Een aantal councils ( provincien/gemeenten) hebben hun zoutbudget al besteed een hebben besloten alleen nog maar te schuiven zo gaat dat in Engeland....
'Woefully inadequate'
Despite predictions the bad weather is to continue, some councils have just three days' worth of grit left after supplies were "massively" depleted by the heavy snow, the Local Government Association (LGA) admitted.
Worcestershire County Council is not gritting roads but sending out snow ploughs.
County Councils in Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Ceredigion as well as Swindon borough council have confirmed that they are running low on salt and are only salting main routes.
Hertfordshire County Council said it was seeking additional supplies from abroad, while Cumbria County Council said it could over-spend its winter maintenance budget by £1.3m.
Derek Turner, Director of Networks Operations at the Highways Agency, said it had "three, four days of salt supplies remaining".
He said the agency would liaise with the Met Office and would be deploying 500 gritting vehicles on highways and A roads into the Friday morning rush hour.
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Paul Bettison of the LGA told the BBC's Today programme that the UK should look to importing fresh supplies of salt.
"That requires government to actually work with us all, and then we can do it as one - rather than, as we've seen, having this scrapping for what limited supplies are available."
AA President Edmund King called on the government to co-ordinate the situation and ensure salt stocks were maintained so that Britain's roads did not become "death traps".
Rosie Cooper, the Labour MP for Lancashire West, said preparations had been "woefully inadequate" and accused councils of gritting fewer roads each year.
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But Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon said storing snow ploughs and extra gritting salt would be expensive, when the snowy weather is so unusual.
A spokesman for the Highways Agency has advised drivers to take extreme care and not to travel in the worst affected areas unless it is essential.
The Great Western Ambulance Service has brought in 4x4 vehicles to try to maintain their services. The East of England Ambulance Service has asked people to call 999 only in an emergency.
Meanwhile many pupils have had another day off as thousands of schools across the UK closed their doors on Thursday.
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