Ready or Not the Snow & Ice Will Fall

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This Commonwealth Avenue building set out some sacrificial boards to take the brunt of the snow slide to come.

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Elsewhere, on the avenue, this stairway was damaged. We passed when emergency crews were pumping water out of the basement.

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A few doors away, a banister was taken out by a seriously large icicle.

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Here are a few pieces of the ice that did that damage.

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Meanwhile, over on Newbury Street, we expected this snow formation to be short lived, but it survived for a few days last week.

Ed suggested that maybe we should all be wearing hard hats.

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2015 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

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