30-Tons of Trash Was Removed From the Snow Pile Still Sitting in Southie

[unhappycamper]

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/06/25/boston-snow-pile-melting-snow-in-tide-street-lot-south-boston/



30-Tons of Trash Was Removed From the Snow Pile Still Sitting in Southie
Nick DeLuca
06/25/15 @7:02am

June has come and almost gone, weather has crept into the 80-degree range with sometimes unforgiving humidity and Fourth of July plans are increasingly the topic of conversation for people around town. All the while, snow continues to sit stubbornly in the South Boston snow farm and could for more weeks on end.

On Wednesday afternoon Mayor Marty Walsh tweeted the latest photo of the slowly, but steadily, diminishing snow pile located at the Southie Waterfront snow farm on Tide Street.

The mayor noted in his 140-character or less message that the pile could last into July, the first day of which is exactly six days away, and perhaps most importantly that 30.16-tons of trash was removed from the pile as well.

Remember, that pile once towered at 15- to 20-feet tall.

[Demeter]

1. Isn't this unusually long, even for Massachusetts?

I don't recall snow piles lingering into July while I lived there....or NH either.

Of course, it never really snowed that much, after 1968-69....except for 1973? 1974? Oh, and 1983....I was pregnant and shoveling all winter, and 1995-96, when I finally threw in the shovel and left for home...

[unhappycamper]

2. Yes and I suspect this is part of our new 'normal' climate.

Hey, it's better than the weather in Tornado Alley.

On the other hand, my sinuses have been blocked for the last three months from pollen.

[Demeter]

3. The cottonwood gives me sneezing fits, but it's over now

Not exactly in Tornado Alley here in Michigan--it happens, rarely...I'll take it over California's serial natural disasters any day of the week!

[unhappycamper]

4. We've had at least three tornados in MA over the last few months.

That's unusual.

[Demeter]

5. The first or second year we moved to MA, there was a tornado 2 miles from our house

Came down the Merrimack River and ripped out the heart of North Chelmsford...

I'd never been that close to one in Michigan...except 3 years ago, it was 10 miles away...