7. Fragmentary Narratives/Fragmented Identities in The Ice Storm

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ice Storm

scholarly journals A Tale of Two Disasters

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 694-694
Author(s):  
Tammy Mermelstein
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Ice Storm ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
Individual Survival ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Abstract Preparing for or experiencing a disaster is never easy, but how leaders communicate with older adults can ease a situation or make it exponentially worse. This case study describes two disasters in the same city: Hurricane Harvey and the 2018 Houston Texas Ice Storm and the variation in messaging provided to and regarding older adults. For example, during Hurricane Harvey, the primary pre-disaster message was self-preparedness. During the storm, messages were also about individual survival. Statements such as “do not [climb into your attic] unless you have an ax or means to break through,” generated additional fear for older adults and loved ones. Yet, when an ice storm paralyzed Houston a few months later, public messaging had a strong “check on your elderly neighbors” component. This talk will explore how messaging for these events impacted older adults through traditional and social media analysis, and describe how social media platforms assisted people with rescue and recovery. Part of a symposium sponsored by Disasters and Older Adults Interest Group.

scholarly journals Prenatal Maternal Stress Predicts Childhood Asthma in Girls: Project Ice Storm

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay ◽  
Robert Lim ◽  
David P. Laplante ◽  
Lester Kobzik ◽  
Alain Brunet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Childhood Asthma ◽  
Maternal Stress ◽  
Small Study ◽  
Ice Storm ◽  
Prenatal Maternal Stress ◽  
Subjective Distress ◽  
Immune Functioning ◽  
Asthma Symptoms ◽  
Asthma Risk

Little is known about how prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) influences risks of asthma in humans. In this small study, we sought to determine whether disaster-related PNMS would predict asthma risk in children. In June 1998, we assessed severity of objective hardship and subjective distress in women pregnant during the January 1998 Quebec Ice Storm. Lifetime asthma symptoms, diagnoses, and corticosteroid utilization were assessed when the children were 12 years old (N=68). No effects of objective hardship or timing of the exposure were found. However, we found that, in girls only, higher levels of prenatal maternal subjective distress predicted greater lifetime risk of wheezing (OR=1.11; 90% CI = 1.01–1.23), doctor-diagnosed asthma (OR=1.09; 90% CI = 1.00–1.19), and lifetime utilization of corticosteroids (OR=1.12; 90% CI = 1.01–1.25). Other perinatal and current maternal life events were also associated with asthma outcomes. Findings suggest that stress during pregnancy opens a window for fetal programming of immune functioning. A sex-based approach may be useful to examine how prenatal and postnatal environments combine to program the immune system. This small study needs to be replicated with a larger, more representative sample.

scholarly journals Pregnant women’s cognitive appraisal of a natural disaster affects DNA methylation in their children 13 years later: Project Ice Storm

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. e515-e515 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Cao-Lei ◽  
G Elgbeili ◽  
R Massart ◽  
D P Laplante ◽  
M Szyf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Cognitive Appraisal ◽  
Ice Storm

scholarly journals Quantitative Ice Accretion Information from the Automated Surface Observing System

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1423-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Ryerson ◽  
Allan C. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ice Thickness ◽  
Ice Storm ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Ice Storms ◽  
Ice Accumulation ◽  
Direct Measurements ◽  
Improved Design ◽  
Precipitation Events

Abstract Freezing precipitation is a persistent winter weather problem that costs the United States millions of dollars annually. Costs and infrastructure disruption may be greatly reduced by ice-storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service (NWS), and by the development of climatologies that allow improved design of infrastructure elements. However, neither the NWS nor developers of climatologies have had direct measurements of ice-storm accumulations as a basis for issuing warnings and developing storm design standards. This paper describes the development of an aviation routine/special weather report (METAR/SPECI) remark that will report quantitative ice thickness at over 650 locations during ice storms using new algorithms developed for the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS). Characteristics of the ASOS icing sensor, a field program to develop the algorithms, tests of accuracy, application of the algorithms, and sources of error are described, as is the implementation of an ice-thickness METAR/SPECI remark. The algorithms will potentially allow freezing precipitation events to be tracked with regard to ice accumulation in near–real time as they progress across the United States.

An outbreak of carbon monoxide poisoning after a major ice storm in Maine

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.Randolph Daley ◽  
Andrew Smith ◽  
Enrique Paz-Argandona ◽  
Josephine Malilay ◽  
Michael McGeehin
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning ◽  
Ice Storm

The effects of ice storm on seed rain and seed limitation in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in east China

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanjun Du ◽  
Xiangcheng Mi ◽  
Xiaojuan Liu ◽  
Keping Ma
Keyword(s):  
Seed Rain ◽  
East China ◽  
Ice Storm ◽  
Seed Limitation ◽  
Broad Leaved Forest ◽  
Leaved Forest

A Memorable Easter Ice Storm

Weatherwise ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Mary Reed
Keyword(s):  
Ice Storm
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