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Snowfall: Social and Economic Impact
- Costs and losses to livestock producers
- Increased feed costs
- Dairy operations dependent on electric milking machines
- Lost revenue
- Loss of dairy herd due to infectious disease
- Urban, residential, and commercial impacts
- Structural damage from weight of snow on roofs of buildings
- Cost of keeping transportation lines clear of ice and snow
- Health
- Injuries and fatalities in weather-related traffic accidents
- Injuries and fatalities from pedestrians falling on snow-covered surfaces
- Hypothermia
- Carbon monoxide poisoning due to running automobile engines to produce heat or using faulty alternative heating systems in homes
- Disruption of services
- Power
- Communications
- Government offices and schools closed
- Emergency services unavailable or longer response times, including fire, police, and emergency medical services
- Garbage collection halted
- General economic effects
- Revenue loss from lost production in business and industry
- Negative impact of economic multipliers
- Costs to repair damaged infrastructure
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