In town, some buildings bear the spattered pockmarks of shrapnel damage, while others have a caved-in wall or roof from a direct hit by a shell, or a rocket.
He said proper road construction -- proper materials, proper design, proper quality control when built -- are better indicators of a road's long-term ability to resist the pesky pockmarks.
Visitors can "dry snorkel" the upper bed on foot, prowling for pockmarks and odd protrusions -- a croissant shape here, a denture set there -- that betray signs of life.