A New Jersey-based transit line with a hulking “snow mountain” in one of its parking lots is taking bets on when the dirt-covered heap will finally melt.
The Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) station in Haddonfield, New Jersey was left buried in the white stuff in the aftermath of Winter Storm Fern and, mere weeks later, Winter Storm Hernando.
It’s not immediately clear if the parking lot was used as a dumping ground for the town’s excess snow.
But the gargantuan “snow mountain” remains firm despite the recent rising temperatures.
With spring right around the corner, PATCO decided to take bets for when the behemoth will “fully melt.”
While the prize itself isn’t anything to write home about — just a $20 Freedom Card, or PATCO’s equivalent of the dearly departed MetroCard — people from far and wide are eagerly throwing out their guesses.
Many predictions are as soon as next week, when temperatures in Haddonfield are expected to skyrocket up to 78 degrees.
Others, though, think the pile will linger as late as April.
PATCO shared an fresh picture of the snow mound Tuesday, which had shrunk noticeably since it announced the competition on Feb. 27, but was “still holding strong.”
Some cheeky straphangers jumped at the opportunity to poke at the speedline.
“It will melt before [PATCO] resumes weekday overnight service,” one rider teased on X.
“Bump it up to $200 and I’ll come down tomorrow to shovel it out,” another offered.
“You have WAY too much parking if that snow isn’t actually getting in anybody’s way,” another user noted.
In 2015, one trash-laden snow pile at the Seaport in Boston, Massachusetts, didn’t melt until mid-July. At its peak, the monster mound was 75-feet tall and absorbed more than 100 tons of garbage.
