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Yes they removed the snow and carefully placed on top of the phone booth. Very considerate.
*Since some people seem to need it: /s
That's how things look when you dig them out but not the top. I've seen people drive their cars with giant pillows of snow on top. This pic wouldn't be all that hard to set up. Just dig the phonebooth out near the beginning of the storm and then wait. It'll look like this.
Around here that’s called Snow luggage
Except here you can see the snow on top pretty much perfectly matches what's not around the phone booth.
I'm not sure I understand. The snow on top looks like the snow on bottom but most snow looks alike. You can tell someone dug it out since the snow around the booth is less.
To me it looks like someone dug it out, ignored the top, and then waited a few hours and took the picture.
The top of the booth caught the snow that would have gone around the booth. Notice the overhang on top and the narrowness around the booth.
Yes, that's what happens when you dig something out in a snowstorm. You'll get that overhang. Snow is pretty sticky and has pretty good structural strength until you disturb it. In nature that formation is called a cornice. You get them on mountains that blow snow over a ridge.
I admire your persistence.
Sigh. One last attempt. Magically remove the booth. You'll notice that the volume of snow on top of the booth perfectly fills the gap of the now removed booth AND the gap around it. As in: No one dug it out. The top caught the snow that would have gone around the booth.
Btw this is not a cornice.
Someone dug it out otherwise there'd be no walkway there in the front. Again, as someone who grew up with Maine winters and meters of snow every year imho this looks like someone dug it out either before the storm or at the beginning of the storm (leaving some amount on top. looks like half the amount) and then took the picture later to get this effect. I've seen many, many sugar shacks and ice fishing huts that looked exactly the same in my life.
They may have dug a narrow path to before this storm (and a very narrow one considering the V notch), but they didn't dig around the booth. Just look at the volumes. The snow (not) around the booth was caught by the top. Ok I have to stop coming back, you don't even know this isn't a cornice from wind. Ciao.
Wait, are you suggesting someone actually placed the snow on top of a phone booth?
Thank you, that explains a lot.