Folks in a lot of rural counties are about to see a lot more "paved" roads turned back to dirt so they can be maintained with a grader. This has already been happening in several counties where the pavement is in too poor of condition to travel safely and there is no funding to make repairs. The fact is most low populated counties barely receive enough funding to keep the lights on.

At a cost of about $150,000 per mile to do a basic asphalt resurfacing job on a normal rural county road, local budgets don't make it very far. A lot of county road departments have less than a $2 million dollar annual total operating budget.