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The School House Blizzard of 1888
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The School House Blizzard of 1888
by Caroline Reckart
Period Six
January 12, 1888:
The blessed warm weather changed so rapidly that the inhabitants of these small towns, especially the children walking home from school, had no warning and no chance to take cover before they became stranded in a freezing whiteout. Thus, this blizzard was infamously named 'The schoolchild's blizzard.'
A mid-west town is weighed down by the snow left behind when the blizzard finally stopped.
Sources
The Area
Effects and Consequences
www.weatherwise.com
and the Location
www.history.com
-Across multiple states, a total of 235 people were killed in the blizzard.
A buried locomotive near Alliance, Nebraska.
-The sparsely populated areas of South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota were slammed without any warning by a ferocious blizzard.
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-Anyone from a school child walking home to a farmer in his field would be dragged down the same level of vulnerability.
-Although the area was known as erratic in weather, it was still unexpected by the people of many small towns and farms across the prairie.
History and Circumstance
-When the blizzard hit, the flat, treeless prairie offered no protection from the biting, blinding winds.
-The morning of the blizzard, the weather was unseasonably warm.
-It snowed fiercely for several days, undoubtedly destroying any crop a person might have. This storm not only killed hundreds of people, but cut off food supplies for even more.
-The temperature changed in a matter of minutes, giving virtually no warning.
-According to history.com, some witness' claimed that the temperature dropped almost 100 degrees in 24 hours.
-When the blizzard struck, many children were in their frail school houses or returning home, and the speed of the great winds and freezing temperatures over took them.
A once flat, fertile prairie is buried beyond recognition. These were most likely young men and children who were students at the school houses behind them when the storm hit.