Excellent idea. By late Feb. I could not find salt anyplace I usually buy it. A buddy turned me on to a little hole-in-the-wall True Value hardware store where the owner constantly worked the phones looking for new supplies. He would continue to get some but he’d blow out in an hour. So you’d almost have to be there waiting when the truck arrived. And it was at above-average prices, but I really had no alternative.
Yes, I had some of the same troubles. I was ready to buy salt pellets and crush them!