Sentences with phrase «of snowbank»

For example, someone who is trying to push a vehicle out of snowbank while over 80 or impaired is likely guilty of «care and control».

The slow, tender arc of the snowbank in Curve Seen from a Highway, Austerlitz, New York (1970) is evocative and surprising in a way that his curved paintings never are.

Being up higher also allows for a view over the top of a snowbank at intersections.

It is certainly not a hybrid type car, but then again, can a hybrid get you out of a snowbank?

I stab the clutch and brake, but by now I'm just a passenger as the Fiesta slides backward before coming to rest on the edge of a snowbank.

So at the verge of the snowbank, I raise the plow a bit, then inch forward a little more and raise the plow again, until the plow can go no higher and the G - wagen is crabbing futilely against my Machu Picchu terrace of snow.

After being pulled out of the snowbank, I put my tail between my legs and switch ESP back on for the short drive back to garage.

Now that the driveway stakes have sprouted out through the tops of the snowbanks, and the ice dam leaks have slowed to a trickle, it seems natural to swap your winter tires for your all - season or summer rubber.

I could hear the squawk of gulls, and even the trickle of water at the foot of the snowbanks, each rivulet wiping clean a streak of dried salt on the pavement.

Not exact matches

Throughout history whenever we take a snapshot of a moment in time via a fossil or core samples we get the snowbank which is the stable or stasis form of any evolving life.

Very rarely would we be able to pinpoint that exact moment the snowbank gave way turning into an avalanche of change.

The packet came bundled with three days» worth of mail that the postman managed to hand to us before he got his van stuck in our snowbank.

During the 1930s, Robert Marshall, a founder of the Wilderness Society, observed that wild country was «disappearing like a snowbank melting away on a southfacing slope in the hot June sun.»

Never mind that it basically melted as soon as it hit the ground because we've still got a bunch of snow sitting around from winter, including 3 ft snowbanks that are going to create mini lakes on the sidewalks as soon as they start melting.

We see one other mammal, an enormousotter, dragging a spirited trout out of the river onto a snowbank.

His reply drew a few guffaws from the gallery, but in Minnesota, home of the salt truck, the world's largest open - pit iron mine and the only governor to have mastered the sleeper hold, that sort of repartee would have had»em rolling in the snowbanks.

I want to curl up like the cat chasing the sunbeams through the house; I want to jump off a snowbank and sit in the brightness of the sun reflected off the snow.

In the winter, in the event of a storm, our grounds crew literally removes the snowbanks from your path, making the swath of road in front of # 25 the envy of the neighborhood.

There was too much ice on the ground to drive stakes, so we went with snowbank walls and a sheet of industrial plastic.

«I came up to it and saw that there was a pileup, so I ran my car into a snowbank instead of hitting or having somebody else hit me,» she says.

The peculiar snowbank is located on Ellesmere Island, a huge landmass northwest of Greenland that is dominated by arching mountains and sprawling glaciers, and where the temperature averages around -5 degrees Fahrenheit for the year.

Beauchamp discovered the snowbank about ten years ago while flying over in a helicopter while doing field work for the Geological Survey of Canada.

Its durable construction also prevents the Melt Mat from degrading over time, a problem observed with other passive methods of snow removal, such as spreading large amounts of soot particles over snowbanks for a similar effect.

«Generally, snow reflects about three - quarters of the sun's radiation back into the air, so it's actually really hard for the sun to melt a snowbank,» said Boreyko.

Video from the robot's underwater camera suddenly revealed what looked like a dirty yet nonetheless luminously white snowbank — the kind found at the edge of a plowed parking lot, except for the clams and fish around it.

«It's kind of like if you dig into a snowbank next to a highway,» Binzel says.

Now granted, I'm not doing my morning walks in the frosty snowbanks of New England, but even down here in Alabama, it's often in the 30s or low 40s — with a stiff wind to boot — when I head out for my predawn walks.

This is the reality of sidewalks and intersections right now — salty, dirty, melted snowbanks ready to destroy your favorite shoes.

Look for a second set of handholds nearby to reach to the second Bluegleam formation, then just follow the trail up and around to spot a snowbank, at the end of which you'll find the third Bluegleam formation.

I take one swipe laterally, but when I reach the end of the parking lot, I see that this strategy will result in a snowbank blocking the door to Starbucks.

The snowbank at the end of the driveway posed zero challenge and driving through rutted residential streets beyond wasn't a problem either.

A crossover gives one a better chance of being able to see over snowbanks at intersections, which is a real - world safety advantage.

It features a great ride height for seeing over snowbanks at intersections, has a sophisticated all - wheel - drive or 4X4 drivetrain, and a wide range of price points.

It was more than capable in heavy snow, making short work of deep drifts and unplowed snowbanks.

Right now, my colleagues at North Shore Animal League America are working very hard to save Magoo, a cat found frozen in a snowbank in Upstate New York on one of the coldest days of the year.

By sunrise all of our worries were buried in the snowbanks behind us, we began embracing what I call the «semi-ski bum» lifestyle.

You can see it on most snowbanks in the spring in regions that get snow — the once - white snowbanks become nearly solid black as they shrink and expose more of the dust etc. that has accumulated over the winter.

Think of a roadside snowbank in early spring.

With your cup of coffee, it doesn't matter if you are in the Arctic or just have a snowbank, the temperature difference between the coffee and the snow is the same (yes of course the mass of snow will determine the final temperature of each, but the heat transfer is a function of the difference in temperatures not the mass)

I myself leave the bike in the garage when the roads are icy or when snowbanks limit the width of the road available to me to get out of the way of cars.