Being a young buck, I decided that I could power my way through a snowbank in from of my parents house (with their car). My GF at the time (now wife) said don't and I went ahead anyway. Now my parents street was a street with a wide median running down the middle of the street and this median had a break in front of the house. The snow clearing crews would dump everything off the street and unto the island. As some point, they would send in a front loader to clear that break in the island. So what I did is try to plow my dad's 1980 Honda Accord through a knee high pile of compacted snow. It took a loooong time to dig this thing out solo. Not a disaster per se but my arms were really sore after!