storm-weakened

Updated: May 10, 2025

For already the reports were beginning to come in, brought by storm-weakened, blizzard-battered men, of houses where the roofs had crashed beneath the weight of snow, of lost ranchmen, of bawling cattle, drifting before the storm, to death. It was the beginning of a two-weeks' siege of a white inferno. Little time did Barry Houston have for thought in those weeks.

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The White Desert