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[ragdoll13]

To help clear something up, what do you call the long hump of snow piled up in front of your driveway when the snowplow goes by?

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I'd use berm more generally for a ridge of solid material, usually dirt. I have no specific term for plow-packed snow. :)

[ragdoll13.livejournal.com]

Well, in Anchorage you kind of have to have a word for it, because we'd have berms sometimes up to five feet tall. We kids used to dig tunnels in them.

Plus, what else would we say? "God damnit, the car's high-centered on the heap-of-snow-at-the-end-of-the-driveway-thingy!" "I don't care how cold it is, I need you and your brother to go shovel the the heap-of-snow-at-the-end-of-the-driveway-thingy!"

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good term/usage, though the latter case might involve a flamethrower or jackhammer. :D

[cheapdialogue.livejournal.com]

I would normally too, but I understood the paticular type of man-made packed snow drift she was talking about.