The storms that hammered the North Shore on Thursday and over the weekend have hit municipal snow and ice budgets hard.Lynn Department of Public Works Commissioner Jay Fink said portions of the city’s $765,000 snow removal budget have been completely emptied.”Depending on what part of the budget you’re looking at, different components of it are gone,” he said, explaining there are different lines for items such as overtime, salting, and contractors.With some weather experts saying the region has already exceeded last year’s snow totals, Fink predicted the city’s snow removal budget is only going to get hit harder.”It’s going to be a difficult winter on we the residents as well as the budget,” he said. “And winter doesn’t start until Saturday.”Nahant Department of Public Works Director Robert Ward said he is keeping a close eye on the weather and he hopes the storm predicted for mid-week goes out to sea instead of slamming the North Shore.”We had $20,000 budgeted for snow and ice. I think that is more than halfway gone,” he said. “The timing of Thursday’s storm was bad and on the weekend we were battling the ice storm. Both storms were hard to stay ahead of and expensive events to fight.”Fink agreed.”What really compounded things was the forecast,” he said. “We all went to bed Saturday expecting two, three, four inches of snow that was supposed to turn to rain and all get washed away. But come Sunday morning, there were five inches of snow in some parts of the city.”Because of the confusion, Fink said the city did not fully enforce the parking ban, even though the blue warning lights were activated.”Because the forecast was so far off, it was not fair to go to a full parking ban because no one expected this,” he said. “And because it was Sunday, the communication was difficult, so we figured it wasn’t in anyone’s best interest to start towing cars.”Ward said budget matters are further complicated because of an increase in the price of salt.”Right now we have salt on hand but it probably won’t last the winter,” he said. “It’s $60 for a ton of salt and we used almost 200 tons in just two storms. It costs us $1,800 for a load of salt now.”Saugus has also blown through roughly half its budget but the estimate only takes storms on Dec. 3, 10, 13 and 14 into account, not Sunday’s nor’easter.Saugus Town Manager Andrew Bisignani said the town has spent about $86,000 on plowing and labor that includes Department of Public Works employees, as well as outside contractors. The remaining $5,000 was spent on materials and equipment.Swampscott DPW Director Gino Cresta said the town budgeted $75,000 for snow and ice removal this season and the budget is rapidly being depleted.”We’ve exhausted well more than half the budget already,” he said. “Between the two most recent storms we spent $8,000 on salt alone. It’s unusual for us to spend this much this early in the season, but we had a couple of sanding events early in December followed by two storms.”Revere Mayor Thomas Ambrosino said the city budgeted $250,000 for snow and ice removal, which has already been spent.”We’ve spent at least that,” he said. “We’re already in the red. It’s been a rough year. We’ll continue to keep the streets clear and just carry the deficit over until next year.”A representative from Lynnfield Town Hall said that although numbers haven’t been completely crunched, it looks as though the town has depleted all funds set aside for snow removal. Town officials won’t know by how much exactly until later today.