Boston's Disgusting Urban Snow Farms Have Finally Melted
Posted in: UncategorizedNew York City’s horrifically humid summer is here, making me miss writing prior posts about snow. In February we looked at implements to get snow off of roofs and a better design for a snow-clearing vehicle. And as the shirt starts sticking to my back this morning, the snow-buried Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route looks pretty inviting.
Boston got what seemed like that much snow this past winter, and they faced the real problem of where to put it all. So much of it piled up that they set aside “snow farms” where they could dump the stuff to die.
But the stuff didn’t die easy. Incredibly, it took until yesterday—yes, July 14th—for the last pile to melt, according to a Tweet from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
Here’s a time lapse of the pile melting, and it’s fairly gross; they started shooting it in late March, when the white pile had already slightly melted and turned brown, going from debris-impregnated snow to snow-impregnated debris.
For perspective on what it used to look like, here’s the pile when it was still white in February:
A similar pile at MIT was so clean-looking that students climbed it like a mountain:
MAN that looks pretty good right about now.
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