Blizzards piles drifts 8 feet deep on Kent downs, villages isolated. Blizzard which raged for many hours has caused a drifts many feet deep and threatened several Kent villages with isolation. In some cases snowploughs have been used to clear blocked roads. Between Folkestone and Canterbury drifts reach the tops of hedges on the Downs overlooking Folkestone, the style was 8 feet deep. Photo shows, pushing a car from a deep snow drift near the village of Capel le Ferne, one of the villages threatened with isolation. 16 February 1938