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How do US cities get rid of snow?
BBC News ^ | 9 February 2015

Posted on 02/09/2015 6:27:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

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Funny reading this from the British point of view.
1 posted on 02/09/2015 6:27:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Dump in Ocean.


2 posted on 02/09/2015 6:29:32 PM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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3 posted on 02/09/2015 6:30:03 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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Global Warming?


4 posted on 02/09/2015 6:30:40 PM PST by moovova
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Don’t most American cities just wait a day or two?


5 posted on 02/09/2015 6:30:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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> Baltimore ploughed snow right into the city’s Inner Harbor. While this may seem like a no-brainer for cities near water, the practice is frowned upon for environmental reasons.

If it were rain, it would get there anyway, so why not just dump it.


6 posted on 02/09/2015 6:31:03 PM PST by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit for a gun?)
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http://neighborshame.com/fargo-man-arrested-clearing-snow-flamethrower/

Guy in Fargo was arrested for using a flamethrower


7 posted on 02/09/2015 6:31:34 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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After two back-to-back massive storms in 2010, Baltimore ploughed snow right into the city's Inner Harbor. While this may seem like a no-brainer for cities near water, the practice is frowned upon for environmental reasons.

What's wrong with combining one form of water with another?

8 posted on 02/09/2015 6:31:57 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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I think the EPA has prohibited that.


9 posted on 02/09/2015 6:32:18 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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Reduce, reuse, recycle of course.


10 posted on 02/09/2015 6:33:16 PM PST by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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An interesting dilemna. Having too much frozen water laying around.


11 posted on 02/09/2015 6:34:38 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Don’t most Americans, after it has snowed an inch or two, just huddle in their abodes with their guns at their sides and wait for the starving hordes to bash down the door, only to realize the snow has already melted?


12 posted on 02/09/2015 6:35:04 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Invite some politicians to speak; all that hot air will melt snow in no time.


13 posted on 02/09/2015 6:35:12 PM PST by Rusty0604
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Any objections are probably about the debris, oils and litter in plowed snow. In other words, ado about not much.

NYC and Hoboken throw all the snow in the Hudson.

14 posted on 02/09/2015 6:35:51 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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The Erf is Doooomed...

Quit being deniers....

15 posted on 02/09/2015 6:36:28 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%---unless you're donating blood.)
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You are permitted to pile it up at the water front or river banks, but not dump it in the water. The idea is the natural sublimation and melting will gradual.

At least that is how big government says it is.

16 posted on 02/09/2015 6:37:16 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Dump in Ocean.

Nope,no here at least.You see...about 20 years ago a terrorist in black robes (meaning a Federal judge) ruled that the water of Boston harbor had to be clean enough to drink.That ruling ordered that the area spend billions and billions on treatment plants,etc.So now it's now not unusual for a household's water bills to be higher than their property tax bills.

And,of course,it also meant no dumping snow in the harbor because God knows that a dog might have peed on it.

17 posted on 02/09/2015 6:37:38 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's First "Third World" President)
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Around here, we wait for warm temps, and it magically melts....


18 posted on 02/09/2015 6:37:58 PM PST by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: wastedyears

The halite/ chemical salt mix they are using is Nasty! Cannot even walk my dog on the street! Wonder if the freakin’ EPA approves this sh*t?
Don’t really want it on my beach! Nor do i wish to swim in it.


19 posted on 02/09/2015 6:41:14 PM PST by acapesket
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If it were rain, it would get there anyway, so why not just dump it.

Because it would be racist. Putting snow in the ocean makes it less saline, causing people to be less buoyant. This will affect blacks more, causing more blacks to drown.

20 posted on 02/09/2015 6:41:19 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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