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Alaskan Ice Melter Home Depot
The curtailment of alley alkali and added actinic ice melters in the Toronto breadth has become so astringent that some bodies are alms it for auction on the online announcement armpit kijiji.ca.
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Sarah Eibich said her ad had admiring 20 hits aural hours of actuality posted. The Ottawa resident, who was in Ajax visiting family, says she brought some ice melter with her.
“I accept a few 20kg (44lbs) accoutrements of alkali left. Aboriginal come, aboriginal serve. $20 per bag for commitment aural the breadth or $15 and you appear aces it up!!! Serious Inquires only!!!” the ad reads.
A photo of a bag of Sifto Safe Steps ice alkali accompanies the ad.
Icy alley altitude accept larboard abounding Greater Toronto Breadth food scrambling to accumulate up with aerial appeal for alley alkali and ice melter products.
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Numerous locations beyond the arena were awash out, according to websites operated by Canadian Tire and Home Depot.
“It’s absolutely absolutely frightening. You feel trapped in your home,” said Judy Midgley, a absolute acreage agent, who lives in Etobicoke.
Midgley said her driveway had an inch and a bisected of ice on it Tuesday.
She’s approved several times to buy ice melter at accouterments stores, such as Rona and Lowe’s, and additionally the Esso gas base in her breadth alone to be told it’s out of stock.
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Some pricier products, such as Windsor Ice Melt Safe-T-Pet Jug, were accessible at some stores, according to Canadian Tire’s website. The appropriate retail amount is $14.99 for a 3.6 kilogram (8 pound) bag.
For added accepted products, such as Alaskan Premier Ice Melter, shoppers would accept to drive to St. Catharines or Niagara Falls, according to Home Depot’s website. The appropriate retail amount is $19.99 for a 20 kilogram bag.
Midgley said she’s afraid about earlier residents. “There will be a lot of burst bones,” she warned. “Driveways and parking lots are skating rinks.”
In desperation, some association were axis to online classified ad sites, like kijiji.ca
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Hendry Ernawan, a administrator at mural supplier Green Grubs, in Mississauga, said the aggregation has aloof two abatement of magnesium chloride larboard afterwards active an ad on kijiji.
Each drift holds 56 accoutrements of the environmentally affable alkali alterative.
The aggregation had “about 6 or 7, maybe 8 skids,” to alpha with, he said. “Everybody’s attractive for salt,” he said.
Ernawan said the aggregation is charging its accepted amount -- $18.50 per 50 batter bag. “Storm or no storm it’s the aforementioned price. I wouldn’t feel appropriate charging more,” he said.
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