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NJ salt shortage continues
MyFoxNY.com ^ | February 18, 2014 | Adrienne Supino

Posted on 02/18/2014 5:42:13 AM PST by Biggirl

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - The salt shortage persists in New Jersey. Officials have failed to get permission for a barge with 40 tons of salt to set sail for the tristate region

Angel Morales, a resident of Jersey City says her car just won’t go anywhere.

“Look, you see I went up and I started sliding back,” she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: salt; snow; weather
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1 posted on 02/18/2014 5:42:13 AM PST by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

I use Sea Salt now as it has less sodium.


2 posted on 02/18/2014 5:44:09 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: Biggirl

Same here Pittsburgh and most of PA.
Last night we got hit with rain/snow and ice. Roads were a mess but passable.
This winter sucks.


3 posted on 02/18/2014 5:44:35 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Biggirl
40 tons of salt

40 tons? Jeez, that's enough to fill up a short handful of dumptrucks.

I'm thinking misprint, don't editors exist anymore? I'd take this number with a grain of salt.

4 posted on 02/18/2014 5:45:10 AM PST by wbill
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To: Biggirl

Maybe Holder will investigate the Salt Shortage in NJ while he is digging through all their emails.

Notice that Holder himself ignores subpenas issued to him.


5 posted on 02/18/2014 5:46:00 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: Biggirl

The most dangerous thing on the road in a winter storm - cars with Jersey plates. Worst. winter. drivers. ever.

There’s not enough salt in the world...


6 posted on 02/18/2014 5:49:27 AM PST by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: Biggirl

Know someone who contracts with the state of NJ for plowing
and salting roads

Cant find any salt - was in Philly and Deleware last week looking for some


7 posted on 02/18/2014 5:53:04 AM PST by njslim (T)
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PS

Its snowing AGAIN !!!! Expect up to 3 in , roads are mess

Was sliding entire way south on 287


8 posted on 02/18/2014 5:54:35 AM PST by njslim (T)
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To: Biggirl
“Look, you see I went up and I started sliding back,” she said.

Yes let's make fun of southerners because they can't drive on ice. OH Wait, NJ is NOT a southern state.

9 posted on 02/18/2014 5:58:32 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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NY has an essentially unlimited supply of rock salt. Most of the central tier of NY has salt beds 300+ feet think under it. All they have to do is dig a hole down to it and dig it out.


10 posted on 02/18/2014 6:01:25 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Biggirl

Tell christie to stop sprinkling it on his food.


11 posted on 02/18/2014 6:04:03 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: from occupied ga

Yup. Where I went to school in Livingston county, you could look out the windows and see the piles and piles and piles of salt at the Retsof Salt mine. My old man used to drive the trucks on and off.

IIRC that deposit is thought to be the second biggest salt deposit in the world, there is one somewhere on South America bigger.


12 posted on 02/18/2014 6:04:58 AM PST by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: njslim

Thanks for the tip about 287. Hope you got to where you needed to go safe.


13 posted on 02/18/2014 6:05:04 AM PST by Gefn (No whammies)
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To: Biggirl

Live by the Regulatory Regime, suffer the consequences.

Had “Joisey” not gone Democommie long ago, they could have gotten the salt they need.

Let ‘em slide off the road into the ditch where they can freeze for all the rest of America cares.


14 posted on 02/18/2014 6:07:14 AM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Jack of all Trades

Gee, I think Atlantans proved this year to be pretty lousy winter drivers. And pretty easily scared, too!


15 posted on 02/18/2014 6:09:12 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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287 is the worst road in NJ. The only accident I’ve had in 40 years happened there.


16 posted on 02/18/2014 6:10:34 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: GladesGuru

For a state which 1/2 of which is sand, I’m failing to understand what their slippery roads problem may be?


17 posted on 02/18/2014 6:11:52 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Biggirl

Check Christi’s garage....


18 posted on 02/18/2014 6:14:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Biggirl
Get a bag of oil dry (available at auto parts stores) or a bag of kitty litter (same clays in both, only oil dry doens't have the stuff to keep your cat happy) and sprinkle it on the ground in front of your tires. Go real easy on the pedal and keep the car in low gear ("1" on the PRND321). It won't move fast, but it should start moving. Drive gently, no sudden speeding up or slowing down or turns (sudden changes in speed or direction cause you to lose traction), and you should do okay.

Sand is better on the road for traction, Salt just eats your car, promoting corrosion. (We don't use salt on the roads in North Dakota, and our vehicles last a lot longer as a result.)

19 posted on 02/18/2014 6:15:25 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: njslim

There is a salt mine here in Western NY.

Get a dump truck and drive it a few hours up the road.

Plenty of salt to go around


20 posted on 02/18/2014 6:20:26 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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