(Tulsa, OK) - Tulsa's salt supply should be adequate for the third winter storm of this winter season, but Public Works officials say it all depends on how long the roads stay frozen after the event.

"Currently we have 4,000 tons," Public Works Supervisor Darren Steffanek said.  "So y'know, everything depends on how these things unfold as to how much you're going to use."

Tulsa started the season with 11,000 tons of salt.  The city used roughly 6,000 tons to treat the streets during and after the Christmas Eve blizzard, and about 2,500 tons during and after the January 28th storm.  The city purchased another 3,000 tons from a company in Kansas, of which about 1,500 has been shipped.

The longer the roads stay frozen, the more times that salt has to be re-applied.  The continual applications, Steffanek says, are what depletes the supply most severely.