impassible

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“Travel is highly discouraged,” weather officials said, warning that mountain roads across the Sierra will be dangerous and potentially impassible: snow-covered, slippery and with possible downed branches from high winds.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Flash flooding was reported in New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury and other Connecticut towns, leaving many roads impassible.

From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2023

The undersheriff said 20 to 40 people remained trapped Monday near the Salinas River because the roads were impassible for rescuers.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2023

The storm complex, blasting eastward at over 60 mph, toppled so many trees that roads were impassible all over the region.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

A few straggling villages, reached by an avenue of trees, raised the roofs of their houses in the midst of impassible bogs that served for natural defences.

From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Sue, Eugène