We’ve asked pet professionals if rock salt is bad for dogs and what you should be doing to safeguard your pet in winter. We’ll also take a slightly deeper dive into what’s in the de-icing ...

The Salt Box. Painted safety yellow, and filed with a combo of rock salt and sand are placed around to help cars get traction on slick hilly streets. These boxes are a fixture of Winter in Baltimore.

Back in November for Winter Weather Awareness Week, we brushed over the fact that kitty litter and sandbags were on a list we gave you to have in a car emergency kit. So, let's compare the two to each ...

Rock salt is necessary as it is the most efficient and economical way to eliminate the ice. This is true of the roads as well as our driveways and sidewalks. However, when we can, we need to be ...

Another salt, calcium chloride, can avoid those damaging freeze-thaw cycles because it lowers the freezing temperature much more—to minus 25 degrees. Compared to rock salt, it has an extra chlorine ...

Rock salt is necessary as it is the most efficient and economical way to eliminate the ice. This is true of the roads as well as our driveways and sidewalks. However, when we can, we need to be ...

But there is a point where rock salt can become ineffective, causing it not to melt snow or ice as it normally would. How Stuff Works states that salt melts ice by lowering water’s freezing point.

A national shortage of rock salt – a common product used to treat roads during icy weather – is causing issues across the winter-weary U.S. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of ...

COEYMANS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Frequent snowstorms have called for more rock salt shipments to the Port of Coeymans. They had a shipment arrive Friday and expect a lot more shipments this season ...

ROCK SALT. Cleveland generates massive amounts of salt from below ground annually, but few outside academia or the salt industry may know that the area's halite deposits were discovered generations ...