In Virginia, the national guard flew food, medicine and mail to Tangier Island, which has become ice-locked in the middle of Chesapeake Bay.
When I graduated from high school in 1981, at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, former hippies such as Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield had become ice cream entrepreneurs, and California kids who had taken LSD in high school were starting personal computer companies in the Bay Area.
The corresponding map in the atlas itself indicated that significant portions of Greenland's coastline had become ice-free.
For frequent flyers, even miles have become icing on top of the more valuable tiered membership cake, where levels of service are earned annually for flight distance and frequency.
The "main nerve" of the American dream has become an ice cream parlour.
Ice has become as much a part of the team's fabric as its orange and blue uniforms.
The massive disappearance of sea ice has become one of the bellwether indicators of a changing climate, and for much of the year, it looked like this season might set a new record low for sea ice in the Arctic.
But in the current renaissance of cocktail culture, where attention to every facet of the drink has reached the fetishistic, ice has become as fraught a signifier of a bartender's seriousness as the now ubiquitous arm gaiters.
With the advent of geochemical dating of rocks it has become evident that the Ice Age, which in the earlier part of the century was considered to have transpired during the Quaternary Period, actually began much earlier.
Two years after its introduction in the U.S., Smirnoff Ice has become practically a household name.
For scientists working on the continent, sea ice has become a major logistical headache.
