snowed in

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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filled in, covered, or blocked by snow.

Quotations

1857

The fore and after parts of the upper deck were now snowed in, to the depth of nine inches on the starboard side.

1896

That afternoon we passed two recently ditched locomotives and learned that three trains were snowed in ahead of us.

1955

I have seen a little cul-de-sac valley littered with skulls of perhaps a hundred cattle which had become snowed in and could not get out.