A
snowbank is a large pile of snow that forms when snow accumulates along the side of a road, sidewalk, or other area.
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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».
Nassau County police highway patrol Sgt. Rob Beccaris said the Long Island Expressway was «littered with disabled motorists,» whose cars had veered off the road
into snowbanks.
During late winter and early spring the sun's warmth, which is as strong in March as in October, melts
snowbanks at our intersections.
When they fall in the Arctic, they help turn bright snow gray — just as
snowbanks on roadsides turn dingy by winter's end.
A crossover gives one a better chance of being able to see
over snowbanks at intersections, which is a real - world safety advantage.
He crawls
through snowbanks with bloodstained hair, strains while climbing up snowy mountainscapes, and practically foams at the mouth while tied to a stretcher during the moment where he's betrayed.
After a fairly civilized flight, walking onto the tarmac at Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo International Airport made the 8 - foot
high snowbank that is our front yard seem like a million miles away.
My biology professor liked to explain PE as the stable form we find
most snowbanks in prior to an avalanche.
Cities in cold regions typically resort to active methods to
remove snowbanks, such as hauling the snow to disposal sites or using gas - powered heaters.
There was too much ice on the ground to drive stakes, so we went
with snowbank walls and a sheet of industrial plastic.
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.
Ready to ski through snowstorms or tackle
tall snowbanks, this weatherproof jacket remains warm in cold conditions with ample insulation at the core (200 g) and slightly less in the sleeves (160 g) and hood (100 g).
The inner material might be as hard as concrete or as soft as a
new snowbank.
It got wedged behind another plane in Victoria and was blocked from the gate by a
giant snowbank in Calgary.
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.
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.
On June 21, a team of researchers set out by helicopter and propeller plane to investigate a mysterious
yellow snowbank on a remote Arctic glacier.
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.
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.
It's getting warmer here in Nova Scotia... we're above freezing during the day, but we have a lot of snow left on the ground and dirty
brown snowbanks.
To get the one to the west, just head west along the trail, hugging the mountain, to find it in a little
sheltered snowbank at ground level.
We even took it ice racing, smashed it into hard -
packed snowbanks, and came out unscathed.
When there's a snowfall of a micrometer or more, the snow stays on the road until hundreds of Michiganders have driven across it and forced it into
dingy snowbanks on the shoulders of the asphalt.
So I take the perpendicular course and conclude my passes at the
existing snowbanks that ring the lot.
The late afternoon sun is glinting on the ice crystals in the road -
side snowbanks and turning the snow - capped peaks ahead pink.
While they'll perform well when tackling dirt, mud, and snow, they tend to struggle heading up rocks and traversing
hefty snowbanks.
It was more than capable in heavy snow, making short work of deep drifts and
unplowed snowbanks.
The woman allegedly drove her vehicle toward him and he had to jump into a
nearby snowbank to avoid getting hit with the vehicle.
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.
Having an IP - spec phone is great protection against accidents like spilling water or using it in a woodshop, and a MIL - STD 810G phone will probably fare an
icy snowbank or fungal garden better than one without.
We have 7
ft. snowbanks at the end of our driveway and on our front lawn.
Desperate stragglers arrived late for the molecular biology final examination, their feet wet from tramping
through snowbanks and their faces damp from running.
Which explains how the Juke repeatedly noses into the three - foot -
high snowbanks.
«I sought out the deepest power and
tallest snowbanks I could find to see just how formidable the Range Rover Supercharged really was.
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's kind of like if you could shake [up] a
dirty snowbank,» he says.
In parts of the U.S. where snow is an issue, drivers learn they can see over
snowbanks at intersections in crossovers, but not in sedans and coupes.
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.