Mr. Knecht breaks up the story of Lucky Linda's construction by salting in some rather fun history of yachting though the ages, beginning with Pharaoh Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt 200 years before Christ and built a 400-foot vessel powered by several hundred oarsmen.

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Massachusetts Emergency Management officials said Thursday that they were busy salting roadways in preparation for the incoming storm.

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Salting operations were undertaken in Northern Ireland on Saturday night and more had been carried out on Sunday morning.

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It's no surprise that the mullahs and their toadies have been salting away tens of billions of dollars in foreign bank accounts.

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Norway is salting away a big chunk of its oil income in a State Petroleum Fund to help pay the pensions of its ageing population when oil and gas production tails off.

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In the 19th century, they set up salting works for pilchards and anchovies on the northwest coast of Spain.

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Cardiff council said it was only salting a dozen "priority routes" from Thursday evening in a bid to conserve rock salt supplies.

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"We're talking about 4, 000 years of salting having benefit, and the rest of the science, in a sense, has caught up in the last 10 years, " he said.

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Mr. Bloomberg said the city's Department of Sanitation, buoyed by private contractors, about 2, 200 trucks in all, were out all night plowing and salting the roads and would continue to do so all day Saturday.

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