{"id":71242,"date":"2025-12-26T23:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71242\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:19:04","slug":"winter-weather-hits-berks-residents-rush-to-buy-salt-and-supplies-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71242\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather hits: Berks residents rush to buy salt and supplies | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"

PERRY TWP., Pa.- Friday brought a post-holiday burst of wintry weather. Folks were out trying to make sure they have what they need when the storm rolls through.<\/p>\n

“Most everybody’s coming for rock salt, because we have plenty of it this year as opposed to last year and ice melt,” says Jason Flower with Kuzan’s Hardware near Shoemakersville.<\/p>\n

He says last year, the salt supply was a concern here and a lot of other places that ran out before winter was over. Flower says this year, the store ordered heavier than normal.<\/p>\n

“We sell mostly by the bag, but yet we do also offer pallet pricing for quantity of rock salt,” says Flower. “We’ve already gone through, I think four pallets sold individually by the bag, which there’s 49 on each, so we’ve sold quite a few already today.”<\/p>\n

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Roberto Naranjo has a small restaurant on 183. He’s not sure if he’ll be able to open Saturday morning, but he’s buying supplies, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

“I’ll take all the stuff just in case I open,” he says.<\/p>\n

PennDOT crews spent the early part of Friday before the storm pre-treating roads, focusing on interstates and major roads for travelers. It says its crews and contractors will be out overnight clearing and treating roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERRY TWP., Pa.- Friday brought a post-holiday burst of wintry weather. Folks were out trying to make sure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[37429,37428,3431,7457,128,130,129,37431,18287,37427,37430,25973,15765],"class_list":{"0":"post-71242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-hardware-store","9":"tag-ice-melt","10":"tag-penndot","11":"tag-perry-township","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-restaurant-supplies","16":"tag-road-treatment","17":"tag-rock-salt","18":"tag-shoemakersville","19":"tag-snowstorm","20":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}