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But for other mom-and-pops not in the snowplowing business, the recent stretch of winter has dragged down sales and productivity. 
  
 On Sunday, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker called a statewide snow emergency, as schools were shut down for Monday and Tuesday. Baker urged business owners to close down and for non-essential employees to stay home from work. 
  
 Anthony Mirogiann is the owner of Village Cafe in Newton, Massachusetts. On a typical Sunday, he'll have a line out the door for breakfast. This past weekend, though, only a handful of customers trickled into the restaurant in the morning as the storm approached. 
  
 Mirogiann said he does what he can to stay open for business. "Unless there's a state of emergency, I will open up," he said. "It's frustrating. I will typically do about 20 percent to 30 percent of the week's business on a Sunday. " 
  
 During the last blizzard a week ago, Mirogiann remained open in the morning and only made about 10 percent of what the café would typically earn on a normal day. 
  
 "You deal with it, or try to deal with it," said the small business owner. "I have myself up to date with payments, and I try to have a bit saved in reserves in case something happens." 
  
 A 2014 study from IHS Global Insight found that a major storm with "impassable" roads could have a significant economic impact with just a one-day shutdown. The research showed a single day's shutdown in New York costs about $700.17 million, while Massachusetts loses about $265.12 million. 
  
  
  
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 And while storms can lower sales, other Boston area businesses have been hurt by a weather-related drop in productivity. 
  
  
  
 Larry Nannis is CPA at Katz Nannis + Solomon, an accounting firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. He says the storm shutdowns have essentially slowed down the tax-filing process. For the bulk of his clientele, which are businesses, the filing deadline is March 15. 
  
  
  
 "I can work from home, but if our clients are closed, they can't get us the information we need," Nannis said. "It's one less day we can work on a particular client. These things don't help when we are trying to make deadlines." 
  
 Read MoreLower fuel prices lifting Main Street ||||| With a record-shattering six feet of snow covering Boston in just four weeks—and more coming Thursday—the city is scrambling to find places to stash its plowed snow. Should they keep hauling it off to the Skywalker-esque "snow farms" dotting the city? Revisit the Colonial past with a giant snow dump into the harbor? 
  
 The city's desperate enough to have put out a call yesterday to academics, environmental leaders, and the general public for novel snow-disposal ideas. 
  
 After all, neither the snow farms (the city's current solution) nor the harbor (an idea that's being floated) are perfect options. 
  
 At the "farms"—vacant lots turned icy wonderlands—some snow stays frozen in piles up to 40 feet high, disappearing only with the spring melt. Other loads get fed into fearsome melting machines, which filter out the street-snow's nasty gunk (oil, gas, salt, and all manner of trash items) before spouting warm runoff into storm drains (and, eventually, Boston's harbor, rivers, and estuaries) at a rate of 400 tons per hour. The machines might be effective, but they're gas-guzzlers, and a drain on city resources. 
  
 Snow-farm runoff is often treated at plants before getting deposited into the water. Soil and dirt can also act as a natural filter for all the gunk. 
  
 How about dumping snow into the harbor? It's normally prohibited by state law, because of the environmental impacts of the snow's salt and contaminant content. (The practice was common until a massive cleanup of the infamously dirty harbor in the '90s led to tighter restrictions.) But Boston's public safety might soon override environmental concerns, as Mayor Martin J. Walsh told the press Monday, and the harbor might become a last-ditch receptacle. 
  
 “We’re not at a public-safety concern yet,” Walsh said, “but we will be if we keep getting snow like this.” 
  
 So what's a city to do? 
  
 A number of local environmental agencies and organizations have stepped forward in support of dumping into the harbor if other options get snowed under. So have some oceanographers. 
  
 Robert Chant, a professor of physical oceanography and estuarine dynamics at Rutgers University, told Popular Science that, by his calculation: 
  
 ...the Boston Harbor contains about 10 million tons of salt. As of February 10, the city had dumped about 60,000 tons of the stuff onto roads, or less than 1 percent of what’s in the water. So even if all the snow from the streets entered the water at once, it still wouldn't significantly impact the harbor's salinity. 
  
 So harbor dumping = no big deal, right? Not quite, according to Mi-Hyun Park, a professor of environmental engineering at a UMass Amherst who researches stormwater-runoff management. There's more to be concerned about than mere salinity levels. 
  
 "It's not going to be good, because you're going to directly increase pollution into the harbor," she says. "Snow can pick up pollution from the air in addition to the oil and deicing agents it can pick up from the road." 
  
 As the Northeast gets pounded with more extreme snowfall, year after year, cities can't just maintain status quo. 
  
 Park loosely analogized the harbor plan with sending untreated wastewater into the ocean—a practice that, when added up, can have catastrophic results. 
  
 Since there's much we don't know about the type and quantity of pollutants in Boston's street-snow, Park says it's probably best to keep using the snow farms, carbon-hungry as they are. Depending on location, snow-farm runoff is often treated before getting deposited into the water. Sometimes nearby soil and dirt can also act as a natural filter for all the gunk. 
  
 Yet as the Northeast gets pounded with more extreme snowfall, year after year, cities can't just maintain status quo. More research is needed to understand the environmental impacts of snow and snow-melt—and to figure out new ways of dealing with it. "There is a great need to work on this kind of research," says Park. 
  
 That way, maybe Boston won't have to scramble the next time it gets slammed. |||||
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A record 6 feet of snow has dumped down on Boston in the past few weeks, and today looks to show that there's more where that came from. It's gotten so bad that the city has reached out to the general public and scientists alike for fresh ideas on what to do with all the piles of plowed snow—some of which reach 40 feet into the freezing sky, reports City Lab. "We’re not at a public-safety concern yet, but we will be if we keep getting snow like this," Boston Mayor Martin Walsh warned on Monday. These piles of snow in vacant lots, or "snow farms," can hang around until spring, while melting machines that filter out street debris and redirect the melt toward storm drains are costly, not to mention require lots of gas to run. A leading idea being debated is to go back to the days of yore and dump the snow straight into Boston Harbor. While some say all the salt shouldn't be poured into the water, local environmental agencies and even oceanographers tend to agree that there's not enough to seriously impact the water's salinity—less than 1% of what's already in the water has this year been dumped onto city streets, and the folks at Popular Science are all for this old-school alternative. And while CNBC reports that Boston area snow plowers are making a killing this year, all the snow is putting quite a dent in the local economy, especially hitting small-business owners who see considerably less foot traffic. One estimate suggests that a single-day shutdown costs the city $265 million, no matter where that snow ultimately goes. (Even the wind was gusting at up to 70mph in parts of Massachusetts.)