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* ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' has an episode running ''two'' plots regarding the same blizzard: while Louie is stuck at home with Tommy and they both end up afraid of their own shadows as a result and have crazy adventures. Meanwhile, Ora with Andy were visiting her mother, who had cold and Andy ends up having to cater to ''two'' ill women in no time - he ends up so pissed off by it, he [[spoiler: singlehandly clears the road with a shovel just to get home]].

** In the short "Snow Business" has Sylvester and Tweety trapped in a cabin by a blizzard. The radio reports that the roads will be blocked for six weeks. Panicked, Sylvester looks for food everywhere finding nothing but bird seed. While Sylvester and Tweety are initially friends in the short, Sylvester attempts to eat Tweety, tricking him into thinking various cooking methods are games, to which Tweety is oblivious. The Sylvester-chases-Tweety cycle is continually disrupted by a mouse who is even hungrier and more desperate than Sylvester, the mouse seizing upon the idea of eating Sylvester.

* ''Series/AllMyChildren''. Estranged couple Edmund and Maria take refuge in a stable during a blizzard. Edmund seizes the opportunity to force her to hash out their issues. They end up taking ARollInTheHay and committing to repairing their marriage.

* ''Series/AllMyChildren''. Estranged couple Edmund and Maria take refuge in a stable during a blizzard. Edmund seizes the opportunity to force her to hash out their issues. They end up making love and committing to repairing their marriage.

* This occurs in an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' to Jack and Sam. They're stranded on an ice planet and the dial device is broken, forcing them to figure out a solution before they freeze, as the gate appears to be the only structure in the snowy wasteland. [[spoiler: [[EarthAllAlong It's Antarctica]].]]

** Colqhoun's party got stuck in the middle of a complete wilderness, with dwindling supplies. [[spoiler: Ives deliberately took them there and used the fact that they had no means to escape to slaughter and eat the whole group]].
** While not completely cut off, the snow in the mountain passes ''does'' affect the traffic in Fort Spencer, resulting in only a skeleton crew being kept there for maintenance. [[spoiler: This is vital for Ives takeover, as he has only a few people to deal with and an easier time gaining "allies" throughout the winter, planning to be the master of the whole place by springtime]].

%%* ''Film/DieHard2'', aka ''Die Hard'' [[DieHardOnAnX -AT AN AIRPORT-,]] has a Storm of the Century shutting down Washington Dulles airport as the enabling premise for its strangely implausible terrorist hi-jinks.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** In the short "Snow Business" has Sylvester and Tweety trapped in a cabin by a blizzard. The radio reports that the roads will be blocked for six weeks. Panicked, Sylvester looks for food everywhere finding nothing but bird seed. While Sylvester and Tweety are initially friends in the short, Sylvester attempts to eat Tweety, tricking him into thinking various cooking methods are games, to which Tweety is oblivious. The Sylvester-chases-Tweety cycle is continually disrupted by a mouse who is even hungrier and more desperate than Sylvester, the mouse seizing upon the idea of eating Sylvester.
** In ''WesternAnimation/AlongCameDaffy'', Yosemite Sam and his black-haired twin are trapped in a snowbound cabin with nothing to eat, and starving to the point that [[MeatOVision they start seeing each other as food]]. It's then that door-to-door cookbook salesman Daffy Duck appears on their doorstep, resulting in the pair trying to make duck dinner out of him.
** One Speedy Gonzalez/Daffy Duck cartoon had Daffy refusing to share his fire with Speedy during a snowstorm, so Speedy starts stealing firewood from Daffy one log at a time. [[HourglassPlot By the time the cartoon is over, Speedy has all the firewood and Daffy is seeking shelter from the storm at his place.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did this on several occasions:
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E12MountainOfMadness Mountain of Madness]]", Homer and Mr Burns are trapped inside a cabin for so long that they both start becoming paranoid and begin hallucinating. They get rescued just before they kill each other.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E8SkinnersSenseOfSnow Skinner's Sense of Snow]]", the children of Springfield Elementary are snowed in their school because Principal Skinner refused to let them go home early during a blizzard (heck, [[NonGivingUpSchoolGuy he was the one who refused to close the school to begin with]]). Skinner calls upon his skills as a drill sergeant to keep the kids in line, which doesn't work, as Bart and the others lead a revolution. Homer and Ned Flanders attempt to save them with Ned's car with his rooftop attached to it as a homemade snowplow truck, eventually having a run-in with a salt silo from a cracker factory that melts the snow.
%%* Done in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Cannibalism ensued.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "Antisocial Climbers". Mr. O'Neill organizes an overnight camping trip in the woods, inspired by their current assignment. Daria and Jane anticipate the worst, which turns out to be a wise move when the group gets stranded by a snowstorm with no provisions.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', the titular character enhanced his friend's sunscreen to create a massive snowstorm in the middle of summer. The next morning, he wakes up, expecting it to have worn off... only to find that the snow level is so high, he can barely see out of his bedroom window on the second floor.

%%* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''.

%%* Happens in one episode of ''Literature/LittleBear,'' while Little Bear and his family at at Emily's. Luckily, Emily's grandmother knows a lot of good things to do with snow--including making [[FoodPorn Snow Cream.]]
%%* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'':
%%** This is the driving ploy for ''Snowed in at the House of Mouse'', the ChristmasEpisode, in which. The entire Disney "family" is blizzarded into the nightclub for Christmas.
%%** The episode "Snow Day" involves Mickey and the gang closing the club due to the storm outside, the only guest being Salty the Seal.
%%* In the ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' episode "Vs Ski Trip" Dan and Elise end up stuck together in the same cabin, while Chris is snowed in with a creepy family they met.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheFamilyThatDweltApart'': The Pruitts wind up isolated on their little island when the bay freezes over. They are actually doing just fine, until the authorities get the mistaken idea that one of them has appendicitis. Total disaster ensues.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/BeingIan'': In "Snow Fun", Ian, Ty, and Sandi get trapped in school when a snow storm hits.
* ''WesternAnimation/ZekesPad'': In "The Artful Dodger", Zeke has a big science test at school coming up and he hasn't studied for it. Monday morning is upon him; Zeke has to dodge this test somehow. Then it hits him: if he can't get to school, he won't have to take the test. So he draws a SNOWSTORM and the whole world is snowed in. No one can get to school – or anywhere else for that matter. It's all good until he realizes that if he can't get out of the house, neither can anyone else. Cabin Fever soon results and Zeke is now surrounded by his shivering, hungry, and very unhappy family.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' episode "Snowbound", a blizzard prevents Little Bear and his parents from going after eating dinner with Emily and her Granny at her house. Luckily, Moose makes a path for them the next morning.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'' episode "That's Snow Fun," there's a nasty blizzard in Qyah, which means Molly and Trini have to stay indoors. They are bored at first, but they eventually find fun things to do with Layla's old toys.

* In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', the group visits an EerieArcticResearchStation run by TeenGenius Kiyoshiro that ends up besieged by the MonsterOfTheWeek Frozomon, who buries it in snow and almost kills everyone through either hypothermia or its {{BFS}}.

%%* It happens three times in ''{{VisualNovel/Clannad}}'': when Ushio [[spoiler: is born, again when she dies, and again when she's in the illusory world]]. Although it's possible that the last two are actually the same snowstorm viewed from different perspectives.

%%* If a ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case takes place in a snowy location, there's a good chance of this trope happening so that the characters can't wait for the police to arrive.

* At the end of ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' Phoney is anxious to depart the Valley as soon as possible, but the first snowfall of winter (falling in one solid lump - a BrickJoke from the first issue) delays the Bones for months.

* In ''FanFic/DesertedDistractions'', Domino High School snowing in is what traps Ryou and Téa there--and lets Yami Bakura emerge.

* ''Film/TheThing1982'' Scientists are stranded in an Antarctic research base due to lack of communications and transport and they can't afford to let the alien escape.
* ''Film/TheShining'': The family are trapped inside the hotel due to severe weather and the Snow-Cat being sabotaged. Everyone is slowly getting uneasy due to the isolation
%%* ''Film/HomeAlone3'' had the villains taking advantage of a snowstorm to isolate the street.
%%* The ending of ''Film/LookWhosTalking Too''.
* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'': The Northern hemisphere. when the superstorms hit, as it becomes so lethally cold out that being caught away from a heat source (like a fire) is certain death.
* Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''Film/TheGoldRush'': The first cabin sequence, wherein Jim and Charlie are trapped and starving.

* The comedy movie ''Film/UnaccompaniedMinors'' has the airport that five kids are at during Christmas Eve be shut down due to inclement weather. They're stuck in the airport because they ran off while all the other minors were moved to a nearby lodge until the weather cleared up.

* The majority of ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' has the characters waiting out a blizzard at a stagecoach stop in rural 1870's Wyoming. The blizzard and general isolation are both integral part of the plan to [[spoiler: rescue Daisy from reaching her destiny on the gallows and leave no witnesses.]]

* In ''Film/DTox'', a blizzard cuts the rehab centre off from the outside world. Shortly afterward, the occupants realise that [[TenLittleMurderVictims one of them is a murderer.]]

* A blizzard isolates the Overlook Hotel in ''Literature/TheShining'' and Jack is slowly, but surely driven mad, not just by the supernatural, but the simple isolation itself. This makes it so much easier to corrupt him further by the Overlook.
* ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'': The train is stuck on the tracks because the mountain passes are blocked with snow.
%%* Happens with some frequency in the [[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Laura Ingalls Wilder books]], one time in particular nearly starving/freezing a town to death.
* The Literature/{{Wintersmith}} causes this in the Tiffany Aching novel of the same name. Having been shunted from a SentientCosmicForce of snow, ice, and deep winter into an AnthropomorphicPersonification of the same thanks to Tiffany's dancing feet. Consequently, it ends up covering the Chalk, and possibly the whole of lancre in snow late in the novel. The witches show themselves as emergency services housing everyone up to keep from freezing. The [[AutoKitchen Cornucopia]] Tiffany got dropped on her is essential in keeping the population from starving.
%%* Chicago in 1979 in ''Literature/ThePaleKing''.
%%* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, [[spoiler: Rand and Aviendha are snowed in during Fires of Heaven. Leads to sex and more problems for Rand.]]
%%* The premise of ''{{Trapped}}'' by Michael Northrop
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'':
** In ''Arrow's Flight'', a huge blizzard strands Kris and Talia in a waystation for weeks. This does lead to sex; more importantly, though, it gives them the time and isolation they need to get a handle on Talia's out-of-control empathic powers.
%%** Other books in the series also have blizzards. In the ''Foundation'' novels, main character Mags gets snowed-in during several winters, and his mentor, Herald Jakyr, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in the last book with his comment that they always seem to be snowed-in by a blizzard the previous times they were together and wonders if it will happen again. (It does)

* Used in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Roose Bolton has invested Winterfell with troops made up of a [[WithFriendsLikeThese tenuous alliance]] of Northern lords and Freys, when winter starts to set in with a vengeance and the castle and surrounding countryside are buried in deep snowdrifts. He learns that King Stannis is descending on them with an army, and all they need to do is hold the castle and wait for the besieging force to freeze and/or starve to death... but that's assuming he can keep his own forces from killing each other as they all fall prey to CabinFever and a [[TenLittleMurderVictims mysterious killer starts murdering people one by one]].
* ''Literature/DoctorZhivago'': Several times during the Red Army's movements across Siberia in the Russian Civil War, the troops get caught in what were supposed to be brief, temporary camps because of the heavy snow.

* ''Joe's World'': A promotional clip from the short-lived NBC situation comedy of 1979-1980 teases an episode where the main protagonist and his family are trapped in their home after a massive blizzard. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiR0xmKYLE The clip in question starts at 0:15]]. [[note]](The episode in question, "Snowbound," was supposed to air in January 1980 but -- due to low ratings -- the series was put on hiatus and, when the show returned to the schedule in May for the remaining episodes to be burned off, was the first episode to air.)[[/note]] The main drama centered on Joe's teen-aged daughter Maggie's boyfriend unable to get home before the blizzard hits and, forced to stay, agrees to share the same bed with Maggie (after the furnace goes out and everyone in the house has to sleep in the living room to keep warm).
%%* ''Series/TheXFiles'' Season 1 episode "Ice", in which they're snowed out ''up in the Arctic''. And while they find time for a ShipTease, seeing as how it's ''The X-Files'', [[HatePlague the writers find some way to make it creepy]].
* ''Series/TheWestWing'' episode "Holy Night" uses this; though they aren't literally snowed in, the airports are closed due to the blizzard, preventing people from leaving. Among the people stuck at the White House are the president's therapist, Zoe Bartlett and her French boyfriend who Charlie despises, the Yale Whiffenpoofs, and Toby's estranged Jewish Mafia hitman father. Awkwardness ensues.

%%* In one ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode Jessica was snowed in at a ski resort where a murderer was on the loose.
* In one episode of ''Series/BosomBuddies'', Kip and Henry find themselves trapped in a mountain cabin during a blizzard, with no food save half a container of non-dairy creamer.
%%* A ''Series/{{Benson}}'' episode has the main characters snowed in at the governor's winter cabin.

%%* An ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' episode has Ray and Debra stuck at Frank and Marie's house.
%%* A ChristmasEpisode of ''Series/{{One Day at a Time|1975}}'' has Ann and the girls getting snowed in at a mountain cabin with no heat.
%%* ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'':
%%** In one episode, the WJM staff, who are all angry with each other for various reasons, get trapped at the station by a blizzard and hash things out at an impromptu early Christmas party thrown by Sue Ann.
%%** Another episode has Mary hosting the station's election-night coverage as a blizzard cuts off communications to the studio.
* ''Series/TheNanny'': In "Schlepped Away", Fran Fine, the Sheffields and C.C. Babcock are driving to the airport to go an impromptu vacation when they decide to stop at Fran's parents' apartment in Queens, where they find out that a snowstorm has shut down the airport and they're stuck there. While the Sheffields begrudgingly adjust to the situation, [[CityMouse C.C. finds it unbearable]].
* The ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "Snow Angels" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this trope. UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity is paralyzed by a massive blizzard, and the police are overwhelmed--which is why some murderous thieves choose that moment to rob a Federal Reserve facility in UsefulNotes/NewJersey. Franchise/SherlockHolmes and Dr. Watson go after the gang, although they only way they can get around is by bribing a snow plow driver to chauffeur them.
* One of the later season episodes of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' had Red, Mike and Harold trapped in the lodge during a large snowfall. Mike spent the entire time trying to convince Red that they would have to eat Harold in order to survive.
* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': In "Murder Under the Mistletoe" (whose plot is equal parts ''Theatre/TheMousetrap'' and ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''), the chalet is snowed in, trapping all of the guests there with a murderer, and making it impossible for help to get in from the outside.
%%* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/GoodEats'' that dealt with post-Thanksgiving leftovers. The crew was having conniptions because of an inch of snowfall. ([[SelfDeprecation They were in]] [[DeepSouth Georgia]].)
%%* ''Series/GreatNews'': "Snowmageddon of the Century" finds the whole gang stuck in the newsroom after a blizzard hits New Jersey.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Free Spirit", the staff and patients of Sleepy Order Sanitarium are snowed-in during a severe winter storm. The disembodied spirit of Kevin Lockwood uses the opportunity to have his revenge against Dr. Rachel Harris for killing his body four years earlier.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': The flashback sequences in the first ChristmasEpisode ("In The Beginning") sees the staff stuck at the leisure centre due to a severe winter storm in the final week of 1989. The major source of drama (and comedy) comes from them having to survive when they run out of food and electricity. They ultimately survive the experience and decide to come together every New Year's Eve onwards.
* ''Series/AllMyChildren''. Estranged couple Edmund and Maria take refuge in a stable during a blizzard. Edmund seizes the opportunity to force her to hash out their issues. They end up making love and committing to repairing their marriage.

%%* Happens in ''[[Franchise/NancyDrew White Wolf of Icicle Creek]]'' to ensure Nancy can only snoop around outside during daylight hours. Also in ''[[Franchise/NancyDrew Treasure in the Royal Tower]]'', when bad weather restricts when she can explore the outdoor areas.