Almost six months after Boston’s snowy nightmare began, and with temperatures this week climbing towards 85F, filthy remnants of snow piles can still be seen in the city.
According to the Boston Globe, a pile at Tide Street – one of the places where snow from the city was dumped on to a mountainous pile almost 100ft tall – still boasts a three-storey mound of snow, dirt and rubbish. In Somerville, Massachusetts, the Globe reports, two more such mountains stand tall.
So far, crews have pulled 85 tons of debris from the pile, according to the Globe, who reported that according to the commissioner of Boston’s department of public works, the snow pile looks more like a landfill site from all the garbage it accumulated.
The winter of 2014-2015 smashed all Boston records for snowfall, with 110.6 inches falling in total across the season, and February was the snowiest month ever recorded for the city, with 64.8 inches reported.
For context, the average snowfall for an entire season in Boston is just over 43 inches.
@universalhub To add to the "Boston Snow Farms on Memorial Day Weekend" scrapbook, here's Northern Ave. pic.twitter.com/11M34UlM6d
— hillary (@_hillary) May 25, 2015
The snow brought the city to a grinding halt, burying cars and blocking streets and sidewalks. Boston residents began hurling themselves out of upstairs windows into snowdrifts just for something to do.
For now, though summer is approaching and most of the streets have thawed, the remnants of the brutal winter remain.
