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Video: Where's the Snow Go, Joe?

Towns take advantage of any open space for a snow depot. In Swampscott it at Phillips Park.

Where once a soundstage stood, stand mountains of snow.

This video is from Wednesday afternoon at Phillips Park in the back corner where Adam Sandler's Grown Ups 2 filming was based last July.

The pool scene becomes a snow scene.

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Swampscott Department of Public Works crews are depositing snow scooped from dead-ends, snowbanks and sidewalks in the Phillips corner near the walking path to Phillips Beach.

Town Administrator Tom Younger says that towns and cities that are largely built out in Massachusetts take advantage of open space where they can find it to dump snow.

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These include landfills, DPW yards and, in Swampscott's case, the rear right corner of Phillips Park.


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