Analysis: The Murderous Blizzard Of 1888

On January 12, 1888, the weather in the west was mild, compared to previous weeks. Little did the people know that a massive cold front was in route and would be catastrophic to the people, their livestock, and the economy in the dekota and nebraska praries. The cold front would cause one of the worst blizzards for the region, killing close to 500 people. The factors that made the death toll so high involve the mild weather before the storm, the lack of technology for warning systems, and bad timing.

¨Blizzard¨! By Jeanie Mebane and the poem title, The Blizzard Voices, by Ted Kooser portray the blizzards of 1888. In both pieces of work, the article and the poem show that the blizzard was very dangerous. Also, in both pieces of work, the Struggles the people had are very similar and the sequence of events that occur are the same

The Blizzard of 1888 tested how much the human spirit could take. Stacking problems on problems, it was unforgiving to everybody in the area. Though the immigrants who came to the US all took different paths and ended up settling in different places of the Great Plains, in the end they both went through the same cold, unpredictable blizzard.

In 1888 on a Thursday afternoon 235 people were killed by a blizzard on their way home from school. Taking place in the Northwest Plains region of the United States the blizzard came without a warning temperature went down 100 degrees in a 24 hour. On a Thursday afternoon, a day before the storm it was unusually warm from Montana east to the Dakotas and south to Texas. Then suddenly within a couple hours the Arctic air that came from Canada went South. In North Dakota temperatures went forty degrees below zero. High winds and heavy snow came with the storm which caused terrible conditions. In rural areas adults working on farms and children coming home from school were the ones who were mostly affected by the blizzard. A schoolteacher in Pawnee

Thesis: The Children’s Blizzard of January 12, 1888 was the worst blizzard to experience from the Dakotas to south Texas of all the damage from the winds and the snow, the amount of people that died,and the buildings destroyed. So many children died so that's why the name of the blizzard the Children’s Blizzard.

“Who back East or down South could have conceived of a land where the temperature could fall eighteen degrees in just three minutes?” the author stated. (Laskin, 39) This actually occurred in the nation’s history. It is somewhat expected to have some days where one has to bring a light jacket for later in the day because it is predicted to get cooler. “Who would have guessed that farmers and school children could start their days in shirtsleeves, without heavy overcoats, only to experience wind chills that night that were forty degrees below zero?” the author wrote. (Laskin, 39) The people who had to endure the freakish drop of temperature and monster of a blizzard definitely did not predict any of this could ever happen. Had the people been

A normal day can turn into a day filled with icy cold snow and warm hot chocolate just by one call. One call that gives everyone around the school district a sigh of relief that they can curl up back in their comfy beds and sleep for an extra two or more hours. Some may wonder how one call makes everyone’s day so much better: it is because it is a call from the school saying there is no school today due to icy conditions. Upon hearing this one can be sure that their phone will be buzzing with ones friends asking what they are doing today, or maybe one snoozes through all the texts and continues to curl up in one’s warm blankets, with dogs heating ones feet. No matter what one chooses to do there always seems to be a trend as one gets older. This trend is that in the grades kindergarten through fifth grade, children love snow days to stay outside and play; then in grades sixth through ninth, children love snow days to stay inside and watch movies; finally children tenth through twelfth grade, children love snow days to again go outside and play.

Going into the winter months, the need for a quick recovery of the infrastructure was imminent. Thousands of civilians without the means for electricity or heat could prove more devastating than the storm itself. The threat of freezing to death or being snowed in and potentially starving can add to one’s anguish and deteriorating mental state. A quick and decisive response from the state and cities was applied in order to minimize any unwanted

Yet another ‘Black Blizzard’ has stricken the Great Plains. We all are familiar with the Dust Bowl currently taking place in the heart of the country. As of right now, a problematic drought can be the cause of these storms of dust but no rain. Without water, there aren’t any grasses, shrubs and such that plant their roots in the ground. Those roots keep the very light soil that is available on the ground. However, when there isn’t water, the wind can take the dirt up in the air for miles across the land. From Texas to Oklahoma to Colorado, drought is affecting the locals. Already, thousands have left their settlements in this area, many of them have gone to California.

My childhood during the dust bowl in 1931, wasn’t as joyful and fun as the childhood kids, have these days. I’m showing and informing you, my daughter, what the life of the dust bowl was like through the eyes of a child, and how my life was influenced greatly. I’ve witnessed and experienced my family slowly falling apart and all my parents’ hard work get taken away in heartbeat. I had no control over this and it affected my life significantly. Even though people who were alive during the dust bowl were greatly affected, the ones who were drastically affected were the children. We experienced our families hard work vanish in a heartbeat, we were psychologically, mentally, and emotionally affected and experienced our families fall apart.

The family's independent spirit, and courage was a vital part of surviving in the harsh conditions they encountered. In 1881, there was a terrible blizzard. The snow was so high that it covered the fence posts. Father tied a rope around his waist and the porch post to tend the animals in a nearby shed, so that he would not get lost in the blizzard. However, many neighbors froze to death right outside their own front doors. During the storm, the wind blew the door of the sod house open. The younger children got in the trundle bed to keep warm, while the parents and older children shoveled snow out of the house for the rest of the day, so that they could shut the

Around 3 p.m. the blizzard had started winds over 75 mph, visibility was at 0%, the temperature dropped to 1 degree. The blizzard was about 25 hours long, 29 people had died cause if the blizzard. Cars where stuck under the thick snow piles, people where trapped in houses, power wasn't working. They had to have several bulldozers to clean the snow from the streets.

The world’s attention was focused on the devastating events of Hurricane Ike and the turmoil left in its wake. 300 miles north of the storm’s epicentre, a little girl of 7 years appeared fascinated by the commotion surrounding her. She pressed her face up against the window of her father’s car, gazing out with intensity. All the neighbourhood shops had transformed into amateur forts overnight with sandbags blocking the doors, windows boarded, and ugly signs saying “Closed for Ike”. The sky was purple, the dark clouds churned with discontent.

“The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour” were two fantastic short stories that Kate Chopin wrote. Both stories involved the discussion of marriages, although, the stories went over the same topic in two different ways. Two different sides of the same coin is a way someone could describe the two stories. “The Story of an Hour” was about a woman coming to terms with the possibility that her husband is dead, while the “The Storm” is about a woman having an affair while her husband is away. One could ask what her purpose for writing these stories was. Why did she want to show people these stories? Kate Chopin expresses the ideas that marriage is binding, limiting, and that it does not allow one to be living for themselves.

Blizzards are dangerous winter storms that are a combination of blowing snow and wind resulting in very low visibilities. While heavy snowfalls and severe cold often accompany blizzards, they are not required. Sometimes strong winds pick up snow that has already fallen, creating a ground blizzard.