The boys, ages 9 and 7, were building a fort Wednesday evening when a snow plow came through a parking lot near their homes in Newburgh.
It pushed even more of the white stuff into the snowbank in which they were playing, leaving them trapped underneath the snow for several hours, according to police.
Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York City, got more than 6 inches of snow that day.
"The (plow) operator would have had no knowledge that the boys were on the other side of the bank," Newburgh police said in a statement.
Not reported missing
Not only was the plow operator unaware, so were their relatives, who didn't report them missing for several hours.
It wasn't until the boys didn't return home at 10 p.m., police said, that both families became concerned and started searching the neighborhood.
After failing to locate them on their own, they called the police nearly two hours later.
Nine officers and a police dog canvassed the area into the early hours of Thanksgiving morning, when they learned that the pair had been building a fort in the parking lot.
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