It's apparently snowing in downtown Baltmore, only these "flakes" don't melt.

On Friday morning, Robert Neelbauer reports a flurry of white stuff fell on the street and sidewalk outside his home in the 300 block of N. Charles St.  It looked like snow, he emailed, but picking it up you could tell it was bits of foam.

"There was enough of it that the neighborhood/downtown association folks were sweeping it up," Neelbauer emailed.  He's concerned that it's falling into the Inner Harbor as well, which already has more than its share of trash and debris.  Such foam-falls have happened at least two other times he can recall in the past three months.

"It goes without saying that this stuff is bad for the environment," Neelbauer says, "but if someone is pumping this stuff into the air then that is a major pollution issue and someone should be held accountable for it."

The bits are probably too large to get lodged in your lungs, but for sure you wouldn't want to ingest a lot of it. 

Anyone else seeing snow falling that doesn't melt?  Any ideas where it's coming from?

(Photos by Robert Neelbauer)