The Children’s Blizzard could probably be called one of the deadliest and most ferocious blizzards known to North America . The blizzard came suddenly and without warning on January 12, 1888. It had been an unusually warm day and the people of the Great Plains region of the United States
This was a time before weather calculations were so accurate. This freak blizzard came quickly and dropped temperatures to the negatives. It occurred over the prairies of the upper Midwest (such as the Dakotas and Nebraska
In an article of the Worst US Winter Storms (3) the Children’s Blizzard ranks 5th, having caused the deaths of approximately 230 people, many of them children. The blizzard got its name from the many school children it trapped in school houses and killed from the quickly dropping temperatures and heavy screen of snow. It wasn’t the only deadly blizzard that year, but the first of two major blizzards in 1888, the second even topping the charts.
Wow that's horrible. What have officials done to make sure this won't happen again?
ReplyDeleteWell, you can't prevent blizzards. If a blizzards forms, there is nothing we can do to stop it. We can just hope that one of this scale does not hit these areas again and be prepared just in case.
ReplyDeleteToday, we have better weather predictions and other precautionary steps you can take. You can even buy kits that have what you need inside. This was in the "old days", so we have more things to work with.