Lines 235–240: What is Chang’s tone in these lines? Which words and phrases help to create this tone? What details contribute to the tone?
In 1865, they faced thirty-foot drifts
and spent weeks just shoveling snow. The following year brought the
“Homeric winter” of 1866–67, one of the most brutal ever recorded,
which dropped forty feet of snow on the crews and whipped up drifts
more than eighty feet high. Power snowplows, driven forward by
twelve locomotives linked together, could scarcely budge the densest
of these drifts.

Question

Lines 235–240: What is Chang’s tone in these lines? Which words and phrases help to create this tone? What details contribute to the tone? 
In 1865, they faced thirty-foot drifts 
and spent weeks just shoveling snow. The following year brought the 
“Homeric winter” of 1866–67, one of the most brutal ever recorded, 
which dropped forty feet of snow on the crews and whipped up drifts 
more than eighty feet high. Power snowplows, driven forward by 
twelve locomotives linked together, could scarcely budge the densest 
of these drifts.

Hoodmemes · Answer

$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$ @BILLIEEILISH
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These are the lines:In 1865, they faced thirty-foot drifts 
and spent weeks just shoveling snow. The following year brought the 
“Homeric winter” of 1866–67, one of the most brutal ever recorded, 
which dropped forty feet of snow on the crews and whipped up drifts 
more than eighty feet high. Power snowplows, driven forward by 
twelve locomotives linked together, could scarcely budge the densest 
of these drifts.