Lede of the (still-young) morning

There’s a pillar of salt coming to Columbia, and it’s not a message from an angry deity.
How do you follow an act like that?

The city of Columbia will pay Michigan-based Dome Corp. of North America nearly $816,000 to build a salt-storage facility capable of holding 5,000 tons of the snow-eating mineral ...

Anybody needs anything, I'll just be out in the garage, pounding nails into my skull.