No, snow if fluffy unless it's wet snow, then freezes to ice. That's hard to chip up.I might be one of those folks that could suffer a heart attacks doing it, but if that happen to me when I shovel snow, it would be a good way to go I imagine as I have not experience shovel snow before.
If it all like an ice block then it must be heavy and hard to shovel. I saw on tv when it reported about heavy snow in America, those snow look flaky.