A driving snow-storm

February 3.

A driving snow-storm again.

February 3, 2014

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 3, 1854

See February3, 1856 (“We go wading through snows now up the bleak river, in the face of the cutting northwest wind and driving snow-steam, turning now this ear, then that, to the wind, and our gloved hands in our bosoms or pockets. Our tracks are obliterated before we come back.”).See also 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, almost as much so as sand. It is cold also."); December 29, 1853 ("All day a driving snow-storm, imprisoning most, stopping the cars, blocking up the roads. . . . The driving snow blinds you, and where you are protected, you can see but little way, it is so thick. . . . An hour after I discovered half a pint of snow in each pocket of my greatcoat.”); January 19, 1857 ("A fine dry snow, intolerable to face.") and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Snow-storms might be classified

February 3. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, February 3

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