Pictures you didn't take

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah, Boston got another 16" on Sunday, south and out on the Cape 20", of light fluffy stuff with a 50 mph wind. It was like shoveling shit against the tide, no progress until this (Monday) morning, when the wind died down but below zero. Took two hours to get my truck thawed out.

The Environmental Protection People said don't dump snow in the bay because in could be contaminated with road dirt, which I assume includes oil from cars. They brought it half a dozen machines which each melt 35 tons of snow per hour and dump the water down the storm drains. You can guess where the storm drains go, right?

The TV coverage actually showed snow being dumped in the sea.
Perhaps the memo hadn't reached the crews at that point.
I wonder how much energy you have to use to melt the snow versus dumping it in the ocean.
A 350 page cost/benefit analysis and an environmental audit is needed.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

The TV coverage actually showed snow being dumped in the sea.
Perhaps the memo hadn't reached the crews at that point.
I wonder how much energy you have to use to melt the snow versus dumping it in the ocean.
A 350 page cost/benefit analysis and an environmental audit is needed.

Son of a bitch, I did a whole long post about the whys and wheres of ocean dumping complete with a picture a bulldozer climbing Boston's biggest snowpile (roughly 61,933,000 6-inch snowballs), and how I saw one pile at Northeastern University that was still 40 ft high at the end of June.

I must have previewed and never posted... again.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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[xoxoxoBruce]

Maybe just a rumor, but I've heard this winter has been especially wintery in the northeast.
If that's true it would explain why Nantucket has Slurpee surf, waves of slush.