It was over a pot hole that was so deep that there wasn’t asphalt at the bottom and due to the poor drainage in that area it was growing at a surprising rate.

So when they put the traffic barrel there it didn’t take long before the pot hole was large enough that it started to eat it.

I don’t have any pictures of when the hole got large enough that the barrel could no longer rest on the brim but by that point the hole was over a foot deep.

The hole was fixed almost 2 years ago now but I do miss that traffic barrel that lived in the middle of the road.