Photo by urbandispute That there is a $120,000 snow melter. With that apparatus a body can melt 10 dump truck loads of snow at a time — approximately the amount of snow I shoveled off my walkway each day. As of last week, this infernal snow engine was missing in action, as Tom Sherwood reported. It had fallen into disuse and maybe disrepair and slipped out of the memory of most everyone but Tom…

Image courtesy NBCWashington.com How come we never saw the District’s big snow melter out during this month’s historic winter storms? WRC/NBC4’s Tom Sherwood set about finding out, and discovered that it’s just sitting there on the city’s public works lot, inoperable.City officials declined a request for an on-camera interview, saying in a statement the snow melter needed parts, was difficult to operate and wasn’t worth using again. So it sits on the city’s public…