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Strong winds make snowdrifts, large piles of snow that the wind forms.
Yet after 17 years lying buried deep under snowdrifts, the machine was dug up, repaired on site, and flown out in an operation costing $20 million.
The rescue of sheep from snowdrifts is a task normally undertaken by the farmers themselves.
In certain conditions it may help to form snowdrifts.
Last week, when we should have been sowing our spring crops, we had—this is no exaggeration—nine-foot snowdrifts and no electricity for four days.
However, in some areas authorities are willing to accept faxed copies when people face snowdrifts and terrible weather.
That was warfare—the dead left unburied, hospitals closed and the sick left to sit in the snowdrifts waiting for an ambulance.
That is not much comfort to a motorist stuck in a snowdrift.
As long as they have a gang of men doing nothing, so that they can remove snowdrifts, they are all right; they can do it.
This is the folly of a man in a snowdrift who despises the use of skis.
Both services gave great help in transporting foodstuffs to remote districts which were cut off by snowdrifts, and conveying feeding stuffs for animals marooned in the hillsides and glens.
I have just spoken to a farmer who is still attempting to rescue 1,000 sheep and 100 cattle from snowdrifts and who is also without electricity and water.
Anyone who knows the conditions of this area realises that with snowdrifts high above the fences the sheep could run for miles and nothing could keep them in.
The rugged terrain and snowdrifts surrounding the crash site initially prevented ground vehicles from reaching the wreckage, so four helicopters assisted in the recovery efforts.
Giant snowdrifts and severe snow storms render paths and trails impassable in winter.
He learns that the train has stopped as the result of a large snowdrift blocking the track.
