Related Clues:

• Like lumber in a mill
• Stranded at O'Hare, perhaps
• Pre-cut, as lumber
• Like fireplace logs
• Severed
• In two pieces, like two-by-fours
• Cut at the mill
• Stranded at the chalet, maybe
• Stranded in winter, perhaps
• Stranded at the ski lodge, perhaps, and a hint to this puzzle's hidden theme
• Cut, like lumber
• Felled, in a way
• Shortened, in a way
• Immobilized by a storm, maybe
• Immobilized during winter, say