It happened on the stretch of Highway 6 near Froberg between Manvel and Alvin.
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"No warning at all. I knew nothing about it. It was inconvenient. I'm from this area so I knew how to get around it, but for those people passing through town, I'm sure they were very frustrated," Mike Wilson said on Tuesday.
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Roads can buckle in extreme heat because the concrete expands and simply has nowhere to go.
By Wednesday morning, Highway 6 was back open.