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No surprise
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:56:35 -0500, Harryk
wrote: On 1/3/11 5:48 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:16:40 -0800, "Califbill" wrote: I break the law on my skiff. Pee in a jug and pour overboard. Illegal to pour overboard, but legal to pee directly overboard. Wasn't it in Boston where the EPA said they could not dump the snow from the street cleanup in to the harbor. Couple years ago. But legal to let melt and run off in to the harbor. Common sense is not so common. Especially in government. Especially in the EPA - too much education, not enough intelligence - but very good at preserving their jobs. There probably are good regulations against dumping snow in harbors and rivers, and for good reasons. As an aside, the winter I lived in the Albany, N.Y., area, we had a lot of snow. The plow-equipped dump trucks pushed the snow down the main street in Albany, a street that ended at the Hudson River. One overzealous driver pushed his mountain of plowed snow right into the river (actually, a lot of drivers did that), but apparently forgot where he was on the space-time continuum. Yup. The snow, the plow, the truck and the driver...right into the Hudson. The driver was rescued. With all due respect, the people of Albany know very little about snow and ice. I grew up near the south shore of Lake Ontario in Upstate NY in a town that gets between 200 and 300 inches of show a year. Typical winter Lake Ontario shore scenery: http://www.lakeshoreimages.com/images12/lakeice2a.jpg http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/68287/68287,1153348436,28/stock-photo-a-wave-breaks-the-ice-along-the-coast-of-lake-ontario-near-lake-ontario-1568690.jpg http://celebratecanada.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ice-piles-on-lake-ontario.jpg?w=800&h=531 Trucks pushed snow and ice into the river and lake all the time, and the remainder eventually melted and ended up there anyway. |
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