"The snow was accumulating too fast to keep up with it."
No water flowed here, nor had any snow accumulated in the stream bed.
We all went out and stood and looked at her car as the snow accumulated in our hair.
He and his office mates have been reduced to watching the snow accumulate.
But snow and ice accumulate in a totally different way from sediment.
Snow accumulated quickly on walls, branches, and undisturbed open ground.
If enough snow and ice accumulates, runaway cooling would result.
The snow would accumulate as the day wore on and deepen significantly during the night.
The horses are not taken outside when snow has accumulated on the street, because it gets into the cracks in the hooves.
Some snow was reported in Clayton, Georgia but did not accumulate.