The WVDOH Transportation Management Center got its first of many calls concerning severe potholes that had developed on Interstate 64 West between the US 35 and the St. Albans exit around 2 p.m. on Thursday, February 3, 2022. The near-constant snow, ice, rain, freezing and thawing over the past several weeks had caused pavement to fail on the stretch.

WVDOH responded by sending maintenance crews from the Scary Creek garage to the scene. Brayman Trumble,…