A driving northeast snow-storm

March 22.

A driving northeast snow-storm yesterday and last night. To-day the drifts are high over the fences and the trains stopped.  The Boston train due at 8.30 A.M. does not reach here till five this afternoon. One side of all the houses this morning is white with moist snow plastered over them.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 22, 1861

The Boston train due at 8.30 A..M. does not reach here till five this afternoon. See December 29, 1853 ("All day a driving snow-storm, imprisoning most, stopping the cars, blocking up the roads."); March 9, 1856 ("The train which should have got down last night did not arrive till this afternoon (Sunday), having stuck in a drift."); December 14, 1859 ("Snow-storms might be classified.This is a fine, dry snow, drifting nearly horizontally from the north, so that it is quite blinding to face,") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Snow-storms might be classified

The Boston train due 

at 8.30 A.M. does not 

reach here till five.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, A driving northeast snow-storm
A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau
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