PORTLAND (WGME) -- Welcome to spring. Wednesday is the first official day as we recover from yet another snowstorm. We had crews out all across Maine covering it, not to mention all the help we got from people posting on our Facebook page.

So where do we stand right now? Charlie says this now totals the most snow Maine has seen in the last five years, an average of more than 100 inches of snow altogether. That's over eight feet of snow, imagine if it didn't melt a bit in between those storms. But all that snow is hurting businesses, city budgets, and the homeless.

It's been one snowstorm after the next, winter weather here in Maine that just won't go away, at least not yet.  Between the plowing, the shoveling, and the snow blowing, enough is enough.  Several downtown business owners say all this snow is hurting their bottom line.

"When the plows come down, there are still cars parked there and they just go around them.  And they never come back to finish off.  So we're left with mounds," Said Marilyn Andress, business owner.

City of Portland spokesperson Nicole Clegg says city crews are working overtime to try and clear all this snow.  The city has gone through seven thousand tons of salt this winter.  And between that and the overtime, the city is eight percent over its snow removal budget. "We're all ready for winter to be over at this point, and looking forward to some kind of thaw very soon."

This might help the city's budget a bit.  Another 84 cars that were in violation of the city's parking ban ordinance got towed last night.

Seth Cheikin, a Portland resident said, "woke up this morning to a surprise.  Then I remembered the snow ban." Seth and other car owners shelled out $135 dollars this morning to reclaim their cars.

On a more serious note, Portland's homeless shelters are overflowing, from the men's and women's shelters to this new teen shelter which sleeps up to 24 teenage boys and girls.  Of course, the teen center is not typical of the larger shelters in the city.

Jon Bradley, Preble Street associate director, said "Last night we were at 250.  That meant 34 people couldn't even fit into the overflow plan and were staying at the general assistance office or the refugee office of the city of Portland.  So we are way over our maximum."

The city of Portland will likely qualify for federal emergency assistance dollars from that big storm we had. That's the big Noreaster snowstorm, not the big hurricane that pounded the Maine coastline.The cost of winter storms