FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM FEBRUARY 2, 2017 • THE QUEENS COURIER 21 718-347-0900 Join us as we celebrate with an encore Valentine’s Day presentation of Love Poems presented by Tsalagi Native American descendant Oleana Whispering Dove. She returns by popular demand, sharing a public reading from her book of poetry (recently added to The Schomburg Center for Research’s permanent collection). Come and experience your personal serenade of love poems written to her by Hip-Hop pioneer Danny Simmons, founder of Def Poetry Jam. Join us for another magical evening of love, friendship and romance. Light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, firstcome, first-served. ADMISSION IS FREE. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Douglaston/Little Neck Community Library in conjunction with the National Association of Native Americans Longhouse, Inc. AN EVENING OF NATIVE AMERICAN LOVE POETRY with Oleana Whispering Dove Thursday, February 9 6:30 pm DOUGLASTON-LITTLE NECK 249-01 Northern Boulevard 718-225-8414 LIRR | Q12, N20, N21 STORM, OR FLURRY? Q: On Monday, eight inches of snow fell. On Wednesday, a tenth of an inch. Half an hour into the Wednesday weather event, as I walked across a dimly-lit parking lot, I slipped on ice. For weeks, ice had been accumulating in this parking lot. The owner’s only response was to call a plow. A: Under the ‘storm in progress’ doctrine, a property owner is not liable in negligence for injuries caused by ice that results from a storm that is ongoing, or that ended a short time before. If the owner cries ‘storm in progress’, your attorney will seek evidence that this ice remained from the Wednesday snowfall – or had built up throughout the winter. Moreover, he or she is likely to argue that the Wednesday snowfall simply did not amount to a storm. In invoking the ‘storm in progress’ doctrine, the owner will generally submit weather records showing a storm at a nearby ‘weather station’, such as an airport. In rebuttal, your attorney will submit your own testimony that the weather was far milder precisely where you fell. Ideally, you can give more detail regarding the half hour leading up to your fall – such as the proportions of snow, sleet and rain, and the temperature. Your attorney will argue that only a jury can decide whether there was a storm in progress at the time and location of your accident.
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