Mum gobsmacked by son stuck in snow

"Jumpin' Jesus!"

That's practically all one Canadian mother could manage when her adult son trapped himself in a powdery snowdrift that had built up against the door of their house.

She repeatedly uttered the phrase as her son struggled to free himself, causing snow to collapse inside the home.

While the pair's accents sound Irish, they're from Newfoundland on the far-eastern coast of Canada.

The "Newfie" accent sounds Irish because of the large number of people who immigrated there from Ireland in the 1700s and 1800s.