Last year brought the storm warnings: some layoffs, the inconveniences of libraries closing early and roads without fresh asphalt.

And in the fresh asphalt, laid, surely, that morning (but then why no warning signs on the bridge?

Since the area was scheduled for repaving anyway, the department last month poured fresh asphalt to improve the drainage, to no avail.

The stench of fresh asphalt in her nostrils, Sonya briefly inspected the small parking lot.

Everyone crowded onto the fresh black asphalt and stood looking up at the gods.

Officials have spent nearly $400 million on the bridge, including new steel beams and fresh asphalt.

An under-construction faux Tudor mansion rising behind a ribbon of fresh asphalt.

Smoke the color of fresh asphalt poured through its cooling louvers, brightened by an occasional orange flame.

"I'm one of those guys, I see fresh asphalt and I'm in heaven," he said.

His hands and arms are gnarled works of body art, stained a rich black like fresh asphalt and ribboned with scars.