What’s the big deal?
We’ve been using the brine mixture for years in the midwest.

Our community in CT stopped using sand mixed with salt a while ago and now uses salt mixed with sugar – works great, and is much less damaging to the environment. CT has also been spraying the brine for a couple of years now, and it works a whole lot better than sand & salt. Of course, anybody who really wants to know how to deal with snow should just talk to the people who live in Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine. They think the rest of New England & NY/NJ are a bunch of crybaby wusses!

Saying that the juice costs 7 cents a gallon compared to $63 a ton is absolutely useless information. How can a reader make any meaningful comparison without knowing how much use you get out of a ton of salt versus a gallon of juice? Bad writing, bad editing, pointless quotes at the end. Makes me sad.

I live in New Orleans. What is snow?

Did anyone notice ? No where does it say they use pickle juice !
Quote ” a briny mixture of salt and water that resembles pickle juice.”
I hate misleading headlines and poorly written stories.
All to common these days…………..

I’LL ONLY CHARGE 5 CENTS A GALLON FOR MY URINE…!!

in north carolina we have been spraying this stuff for years—-

See what happens when government gets out of the way? People get innovative, creative, and figure out ways to do things better. This shouldn’t be looked at as “those poor people are using pickle juice”, but as “wow, someone out there is pretty smart.” Imagine the market for a cheap liquid based, odorless snow removal method. C’mon america. Don’t rely on the gov for everything. Do some of this stuff yourself.

I’ll take Earthquakes any day over tons of snow, slush and muck.
We’ve not had a major quake in years that has caused damage. Even when there is a big quake, if you don’t live close to the epicenter, all you get is an E ticket ride.
How many of you know what an E ticket is?

I use to work next to a pickle factory and that brine stinks. Well I guess that’s okay, it IS New Jersy!!

Ah but then you have to purchase all new equipment to spread the brine. Add that to the cost.

If you put salt down after it snows, a lot if it is diluted just melting enough snow to get to the surface.

Putting brine or wetted salt down before or early in the storm keeps the ice and snow from sticking to the pavement, allowing easier removal with a snowplow or shovel. This reduces the total amount of salt needed.

It has to be brine or wetted salt because dry salt will just scatter into the gutters if it is spread on a dry road.

I just hope it doesn’t SMELL like pickle juice.

“The brine costs just 7 cents a gallon compared to $63 a ton for salt.”

What the heck kind of comparison is that?

Using brine on snow and ice is now a “news” story????

This has been going on for a few decades in many places. It is not news. Maybe somebody should have used The Google before they decided to file this report.

Drudge is actually spinning this as a dig at a Dem State. So even he fails in this regard.

Hilarious, in other news, the Sun came up this morning.

Wow that must be annoying to live with Snow!

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Why do you people call each other names like “idiot?” Can’t you have an adult debate without name calling?

PA

Curiously…there’s a whole fracking OCEAN full of FREE “briney” stuff just a bit to the east.

You’re comment reminds of California and it’s water shortages. Curiously, there’s a whole fracking OCEAN full of FREE “”briney” stuff, just a bit to the west, that’s just waitng to be de-salinated.

We use it in Maine. It causes the snow on the road to become slush. Then the road crew waits to plow until there is 4″ of it. Makes for a slippery mess. Lots of loss of control wrecks. Plus your autos rot away at an incredible rate. NOT a good thing unless you you run an auto parts store or are an auto repair station.

Somewhere there is a line where one must decide whether to resist the forces of nature or to adapt to them. For $4 million you could buy an awful lot of snow tires.

Curiously…there’s a whole fracking OCEAN full of FREE “briney” stuff just a bit to the east.

Saturated brine is about 25% salt. the cost of this works out to about the same, probably just a little more, as road salt, per ton. They buy the salt from the same place, after all.

So this may work as a pre-treatment, but you’re not putting salt down any more economically, and you have added a whole other operation and equipment pool to the snow fighting business.

Oppressively high taxes, no right-to-carry-guns, a middle-class fleeing out of state, corrupt politics.
The People’s Republic of New Jersey is swirling down the toilet….and good riddance.

ummmm that one dude looked homeless …I DONT think thats pickle juice man!!

In the Illinois State Museum in Springfield there is a multi-million dollar natural history exhibit, a part of which describes the 30 freeze-thaw cycles north America has gone through in the last 1.8 million year Holocene Ice Age. Yes, that’s 30 times we’ve been covered with hundreds of feet of glacier from the Mason-Dixon line to the North pole then thawed out from global warming now in our 31st warming period. Points being: 1. global warming is not new. and 2. In the previous 30 global warming cycles there were no people, SUVs, jet planes, power plants or flatulant cows that caused it so for those naive enough to believe that’s what’s causing it now, P.T. Barnum would love to be alive today to sell them a bridge. In reality, the earth’s orbital and axial dynamics change the sun’s radiance on the earth as much as 15%, which accounts for the global temperature changes. And there’s absolutely nothing we mere humans can do about that. In another 40,000 years the northern hemisphere will again be under 100 meters of ice for the 31st time.

I guess you could say the county is in a real pickle? So do they use dill pickle juice or sweet pickle juice?