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http://www.wbur.org/2015/07/14/boston-g ... -pile-gone

It’s official: The last sign of Boston’s brutal winter is finally gone.

Mayor Marty Walsh tweeted Tuesday that a giant snow pile in a Seaport District parking lot, where the city dumped some of the winter’s record-breaking snowfall after moving it off city streets, had finally melted.

From this: (mid-February)


and this (mid-March) :

to finally, this (mid-July):

I haven't been checking this year, but a few years ago there was a similar mound in Quebec City that didn't melt until August.

I have to say, at least they aren't like some eastern Canadian cities that would have just bulldozed it into the ocean.

The City and surrounding towns got permission from the state and federal environmental agencies to do exactly that (which requires permitting, or an emergency exemption), and then Boston chose not to. Which was the right choice -- Boston city beaches were just rated as cleaner than Miami and Waikiki!

That is insane for sure, we had that last time in the Blizzard of '78 and thankfully not since. We are, however, getting way more rain than we can handle here. My lawn may have gators hiding in the pools of water. The mosquitoes are loving it.