Winter is Coming...

Here’s a problem caused by Hurricane Katrina local officials here in Western Pennsylvania hadn’t thought about.
Whenever it snows around here in addition to plowing out the roads local communities lay down “rock salt” to melt the snow on top of the pavement. Every year the communities each buy thousands of tons of salt for this purpose. In a busy winter snow wise most of that salt gets used.
Much of the salt comes from the North American Salt Company whose main salt mine is located in Louisiana. The source of the salt was not damaged by Hurricane Katrina but the fleet of barges which carry the salt up the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers was damaged when Katrina’s storm surge swept and then deposited the barges onto the river’s levees.
The company says it can’t guarantee it will fill its orders in time for the winter driving season.