On our peninsulas, both Western and Eastern Proms, parking looks to be a nightmare. I took a brief spin up and down a few snow clogged avenues the other afternoon. First, like most urban landscapes, parking is always a premium, even on the sunniest of August days. So you might just imagine what narrow, in the best of days, streets resemble these days, after about 40 inches of whiteness dropping from the sky. First of all, some vehicles have not been moved since the big blizzard of last Tuesday. They sit stranded amid huge snow drifts. Other cars are assembled where they can, any which way. Most streets have on site parking, first come first serve. Driving these streets, drivers are constantly weaving, crawling and stopping to navigate from one end to the other. I noticed in the paper today they had a poll on how the city is doing dealing with snow removal and keeping them passable. 60% of those polled give the city high grades (A or B) in their attempt to return reality to the peninsulas. Another 19% grade them as a C. If you ask me, that's pretty darn good considering what the plows and crews are up against.
Where to put all the snow?
They used to dump it all in Back Cove, but that's a no-no these days.
Too many environmental regulations and all.
The snow is taken to 'snow farms' out on the city limits.
They are just huge fields where bulldozers await truck after truck, endlessly.
There are lots of farms in Maine.
In summer and winter, apparently.
Forecast?
A dusting tonight maybe 3-6 inches?
We have a number of places snow is removed to, including a quarry near a place I lived at for a few months. I remember seeing by the end of the winter the pile of snow in there coming up over the top of the quarry.
ReplyDeletei saw the 'snow farms' reported on the nbc nightly news last night. first time i had heard that term.
ReplyDeleteThat becomes the issue in a big city after a dump of snow - where to put it all. It's not like there are huge front yards and open spaces to pile it!
ReplyDeleteI don't think we have "snow farms" here. But I like the idea!
ReplyDeleteShoot! Even when we get just a foot of snow here, I have a problem finding places to put it all.
ReplyDeleteGood lord, you give new meaning to the phrase "snowed under"!
ReplyDeleteLovely photo in the midst of all this...snow farms....Too bad they can't turn it into energy or a crop or something...One year in SP I had to hire a truck to take the snow in my yard away, but I never know where they took it...
ReplyDeleteOuch, that does sound like a Paris nightmare, even without snow. I'll let you imagine what Paris is like with snow.
ReplyDeleteYou call 3 to 6 inches a dusting? I do like the photo and commend you for going out to take it.
ReplyDeleteWe are to get a "dusting" tonight. Meaning several flakes falling from the sky. For this the road department brined some roads today. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteWe could use another dusting. I like that gold color.
ReplyDeleteI have been seeing lots of New England photos of the high snowbanks. The last couple of weeks have been nasty up there.
ReplyDeleteand here i'm complaining about our lack of snow!
ReplyDeleteI imagine that after all that snow with the resulting problems you would feel. . ."enough already!! I am very thankful that altho cold MN's winter has been free of a lot of snow (so far!) as compared with last year.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a nightmare Birdman.. parking in the city is hard enough without extra grief!
ReplyDeleteI like the color of that building and I have just learned what is a snow farm...
ReplyDeleteNever heard of such a thing, Completely bizarre. Why can't you, so to speak, just cast your snow upon the waters?
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