What are they using?

I have never heard of this. I am going to check and see what they use here. Beets, are they trying to change the color of roads.

Do the beets give the surface a colour? Just curious.

I never heard of salt brine and beet juice. Does this give a weird reddish color?

They have been using a salt brine mixture on the highways here for a few years. They do that before the storm starts and then it's salt after the storm gets going.

Do you have purple roads?

I was/am listening to the news and according to NYC they are out there brining the streets now though there is supposed to be some rain first which will wash a lot of it away. If I heard correctly they will start putting down salt after 2 inches of snow have accumulated.

I read a little about this earlier this year. I am not sure if we have it though.

That's interesting. I did hear about something strange being mixed in with the salt for the roads, but can't remember what it was..

Missouri and Michigan also use a mixture (20% beet juice with 80% salt water) on the roads. I've read it drops the freezing temp from about -25F to -40F and the sugar helps bond to the roads and makes tires "sticky" so they grip the pavement better. Of course, I don't know if any of that is true but it's what the road departments are saying about the mixture. We started getting sleet here around 1 pm but it's just small amounts so far... I'd rather have snow than sleet.

lol I've never heard of the beet juice; and I worked for Morton Salt for 10 years...that was a while ago though. The beet juice could be something new.

We don't have snowstorm. But this is a bit information for me on how to prevent car from skidding in a snow-filled road.

Yes our brine also contains beet juice I think. Salt and sand are old-school methods.