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Building buildings off the ground in Antarctica allows the katabatic winds, which are constant, to blow ice crystals under the building and this technique prevent snow drifts.

(Even though the snow drifts are fairly easy to shovel out -- there is very little humidity thus very little moisture in the snow ((it squeaks when you walk on it)) -- shoveling out the drifts does take time away from the work at hand.)

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