Investigators said the gun was thrown into a snow pile under a car in the parking lot, where Joker the dog found it.

That works out to about one snow pile for every 500 residents.

The snow piles up by the foot there, so we usually stay inside.

Coming free of the snow pile, the dwarf gave the strangely shaped item little thought.

A quick check of the snow pile showed no hidden armament.

I listened, watching snow pile up against my garden wall.

"She was sitting on the snow pile making a snow angel with her arms," Vincent said yesterday.

Otherwise the snow piles against the windows and chills the rooms.

If you didn't know I had the snow pile down here, why did you just let go like that?

Eustache joined them beside their snow pile and spat on the ground.