Flame throwers would work nicely

Now, why didn't I think of this, instead of suggesting that we throw the snow in the Harbor?

Sixty three years ago Boston received so much snow that then Mayor James Curley took a look at it and began pleading with then MIT President Dr. Karl Compton for help. “I am very desirous that [MIT] have a competent group of engineers make an immediate study as to ways and means of removing the huge accumulation,” he wrote, “…be it by the use of flame throwers or chemicals or otherwise.”

Courtesy of the MIT Alumni Association.