For those who need salt to help their sidewalks, DeKalb is not the place to be.

Numerous local business are out of the substance used to help keep cars and people from sliding on roads and sidewalks.

“I think we ran out today,” said Trena Walezak, assistant store manager of Road Ranger, 125 N. Annie Glidden Road.

7-11, 930 Annie Glidden Road, receives a shipment every week but has not received any this week.

“We have some left, but they are out in the warehouse,” said 7-11 store manager P.J. Majumbar.

A customer at Casey’s General Store, 1001 N. Annie Glidden Road, said the store did not have any salt but was told a truck should deliver some tomorrow.

Two of the bigger retail stores in DeKalb, Wal-Mart and Lowe’s, are also out of salt.

Heather Dockins, a manager at Lowe’s, said the store is expecting a salt shipment soon.

“Salt is on order, and we are prepared (for the ice storm),” Dockins said.

The DeKalb community is bracing for another ice storm, which is expected to produce between a third and a half inch of freezing rain beginning late Monday night, said NIU Staff Meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste.