OVIEDO, Fla. -- If you've noticed more bumps on your ride on the roads across Central Florida, blame the rain. Road crews are working diligently to repair the growing number of potholes around the area.

Public works officials expect things to get worse because there's still so much water saturating the roads.

Cathy Perez already hit the pothole at the front of her Oviedo subdivision once. She's been trying to avoid it ever since.

"Once you fall into that, your whole wheel alignment gets messed up," she said. "And if it's out there on the avenue, it could create an accident."

Seminole County public works crews were in her neighborhood to fix that pothole, and 90 others that have formed from all of the water tropical storm Fay dumped on Central Florida. That is three times the number that needed to be filled before the storm. Orange County has seen a 20 percent increase.

"They have to make it a little better, just flooding, could you imagine if it was worse, the whole street would be gone," said Perez.

Public works directors believe more potholes will open once the flood waters start to recede. That could take several weeks in some neighborhoods where the water is still several feet deep.

"We just got to deal with it," said Monica Zawacki. "It's either that or the snow and sleet and everything up north.

On average, it costs about $50 to repair each pothole. But there are concerns that entire roads might have to be repaved after final storm reviews are done.