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1moretimeagain said:
What is the machine he is using?
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A gas-powered snowblower.

You’re looking at a side view; and, it’s not blowing snow; so, it’s hard to tell what it is. Especially if you haven’t lived in areas where a snowblower is an important tool to many people.

That vertical orange tube is the outlet for the snow. The operator can easily change the direction the snow blows.
 
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1moretimeagain said:
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@gdimeweather implies this tool knows something about weather.

He works in NYC.

He knows nothing about industrial-sized snowblowers configured to blow into dump trucks. Or, human-sized snow blowers designed to handle that sub grade “park.”

Once the snowfall stops, modern machinery and snow-handling techniques kick into gear.

In the 1996 NYC blizzard (20-27 inches), no one knew what to do with the snow; so, it was just dumped into the Hudson and East Rivers. That’s now an environmental no-no.

By 2001, massive heaters with conveyer belts were put at certain locations (the strip clubs west of the Port Authority was one). The snow was trucked there and melted and fed into either the sewage system or storm drains.

In many parts of the snow belt, snow is trucked to and piled onto shitty athletic fields and allowed to just melt. In parts of Maine and Vermont and New Hampshire and Upstate New York, that might be June.
 
Zoo_View said:
In the 1996 NYC blizzard (20-27 inches), no one knew what to do with the snow; so, it was just dumped into the Hudson and East Rivers. That’s now an environmental no-no.
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By 2001, massive heaters with conveyer belts were put at certain locations (the strip clubs west of the Port Authority was one). The snow was trucked there and melted and fed into either the sewage system or storm drains.
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Would it not betrue that the heat melted runoff would have basically the same amount of Nasty in it as it flows to the river in the storm drains..The same as dumping the snow directly ito the River???
 
mpaer said:
Would it not betrue that the heat melted runoff would have basically the same amount of Nasty in it as it flows to the river in the storm drains..The same as dumping the snow directly ito the River???
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I don’t know. It might have been put into the sewage treatment system.
 
The weather in NC the last two days has been amazing. Looks like it will last until next Thursday and then the 50s and 60s return for a while and with more chances for rain. I wonder when the first severe threat for NC will be.
 
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