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ragdoll13 ([personal profile] ragdoll13) wrote2008-12-21 10:59 pm

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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?

[identity profile] ragdoll13.livejournal.com 2008-12-22 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
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!"

[identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com 2008-12-22 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a good term/usage, though the latter case might involve a flamethrower or jackhammer. :D