The Mayor of Boston Wanted to Fight Snow with Flamethrowers in 1948
Many of you are probably either snowed in, cold, or at least inconvenienced by the latest onslaught of flakes. Shoveling sucks! Snowblowers are obnoxious! The elegant solution? Flamethrowers, as asked of MIT by the Mayor of Boston, 60 years ago. In January of 1948, Mayor James Curley lamented that “the snowfall this year has exceeded…