From “Slate” today:
“....The city has rarely been tested like this in the winter, and its $18 million snow removal budget is soon to run out. The five snowiest 7-day stretches on record in Boston have all occurred since 1996, another data point of evidence that Northeast snowstorms are getting more intense, in part due to climate change.
So far this season, Boston snowplows have collectively travelled two-thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon in a quest to rid the city of the great white menace. Much of that snow has been loaded into dump trucks and piled in a giant “snow farm”—a vacant lot across the harbor from Logan Airport in the city’s Seaport District. There, bulldozers have worked tirelessly all week compacting the snow to try to make room for more.....”
Global Norming