The Boston City Council today agreed to take a look at stealing a page from Canadian cities and Rochester, NY, which send out municipal mini-plows after big snowstorms to clear sidewalks. Read more.
Snow
Eileen Murphy watched a crew clear the asphalt of snow along East Broadway in South Boston tonight, to drive it over to one of Boston's nine snow farms.
Ron Germán looked out his window on Upland Avenue in Dorchester this morning to see a standoff between Boston EMS and the turkey pack that rules the roost in the Melville Park area, a standoff that didn't end when the EMTs turned on their emergency lights and honked: Read more.
Around 5 p.m. Nick Aldwin reported from Queensberry Street in the Fenway:
There's just...no way to get to the even block of Queensberry. All crosswalks are blocked with a plow pile as high as the stop sign. Usually I'd shovel this out..it's way too much snow today.
Paul Nutting Jr. videoed Morrissey Boulevard flooding today near Malibu Beach: Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Traci Laichter spotted a cross-country skier navigating Bennington Street in East Boston around 4 p.m.
Not everybody enjoyed the snow in Eastie: Read more.
Sean the Roving UHub photographer ran across a snow clearer in the pink in Arlington today.
Roving UHub photographer Anna Geneva captured the Longwood Green Line stop tonight.
She probably enjoyed the view a bit more than the driver who managed to get a beefy SUV stuck on the Green Line in Cooldige Corner - not to mention the people in the trolleys on either side who got blocked by it, like Agiocochook1: Read more.
Tim Smith reports that Brian Gallagher has been busy on Fairmount Hill in Hyde Park helping neighbors dig out. "Presumably he went on to mush his dogsled after his service!" Smith adds.
Lisa Green watched a little cross-country action in Coolidge Corner today: Read more.
Paul Friedmann walked down South Street in Roslindale today and peered through the tunnel under the Needham Line train tracks towards the Arnold Arboretum.
NBC Boston showed its reporting fury at noon today, putting 15 reporters and weather people on air all at once, easily topping Channel 7's 12-box: Read more.
Normally, Michael Spicher would see plenty of vehicles - and downtown Boston - when he looks out his window over Old Colony Avenue in South Boston. At 8:45 a.m., though, he saw neither.
Up in Revere, meanwhile, RadRebe watched the angry sea: Read more.
New District 4 (Dorchester, Mattapan, bits of Roslindale and JP) Councilor Brian Worrell is offering $10 gift certificates to Fields Corner's Chill on Park to anybody in his district under 18 who sends in a photo of a hydrant they've shoveled out. Worrell credits former District 6 (JP, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) Councilor Matt O'Malley for the idea.
Molly the roving UHub photographer was at least mildly, if not sharply, surprised to see how barren the packaged-cheese case at the Chestnut Hill Wegmans was this evening. Are shoppers there bigger fans of grilled cheese than French toast, or is this just one of those general supply-chain issues that are all the rage these days and nothing at all to do with the Saturday storm?
Bacon Doughnut happened upon this newly trash-enhanced SUV that obviously parked in somebody's space. Did you guess South Boston? You win: That's Dorchester Street and West 8th. Read more.
Boston Public Works shows us one of their mini-plows clearing the Mass. Ave. bike lane across from the Christian Science Center early this morning.