A man who was fed up with potholes on one road in Dearborn Heights decided to fix them himself, and city officials have certainly noticed.

Ali Chamy, 18, was so fed up with potholes on Cherry Hill Road in Dearborn Heights that he took matters into his own hands. He bought asphalt at Home Depot and patched two holes himself.

Fed up with potholes on Cherry Hill Road, 18-year-old Ali Chamy took matters into his own hands recently.

Detroit residents are getting a helping hand when cleaning up their yard waste.

The city of Detroit has released a list of 2,700 more streets that are getting speed humps. Experts say they will calm traffic on residential streets where some drivers are going way too fast.

Detroit contractors have plowed 1,884 miles of residential streets, and the city met its 6 p.m. Friday goal to clear the roads. Expectations of that effort from the DPW were to have passable streets, not necessarily cleared down to the pavement. In addition, because the city got less snow than was initially forecast, it decided to do a single plow pass.

The city of Detroit has extended the deadline for contracted crews to remove snow from the streets, due to the way the Wednesday-Thursday snowstorm played out.

People living on Detroit’s west side will have their trash and recycling containers collected one to two days late due to COVID-related staffing issues, according to the Department of Public Works (DPW).

“It felt like an explosion or earthquake honestly. The doors in the building were shifting. We were trying to fix them and then we noticed that it was actually a foundation issue. Cracks were appearing inside as well as outside."

Anyone who smells gas or a strong odor in the area is asked to call EGLE’s Pollution Emergency Alerting System hotline at 800-292-4706.

Many people have spent the summer cleaning up from flooding and severe storms that hit Metro Detroit.

“He told his staff that he wanted the Emergency Order done for Detroit as fast as legally possible so we can get money into the hands of our residents for reimbursements as quickly as possible,” Duggan said.

The storms from last weekend damaged roads, vehicles, homes and left debris all over Metro Detroit.

Detroit mayor Mike Duggan discussed the city’s expanded efforts to pick up debris in front of homes and remove damaged items from flooded basements Thursday.

Vehicles lined up on Detroit’s east side Thursday for much-needed items to clean their homes after the most recent flood.