When snow gets high enough, it causes a vehicle to ride up on it and high center, with the weight on the undercarriage, not on the wheels.

You know our armie is inuincible: As many circumcized Turkes we haue, And warlike bands of Chriſtians renyed, As hath the Ocean or the Terrene ſea Small drops of water, […]

The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).

It also serves to give someone else an opportunity to steal your thunder if he considers there is any amount of thunder in it.