impassible
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“Travel is highly discouraged,” weather officials said, warning that mountain roads across the Sierra will be dangerous and potentially impassible: snow-covered, slippery and with possible downed branches from high winds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
So in 1938, the Army Corps built the jetty from Goat Island to McGlinn Island, aiming to prevent sediment from filling Swinomish Channel and making it impassible for boats.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
The storm complex, blasting eastward at over 60 mph, toppled so many trees that roads were impassible all over the region.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
The roads, which are rutted and difficult to travel in the best of circumstances, may have been badly damaged in the quake, and landslides from recent rains have made some impassible.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
And when Jules Favre concluded, implacable, impassible, only foaming a little at the mouth: "France will not be lowered to the bloody level of the wretches who oppress the capital," the whole Assembly rose raving.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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