snow plows
Winter road machines
Snow plows are vehicles or attachable blades designed to push snow off roads and surfaces.
The term covers everything from massive municipal trucks clearing highways to smaller attachments for pickup trucks and tractors.
As a verb, to snow plow is to clear snow this way.
In skiing, the snow plow is a beginner's braking technique where the ski tips angle inward to form a wedge: She snow plowed down the bunny slope.
- ice stormsFreezing rain accumulation events
- grittingTightening jaw resolutely
- clearingTreeless space in forest
- bladesSharp flat cutting parts
- snowfallPrecipitation of frozen crystals
anti-icing · icy roads · road maintenance · snowdrifts · parking ban · road salt · chain up · black ice · calcium chloride · winter storm · freeze-thaw cycles · municipal services · public works · blizzard · salting · salt spreader · slush · vehicles
- snow equipmentsnowmobiles
- winterice, cold, frozen, frost, icicle
- Nordic Infrastructureferries, tunnels, power grids, electric grid, train stations
- Northeast HighwaysI-95, turnpikes, toll roads, expressways, parkways
- winter weatherblizzards, blizzard, snowstorm, snowstorms, winter storms
snow plowsstorm drains
Underground channels for runoff
sump pumps · flood barriers · drainage systems · irrigation systems · sprinklers