Sentences with phrase «of snow or ice»

Standard OR policies cover fire, windstorms, lightning, smoke, hail, vandalism, theft, falling objects, weight of snow or ice, building collapse, damage from a vehicle collision, damage from an electrical surge and burst pipes.

Damage to the house and its contents caused by weight of snow or ice that creates a collapse is covered under standard homeowners insurance policies.

It will cover your stuff against losses from various types of peril, including: smoke, fire or lightning; windstorm or hail; explosion; riot or civil disorder; aircraft and vehicle damage; vandalism; theft; volcanic eruptions; falling objects; weight of snow or ice; accidental plumbing overflows; sudden disintegration of a steam or hot water heating system, or a household appliance; and accidental electrical damage.

An excess of snow or ice could block your tailpipe, exhausting toxic gases into your vehicle.

They are: fire, lightning, smoke, windstorm (like tornadoes), hail, vandalism, theft, falling objects (like trees), weight of snow or ice, building collapse, water damage (from burst pipes or leaking appliances) and structural damage from electrical surges, though not from your personal appliances like televisions or computers.

But an «unnatural» accumulation of snow or ice, perhaps caused by a snowblower or spilled water that has frozen into a glaze of slippery ice, is another story.

Rather, a municipality will only be held liable for failing to clear the road of snow or ice where it had «actual or constructive knowledge that road conditions created an unreasonable risk of harm to users of the highway».9

To reduce the frequency of rollover crashes, drivers should be diligent about steering technique and not overcorrect steering in a panicked attempt to avoid an object in the roadway such as an animal that suddenly appears or a patch of snow or ice on the road or highway.

Where an injury occurs as a result of snow or ice on their property, cities and municipalities are subject to a different standard of care than are owners of private property.

Pursuant to a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision, if a property owner shovels the snow or ice, and his or her efforts results in an «unnatural accumulation» of snow or ice that causes an injury, the property owner is still immune from liability.

Snow water equivalent - The equivalent volume / mass of water that would be produced if a particular body of snow or ice was melted.

A map of the glacier is then prepared contoured for the observed gain or loss of snow or ice in water equivalent units.

My only problem with the vehicle is it doesn't drive well in more than an inch of snow or ice.

Want to remote start your car so it's toasty warm (or cooled) and the defrosters have cleared the windshield of snow or ice?

Emaciated, it stumbled across a green Arctic landscape without a speck of snow or ice in sight (see picture below).

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These layers may be visible, related to the nature of the ice; or they may be chemical, related to differential transport in different seasons; or they may be isotopic, reflecting the annual temperature signal (for example, snow from colder periods has less of the heavier isotopes of H and O).

Just look at these creative vortex survivors who've used the opportunity to invent snow scooters, play instruments made of ice or do whatever it is it these gentlemen are doing.

Those hills and curves are part of the beauty and charm of Vermont, but it is frustrating to contend with them year - round, especially if there is snow or ice.

They would bring back huge blocks of ice and snow to their village on horseback or by boat and place it in large dug out pits where the ice would be packed and insulated with grasses, leaves and furs.

Couple that with the natural antibiotic properties of ginger and vitamin C from the colorful vegetables in this soup, and you'll be ready for whatever comes your way — ice, sleet or snow.

Here on the West Coast, we rarely have to complain about bitterly cold mornings, blizzards and snow drifts, or ice on the inside of our windows.

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Pour contents into a 8 x 12 ″, or similarly sized, pan / Carefully place in a secure, level spot in the freezer / Freeze for 1 — 2 hours / Remove from freezer and scrape, smash and stir mixture with a fork, breaking into small icey bits / Return to the freezer and repeat this process three more times, every 30 minutes / Granita should be done at this point, coarse bits of ice, about like a snow cone / Place granita in container, cover and freeze until ready to use.

The snow experiments are best if you have real snow around, but you can make your own snow or just use crushed ice for many of the experiments.

You may be able to store your milk in a snow bank, out of the sun, or use snow / ice to keep your milk cool in your freezer or cooler.

ALBANY, NY (01/31/2011)(readMedia)-- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined New York State's preparations and urged New Yorkers to take precautions for the ice, sleet and snow storm that has all of New York State under a Winter Storm Watch or Warning for Tuesday through Wednesday.

«The snow really, it was kind of a light snow so it didn't give us as much of a problem as had it been wet snow or even ice.

The service is calling for an inch or more of snow and ice to hit Rockland County beginning late morning Monday, January 28 and lasting through 1 a.m. Tuesday.

These vast ice sheets are made of the snow that has fallen in Antarctica over the past million years or so.

If Pluto were a completely smooth sphere, it would have either a permanent swath of nitrogen ice at the equator or seasonal snow caps at its poles.

FDC Liquid Ice Melter can be used on pipes and other hardware to quickly melt down layers of ice or snIce Melter can be used on pipes and other hardware to quickly melt down layers of ice or snice or snow.

It lowers the freezing point of ice or snow, causing it to turn into a liquid or slush.

Keep snow and ice off of your sidewalks and roofing without worrying about stains or damage to the materials.

But it's not clear which effect predominates in the Arctic, he explained, since different types of clouds have different effects on climate, depending on whether they're made of ice or snow, whether they're thick or thin, and how high they sit in the atmosphere.

And yet scientists also see clouds that are much warmer, even 10ºF, that are full of ice and gushing out rain or snow.

When black carbon lands on white ice or snow, it reduces a glacier's ability to reflect sunlight — adding another source of heat to the mix.

Dust found in the ice gives a record of what was in the air thousands of years ago, whether from volcanic eruptions or human activity, and the isotopic composition of the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the snow give a record of the temperature of the earth at the time.

The greatest difference compared with other comparable services is that traditionally they only tell about the extent of the ice or snow situation.

After migrating hundreds of miles from their winter feeding grounds, they marched off the ice in the austral spring and — even though their nesting territories were concealed under snow — headed to the very colonies where many were hatched or had raised chicks before.

Very little new snow is actually falling; most of it is being redistributed, wind - blasted off the ice or blown off the Transantarctic Mountains 40 miles away.

David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow accumulation relative to melting.

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqIce Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqice shelf was intact.»

Invasive species are entering the region with or without shipping, says Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado; warming of the Arctic Ocean's surface temperatures has already increased mixing with foreign waters and all the microbes they contain.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

The study's authors found that starting in the early 20th century an additional 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) of water, or melted snow, was added to the ice sheet each decade.

Examples of reflective objects include a mirror, a smooth metal can, a car window, a glass bottle, ice, snow or the watery surface of a lake.

By the end of the test, snow that got extra algae was three times as likely to have melted to slush or down to a layer of ice beneath it.

For typical mid-latitude glaciers, winter snow accumulation is on the order of 1 m / year (ice equivalent — or about 3 m of snow).

Either the lake will become a solid block of ice, or the snow on top of the lake will become deep enough to insulate the lake and keep it from freezing.

Every year that it snows in Antarctica, the new snow layer weighs on the previous layer, compacting over hundreds or thousands of years to eventually form layers of ice.