Sentences with phrase «ice storms»

Member agencies have cooperatively responded nationally and internationally to natural disasters such as wildfires, flooding, ice storms, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes, and to man - made animal disasters including puppy mills and hoarders.

Order some today, and be prepared for the year's worst weather from early fall snows to spring ice storms.

The overall unfairness of segregating pets outside the human circle may deteriorate into gross insensitivity or even a felony if they are not brought indoors: (1) when they are sick or otherwise incapacitated as listed in Table 1; (2) in bad weather such as thunderstorms, ice storms, flooding, tornadoes and life - threatening temperatures; (3) when herbicides and other harmful chemicals are being used in the yard; (4) when construction, regular services and other activities may cause the dog to escape; (5) at night.

And the part of Illinois that includes Decatur has more freezing rain and ice storms than any other part of the state.

With ice storms and blizzard - delaying flights not uncommon, there is the possibility of delayed flights and missed connections.

The IBC says that much of the increase is due to extreme weather such as ice storms, severe cold snaps and heavy rainfall.

The snows of winter and the thaws and ice storms of early spring alternately imprison and empower the dwarfed humans, whose attempts to connect with one another appear both feeble and noble in the teeth of the «vast ice - locked landscape.»

In the winter, there were ice storms.

Living here in Austin, we see them get the brunt of the ice storms!

I don't know how many ice storms you'd have to encounter yearly to make this tradeoff worthwhile, but as a Chicago resident, I find conventional front defoggers are plenty good enough.

The words included in the vocabulary booklets are: blizzard, cyclone, earthquake, flood, hurricane, ice storms, snow flurries, thunderstorm, tornado, and volcano.

You could concentrate on the movies, not ice storms.

Madison's unseasonably warm temperatures seem well - deserved after the ice storms we had early last week that turned the city into a skating rink.

This was the second Sunday in a row we've had to endure the perils of winter and ice storms are no joke.

He has studied and published on how avian and vegetation systems re-assemble after disturbances such as wildfire, wind - throw and ice storms, and after incidences of forest disease in Boreal ecosystems of North America.

Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.

Prevention of deadly ice storms.

In North America, scientists have also linked unusual weather events — including ice storms, droughts and mudslides — to the arrival of an El Niño.

The winds then head south, «creating a pool of cold Arctic air that moves into the United States, providing a source for ice storms to develop,» he says.

«If we could grow icicles on the computer, in a physical way, then we can create virtual models of chasms, caves, ice storms, shut - down airports and so on in days instead of months,» says Batty's colleague Eitan Grinspun.

«We'll have winters where we have little snow; we'll have winters where we have a lot of snow and ice storms.

However, there could still be a few snow or ice storms that have a significant impact.

Ice storms can wreak havoc on communities.

«It's not easy to study ice storms because they're difficult to predict,» explains Rustad.

But although scientists have studied the impacts of forest fires and acid rain, no one's looked closely at the impacts of ice storms.

But scientists aren't sure how ice storms affect long - term forest health.

Rustad, a scientist with USDA Forest Service, is concerned about evidence suggesting climate change will bring severe ice storms more often.

This would serve as one component of the supervisor's campaign to «increase disaster awareness protocols,» mapping out zones and response plans based on such parameters as susceptibility to flooding, ice storms and so on.

Forecasted ice storms in Kansas City prompted the move earlier in the week.

During a brief lull, the crew is talking about the 2014 ice storms that made Atlanta the poster child for winter - weather freak - outs.

Luckily, we aren't dealing with those ice storms, just the usual balmy 80 degrees and partly sunny weather here in paradise; — RRB - Thanks for hosting yet another great week... I've got too many recipes to go pin now!

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

Austin's ice storms have finally passed (at least we think so).

One year ago this week we had an ice storm and lost power for five days.

And, this past January, the company donated firewood to homes in New Brunswick's Acadian peninsula that were left without power for weeks after a severe ice storm.

However, people have also been coming to the mall since Monday for a different purpose, thanks to last weekend's ice storm knocking out power in many Toronto - area homes.

In southern Ontario, it's unclear how last weekend's ice storm has affected sales, but weather problems have apparently not deterred people looking for a good bargain.

I recall a decade ago when an ice storm on the East Coast caused massive flight delays and cancellations.

Waffle House server Tootie serves customers at a packed restaurant after residents spent two days cooped up due to an ice storm in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, February 13, 2014.

That young redbud tree delicately budding in my front yard in early spring, that golden haze in which the rolling hills close to my home are bathed on a summer morning, that lovely pond on my walk home from work out of whose rushes a red - winged blackbird almost invariably flies up as I pass by in early autumn, that winter belt of trees across the street transformed by an ice storm into a glittering fairyland — all those beauties of which nature is so achingly and serendipitously full are likewise my modest sources of healing and renewal.

But the overt dependence brought on by an ice storm or a vomiting child rudely awakens us to need.

As we crawl into our warm, dry beds we do not want to even think about them huddling under a bush in an ice storm, soaked to the skin, shaking and shivering uncontrollably, praying they'll still be alive in the morning.

Some of the markers are explicit, as in «Depression in Winter» and «Ice Storm» («The most painful longing comes over me.

I weathered Montreal's infamous 1998 Ice Storm in that house, keeping my brood somehow safe and warm.

This year, it hit along with our first snow / ice storm before winter had technically even begun.

So I meant to post this a day or two ago, along with one more cookie recipe, but then Toronto was hit with the worst ice storm in a long time and my apartment was plunged into a cold, dark, internet-less place.

Two weekends ago, we had an ice storm that left every leaf, twig, and blade of grass encased in a layer of ice.

Made this soup for the first time today thinking it would be good to have on hand with an impending «snow / ice storm» coming this weekend.

When we lost power for 7 days, (the NE ice storm of» 08), I became discouraged after losing everything.

I also have lost 50 pounds and that's even after spending 3 months this Spring / Summer in bed with a broken ankle after a freak ice storm this past April.