Bronx residents are gearing up for this weekend’s snowstorm but were surprised with what looks like a rock salt shortage.<\/p>\n
\t“There’s no salt at Home Depot,” said Sam.<\/p>\n
\t“It’s true! We just went in there and they said no salt,” said Aida.<\/p>\n
\tAlthough larger hardware stores, like Home Depot, seem to have run out of stock, don’t forget about your local businesses.<\/p>\n
\tWilliam Pedone, at Van Nest Hardware, says they’re prepared.<\/p>\n
\t“It’s on a first-come, first-serve basis so we’re doing the best we can to suit everyone’s needs but we have plenty of stock,” said Pedone.<\/p>\n
The city is also ramping up efforts ahead of this weekend to make sure roads are as safe as possible.<\/p>\n
\tThe Department of Sanitation has 700 salt spreaders ready to go.<\/p>\n
\tAll highways, major streets and bike lanes across the city will be hit with brine to alleviate the potential mess from snow and ice.<\/p>\n
\tGov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency ahead of this weekend’s storm.<\/p>\n
\tHochul says the state is prepared for the storm and is not at risk of running out of salt when treating the roads this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx residents are gearing up for this weekend’s snowstorm but were surprised with what looks like a rock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,40387,9,24,63,49602,129,131,130,29568],"class_list":["post-110531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-cold-weather","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-salt-shortage","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-winter-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}