JP real estate agent Mary Wallace gave voice to one line of argument as the city starts picking up space savers on trash days this week. She made a sign reading, “(Snow Pile) Take Me, I’m a Space Saver” on snow-choked Asticou Road.
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Forecasters differ on how much snow Boston will see late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service predicts 3 to 5 inches, while WHDH estimates 4 inches and WCVB calls for 2-4 inches on the coast but just a dusting inland.
Mayor Marty Walsh says go ahead and use space savers past the “Menino rule” of 48 hours from the end of a snow emergency, according to an interview with the Herald and a slight wording change on the city’s Website.
The winter of 2015 isn’t just space saver wars, ice dams and cabin fever. Texas transplants Kristy Nardone and Chris Haynes of Eliot Place turned the eight-plus feet of snow into a deluxe “snow bar” for the neighborhood.
Undead shoveler, Bourne and Catherine, February 2015. Credit: Peg Preble
Peg Preble photographed this poor fellow at the corner of Bourne and Catherine. We ran a caption contest on the Jamaica Plain News Facebook page. We had lots of inventive ideas, but Audrey White’s caption “You can have this parking space over my dead body” was the winner.
Space saver in #jamaicaplain “Be decent… Try not being an asshole (for once)” @universalhub pic.twitter.com/HWBAmXcbY6
— Bobbie (@girlinjp) February 19, 2015
The message on this space saver, found at the corner of Myrtle and Pond, starts out politely enough. But read to the end.
The National Weather Service warns of dangerous cold in Jamaica Plain starting at 3 a.m. Friday. It issued an advisory to expect wind chills of -18 and temperatures of zero.
Take that, Montreal! @02130News @universalhub @marty_walsh @MattOMalley #BOSnow #JP pic.twitter.com/rJzFaOpoXj
— Shamus Moynihan (@ShamusJP) February 18, 2015
On Tuesday I found myself at the stop for the 39 Bus outside Canary Square kvetching with a former Montrealer who has for decades lived in JP about how much better his native city removes snow. Then JP’s Shamus Moynihan posted the above video from Hyde Square.
Barletta Heavy Construction used a Canadian made snow melter to evaporate tons of snow removed from tracks by the MBTA. The melted snow is pumped into Stony Brook which flows northeasterly in a 7 foot brick culvert under the busyard. Credit: Richard Heath
For snow-weary residents, it can be a beautiful sight: Piles and piles of the stuff being melted away. That’s what’s happening right in Forest Hills as crews work the snow melter at the Arborway Yard. Here are a few photos. Enjoy.