Examples of snowdrift

• Snowdrifts blow onto roads and train tracks. 

• Snowdrifts can be many meters high. 

• 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.