Dan Meade chronicles his expedition to the top of the snowy mounts on the MIT campus. He does not say if he brought oxygen with him or risked the thinner air.
Photo copyright Dan Meade. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
Yesterday, some guy posted a note on a parking space he shoveled out on Tremont Street in Inman Square saying anybody was free to use it as long as they didn't attempt to claim it with a space saver - and that he would remove and throw out any space savers. He wrote it on orange paper, of course, to make it stand out.
Andy Woodruff reports somebody on Kinnaird Street in Cambridge has ruined at least one entry in our game of Car or Snow Mound?
1616 Mass. Ave. Photo by Arlington Public News.
Cambridge firefighters are at 1616 Mass. Ave. for what is now a three-alarm fire.
The Friendly Toast apologizes for a drink called Strange Fruit after Cambridge Day detailed Billie Holiday's use of the name for a song about lynchings in the South.
Laurin Stoler spotted this guy on a unicycle twice in Cambridge today, the second time on Broadway in mid-Cambridge.
Sure, people's muscles ache from shoveling snow, T trains drop like flies, there's no place to park, it's freezing out there and more snow is on the way, but we still have views like the one JB Parrett captured this morning from the Cambridge side of the Charles River.
Emily O'Donnell passed a car that had flipped over on Alewife Brook Parkway approaching the T station around 9:30 this morning. So take it easy out there.
Somebody in Cambridgeport is listing an igloo on Airbnb - and at just $10 a night, it's a steal:
This is an igloo.
Yes. It is very cool. Juno made it.
Comfortably fits 1, or 2 if curled up. You can use the house bathroom and kitchen if you need. Tarp and yoga mattress provided. You'll need to bring your sleeping bag.
H/t Andrew Bauer.
Sacha Pfeiffer spotted this snow turtle today in North Cambridge.
Earlier:
Snow frog in Downtown Crossing.
Gridlock at Boylston/Charles/Tremont. Photo by Guglielmo.
Traffic reporter Scott Eck is calling this a chaotic afternoon, with drivers on many local roads just not moving.
One of the worst is Memorial Drive, which is at a complete standstill. Where, specifically? Pretty much from one end to the other.
Nick Smith spotted this truck in Cambridge today. Closer inspection showed it's from the National Science Foundation's Center for Severe Weather Research.
More specifically, it's one of the center's Doppler on Wheels trucks:
Some Bostonians are fighting to keep the 2024 Summer Olympics out of their city due.
Photos from CPD.
Cambridge Police report arresting the man they say held up two convenience stores at gunpoint earlier this week.
Richard Perry, 41, of Somerville, was nabbed in Jamaica Plan by Cambridge officers with the help of Boston Police and the US Marshal's service.
Police say Perry stuck up a Cambridge Street store on Jan. 20, making off with $700 he ordered a clerk to put in a plastic bag, and then robbed $100 from a Walden Street store the next day.
Innocent, etc.
Oh, look, another GPS user drove into the Harvard Square bus tunnel tonight.
Earlier:
Excuse me, is this Hahvahd Yahd? We want to pahk our cah.
Bill Palin shows us the scene at Central Square around 9:30 a.m., as passengers wonder if they'll ever get to their destinations due to a train that went to its final destination at Harvard Square.
Coupled with a dead trolley on the Green Line, the Orange Line problems and inexplicably overpacked Blue Line trains, it was a rare superfecta on the T this morning.
Cambridge Police report they are looking for a man with a goatee and a black handgun who held up a convenience store on Cambridge Street near Hampshire around 1:35 p.m. on Tuesday.
If he looks familiar, you can drop a quarter to Det. Dennis Marshall at 617-349-9391.
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