Here is what you need to deal with your excess snow!
"Quick starts fires!" Oh, I'll bet it does...
The other issue with dumping the snow into "holding pens", whether it be rivers, swimming pools (ours tend to be full of their own snow), fields, whatever, is that you have to GET it there. It takes a ton of time, equipment, and manpower to actually pick the snow up and transport it somewhere else rather than just shoving it out of the way. That's actually what they spent all day doing at the high school today, since the kids weren't there - taking the huge piles out of the middle of the street so it can be used for parking again. But it took a LONG time to move four blocks' worth.
I do know that for the bridges and areas right next to the river, the city has just dumped it over the side. But otherwise, it's just way too inconvenient.
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Date: 2011-02-05 04:23 am (UTC)"Quick starts fires!" Oh, I'll bet it does...
The other issue with dumping the snow into "holding pens", whether it be rivers, swimming pools (ours tend to be full of their own snow), fields, whatever, is that you have to GET it there. It takes a ton of time, equipment, and manpower to actually pick the snow up and transport it somewhere else rather than just shoving it out of the way. That's actually what they spent all day doing at the high school today, since the kids weren't there - taking the huge piles out of the middle of the street so it can be used for parking again. But it took a LONG time to move four blocks' worth.
I do know that for the bridges and areas right next to the river, the city has just dumped it over the side. But otherwise, it's just way too inconvenient.