When erosion threatened the foundation of their home in Harbert, Paula Sandburg planted grapevines and arranged the snow fences which helped hold the sands away.

When it finds prey, it pounces and punches through the snow to catch its victim.

When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.

When air masses move up and over mountains, the air cools producing orographic precipitation ( rain or snow ).

When powdery, snow moves with the wind from the location where it originally landed, forming deposits called snowdrifts which may have a depth of several meters.

When heavy, wet snow with a snow-water equivalent ( SWE ) ratio of between 6: 1 and 12: 1 ( in extreme cases, as heavy as 4: 1 ) and a weight in excess of 10 pounds per square foot (~ 50 kg / m < sup > 2 </ sup >) piles onto trees or electricity lines – particularly if the trees have full leaves or are not adapted to snow – significant damage may occur on a scale usually associated with hurricanes.

When the ski is set at an angle the edge cuts into the snow, the ski will follow the arc and hence turn the skier ; a practice known as carving a turn.

When a modern ski is tilted on to its edge, a gap is created between the ground and the middle of the ski ( under the binding ) as only the sides near the tip and the tail touch the snow.

When this was found only partially successful an extensive process of building snow sheds over some of the track to protect it from deep snows and avalanches was instituted.

When rapid parallel turns are quickly linked together, the upper body remains pointed down the fall line, and the lower body and skis are alternately driven into the snow in one direction and then the other.

When the ski was rotated on-edge, the aluminum sheets prevented the wooden core from twisting longitudinally, and kept much more of the ski's edge firmly pressed into the snow.

When the mine closed for good ; the snow which once tormented Telluride's miners had become the town's new gold, in the form of skiing and tourism.

When landmasses are concentrated near the polar regions, there is an increased chance for snow and ice to accumulate.

When the rivers froze, the cargo was transferred to sleds and the expedition continued, enduring blizzards and waist-high snow.

When the German military took delivery of the first vehicles, they immediately put them to the test on-and off-road in snow and ice to test their capability at handling European winters ; several four-wheel-drive vehicles were used as reference points.

When compared with spectacles, contact lenses typically provide better peripheral vision, and do not collect moisture such as rain, snow, condensation, or sweat.

When she is finished, her plaid is pure white and snow covers the land.

When news reached him that king Rusas I of Urartu was moving against him, he turned back to Lake Urmia in forced marches and defeated a Urartian army in a steep valley of the Uaush ( probably the Sahend, east of Lake Urmia, or further to the south, in Mannaea country ), a steep mountain that reached the clouds and whose flanks were covered by snow.

When not erupting Hekla is often covered with snow and small glaciers, it is also unusually aseismic with activity only starting 30 – 80 minutes before an eruption.

When the 66 settlers from Wales came the land was covered in a blanket of snow, hence the name Gwynedd.

When Murray ordered the line forward, their ammunition carts had become bogged in the snow.

When the original negative was examined, however, no snow or ice could be seen, the " snow " in the original having been due to the sun reflecting off the wings, which was clarified when examining the negative rather than the published pictures which had been produced from a copy negative.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills -- although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes.

When a question contains two verbs, the response does not make clear which of them is being answered.

When helped by a high degree of structure in lesson presentation, then, and only then, does such a child attain unusual success.

When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.

When the writer uses material does he tamper with it to improve its commercial effect or does he leave it pure??

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

When someone does develop chronic or severe problems with anxiety, such problems are usually classified as being one or more of the specific types of Anxiety Disorders.

When Tarrou points out that " victories will never be lasting ," Rieux admits that he is involved in a " never ending defeat ," but this does not stop him from engaging in the struggle.

When Ares does appear in myths, he typically faces humiliation.

" When his wife reported to him that his interpreter's wife had boasted of her own husband's greatness, R. Abbahu simply said, " What difference does it make which of us is really the greater, so long as through both of us heaven is glorified?

" When does your Messiah come?

When using the works of his authorities Alexander does not only review their reasoning but also gives conclusions, expands on them, and offers his agreements and disagreement with them.

Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."

When he returns home, Wallace ( Gibson ) falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Murron MacClannough ( McCormack ), and they marry in secret so that she does not have to spend a night in the bed of the English lord.

When a monarch does act, political controversy can often ensue, partially because the neutrality of the crown is seen to be compromised in favour of a partisan goal, while some political scientists champion the idea of an " interventionist monarch " as a check against possible illegal action by politicians.

When the separation of scales does not hold, or when one wants to establish a continuum of a finer resolution than that of the RVE size, one employs a statistical volume element ( SVE ), which, in turn, leads to random continuum fields.

When the amount of RAM is not sufficient to run all the current programs, it can result in a situation where the computer spends more time moving memory from RAM to disk and back than it does accomplishing tasks ; this is known as thrashing.

When scientists want to express a specific protein in a cell that does not normally express that protein ( i. e., heterologous expression ), they will transfer the cDNA that codes for the protein to the recipient cell.

When scientists transfer a gene from one cell into another cell in order to express the new genetic material as a protein in the recipient cell, the cDNA will be added to the recipient ( rather than the entire gene ), because the DNA for an entire gene may include DNA that does not code for the protein or that interrupts the coding sequence of the protein ( e. g., introns ).

When the angle θ does not satisfy the above condition, the horizontal component of force exerted by the road does not provide the correct centripetal force, and an additional frictional force tangential to the road surface is called upon to provide the difference.

When the news of the victory is brought to David, he does not rejoice, but is instead shaken with grief: " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

When found on the beaches, Calophyllum often extends over the lagoon water and supports nesting red-footed boobies, as does Barringtonia asiatica.