Tough grip: Nova Scotians struggle to find salt or sand after icy winter storm – Halifax [Video]

Nova Scotians are struggling to get their hands on salt and other abrasives to cope with ice after this weekend’s storm turned many driveways into skating rinks.

Signs that say “no salt, no sand” can be seen at many hardware stores, and sellers on Facebook Marketplace are selling bags of salt at inflated prices.

Andrew Woodworth from Falmouth, N.S., said he drove about 100 kilometres on Sunday in hopes of finding salt to spread on his elderly father-in-law’s slippery driveway, to no avail.

“He can’t get in the driveway, can’t get up the stairs to the house. So I went on a hunt and looked everywhere,” he said in an interview Monday.

Salt was sold out near his home, and a hardware chain’s website indicated it had more than 300 bags of salt at its location in Stewiacke, N.S., but when he showed up there was no salt left. As …