11.   I plowed through snow drifts and inched around switchbacks.

12.   Instead of climbing through snow drifts to find their polling places, New Hampshire voters enjoyed near-balmy temperatures and clear skies on election day.

13.   It is important to avoid drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes or taking decongestants that contain caffeine before going out to attack the snow drifts.

14.   Jeremy Trocha traded Pennsylvania forests for a dusty river bank, snow drifts for a winter suntan, a college backpack for a holster and gun.

15.   Looking at the growing snow drifts and freezing rain outside his Montreal home, Marc Leblanc felt fortunate that his office is in his house.

16.   Many power lines still are buried under snow drifts in wilderness areas, Paulsen said.

17.   Looking at the growing snow drifts and freezing rain outside his Montreal home, Marc Leblanc felt fortunate that his office is located in his house.

18.   Rough prototypes peek from the open boxes, surrounded by snow drifts of styrofoam peanuts.

19.   She passed out in a snow drift after walking out of a Wisconsin bar drunk.

20.   Sleeping curled in fur balls, they routinely woke on winter mornings buried under snow drifts.