Snow fences are built to prevent snow drifting in ... The slowing wind can no longer carry a snow load and the snow drops out, creating a drift. The beautifully sculpted snowdrift that contained ...

with the attendant risk of being stuck in said snow drift, I’m more than happy to see more and more of these fences going up.

Madison County Engineer Dave Brand has used snow fences for the past three years ... “The blowing snow just continues to drift onto the road, causing it to be worse than when it was actually ...

Living snow fences (LSF) can mitigate blowing snow problems, reduce the cost of highway maintenance and improve highway safety. LSF are rows of trees or shrubs that perform the same function as wooden ...

When the wind blows over the top, the fence creates an eddy that forces it down on the windward side. This piles up the drift on the windward. You’ll still see some blowing snow on the drive ...

and it makes a drift before it gets onto the highway.” Crews are planting about 25,000 shrubs -- three different varieties -- along five miles of the interstate. The living snow fence is going ...

as a snow drift control. It said it was a “more viable approach in controlling drifting than a traditional plastic snow fence." ...

The agency last month presented “SnowMan,” software for optimizing snow fences on existing roads ... Tabler’s field data, drift prediction algorithms and seasonal snow and wind velocity ...

A snow fence holds snow on the "downstream" side. That's why the fence has to be so far from the road. There has to be room for the drift to grow. The drifts formed by snow fences up on MacDonald ...

That feedback has inspired Coun. Markus Chambers to request a civic study on whether more temporary snow fences should be used to block drift-prone areas. “When wind blows on the leeward side ...