It is so deep I can simply walk up the snow bank on to the roof.

BBC: Tackling northern Japan's record snow

An 11-year-old boy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after being overcome as he sat in a running car to keep warm, while his father was shoveling snow to get the car out of a snow bank in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.

WSJ: A state-by-state look at the Northeast snowstorm

We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Gone Tomorrow'

In Maryland, Michael Pugh donned a wool coat, knit cap, waterproof pants and heavy boots to trudge more than a mile through four inches of wet snow to his bank in downtown Hagerstown, about 70 miles west of Baltimore.

WSJ: Storm blasts East with snow, cold; warmer Tuesday

If you find such a hole in a bank of snow you can be fairly certain - it is either a mouse or a meteorite.

BBC: Chelyabinsk gripped by 'meteor fever'

No, the Bank of Japan, unlike John Snow, America's treasury secretary, really does believe in a strong dollar policy and is prepared to put its money where its mouth is.

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Northumbria Police said the A196 Blackclose Bank in Ashington has now reopened after heavy snow.

BBC: Durham Cathedral torchbearer event halted because of snow

Smith won over one investor by warning him that the private wealth management group of a European bank was about to bury him in a complete snow job.

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