Public
works directors have stored up a large supply of road salt to avoid the kind of
shortages that left roads slippery last winter.
But,
as VPR’s Ross Sneyd reports, it will cost more to keep highways ice-free this
year.
Three
state highways are still closed as much as ten days after sections of the roads
were washed out in flash floods, and though crews have dumped tons of fill and rebuilt culverts, the going has
been slow.