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Boston's Nasty Snow Pile Still Hasn't Melted
Guess when it will and you might win a meeting with the mayor.
We’re coming up on July and New England temperatures are in the 70s, yet Boston’s snow doesn’t seem to know that. It’s still there, sitting in a cold, corpulent mound that occasionally melts just enough to discharge garbage.
The killer endurance of the Seaport Snow Farm is a testament to the historic powder-dump that slammed Boston this year. By mid-March, Logan International Airport had received more than nine feet of snow, making this the snowiest winter on local record books. Plows and trucks moved the stuff to various sites around the metro area, building mini-mountains that almost require Sherpas to summit. Here’s the Seaport beast in February, for example: