PHOTOS: 'Ain't no mountain high enough'; Moving and making mountains of snow in Buffalo
Steady stream of more than 100 dump trucks working 'round the clock in Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - If you watch the brigades of dump trucks moving around the City of Buffalo long enough, it's hard not to hear the song 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' in your head.
It is mesmerizing to see the trucks, packed with gnarly mounds of snow, line up in a traffic jam along the Buffalo Outer Harbor and at the Buffalo Central Terminal, dumping the graying snow and returning to get more.
What's left behind are mountains of snow that will take months to melt.
At the Central Terminal in East Buffalo, the snow truly looks like a mountain with a peak that's become a sightseeing stop since the travel ban was lifted. And along the Outer Harbor, the giant snow pile resembles a giant ramp that shrouds views of Lake Erie, the source of the lake effect snow that pummeled the region during the Christmas weekend blizzard.
Snow, measured by the foot, is being loaded and trucked from city streets, one dump truck at a time, even as temperatures moderate and a significant snow melt is underway.