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Boston snow emergency ends at 6 a.m. on Monday

Which means you can save your parking space until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, except in the South End, where if you save a space, you're bad and should feel bad.

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With this much snow .

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The snow will be gone by next weekend.

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Ought to keep it

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Or would I rat them out for saving it. The unwritten rules of the city.
I have a driveway now but I lived on a street with very few spots and even less in the snow, with how the city plows, you dig it out it's yours.

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It's public property. If you want a 24/7 dedicated spot, pay for one.

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You either don’t have a car, or if you do you also have a driveway.

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Things I have: A car.
Things I don't have: A driveway.

Other things I have: The knowledge that my neighborhood has (literally) 5x as many legally registered cars with valid street parking permits as it has street parking spaces, and that the system is completely dependent upon someone else pulling into the space I vacate within minutes after I vacate it. An understanding of the impact of hoarding on shared, scarce resources. An understanding of what "share" means.

Other things I don't have: some social or moral malfunction that would lead me to think I deserve to claim exclusive use of a shared, scarce resource while my neighbors do without.

(Of course, if you live someplace with plentiful street parking, different logic might apply. But not, of course, if the place where you live is in your own head, where you think it's 1965 and there are plenty of spaces for anyone who wants one to shovel out)

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But I will once again remind you that the rest of the city is not Beacon Hill. And Eeka's neighborhood is not the rest of the city. And my neighborhood is not the rest of the city. But of the three of us, one one lives in a place where cars outnumber spaces 5 to 1.

We've gone over this. Different issue in the inner parts of Boston than the outer parts.

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The part where I specifically pointed out that different logic applied in different conditions in different neighborhoods?

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Every once in a while somebody tries to bring that space-saving bullshit to the downtown neighborhoods, and usually within minutes some passing pedestrian will grab the space saver and toss it. (So don't blame the person whose car you found in "your" space; he or she almost certainly isn't the one who removed your marker.)

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24 hour record - TIED - 23.6"
Full storm total 23.8"

This one will be in the books as the 6th biggest all-time storm for Boston. Only two are not from the last 25 years - both from a short period in 1978.

The weather service takes its official measurements at Boston's Logan International Airport:

1. Feb. 17-18, 2003: 27.6 inches

2. Feb. 6-7, 1978: 27.1 inches

3. March 31-April 1, 1997: 25.4 inches

4. Feb. 8-9, 2013: 24.9 inches

5. Jan. 26-27, 2015: 24.6 inches

6. January 28-29, 2022 23.8 inches

7. Feb. 16-17, 2003: 23.6 inches

8. Jan. 22-23, 2005: 22.5 inches

9. Feb. 9, 2015: 22.2 inches

10. Jan. 20-21, 1978: 21.4 inches

List Source (finally found an up to date one with out duplicates): https://www.wcvb.com/article/when-bostons-been-bur...

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Two large storms in three days in Feb 2003?

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Wait a second…

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I found what was missing, here: https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/01/26/boston-biggest-snowstorms

Except the WBUR list is missing the storm that would hit 10 days after it published.

Revised list, including the 2nd 2015 storm, the missing 1969 storm, and yesterday's dump:

1. Feb. 17-18, 2003: 27.6 inches

2. Feb. 6-7, 1978: 27.1 inches

3. Feb. 24-27, 1969 - 26.3 inches

4. March 31-April 1, 1997: 25.4 inches

5. Feb. 8-9, 2013: 24.9 inches

6. Jan. 26-27, 2015: 24.6 inches

7. January 28-29, 2022 23.8 inches

8. Jan. 22-23, 2005: 22.5 inches

9. Feb. 9, 2015: 22.2 inches

10. Jan. 20-21, 1978: 21.4 inches

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after the snow emergency ends. Or as long as your neighbors respect your hard work.

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Yeah, because everybody deserves $120 worth of parking for doing $20 worth of shoveling.

The City Council banned space savers (ordinance 1310, passed in 2014) The past couple of mayors have blatantly refused to do their job and enforce it.

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16-12.43 Prohibiting the Selling, Leasing, or Reserving of Public Ways.

a. No person or entity other than the City of Boston and any of its departments or designees shall have the authority to sell, lease, reserve or facilitate the reserving of any street, way, highway, road or parkway, or portion thereof, under the City of Boston's control.

If the mayor, acting as the chief executive of the City of Boston, allows space savers, that is lawful under my reading of the ordinance as it has been codified in the City of Boston Municipal Code.

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That would hang on the definition of "designees"

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Magoo reckons that Magoo is going to invent the George Jetson space car the folds up into a briefcase so there will be no more silly nanny fighting about space savers. Magoo.

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