snowdrift• They usually manage to survive a day or so buried in a snowdrift.• In the cloak-room Mrs Frizzell stood in a whirl of used paper towels, like a pantingsnowshoehare in a snowdrift.• I come back with an armful of deadbirch to find Tonydigging films out of a snowdrift near the tent.• Later, we carried steaming hot water through the Buffalosnowdrifts to thaw our chickens' waferbucket.• In some places, snowdrifts covered doors and windows so completely that people had to be dug out by more fortunate neighbors.• They came to a large square, dazzling white from swirlingsnowdrifts.• I take the baboon's shavingfoam and we make all the snowdrifts and then we start sculpting them into snow people.• Yes, the snowdrifts here are impossible.