So I called her and I said, Jill, how much snow is too much snow?
"This is panic shopping, so bread, milk, a snow shovel in case our snow shovel breaks, " she said.
It cited new snowfall on top of a packed layer of snow that could cause snow slabs to slide off.
It said bright spells on Friday morning would be followed by bitter south-easterly winds and light snow flurries, with heavier snow due later.
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In very deep snow, Roads Service will use its nine snow blowers, the latest of which can shift 1, 600 tonnes of snow an hour.
Back on the Quebec-side, at Jacques Cartier Park, the Snowflake Kingdom is North America's biggest snow playground, with giant snow slides, obstacle courses and horse-drawn sleigh rides.
Springfield, in central Illinois, got slammed with a record 17 inches of snow, and several central Indiana counties declared snow emergencies after getting hit with up to 8 inches of snow.
Across much of New England, streets were empty of cars and dotted instead with children who had never seen so much snow and were jumping into snow banks and making forts.
Over at the Bethesda forums, a user scanned the code from the latest Skyrim patch and found some interesting pieces of code concerning crossbows, snow elves, and even a snow elf prince.
Police have also organised a free recovery service for motorists who abandoned their cars on the A3 on Tuesday night, after snow ploughs pushed snow on to cars and iced up doors and locks.
Which brings us to the second reason we don't bite the bullet and snow-proof our infrastructure: We think of snowstorms as emergencies that inevitably bring with them power outages and snow days, so we don't demand a snow-proof infrastructure.
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.
In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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All that new snow was weakly attached to the old snow crust, making it more unstable, Kramer said.
Cronk Y Voddy is one of the worst affected areas on the island, according to police, after snow and high winds led to huge snow drifts.
On the older and more nationally oriented Northeast Snow Impact Scale, which looks at snow in the entire history of a storm, the weekend storm's total score was 4.35, ranking it 25th.
Shovel small amounts of snow at a time, especially if the snow is heavy and water-laden.
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The Flood Protection Association said compacted snow and ice would melt more slowly than snow on the ground.
By late Monday, 15 inches of snow had fallen in Woodward, the most snow accumulation since 1971, the National Weather Service said.
The Met Office said a yellow warning for snow was in place, and the afternoon snow was set to be more persistent than the morning's flurries.
Their guides then tell them there has been an avalanche, that they will have to overnight in the snow, and they need to begin building snow shelters immediately.
As some of you may know, there are not one but two Snow White movies coming out this year: Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror, Mirror.
The agency's report, issued in March, found that a relative dearth of snow throughout the contiguous United States contributed to snow cover levels in North America being the fourth lowest since such records were first kept.
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.
Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency, state police extended shifts and National Guard called up 100 troops for snow duty as inches of wet, heavy snow fell across parts of the state -- knocking out power to nearly 180, 000 people.
Most people remember the original Snow White for the jolly, funny dwarves and Snow White finding her prince.
Police have warned that snow and ice has made driving conditions hazardous and snow drifts are blocking some routes.
Homes in the area are buried in snow drifts as high as five feet, with snow caked on windows.
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