From the top looking down, we could see that the wind had blown all the snow off the face of the bowl, leaving it hard-packed, icy and very steep.

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This includes a rigorous de-icing process for aircraft and runways as well as a fleet of giant plows that follow the TV 2000 to clear the snow blown off runways.

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"Unless they canceled court, I had to be here, " said Davis, who was wearing a hooded slicker over his suit to shield himself from gobs of snow blown from trees.

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The only fresh thing about it is the snow-blown local color.

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Actually, as the snow was blown against the siding of the garage it stuck there, sealing off the cracks, and my atelier became a bit cozier, though not in time to keep me from falling ill.

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Moreover, there is no government regulation of the use of vast quantities of the "ice-plus" organisms (which contain the ice-nucleation protein) commonly blown into the air during snow-making at ski resorts.

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