{"57463":{"#nid":"57463","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cold snap costs in millions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E - January 14, 2010 \u003Cbr \/\u003E...The cost of ripple effects in the economy could easily surpass the direct costs of the storm, said Ozlem Ergun, co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech. \u0022You\u0027re closing down the schools, you\u0027re not only sending the children home, you\u0027re also causing one of the parents to stay at home, causing loss of productivity for business,\u0022 Ergun said. \u0022Also, you\u0027re not going out to eat, you\u0027re not going out to really buy something, you\u0027re really causing a lot of revenue loss.\u0022   \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/cold-snap-costs-in-274487.html\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-01-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}