snowstorms. People even talk of 1881. The snow was borne
on a north-easterly gale and in places where such things naturally happen the drifts soon became dangerously deep. Many towns and villages were completely cut off, St. Albans and Basingstoke among the number, and trains and motor-cars were snowed up. The motoring victims understand now how parti- cularly easy it is to be trapped in a snow drift, although very few probably had thought it out in advance. When there is deep snow on a road the track is narrow. If one.car is blocked by a drift others come to a standstill behind it. It is impossible to turn round ; and one mistake by a backing ear imprisons all in front of it. There they all are—prisoners, unless they Care to leave their ears and walk away. The gale lasted for four days,' and on Tuesday the steamer service between Dover and Calais had to be abandoned.
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