[beaversmom]

[beaversmom]

Thanks for mentioning this historical, tragic blizzard on another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3109834/posts

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[IwaCornDogs]

Wonderful book ~ loved it!

[Senator_Blutarski]

Bump for later reading

[stevem]

My great grandfather checked out as a result of that storm. He became lost walking to his home. They found him 3 days later in an Indian village about 20 miles distant. He was still alive but developed gangrene in his feet. That, as they say, was that.

[Rightly Biased]

thanks for a history lesson

[Hardastarboard]

Minnesota is a beautiful place - in the summer.

[righttackle44]

Seems as if this blizzard was the basis for an episode of Little House On The Prairie.

[Kay Ludlow]

Wow. Makes the hype about the latest deep-freeze seem silly, doesn't it?

[kidd]

That picture is of Fort Snelling.
I used to hang out at the exact spot as a teenager in the 70s

[nascarnation]

This must be fiction.

Because I read comments from a yout educated in climate change that “they had to start naming winter storms because the storms are so much worse than 20 yrs ago”

[Liberty Valance]

alison krauss - jacobs dream

[silverleaf]

I remember a weekend killer blizzard in North Dakota in the 70’s that buried houses up to the roofs, and B-52’s at Minot had snow drifts up to the wings...they had to clear tunnels for the wheels to roll if there was a launch

We were in a neighborhood of duplexes and could not see the house next door for 2 days.

We never lost power but the guys at the TV station were stranded all weekend and I remember the TV station playing old black and white film reels when the staff was too exhausted to broadcast

after the weekend deer were found wandering with their eyes frozen open

several base workers died when their cars got stranded trying to make it from base to town on the 4 lane highway

I think we were below -70 for the entire weekend, but the lack of visibility was what was awesome - to go outside your front door by even steps was to risk death, so I think I understand what happened to these people

after the blizzard for months we still had dirty drifts of black dirt banked up against all the buildings because the wind was so strong it picked up half dirt and half snow = “snirt” drifts

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** because the Army Signal Corps chose not issue a Cold Wave warning the previous night***

Do they really think people living isolated on the land would have gotten word of this? There were no weather warning system in those days. People were expected to be ready for these things as it was WINTER!

I read that people who lived in sod houses survived while those in nicer board and batten homes froze to death. Sod was a good insulator.