Behind the scenes as a beat writer, Snow saw a more calculated operation.
Tuesday's snow saw widespread disruption around Bath and Somerset with more than 30 drivers abandoning their cars on the A39.
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Essentially, they isolated a rectangular column from the surrounding snowpack and used a snow saw to start an artificial fracture by cutting through the weak underlying frost layer, then watched what happened.
The second treasury secretary, John Snow, saw himself much more as a marketer of the President's policy than a shaper of those policies.
Earlier this month, snow hit Shropshire and Devon and Cornwall, while Wales saw widespread snow in March.
The blustery blast follows a mild winter that saw little snow and the warmest March on record.
Cardiff, Swansea, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Caerphilly and Monmouthshire all saw some snow.
Singstad said he and others tied a rope to her feet and tried unsuccessfully to pull her free, and the snow shovel and small saw they had brought were no match for the thick ice.
Some parts of the state saw even more snow, and Missouri was not far behind, with accumulations of around a foot in some places.
New York City, where 11 inches of snow fell in Central Park, saw just a few hundred customers without power, a Con Edison spokesman said.
In one 30-minute period, Topeka, Kansas saw three inches of snow.
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In Texas, where Amarillo saw 19 inches of snow Monday, fierce winds whipped snow into whiteout conditions that left truck driver and CNN iReporter Phillip Prince -- carrying a load of frozen pizzas -- stranded on Interstate 40 near Groom for nine hours.
The capital of Concord saw its second-highest snow total on record, 24 inches.
Other record-setters in the state include Haines, a community about 92 miles north of Juneau that saw about 360 inches of snow for the 2011-2012 season -- smashing the previous record of 309 inches set five years ago, according to the weather service.
When Hakan Svartvik saw animal tracks in the fresh snow, he stopped and followed them on foot.
Parts of Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma saw at least a foot of snow, in some places accompanied by lightning.
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In Tignes, another resort favoured by the British, four people were avalanched but managed to dig themselves out, while nearby a father and son were buried under a metre of snow for 10 minutes but other skiers who saw the incident rescued them in time.
She saw a silent church, a strange snow slanting down against the colored windows.
"When I saw him stretched out there in the snow, frozen, " Acevedo says, shaking his head.
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North Wales saw several inches in some areas but snow also fell further south in eastern parts of the country.
"I saw a report on CNN with the Snow Leopard who qualified from Ghana for the Winter Olympics in 2010, " he explained.
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New York was hard hit by snow, but in almost every case, what you saw on TV was worse than what residents faced.
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