Where does the snow go? Another epic journey

First, it snows.





Then a slow plow comes along, sprays you with snow, buries your neighbor's car, and piles the snow along the side of the road. It is scooped into even bigger piles at certain points.




Next, a loader moves the pile into a dump truck, which takes it to a designated "pile area", in this case, a closed side street (Park Place) where one of the 20 snow melting machines (see next post) is set up.

Here is a resulting pile from the Broadway side of Park Place, next to The Woolworth Building. All the way down at the end of the pile, you can see the back end of a dump truck lifted up, dumping yet more snow on the pile. And yes, these piles are as big as they look. See the telephone booth on the right?

In the next post, you'll see what happens to this pile.