problem areas pointed out by residents.

"Every year it's the same,” said Donald Bush, a Rochester resident. “You know you get used to it, but it's never great. At the end of the season it is always like that with the plows digging them up, catching that one little piece. Once I actually dropped the entire bottom of my car out, but that was a very big pothole."

If there's a particular pothole or problem road condition in the city of Rochester, the Department of Environmental Services encourages residents to call 311.