Will Boston's snow ever melt?

[KamaAina]

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-snow-summer-161226044.html

Boston's record-setting snowfall last winter won't soon be forgotten. In fact, some of it is still there.

In the city's Seaport district, a 12-foot-tall mound of ice and snow — covered in dirt, trash and other debris — continues to melt, the last of 11 snow piles created by the city to deal with the 110.6 inches that fell during the 2014-2015 season.

According to the New York Times, the melting mound — which at one point stood as high as 75 feet — has become something of a landmark, serving as "a frequent backdrop for photos" and "a kind of mascot for workers in this semi-industrial part of town who have lived with it for almost six months."

It even has its own Twitter account: @SouthieSnowPile.

I remember seeing a Winter Olympics-sized snow pile in New Haven that had nearly melted off on June 11, 1996, but July?

[uppityperson]

1. send it out here to the west coast where our snowpack melted by june

[PoliticAverse]

2. As long as it all melts before next season's snow starts falling you're ok. n/t

[raccoon]

3. they were talking about that last night on NPR. nt

[Enrique]

4. i remember long-melting snow piles being very fun

the melting snow would form rivers you could float things on like they were boats, whee! It seemed like a normal part of the season but I think it was a string of unusual winters when I was a kid, it was Chicago in the 1970's.

[femmocrat]

5. Maybe most of the snow has melted, and all that is left is the dirt!

That is really unsightly.

[KamaAina]

6. Well, I love that dirty water

oh baby, Boston, you're my home! (from a song played at Fenway after every all-too-rare-these-days win )

[mythology]

7. Also known as why making giant piles of snow isn't actually a method for getting rid of it

The city should really spread that out so it will go away and stop collecting trash.

[Chan790]

8. If they had been smart...

they would have dumped it into the harbor instead of making snow-piles. The higher salinity of the seawater would have melted it in a matter of minutes.

[MrsMatt]

10. They were smart

The garbage that the snow plows pick up is far more than you could imagine. The clean up cost post winter would have been horrendous

[CTyankee]

9. I remember one year in New Haven when I swore the last vestiges of snow would

never melt (it wasn't as late as June but it was May, IIRC). It's always dicey in the snow/ice months in the winter taking the recycle bin from the house to the curb...a major PITA. This year wasn't so bad, tho...and I even have ice melter left over...