Resource Number: 15813
Title: Historic Ice Storm Patterns
Description: One of the natural disasters impacting trees are ice storms. Ice storms, or freezing rain events, can damage utilities, communication networks, agriculture, transportation, housing, and trees. Even minimal amounts of ice accumulation can cause serious problems for people and transportation systems. Trees are damaged by ice storms: along city and country roads and streets; within parks, nature preserves, and greenbelts; in yards, parks, and campuses; and, across the landscape from field edge to forest centers. Ice storm damage is most noticed around houses and roads. Images of catastrophic tree failures under ice accumulation are an especially graphic depiction of ice storm impacts. With tree failures, are associated utility structure and line damage, and blockage of emergency and normal access along streets.
Last Updated: August 2, 2022
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- Natural Resources
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| ice storm |