Cambridge snow follies

[rsc]

Well, since the city doesn't require homeowners to shovel their walks until the snow has stopped, I suppose we can expect them to play by their own rules. Not that any sensible homeowner is waiting for this to stop before laying a shovel blade to the walk -- getting rid of this one all in one go is not my idea of a good time. (I've already done the walk twice, and I think our neighbors did it once as well.)

But jwg, who attended a workshop in the Boston financial district today, reports that all the streets he walked on from Downtown Crossing to wherever it is he was going were properly cleared both this morning and this afternoon, whereas in Cambridge the bus stops, the sidewalk in front of City Hall, etc., hadn't been touched as of 5:00 PM.

But here's the weirdest thing: sometime around 4:00 this afternoon, I heard snowplow sounds, and sure enough there was a plow coming down West Place -- actually I think it was a loader with a shovelful of snow (I only got a glimpse of it through the window.) It dumped its load in the middle of West Place, and vanished. The snow pile is still there.

Maybe it had something to do with the construction site, but still.