"Although conditions differed some what in various parts of the state, most accounts agree that the early hours of that eventful January 12th were unseasonably warm. Cattle were out in the fields. School children in some areas played outside during the noon recess. In some cases, men were reported to have worked out-of-doors in their shirt-sleeves.
Then, the wind suddenly changed to the north, driving before it a great mass of thick, blinding snow. Men and animals alike were trapped in a freezing, white wasteland. The thermometer plummeted to 34 degrees below zero.
The storm lasted from 12 to 18 hours over most of the area, and was followed by minor local storms. The state was two weeks digging itself out. When the newspapers finally were able to assemble the details from isolated farms and ranches, it was evident that the loss of life and property sustained in the great blizzard was the greatest ever known in the West. Estimates as to the number who died in Nebraska ran as high as 100. In Dakota Territory, 109 lives were lost.
A particularly harrowing aspect of the storm was the fact that it caught so many school children away from home in tiny one-room school houses, with no food and little fuel. The heroism displayed by a number of school teachers, and their older pupils, in caring for the young children will always share a place in the annals of Nebraska."
I mentioned the unpredictability of weather on the great plains. This was called the school house blizzard because so many kids were killed. These were largely Scandinavian and German settlers, no strangers to cold weather..
jackb said
Jan 12 8:29 PM, 2025
Reached 6 degrees today... summers here!
Maddog said
Jan 12 8:56 PM, 2025
jackb wrote:
Reached 6 degrees today... summers here!
I hope you have waxed your bikini area..
Maddog said
Jan 12 8:57 PM, 2025
Magica wrote:
Lovely picture Madders 😁
Freezing here ❄
I like to call my daughter Nanuk from the North when she wears that coat..
Magica said
Jan 12 9:39 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Magica wrote:
Lovely picture Madders 😁
Freezing here ❄
I like to call my daughter Nanuk from the North when she wears that coat..
Awwwww
jackb said
Jan 12 10:11 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Magica wrote:
Lovely picture Madders 😁
Freezing here ❄
I like to call my daughter Nanuk from the North when she wears that coat..
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow
Vita said
Jan 16 5:25 AM, 2025
It was very sunny in Scotland yesterday, I had my windows open all day.
Vita, batten down the hatches. On the BBC news this morning, it reported winds could reach 120mph in parts of Scotland.
It's windy here, bins blowing up the street, and OH had to go searching for our watering can. I am very glad we had a huge conifer taken down last year, that used to bend right over in far lesser winds.
Freezing here ❄
Then, the wind suddenly changed to the north, driving before it a great mass of thick, blinding snow. Men and animals alike were trapped in a freezing, white wasteland. The thermometer plummeted to 34 degrees below zero.
The storm lasted from 12 to 18 hours over most of the area, and was followed by minor local storms. The state was two weeks digging itself out. When the newspapers finally were able to assemble the details from isolated farms and ranches, it was evident that the loss of life and property sustained in the great blizzard was the greatest ever known in the West. Estimates as to the number who died in Nebraska ran as high as 100. In Dakota Territory, 109 lives were lost.
A particularly harrowing aspect of the storm was the fact that it caught so many school children away from home in tiny one-room school houses, with no food and little fuel. The heroism displayed by a number of school teachers, and their older pupils, in caring for the young children will always share a place in the annals of Nebraska."
history.nebraska.gov/looking-back-on-the-blizzard-of-1888/
I mentioned the unpredictability of weather on the great plains. This was called the school house blizzard because so many kids were killed. These were largely Scandinavian and German settlers, no strangers to cold weather..
I hope you have waxed your bikini area..
I like to call my daughter Nanuk from the North when she wears that coat..
Awwwww
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow
It was very sunny in Scotland yesterday, I had my windows open all day.
Funny weather Mags.
Very warm here yesterday and mild today.
It's sunny and cold here, but it's snowing in Galveston..😳
Lovely picture. Went to Galveston years ago, loved it.
New Orleans under 10 inches of snow.
Those Cajuns don't even know what that white stuff is. Nor do their pet alligators. 😉
Bourbon St in New Orleans
That's a beautiful picture, like a Christmas card.
No snow here, we have winds predicted to get up to 90 mph starting from tomorrow.
-- Edited by Syl on Thursday 23rd of January 2025 11:13:01 PM
I have a feeling of great trepidation...
A storm is coming and by all accounts it's going to be a belter.
Like Hurricane Bawbags wee brother.
Government sent warnings to all our phones last night, schools have closed and shops are closing too.
Dog owners are being told to keep their pets on leads incase they blow away.
I'm just outside Glasgow so just have to wait and hope for the best.
It's windy here, bins blowing up the street, and OH had to go searching for our watering can. I am very glad we had a huge conifer taken down last year, that used to bend right over in far lesser winds.
Take care folks. x