impassible

Example Sentences

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In fact, Erie County officials enacted many more warnings and preparations for this snowstorm than they did eight years ago, when a wall of snow struck the area, killing 13 people, suddenly stranding thousands of drivers on impassible roads, and trapping people in their homes for days without food.

From Washington Post

The tornadoes were part of a sprawling winter storm that swept across the heart of the United States over the last two days, leaving parts of the Upper Plains and Midwest buried under blowing snow, closing schools and making roads impassible.

From Reuters

Oleksandr Kamyshin, the rail company’s chief executive, wrote on Twitter that the resumption of rail was important because roads made muddy and impassible by snow and rain had hampered efforts to get aid to Kherson’s residents.

From New York Times

The causeway linking Sanibel to the mainland was washed out; the bridge to Pine was made impassible; and Fort Myers Beach, a popular sun-and-fun town on Estero, was reduced to a vast field of jumbled debris.

From Washington Post

In Norfolk, where tidal flooding regularly makes roads impassible, the effects of climate change along the more-than 200-mile shoreline can’t be ignored.

From Washington Post