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The 70-Foot Boston Snow Pile Has FINALLY Melted…

At its peak, March 27, 2015, the Boston Snow Farm was about 70 feet tall. April and May brought lower temps than normal and very little rain so the snow took an unusually long time to melt. Here is the result. Thanks to Bill and Amanda at Choicestream for their creative help. – Kevin McGurnThe Boston Snow Pile was still 12-feet tall last week. This week, it’s finally gone. Here are before and after photos and a timelapse video of the pile melting down.Finally – The Snow is Gone! After a historic winter of record breaking snowfall, the last known snow from the Winter of 2015 has melted as of […]
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Boston Still Has a 12-Foot Tall Pile of Snow…

Boston got a record 110-inches of snow this past winter and they’re still dealing with some of the remnants of the powerful winter that was. Boston’s Seaport district still has a 12-foot high pile of snow laying on the ground. It’s July and Boston still has snow from winter. Crazy, right? The Seaport district has 11 “snow farms” built to deal with the abundance of snow in Boston this past winter. The 12-foot snow pile in the image above was once 75-feet tall and covered 4 acres. Nowadays, the snow pile in Seaport is pretty funky. “As it’s been melting, it’s gotten pretty gross,
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Mayor Tells Bostonians to Stop Jumping from Windows

After four huge storms have slammed Boston with 8 feet of snow, the city’s residents are starting to get a little stir-crazy. A new social media challenge has spread: the #BostonBlizzardChallenge has “daredevils” leaping from windows into the enormous snow piles below. Mayor Martin Walsh made a statement earlier this week asking residents to “stop their nonsense” and act responsibly.“It’s a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself,” he said.

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Fenway Park Buried in 3 Feet of Snow

With just two months until opening day, the Red Sox better pray for warm weather. Fenway Park is buried under 3 to 4 feet of snow, following Boston’s snowiest 30-day period in history. While the Red Sox head down to Fort Myers for spring training, Boston will be digging out after another storm on Saturday and Sunday. Huge amounts of snow have made for rare avalanche conditions in snow piles on the streets of Boston. Bean Town has seen almost 72 inches in the span of 18 days, making it the ninth snowiest winter in the city’s history.
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“Avalanche Conditions” in Boston

A huge dump in Boston is creating avalanche conditions adjacent to sidewalks. From an email, “It’s actually a pretty scary situation here in Boston, there’s a pretty a serious instability in the snow pack, we’re seeing these massive avalanche crowns, and anything on even moderate slopes are sliding with minimal pressure. It’s so rare in the east that people don’t know how to handle it, notice a few pics of the large crown’s I took. We’re experiencing these massive slides into already shoveled sidewalks and roads, and people are […]
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