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Snow melters melting snow like nobody's business
By adamg on Tue, 02/10/2015 - 10:23am
Several days of running rented snow melters nearly nonstop at the city snow farm in the Marine Industrial Park have helped chop down the snow mountains to size, Conventures reports.
Across the harbor, roving UHub photographer Chris Dagdigian watched a couple of the beasts at work outside Terminal C (the white streaks are reflections of lights in the terminal, not incoming laser beams):
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World record for largest snowman?
Or maybe donate it all to local ski-resorts? I just feels wrong burning through a natural resource like this.
The price of snow has
The price of snow has plummeted. Boston is severely undercutting Canadian snow prices although a little less quality. Some say it is politically motivated as retaliation for Bruins losing to Montreal.
Ship it to California.
Ship it to California.
You do know that the
You do know that the collected snow has all types of salt, sand, and dirt in it right? Can't ski on dirty, melted snow....
largest snowman is hard to beat ...
The biggest snow(woman) in the world was put together a few years ago in western maine n -- took about a month to build.
One picture is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdag/2299424308/in/set-72157603970145961
Would love to see something like that happen locally; the Maine one was mostly built by volunteers with a few sponsors kicking in money for food and diesel to run the heavy equipment.
That is awesome! Yeah, we
That is awesome! Yeah, we would have had to start at the first blizzard to even have a chance. Wish I'd known about it at the time. That would have been something to see.
Harbor is a strange color.
Anyone look at the strange color of the Boston Harbor recently?
The water is like turquoise green. looks like the water could glow in the dark.
Not at all.
Not at all.