Recipe for disaster?

[yellowperil]

IMO sure looks like it. My camera makes pictures look less high, but that hill of snow is probably 3 stories high, and that machine is right on the edge, but he must know what he's doing. Right?

[dad911]

I can't see the work area, but I'd assume he is spreading snow that's been dumped/trucked in, and working on a compacted ramp. Probably not a big deal, for an experienced operator.

What scares me is when I see an operator loading from the side of a pile, leaving vertical faces (which can cave easily) or working in a trench without shoring the walls.

[GH85Carrera]

I am sooooo happy that that picture is not anywhere near where I live. I can't imagine that much white crap.

OK, off topic of you post but related:

I do have one real question. In Boston I heard they are not allowed to dump that snow in the ocean because of possible contamination. I get that. Sometime this summer all of that will have melted and all of it will flow into the ocean. Some will have to go through a lot of rivers first but that means the same contamination is just spread out to the rivers and then the ocean.

I have no idea on how the runoff in Boston is handled but I feel sure 100% of the runoff goes into the ocean. Why not just dump the snow in the ocean?

[gshase]

I bet he will still be there in May

[vash]

at first blush, i thought he was going to hit the power line. haha.

he's good. it's crazy how good those excavator guys are. when they are loading trucks, they like to perch ontop of the load they are moving. allows them to peek down at the trucks, and they keep the pile under control by pushing it under them. it is an art.

now i get to say.."that is a lot of snow!!" 3 stories?!!!!

[yellowperil]

Yeah, that truck in the foreground is very close but the hoe on the pile is several hundred yards away. My camera is very misleading on zoom mode. Makes the height and width look underwellming. That is a HIGH pile of snow. Those power lines are very close to me, not him.

He's working on a ridge, which when seen from the backside makes it look even more treacherous.

[ckelly78z]

Boston and some other big cities have some of those snow melters Like I saw in a video on one of these snow threads here on pelican. They position themselves over an open man hole cover in the street while a wheel loader dumps bucket after bucket of snow into the melter that then melts the snow into water that drains into the sewer system, it's still a slow process, but a way to clear the streets without dumping it directly into the river or ocean. All that contaminated water ends up going to the ocean anyways, but might slow the prcess down a bit.