Asked whether there should be concerted investment in snow-clearing equipment, following the third snowbound winter in a row, Quarmby said: "Are you happy to invest more in kit that may sit at the back of the depot and won't be used?" His findings were contradicted by Sir David King, the government's chief science adviser under Labour, who said ministers should plan for more cold winters.
In Scotland, the A939 Cockbridge to Tomintoul, always among the first roads to become snowbound, shut to motorists early yesterday.
To understand the World Economic Forum, you have to take in the first-hand accounts of the snowbound elite, as related through a barrage of Twitter messages from reporters and others involved in the conference.
USA TODAY (@USATODAY) Snowfall through today: http://t.co/v1SivnDNe3 pic.twitter.com/EMAWZr2oP5 January 3 , 20146.00pm GMT Snowbound no longer, the first post-storm plane heads skyward from JFK: Updated at 6.01pm GMT 5.58pm GMT How much did it snow in Central Park?
But it also conjures the plodding comedy of Fargo with its thick-coated cops crunching across a snowbound landscape, and when we first enter the three-person police station, officers Ásgeir and Hinrika (the Icelandic names feel joyously mythological) are dealing with an urgent double-parking violation.
A classic Mark Twain story, about a large group of Congressmen trapped on a snowbound train, comes to mind:"The sixth day passed--the seventh dawned upon as gaunt and haggard and hopeless a company of men as ever stood in the shadow of death.
Some 300 people died in a single district of the badly hit central province of Ghor, a local official said as the snowbound area was reached for the first time in weeks by United States Black Hawk military helicopters.
The number of machines per thousand residents in that snowbound land is at least a third higher than runner-up Norway.
The first snowfall usually comes by Halloween, and the place is normally snowbound from mid-November through early March.
Murray's tennis friend from childhood – who has spoken to him every day on the phone – observed after watching on television 12,000 miles away in snowbound Britain as Murray found another level in the fifth set against Federer: "It's what Federer used to do so well.
