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• n  a mass of snow heaped up by the wind

• Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift.
• He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift.
• When the plane finally stopped in a huge snowdrift at 11,900 feet above sea level, 18 people were dead or dying.

News & Articles

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• Crews fight fire at Lehigh Co. business
  Fire crews battled a blaze at a commercial building in Lehigh County Sunday morning. The flames started around 11:30 at Fiber America at 7072 Snowdrift Road in Upper Macungie Township. Crews had the fire under control in about 30 minutes. No one was injured and there's no word on what sparked the blaze.
  Oct. 7, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey

Quotes

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• Gigi Galli in Reuters.uk
  I don't know what happened. We drove out into a snowdrift and there was nothing stopping us. Luckily, there were people around and they could help us back on the road,Galli told the Swedish Rally website.
• Lincoln Chafee in Boston Globe
  I thought two hours of shoveling was bad enough, but seeing a thigh-high snowdrift in the vestibule of the Amtrak train that drifted all the way into the compartment was the limit,said Clio Chafee, a graphic designer.
• Tony Robinson in Telegraph.co.uk
  Tony Robinson, the actor who plays Baldrick, told yesterday's Harrow Observer: "My son was texting me updates constantly. It was weird knowing we had cleared a shot off the goal-line at the same time as I was up to my knees in a snowdrift."