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lining up the past couple of hours getting filled with salt and heading out. northern virginia is the point that 4,000 trucks that make sure that roads and subdivisions stay clear. where is all that coming from? you can see the large structure and the doorway through it. imagine the weight of 100 statues of liberty. that s about 22,000 tons. that s how much salt this shed can hold. this facility was built after those big storms we saw in february of 2010 where areas in this region saw as much as two to four feet of snow over just the course of the first ten days of february. so i believe we have a graphic. this salt truck you can see moving out. i believe we have a graphic to show some of of the statistics we have from the northern department of virginia. they say they re ready, initially 4,000 trucks they re deploying, 5,000 tons of salt on hand. none of the kinds of salt shortages like in new york city and long island.

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