that is true i was seen once movie how they do it in japan with big mashines and truck's. look there for more picks and movies.
http://fundir.org/gallery,jak_sie_odsnieza_drogi_w_japonii,3527,0,0.html
Such a faked photo, the trees are displyed as ground level groth. 20' + [3m+] of snow would burry small slanted and the broken. Don't see where the snow was blown or taken away from, no large equiptment marks....
we have something very similar in Austria.The Grossglockner Strasse, is also like this, just after Winter when the snowploughs are true and the road is open for traffic