a few thermacite blocks should do the job, youll soon get rid of the snow and the concrete and...
but language is dangerous stuff, there seem to be crusades wars and fights against and such like in a lot of news stories, i think that the sensationalism of the press has got used to using these words without thinking about what they actually mean, news headline the war against( insert) the battle against (insert) all very bad use of language, there are a lot of studies in anthropology and such which i wont go into, but the use of language is reflective of subconcious mental attitudes towards things, the use of war battle crusade are all conflict terms, you are with us or against us type language, they also carry a different message to people not from the social of national group in which such terms have become commonplace, as for a war on snow, that is a good example of the bad use of language,