Originally from South Dakota…I really find it to be quite the miracle that my bloodline reached me…knowing all these hardships faced by the early settlers…they DO deserve to be remembered…thank you
We lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a number of years when I was very young. Being from southern climes I'd never seen snow before and boy did we see snow. Drifts that buried the first floor and we could jump out the second floor windows. Mom yelled at us because she feared we'd get buried in the snow and suffocate, but we had great fun digging tunnels through the snow.
As a child growing up in Minnesota in the early 1970’s, I voraciously read all of the “Little House on the Prairie” books. “The Long Winter” was particularly shocking, as it recounted this very blizzard. We obviously had horrible winters in my childhood, but that book certainly taught me to put things in perspective. We had the advantages of electricity, snowplows, etc. etc.
Here in the Massachusetts and RI we'll NEVER forget the Blizzard of '78! Devastating! I'd also like to send a shout-out to the 1778 Blizzard. Valley Forge remembers.
I lived in Norwich, Ct in an old apartment building where there was only a sidewalk between the building and street where we parked. The snow drifted to the 2nd floor with vehicles buried in it. I moved to Alaska the next year.
The Blizzard of 1978 was a widespread storm.. I lived in Flint,Michigan at the time and was stuck in my basement apartment for the better part of a week. Finally I had to put on the backpack and giant boots and walk to Krogers. The car was buried up to the trunk. There was a pair or cross-country skis propped against the wall, and a snowmobile pulling a trailer load of supplies. down the highway. I heard some calls on the radio & TV for volunteers with 4WD vehicles to transport patients and medical staff.
I grew up in southern Minnesota and the biggest blizzard I have ever seen was the St. Patrick's Day Blizzard in March, 1965. I remember that the driveway had snowdrifts 4 to 5 feet tall, and what wasn't drifted had a couple of feet at a minimum. My recollection is that we had officially had 21 inches of snow. St. Pattie's Day was on Wednesday and we didn't have school on Thursday, Friday, or the following Monday due to road closures. The Minnesota river had record flooding that spring. There are still markers on a few trees in the Minnesota river valley that show high water marks at least 12 feet above the roadway that runs parallel to the river. Back in the 1930's there was a major blizzard that the older generations often talked about.
We never forget those storms of our youth. There's always something wistful and magic about them. Heck even growing up in Texas I can remember the few snowfalls we had and how crazy the kids went. By the way, the shortened form of St. Patrick's Day is St. Paddy's day from the Irish form Padraig. Pattie is the diminutive of Patricia (who is also a saint).
Having survived both the Blizzards of 67 and 79 in Chicago area, I can certainly relate to the plight those people went thru. I was in 8th grade in 67, my mom barely made it home from work (her car was parked almost sideways in the driveway), and my dad also barely made it. We had to shovel a path in the back yard so our German Shepherd could make it out to the yard to go potty. I walked to my friend's house, and we connected his Boxer doggo to a sled and had a great time! Both blizzards had me up on the roof shoveling snow off. I solved the snow issue in 82, and moved to Phoenix. And BTW, both times the weather people predicted "about 3-4 inches of snow".
Living in Minnesota one has a sense of humor when it comes to weather. The worst was the Armistice Day storm. Cold, well that's a category by itself. -60° with a wind, brrr. We were riding Snowmobiles in the region at the time. We stopped for fuel and asked an old timer (there always seems to be one available) Is it cold enough for you? He said, Almost cold enough to shut the windows and turn on the heat!!! Keep up the great work, we love your channel! Dave and Deb
LOL.....that I understand. I'm in Western Ontario around Lake Huron to the northwest and Erie to the south. Right in the Snow belt. Have fun! Edit: Parents had a bait and tackle shop in Norther Ontario. Ice fishing in -40...brrrr!
That's one bad ass storm. Worst winters in Northern Illinois that I remember were 67 and 78. Snow was as high as the tops of the railroad cars in my area.
This was very interesting. My grandfather, who grew up in Boston, was seventeen at the time of the blizzard of 1888. He and some of his family members barely made it home that day.
Yes Good morning, 61 years old,been living in Upstate N.Y. as many I’m no stranger to snow or the storms that come with it! But after the storm it’s always an adventure to dig out 😊😉
I moved from central Minnesota to Northern New York (Lewis County). I can say my experience was MN tends to be colder, but the Tug Hill Plateau is world class for their snowfalls. I’m back in MN after 7 years…..
Growing up in upstate NY I remember the blizzard of 1977. A white Christmas was always welcomed but that year we were all stuck in our homes. Well except those of us with customers calling to shovel their driveways 🤣
My parents were grew up in the Red River Valley and I was born in Moorhead. They would probably have been too young to really remember the 1941 blizzard, but I grew up hearing about never leaving your car in a blizzard, parking facing into the wind (so the snow doesn't pack into your tailpipe and cause a Carbon Monoxide buildup), bringing a long-burning candle with to keep the interior of a car just warm enough to survive, .... It's a hard country in the winter. "The only things between Fargo and the north pole are three strands of barbed wire and a dead tree." Another apocalyptic blizzard "worth remembering" is the 1949 Wyoming Blizzard.
My father was a senior at Grand Meadow High School in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. There was a tradition of Grand Meadow playing Spring Valley, Minnesota in football on Armistice Day. This 1941 Armistice Day was no different but the game was called at halftime because of the weather. My father said the team was miffed as they were winning. My father said the janitor had a helluva time driving the bus back to Grand Meadow because of the blizzard.
I may be a little biased but the Blizzard of ‘77 (Buffalo NY) should be on any list of Blizzards. Measured by cold, snow, winds, deaths and economic impact it affected more people in more ways.
I come from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where it gets major lake-affect snowfall that can leave entire towns buried in drifts easily 20ft deep. At least a handful of times our house was buried in snow past second story windows and it took us weeks to dig it out, only to be buried by another storm days later. I grew to really hate winters and waking up in darkness to help my father dig the driveway out for him to get to work -- he shovelled the snow off the top and I came behind w/ an ice chipper to break up the half an inch to an inch of ice on the driveway. Finally moved away from there to Huntington Beach, CA in the winter of '69/'70 and thought I had gone to paradise, as the locals were wearing sweaters and jackets while I sported about in T-shirts in the balmy 50 degree weather.
I remember the winter storm dubbed “Snow Jam ‘82” that struck the City of Atlanta, as well as, many other southern states and their cities. Snow, being infrequent in the south, had the effect of paralyzing the city that had no snow removal equipment. Interstate highways and surface streets became impassable as most cars and trucks only had radial tires wholly unsuitable for winter travel. There are photos of I-75 littered with stranded vehicles unable to move; their occupants forced to walk the rest of the way. I was attending school in south Georgia at the time when the temperature dropped so low that the campus water fountain, though still flowing, was a mountain of ice. In the wake of this storm; Atlanta and many other cities purchased equipment and resources in order to be more prepared in the future.
In SW Iowa there was a blizzard in 61 that was deep. Then there was the storm in april of 73. Most places on the plains have stories of bad blizzards. Thanks for the great video.
I grew up in Belleville, IL and people always talk about the "Blizzard of '82". I was 7 years old. It was rough because no one was prepared for that much snow coming that quickly but, when put into perspective, it wasn't nearly as bad as other places.
I'm in Minnesota, my definition is sustained 30 mph + winds. Snow at this speed can be picked up off the ground. This limits visibility and creates drifts.
I often wonder how people described the sound of a storm before the advent of freight trains. Even today people say it sounded like a freight train was about to hit the house. I live a block from a train track, with several freight trains passing every day, and rarely hear more than the warning whistle at the street crossings.
Interesting point. I do wonder. I’m sure the historical record has descriptions. The only ones that come to mind are in Homers Odessey and I don’t remember a description of wind but maybe there is one. They described everything as this god or that god doing this or that. I’m going to to see what I can find
I was stationed at Grand Forks ND for 7 years. The first year I didn't think I'd survive. The 7th year I was with a friend at the rifle range, getting some target practice at -20°.
The winter of 2015-2016 saw 96 inches of snow on the ground in much of Worcester county in massachusetts. My daughter lives in clinton and the windows on the ground floor were blocked by snow from the ground to nearly the top of the windows. A six inch window was all that was visible at the top of the window. My son in law had to tunnel out of their kitchen door. It took three days to dig out the cars. Bad storms are infrequent but very memorable on occaision.
I grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, and received my master degree from the University of South Dakota in 1985. The town was moved after the floods of 1881 from the river’s edge…..up the hill to nearby bluff to near the University of SD. Though the people who lived through the blizzard are long gone, the town still remembers with memorials.
12 May 1992 I was setting up equipment on Fort Riley, Kansas. The sun shown that morning but by the time we got there we were suffering a blowing hard blizzard that made it nearly impossible to complete the job even with our gloves and inserts on. The SFC kept running out there yelling to get that antenna up. I finally offered to let him give it a shot. He went back into the tent.
Lived in Minnesota and South Dakota for about 25 years. You ain't seen a blizzard 'til you've seen a Dakota blizzard. BTW, I still keep a 0° F rated sleeping bag in my car.
You have a great presentation style. Your intonation is very good and you speak with confidence and knowledge. Your voice sounds great too. I enjoy all of your videos. Thank you. P.S. I read your info section about you thinking you read fast. I don’t have a problem listening to you, but others may have trouble because they are taking in the information for the first time. My thoughts. I was going to guess you were from Baltimore. That’s where I grew up. Have a great day!
The only single blizzards I can remember with certainty are the April 1973 storm and the Haloween 1991 blizzard in north central Iowa. Those were doozies. I'm 55 so the winters in the late 70's and early-mid 80's that hit the Midwest and nation hard are in my memories as cold and snowy. My grandparents were born in the Teens and they and most Greatest Generation people I talked to said the winter of 1935/36 was the worst in their memories. It stayed COLD all winter and the snow just kept piling up.
I am the descendant of a family that has lived in the great planes and the Canadian prairie since 1805 . Every winter for those people in those days was a challenge to survive .Personally I bloody well hate winter .
The Midwest had the 1888 "Children's Blizzard" in January. Terribly deadly and left far lasting effects. I didn't realize the Winter produced a second deadly blizzard in March.
I love your videos specially this one. I love how you Laura ingalls Wilder and I also love how you mention Michigan my home state. One small correction, Eliza Jane Wilder was Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister-in-law. Thanks for the great video
Yeah I enjoyed the snow as a kid and have missed it some as an adult. I live in AZ now, since I was 16. Listen to these stories I guess I will stay content with driving up north to enjoy the snow. So long as there are no Blizzards Forecasted.👍🏼 Thanks History Guy👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 🌟🤰🚼🐑👼👑🐪🐪🐪🎁📯🎄🎆💕
the winter of 1887-88 was very cold in NYC...most storms traveled west of the city until March...January was one of the coldest January's on record in the city...
I got caught by the '79 blizzard in Ohio. Me and Jeff were trying desperately to get his house in rural Ashland Co, but the snow was blowing so hard it stalled the engine of my pickup. We walked in total whiteout conditions for about 2 miles, we knew we were going the right way by feeling the pavement under our boots. We were then stranded for 3 days. A few days later I was there when they pulled that trucker out of his rig, buried so deep all you could see was the CB antennae . A couple of guys out on their snow machines just happened to see it.
Hey THG great Blizzard video. However I must point out that Roscoe Conkling was found at Madison Square Park not Central Park. His home was a few blocks away from that park.
There were a few pictures shown that were supposed to have been taken during the blizzard of 1881, and some of the same pictures were shown that were supposed to be from 1888. And when talking about the blizzard of 1941, one picture was shown of a modern car, from the 1990’s.
Dec. 1982 was record blizzard at Steamboat springs Co. People in cars got stranded and froze to death. My friend crashed his Beechcraft Baron trying to land at Yampa Valley Airport.😢😢
It's a shame that some take "the Weatherman" for granted. The NWS system was largely "(radar) blind" until Doppler radar was fully understood and widely adopted in the 1980's. We're so fortunate now in that at least we have some idea of what's coming and when. The "Super Outbreak"(tornadoes) of 2011 proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the NWS/NHC/and SPC know what they're doing. We had at least SIX days warning of the storm potential that day (April 27, 2011).
The older I get global warming seems more a blessing, winter hurts us poor people. One winter in west North Dakota was an eye opener,minus 50 is common, tough people.
Hurricanes, and tornadoes cause a lot more damage and are more likely with global warming. Global warming also does cause extreme cold to be more likely even if winters on average aren’t as cold.
Those who do not have time to accurately record and communicate the complexity of rapidly changing conditions of different sides of the wobbly wonky soft boiled crinkle crunchy are spinning around circling their morning star doing the same vessel
Very interesting, sir!!! I remember the episode(s) on”Little House”, depicting extreme conditions of tat horrible. Snow storm, in October! It was very finite information to imagine being cut off from every one like that, suddenly! (Now, it reminds me of 2020s COVID Pandemic isolation and difficulty finding supplies). Hope you enjoy the beauty and warmth of this season of Family, New Life and Hope! 🕊🧡🙏🙏🙏🧡🕊 “For unto us is born a Savior; Christ The Lord...”
I very much doubt it was laziness on the settler's part in 1880. Many had first year sod crops. The problem was everyone was depending on supplies via railroad.
Ok. In 2021 160 people died from heat and 106 from cold. In 2023 the number of heat death hit a 45 year record high. But globally over all more die from cold than from heat.
With climate change, we're more likely to see a repeat of the 1880 blizzard. Stalled low pressure systems become more common with the disruption of jet stream patterns. Neat!
2:08 Wow only 2 minutes and 8 seconds in there is a commercial. I wish I got paid back for the time of the commercial and the streaming time it took away from me!!
Originally from South Dakota…I really find it to be quite the miracle that my bloodline reached me…knowing all these hardships faced by the early settlers…they DO deserve to be remembered…thank you
We lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a number of years when I was very young. Being from southern climes I'd never seen snow before and boy did we see snow. Drifts that buried the first floor and we could jump out the second floor windows. Mom yelled at us because she feared we'd get buried in the snow and suffocate, but we had great fun digging tunnels through the snow.
I am a native yooper and most of my childhood is playing in the snow. I remember standing on a giant snow bank looking down on the tops of cars.
As a child growing up in Minnesota in the early 1970’s, I voraciously read all of the “Little House on the Prairie” books. “The Long Winter” was particularly shocking, as it recounted this very blizzard. We obviously had horrible winters in my childhood, but that book certainly taught me to put things in perspective. We had the advantages of electricity, snowplows, etc. etc.
I met a lady who went to college in Mankato... She had to ride a buckboard all the way from Walnut Grove..😅. Probably Took about 40 minutes Nowadays.
Here in the Massachusetts and RI we'll NEVER forget the Blizzard of '78! Devastating!
I'd also like to send a shout-out to the 1778 Blizzard. Valley Forge remembers.
I lived in Norwich, Ct in an old apartment building where there was only a sidewalk between the building and street where we parked. The snow drifted to the 2nd floor with vehicles buried in it. I moved to Alaska the next year.
Ohio here..I remember it too. It was the year after I got out high school.,cars buried till spring. '93 was bad also
That was a fun winter!
The Blizzard of 1978 was a widespread storm.. I lived in Flint,Michigan at the time and was stuck in my basement apartment for the better part of a week. Finally I had to put on the backpack and giant boots and walk to Krogers. The car was buried up to the trunk. There was a pair or cross-country skis propped against the wall, and a snowmobile pulling a trailer load of supplies. down the highway. I heard some calls on the radio & TV for volunteers with 4WD vehicles to transport patients and medical staff.
I grew up in southern Minnesota and the biggest blizzard I have ever seen was the St. Patrick's Day Blizzard in March, 1965. I remember that the driveway had snowdrifts 4 to 5 feet tall, and what wasn't drifted had a couple of feet at a minimum. My recollection is that we had officially had 21 inches of snow. St. Pattie's Day was on Wednesday and we didn't have school on Thursday, Friday, or the following Monday due to road closures. The Minnesota river had record flooding that spring. There are still markers on a few trees in the Minnesota river valley that show high water marks at least 12 feet above the roadway that runs parallel to the river. Back in the 1930's there was a major blizzard that the older generations often talked about.
We never forget those storms of our youth. There's always something wistful and magic about them. Heck even growing up in Texas I can remember the few snowfalls we had and how crazy the kids went.
By the way, the shortened form of St. Patrick's Day is St. Paddy's day from the Irish form Padraig. Pattie is the diminutive of Patricia (who is also a saint).
I was hoping this video covered the Blizzard of ‘78’, which was the only really bad blizzard I can remember hitting Indiana.
He did that video already. Brought back memories for me.
61 still thawing out from blizzard of 78
@gregbrown672 🤣🤣🤣 I hear you!
Having survived both the Blizzards of 67 and 79 in Chicago area, I can certainly relate to the plight those people went thru. I was in 8th grade in 67, my mom barely made it home from work (her car was parked almost sideways in the driveway), and my dad also barely made it. We had to shovel a path in the back yard so our German Shepherd could make it out to the yard to go potty. I walked to my friend's house, and we connected his Boxer doggo to a sled and had a great time! Both blizzards had me up on the roof shoveling snow off. I solved the snow issue in 82, and moved to Phoenix. And BTW, both times the weather people predicted "about 3-4 inches of snow".
Good Monday morning THG and all you history fans out there.
Good night my friend only 54 minutes till Tuesday morning for me lol
@@Yourmumsrectum Oz? G'day mate!
CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE !!!!😢
Good mornin!
Laurence, do you need attention? What good boy.
Living in Minnesota one has a sense of humor when it comes to weather. The worst was the Armistice Day storm. Cold, well that's a category by itself. -60° with a wind, brrr. We were riding Snowmobiles in the region at the time. We stopped for fuel and asked an old timer (there always seems to be one available) Is it cold enough for you? He said, Almost cold enough to shut the windows and turn on the heat!!! Keep up the great work, we love your channel! Dave and Deb
"Almost cold enough to shut the windows and turn on the heat!" And for some reason old timers almost always have a sense of humor. 😂
"Been swimming?" He asked the dripping wet old-timer on the beach. "Nope, been walking my pet fish." Mad Magazine c. 1960s.
LOL.....that I understand. I'm in Western Ontario around Lake Huron to the northwest and Erie to the south. Right in the Snow belt. Have fun!
Edit: Parents had a bait and tackle shop in Norther Ontario. Ice fishing in -40...brrrr!
That's one bad ass storm. Worst winters in Northern Illinois that I remember were 67 and 78. Snow was as high as the tops of the railroad cars in my area.
This was very interesting. My grandfather, who grew up in Boston, was seventeen at the time of the blizzard of 1888. He and some of his family members barely made it home that day.
Yes Good morning, 61 years old,been living in Upstate N.Y. as many I’m no stranger to snow or the storms that come with it! But after the storm it’s always an adventure to dig out 😊😉
I moved from central Minnesota to Northern New York (Lewis County). I can say my experience was MN tends to be colder, but the Tug Hill Plateau is world class for their snowfalls. I’m back in MN after 7 years…..
67 years old here. I love the snow. I can do without the cold, anything below 20. Tractor and snowblower make it easy to clear.
Growing up in upstate NY I remember the blizzard of 1977. A white Christmas was always welcomed but that year we were all stuck in our homes. Well except those of us with customers calling to shovel their driveways 🤣
@ yup that was a good storm, and was remembered as being close to the one in 1968 / 69 Christmas
@@mikewithers299 I was living in Dunkirk at the time. It was pretty bad, but passed the time glued to the TV watching how Buffalo was paralyzed.
My parents were grew up in the Red River Valley and I was born in Moorhead. They would probably have been too young to really remember the 1941 blizzard, but I grew up hearing about never leaving your car in a blizzard, parking facing into the wind (so the snow doesn't pack into your tailpipe and cause a Carbon Monoxide buildup), bringing a long-burning candle with to keep the interior of a car just warm enough to survive, .... It's a hard country in the winter. "The only things between Fargo and the north pole are three strands of barbed wire and a dead tree."
Another apocalyptic blizzard "worth remembering" is the 1949 Wyoming Blizzard.
Growing up in Texas, we always said the only thing between us and Canada was a barbed wire fence and the fence was blown over!
I'm 77 years old, and I just can't imagine what it would be like without a snowblower.
I bought my first one in my late 20's. LOL
still never owned one.
My father was a senior at Grand Meadow High School in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. There was a tradition of Grand Meadow playing Spring Valley, Minnesota in football on Armistice Day. This 1941 Armistice Day was no different but the game was called at halftime because of the weather. My father said the team was miffed as they were winning. My father said the janitor had a helluva time driving the bus back to Grand Meadow because of the blizzard.
I may be a little biased but the Blizzard of ‘77 (Buffalo NY) should be on any list of Blizzards. Measured by cold, snow, winds, deaths and economic impact it affected more people in more ways.
I will keep making videos, I promise
@TheHistoryGuyChannel Lance I thought you did that video last year.
I come from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where it gets major lake-affect snowfall that can leave entire towns buried in drifts easily 20ft deep. At least a handful of times our house was buried in snow past second story windows and it took us weeks to dig it out, only to be buried by another storm days later. I grew to really hate winters and waking up in darkness to help my father dig the driveway out for him to get to work -- he shovelled the snow off the top and I came behind w/ an ice chipper to break up the half an inch to an inch of ice on the driveway. Finally moved away from there to Huntington Beach, CA in the winter of '69/'70 and thought I had gone to paradise, as the locals were wearing sweaters and jackets while I sported about in T-shirts in the balmy 50 degree weather.
Ope.. you ended up missing the blizzard of 78. 46 years later and it still gets talked about.
I miss the blizzards from my childhood, but I know that as an adult they'd suck because of the responsibility
I remember the winter storm dubbed “Snow Jam ‘82” that struck the City of Atlanta, as well as, many other southern states and their cities. Snow, being infrequent in the south, had the effect of paralyzing the city that had no snow removal equipment. Interstate highways and surface streets became impassable as most cars and trucks only had radial tires wholly unsuitable for winter travel. There are photos of I-75 littered with stranded vehicles unable to move; their occupants forced to walk the rest of the way. I was attending school in south Georgia at the time when the temperature dropped so low that the campus water fountain, though still flowing, was a mountain of ice. In the wake of this storm; Atlanta and many other cities purchased equipment and resources in order to be more prepared in the future.
DFW airport was closed down not too long after it opened (Jan 1974) for lack of snow removal equipment. That was remedied quickly.
I survived the blizzard of 78 in South Eastern Wisconsin
In SW Iowa there was a blizzard in 61 that was deep. Then there was the storm in april of 73. Most places on the plains have stories of bad blizzards. Thanks for the great video.
April 73 was BAD in north central Iowa.
64° Outside right now. So thankful! 😅
@@briansass9551 and that is ABOVE zero, lol
I love this guy
So, this video is NOT about the delicious Dairy Queen frozen treat, in all its varieties? Oh well, I will watch regardless.
I grew up in Belleville, IL and people always talk about the "Blizzard of '82". I was 7 years old. It was rough because no one was prepared for that much snow coming that quickly but, when put into perspective, it wasn't nearly as bad as other places.
Very good BEST OF. Gracias.
Wind chill kills. Better to dig into a snowbank and wait out the storm than trying to walk. Like being in an igloo.
shelter is what is needed then, any shelter
I remember my parents calling really cold winter storms - Blue Northerners. They would have remembered the one in 1941.
The "Great Blue Norther" of 11/11/11
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I'm in Minnesota, my definition is sustained 30 mph + winds. Snow at this speed can be picked up off the ground. This limits visibility and creates drifts.
Thank you History Guy
The accounts from people who lived through this are absolutely haunting. Makes you wonder what stories from today will be told 150 years from now.
I often wonder how people described the sound of a storm before the advent of freight trains. Even today people say it sounded like a freight train was about to hit the house. I live a block from a train track, with several freight trains passing every day, and rarely hear more than the warning whistle at the street crossings.
Interesting point. I do wonder. I’m sure the historical record has descriptions. The only ones that come to mind are in Homers Odessey and I don’t remember a description of wind but maybe there is one. They described everything as this god or that god doing this or that. I’m going to to see what I can find
Roaring howling and wailing. Makes sense. And of course there’s a Greek god whose voice it was for them. 😊
I was stationed at Grand Forks ND for 7 years. The first year I didn't think I'd survive. The 7th year I was with a friend at the rifle range, getting some target practice at -20°.
'67, 78 in Chicago were doozies
I hadn't seen it that bad, since the Anita Bryant concert...
29:50 ish...."the temperature was 33 degrees and dropped to minus 70"
THG is just awesome🤠
The winter of 2015-2016 saw 96 inches of snow on the ground in much of Worcester county in massachusetts. My daughter lives in clinton and the windows on the ground floor were blocked by snow from the ground to nearly the top of the windows. A six inch window was all that was visible at the top of the window. My son in law had to tunnel out of their kitchen door. It took three days to dig out the cars. Bad storms are infrequent but very memorable on occaision.
Most of the snow fell from mid january till mid march. A12 inch storm every three days .
13:34 Midwesterner’s risking their lives to make sure neighbors have food. 16:39 New Yorkers charging money to climb down a ladder. Keep it classy NY
Fair point
Hahaha. So true.
Great video. Thanks.
G-ma had to climb out the second story window to do chores on the ranch.
The last gasp of the Little Ice Age!
I remember the blizzard of '93. No work for a couple of days. Nothing like these stories. Whew!
Thank you!! Always always informative and pleasant to watch. Although some topics sad to consider. But that’s History.
I grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, and received my master degree from the University of South Dakota in 1985. The town was moved after the floods of 1881 from the river’s edge…..up the hill to nearby bluff to near the University of SD. Though the people who lived through the blizzard are long gone, the town still remembers with memorials.
Back when Extreme weather conditions weren’t blamed on humans. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
12 May 1992 I was setting up equipment on Fort Riley, Kansas. The sun shown that morning but by the time we got there we were suffering a blowing hard blizzard that made it nearly impossible to complete the job even with our gloves and inserts on. The SFC kept running out there yelling to get that antenna up. I finally offered to let him give it a shot. He went back into the tent.
It makes me cold just thinking about it.
Lived in Minnesota and South Dakota for about 25 years. You ain't seen a blizzard 'til you've seen a Dakota blizzard. BTW, I still keep a 0° F rated sleeping bag in my car.
You have a great presentation style. Your intonation is very good and you speak with confidence and knowledge. Your voice sounds great too. I enjoy all of your videos. Thank you.
P.S. I read your info section about you thinking you read fast. I don’t have a problem listening to you, but others may have trouble because they are taking in the information for the first time. My thoughts. I was going to guess you were from Baltimore. That’s where I grew up. Have a great day!
I might speak like an easterner, but am midwest through and through.
@ That’s interesting!
Maybe this was the winter that almost kept Santa 🎅 from his Annual ride across the world 🌎
Thankfully Rudolph saved the day
@danahashcroft9482 As only red nosed Gringo could! I enjoy watching Rudolph every Holiday season!
It's insane to think that farmer's hadn't harvested their crops.
What did the jalapeño say in the blizzard?
I'm a little chili.
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It’s too early for a dad joke.
@@bevnfred Never!
That was worth a thumbs-up…
oof..
The only single blizzards I can remember with certainty are the April 1973 storm and the Haloween 1991 blizzard in north central Iowa. Those were doozies.
I'm 55 so the winters in the late 70's and early-mid 80's that hit the Midwest and nation hard are in my memories as cold and snowy.
My grandparents were born in the Teens and they and most Greatest Generation people I talked to said the winter of 1935/36 was the worst in their memories. It stayed COLD all winter and the snow just kept piling up.
I am the descendant of a family that has lived in the great planes and the Canadian prairie since 1805 . Every winter for those people in those days was a challenge to survive .Personally I bloody well hate winter .
The Midwest had the 1888 "Children's Blizzard" in January. Terribly deadly and left far lasting effects. I didn't realize the Winter produced a second deadly blizzard in March.
I love your videos specially this one. I love how you Laura ingalls Wilder and I also love how you mention Michigan my home state. One small correction, Eliza Jane Wilder was Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister-in-law. Thanks for the great video
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Yeah I enjoyed the snow as a kid and have missed it some as an adult. I live in AZ now,
since I was 16. Listen to these stories I guess I will stay content with driving up north to enjoy the snow. So long as there are no Blizzards Forecasted.👍🏼
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Wind mills and solar panels wouldn't stand a chance with this kind of weather!
22:36 Sounds like an early form of the Internet where if a message can't go directly, then a detour is found until the message arrives.
the winter of 1887-88 was very cold in NYC...most storms traveled west of the city until March...January was one of the coldest January's on record in the city...
I got caught by the '79 blizzard in Ohio. Me and Jeff were trying desperately to get his house in rural Ashland Co, but the snow was blowing so hard it stalled the engine of my pickup. We walked in total whiteout conditions for about 2 miles, we knew we were going the right way by feeling the pavement under our boots. We were then stranded for 3 days. A few days later I was there when they pulled that trucker out of his rig, buried so deep all you could see was the CB antennae . A couple of guys out on their snow machines just happened to see it.
Hey THG great Blizzard video. However I must point out that Roscoe Conkling was found at Madison Square Park not Central Park. His home was a few blocks away from that park.
So many tragedies
How about the blizzard of 1948? My Dad's construction company sent equipment and operators to work the blizzard.
Eliza Jane Wilder was Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister-in-law, not her aunt.😊
Lazy lousey Liza Jane. Is that how it went?😂
Eliza Jane Wilder was Laura’s sister-in-law, not aunt.
Great storm of March 1993 should be on the list.
Dear History Guy,
Is it ever okay to wear a bow tie with a turtleneck sweater, or is that just unthinkable?
Thank you for all you do. 😊
The blizzard of 49 here in Nebraska was pretty bad too.
There were a few pictures shown that were supposed to have been taken during the blizzard of 1881, and some of the same pictures were shown that were supposed to be from 1888. And when talking about the blizzard of 1941, one picture was shown of a modern car, from the 1990’s.
Photos of actual events are not always available.
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Oh. Ok. That explains it!
Not a fan of "best of" videos cause I've watched em already but here your view and comment good sir
@@J.A.Smith2397 I understand. But many have not seen much of the catalogue. I usually post them when I am traveling.
The winter of 2006 , our daughter was at Oswego , lake effect snow buried campus in 14’ had to go get her they dug tunnels to get out 😂
Blizzard of 1941 Moral: stay with your car. it breaks the wind and it is easier to find than a person in a blinding snowscape.
Someone said that it was cold as Hell ! I could believe that. Brrrr
No. Indiana in ‘78 was legendary…especially when your are a 6year old
Weather box has a good video on that storm
Dec. 1982 was record blizzard at Steamboat springs Co.
People in cars got stranded and froze to death.
My friend crashed his Beechcraft Baron
trying to land at Yampa Valley Airport.😢😢
It's a shame that some take "the Weatherman" for granted. The NWS system was largely "(radar) blind" until Doppler radar was fully understood and widely adopted in the 1980's. We're so fortunate now in that at least we have some idea of what's coming and when.
The "Super Outbreak"(tornadoes) of 2011 proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the NWS/NHC/and SPC know what they're doing. We had at least SIX days warning of the storm potential that day (April 27, 2011).
Starting to sound like the blizzard of 66 in North Dakota! That one was a doozy!
36:55 that is my hometown
Nice!
The older I get global warming seems more a blessing, winter hurts us poor people. One winter in west North Dakota was an eye opener,minus 50 is common, tough people.
Hurricanes, and tornadoes cause a lot more damage and are more likely with global warming. Global warming also does cause extreme cold to be more likely even if winters on average aren’t as cold.
heat kills far more people
We had never had a blizzard before 1985
5 year old then for me ! driving thru mountains of snow 10 feet over the truck! 😂
Those who do not have time to accurately record and communicate the complexity of rapidly changing conditions of different sides of the wobbly wonky soft boiled crinkle crunchy are spinning around circling their morning star doing the same vessel
I wonder why we no longer have winters like these.
Bro that blizzard tho
My favorite blizzard is the Royal New York Cheesecake.
Very interesting, sir!!! I remember the episode(s) on”Little House”, depicting extreme conditions of tat horrible. Snow storm, in October! It was very finite information to imagine being cut off from every one like that, suddenly! (Now, it reminds me of 2020s COVID Pandemic isolation and difficulty finding supplies).
Hope you enjoy the beauty and warmth of this season of Family, New Life and Hope!
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An old Buffalonian gives you a two thumbs up for this report.
And silly people today think extreme weather is a modern phenomenon. 😅
Anybody else see a common thread in these stories, weather?
I very much doubt it was laziness on the settler's part in 1880. Many had first year sod crops. The problem was everyone was depending on supplies via railroad.
There’s a reason I hate cold weather! You can always get cooled off but once you get cold it’s like every cell in your body is freezing!
I don’t know the statistics, but I bet more people die in the heat than in the cold in modern days. I’m going to look it up.
Ok. In 2021 160 people died from heat and 106 from cold. In 2023 the number of heat death hit a 45 year record high. But globally over all more die from cold than from heat.
With climate change, we're more likely to see a repeat of the 1880 blizzard. Stalled low pressure systems become more common with the disruption of jet stream patterns. Neat!
This is why the IPCC use 1880 - 1910 as its Base for "climte".
37:14 how many years older than his son?
you know what history guy I really hope that this video was not like the same thing that spring poem was. get prepared people.
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Wow only 2 minutes and 8 seconds in there is a commercial. I wish I got paid back for the time of the commercial and the streaming time it took away from me!!
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Wow!! Again!! Just over two minutes later!!! Sigh. Come on!! Are you that hungry?!?
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Alright. I’m out. Your eating too much of my time with the commercials. Your going to have to eat someone else’s lunch.