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Norwood Airport remains closed to airplanes today as workers clean up after the mighty Neponset flooded the field. The scene on Tuesday.
Really, actual douches. But Mike Mennonno reports the blooms make up for it (more).
So don't even think of not filling your census form out.
Hat tip to Dan Wilets for reminding me to post this photo.
Temple Street in West Roxbury was closed off today for the block's annual St. Patrick's Day street-hockey festival. Kids of all ages competed in the ten mini-rinks set up along the street, under the watchful eyes of parents and refs:
Megan Johnson photographs an appropriately attired trash guy on her street today.
Construction of the new Carpenters Center (that striking building with the giant LED screen off the Expressway), by the New England Regional Council of Carpenters:
Laura Scannell watched a raging stream at the Arnold Arboretum yesterday. Later, David Schachner took in the view from East Boston. Look at that sky.
Copyright Laura Scannell and David Schachner, respectively. Both posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Sun shines on sinkhole: Compare today's photo by the T to yesterday's.
What a difference a day makes. However, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says he cannot yet give a definite answer on when the Riverside line can be re-opened. "Flood waters continue to flow through the site, and work crews cannot even begin to start rebuilding the rail bed until the water recedes."
Jeff Tamagini managed to find quite a bit of color downtown during the storm today.
Copyright Jeff Tamagini.
Jo photographed what appears to be a bobbing raft but is actually a picnic table being submerged by a rising Charles River at Norumbega Park in Newton today.
William Ricker stopped to watch an impromptu fountain formed by an overflowing sewer on Coffey Street in Dorchester on Sunday:
Meanwhile, Penny Cherubino provides photographic proof that not even Copley Place was immune from the power of a nor'easter.
Photos opyright Jo and William Decker, respectively.
Fabulously Out There snapped the Greenway, a former rail line turned recreational path, in East Boston today.
Compare to this photo of an actual flooded stream at the Arnold Arboretum.
Paul Keleher braved the rain for the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston today.
Copyright Paul Keleher and tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
The start of the Riverway this afternoon, along the floody Muddy near Park Drive, where a BWSC crew was trying to unclog a pipe that brings the river under the road to the Fens.
Upstream, on the Brookline side of the Big Muddy:
USGS data show the Muddy's almost at flood stage (that thin red line at the very top of the chart):
Tbobtubb photographed flooding downstream along the Fens.
Matthew Cote snapped this photo of I-93 southbound by the Garden around 4:21 p.m. today - showing the bus that had just rear-ended a car, causing some serious stall-and-crawl activity.
Given all that's happpened over the past five decades between Leverett Circle and Causeway Street, it's kind of amazing that this West End holdover on 900 square feet of land at 42 Lomasney Way behind the Garden is not only still standing but still occupied. And it's mere steps away from the West End memorial wall that few people see, given how it forms part of the ramp from 93 to the circle (the engraving was so big I couldn't fit it all into a single shot - it ends "... of heaven"):
Those pesky switches. A kaput'ed switch at Andrew this morning meant massive delays along the Red Line. Chris McCarthy tweeted around 8:45:
Train hasn't moved in 20 min. To top it off a passenger in my cab just passed out. Oh, Monday.
The scene at Davis Square.
Nathanael photographs the elusive invertebrate and its "burden box" somewhere deep in the woods of this Allston park.
Some people spent today at Castle Island, or on the Common or just going for a walk. We drove to Worcester. It's just how we roll, plus, the kidlet had never been to the Big W. So we wondered why Lake Quinsigamond isn't a river, pondered the part of Rte. 9 where Boston TV stations always send rookie reporters to stand in the snow, marveled at Union Station, then parked near Worcester City Hall and walked around. Even in wintertime, there's a lot of green there, such as the display at Sonja's Wig Salon on Franklin Street and the statues that make up the Civil War monument:
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16WadeSt watched yesterday's Passion Plunge for Special Olympics at Revere Beach.
Copyright 16WadeSt. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Paul Marotta took in a dress rehearsal of the Waltham Symphony Orchestra yesterday.
Copyright Paul Marotta. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
A perpetually grumpy royal lion peers down at you from the old Cunard building on State Street. Maybe he resents the loss of empire.
Like so many other old buildings in the Financial District, the Cunard Building also sports a caduceus. I didn't notice if the snakes are equally put out.
Our eye in the sky passed along this photo of an MBTA tow truck about to pull away a dead bus on Huntington Avenue Wednesday morning.
OK, I'll bite: Why is there a bust of Napoleon on a tiny garage in the parking lot across from the BCAE on Arlington Street in Bay Village?
Scott gets down with the pavement in Davis Square.
Copyright Scott. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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