WBUR TODAY: Boston tries a new snow strategy
❤️ Donate Thursday, February 26, 2026 🌤️ Increasing clouds, with a high near 37. Good Morning Boston, Three days after Monday's massive blizzard, around 70,000 people in Massachusetts still don't have electricity , the vast majority of whom are Eversource customers. Click here for the utility company's town-by-town estimates for when power will be restored. Now to the news: Many streets in Boston are noticeably clearer this week than they were following the last big storm in January. In an interview on Morning Edition , Mayor Michelle Wu said it's in part due to a snow removal strategy the city tried "for the first time ever." WBUR's Rob Lane explains: How it works: There are two main parts to Boston's snow cleanup operations: plowing and removal. Boston runs plows all day and night during storms. But during big storms, they run out of room to put the snow. "When there's so much of it, plowing the streets often then means messing u...