Great Northeastern Snow Storm

[robkelk]

Part IV - This Time It's Personal is due to come in tonight at midnight+/- 2 hours. This one will be extra special because it will end by turning into an ice storm.
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Stop at the hardware store on the way into work, and buy a bag of rock salt before they're all gone. With freezing rain coming, you'll need it.

Rob, according to Jalopnik rock salt is apparently approaching unobtainium levels in certain parts of the North American continent - as in (like ammo) there's none on the shelf at any big box store. In fact there's a poster there that's currently attempting to daily drive a corvette in Montreal with ~300 pounds of salt on board for ballast who was advised to conceal the bags due to the increased risk of car theft/break in.

Oh, I know - Ottawa is one of those parts. (I was lucky enough to find a store that still had some on a quiet shelf near the back of the store, last night. I bought two large pails of ice melter instead of a "shaker" bottle that they had out where people could see them.)

Buy it when you can. We've grown unaccustomed to this amount of snow in a year.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012