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The T-shirt is $33 and includes red and blue type announcing, “I survived the Florida Blizzard of 2025,” with a snowflake standing in for the zero in 2025.
I recently read a heartbreaking book that recounted the deadly blizzard that devastated the Midwest Jan. 12, 1888. History knows this blizzard as the children’s or the schoolchildren’s blizzard. The ...
Platte County Historical Society will present “Blizzard of 1888 — The School Children's Blizzard” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Platte County Historical Society Museum’s west building, 2916 ...
“When we read ‘I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888,’ we invited people from the Utah Avalanche Center to come do a presentation,” she said. “They made an avalanche out of flour and sand and ...
The Children’s Blizzard Jan. 11, 1888: At least 200 died, with 109 fatalities in Dakotah Territory.
The Children’s Blizzard Jan. 11, 1888: At least 200 died, with 109 fatalities in Dakotah Territory.
For many years after the Great Blizzard of 1888, a group of survivors held annual reunions calling themselves The Blizzard Club. For years, the stories were told again and again. A teacher by named ...
In March 1888, a blizzard stranded Utica's Roscoe Conkling as he attempted to travel home from work, in one of the worst blizzards in U.S. history.
That’s exactly what happened Jan. 12, 1888, when a weather phenomenon much like Elliott – a collision of cold, dry air from the north with moist, warm air from the south – struck Nebraska ...