Shedding frost and snow in a flurry like a small explosion, a precursor of the blast within him, he surged to his feet.
The narrow conical shape of northern conifers, and their downward-drooping limbs help them shed snow.
"They shed snow easily and can be lower priced than metal shovels," he said.
The building was built to be able to shed accumulated snow from the roof without manual assistance.
The pad is made of a special polymer rubber designed to shed snow and ice and provide maximum grip even in very cold environments.
The cottage roof had been built with wide eaves, to shed snow and cover the logpile.
Those bridges were meant to shed snow in the winter.
The home gym is draped with a shower curtain to shed rain, and soon enough, snow.
The pine boughs creaked and shed snow and needles.
A steeply-pitched roof was included in the design to shed snow and provide more interior headroom in the attic.