Blogging is often casual and light-hearted. But it can still be informative. After a serious interview on shortages of deicing salt, Albany (NY) Times-Union reporter Stephanie Earls was intrigued with the tidbits she picked up about salt and shared them with the timesunion.com "Life" community -- including our tip that homeowners could take advantage of the same anti-icing technique now considered "cutting edge" in the roadway winter maintenance profession.
Salt shortage, Winter 2008. Real? How bad? The Salt Institute "tells all" in an online Winter Maintenance podcast .
We earlier reported that lack of roadway snow and ice removal in China had gridlocked much of the country and imposed $3 billion in economic costs to the nation's economy. The Chinese government announced today that it now calculates the storm damage at $15 billion.
It's been two weeks now since officals admitted they were unprepared. More than 1.3 million soldiers have been mobilized in responding to the snow emergency.
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