Another Ice-Out Contest!

A reader of this blog sent an interesting link to me a few days ago.  Many of you experienced first hand how difficult it was in the cities during those awful snowstorms that hit New England last winter, and here in Vermont - while we were battling snow like everyone else, and enduring weeks on end of below-zero temperatures, at least we had plenty of room to dump snow and as far as I know, we're pretty much snow free at this point.  Not so in Boston.  Take a look at this article from the New York Times.

Thanks to Dan for sending - he said it reminded him of our Ice-Out Contest!  Last spring folks around here were joking that with all the cold weather we had right through April there might still be ice in the pond on July 4th, but who would have suspected the snow and ice would actually last this long in Boston?!  It reminds me of how folks stored ice from the pond years ago - packing it in sawdust in a shelter specially built to hold it - an Ice House.  Those big blocks of ice would last all summer long.  Dan said he was glad the snow and all that debris did not get dumped into the harbor, especially since so many people had worked so hard to clean the harbor up.  I know some towns here have dumped snow into the rivers, and that can't be a good thing with all the salt and chemicals used on the roads, and probably there is some debris, as well.  We have a lot of cleaning up to do on roadsides after the snow goes - but on a much smaller scale, for sure than what Boston has to deal with.

It's great that they have some guessing games going on over the ice mass.  I just hope it's gone before snow flies again . . . !