As winter weather looms less than 24 hours away, local crews are gearing up by preparing brine to treat the roads.

It's a mixture of salt, water and sodium chloride, but in a liquid spray so that they can cover ... limit ice or slush on the roads. Salt or the brine solution does not necessarily melt ice ...

including fitting spray nozzles to distribute the liquid brine instead of solid rock salt on trucks. Those modifications didn’t prove to be much of a hassle for road crews in Bavaria ...

Basically, it's salt water. Brine is a mixture of water and "complex ... monitoring the weather forecast and has begun preparing equipment and personnel. Typically, crews spray the road surfaces ...