90F And there is still snow in Oswego
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 12:24 pm
This is an article that was in my newspaper today...Oswego is about 40 miles south of me...
OSWEGO- The 90-degree heat that goes along with summer finally arrived across upstate New York on Tuesday, but deep in the heart of the snow belt the white stuff always seems to be on everybody's mind.
And for good reason. Two large snow piles still stand tall in this city by Lake Ontario-compliments of a tough winter and cool, damp spring-and probably won't disappear any time soon.
"That snow will be here at least until July, if not August," Tom Fantom, a street maintenance supervisor for the city of Oswego, told The Post-Standard of Syracuse.
Road workers built the snow mountains at the former west side reservoir during a winter that saw over 200 inches of snow slam the city.
The last time public works crews added to the snow piles was in March, after the towering mounds had peaked at a little more than 75 feet high. One pile still stands at nearly 25 feet, the other close to 12, and both are coated with sand and dirt.
Last week, Bruce MacMillan, trees and parks supervisor for the department of public works, had to use a shovel and a pitch fork to dig through an inch of dirt to get to the snow.
"That whole pile is solid," he said. "It's like ice."
OSWEGO- The 90-degree heat that goes along with summer finally arrived across upstate New York on Tuesday, but deep in the heart of the snow belt the white stuff always seems to be on everybody's mind.
And for good reason. Two large snow piles still stand tall in this city by Lake Ontario-compliments of a tough winter and cool, damp spring-and probably won't disappear any time soon.
"That snow will be here at least until July, if not August," Tom Fantom, a street maintenance supervisor for the city of Oswego, told The Post-Standard of Syracuse.
Road workers built the snow mountains at the former west side reservoir during a winter that saw over 200 inches of snow slam the city.
The last time public works crews added to the snow piles was in March, after the towering mounds had peaked at a little more than 75 feet high. One pile still stands at nearly 25 feet, the other close to 12, and both are coated with sand and dirt.
Last week, Bruce MacMillan, trees and parks supervisor for the department of public works, had to use a shovel and a pitch fork to dig through an inch of dirt to get to the snow.
"That whole pile is solid," he said. "It's like ice."
