Spatiotemporal Trace of Human Behaviors and Responses Pertaining to Winter Storm Dylan

This study highlights how Winter storm Dylan plays a significant role in human behaviors and responses according to a multitude of periods, geographical scales, census regions, sociodemograhpic, and regional characteristics. This study finds that people show different behaviors and responses according to periods, states, and regional characteristics. Second, tweets are relatively uploaded across the US states during the winter storm week, compared to the pre-winter storm and post-winter storm weeks. Third, regions play an important role in displacements. Minnesota and Massachusetts exhibit 5.1 and 1.8 times more displacements than Montana. Fourth, while total employment is negatively associated with displacements, jobs per household and regional diversity are positively associated with them. The dense business areas show 0.4 times less displacements than the thin business areas, and places that have many workers per household and high regional diversity show 2.3 and 1.6 times more displacements than the other places.