The Children’s Blizzard - David Laskin Audiobook
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Read by Paul Woodson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: May 10, 2016
Duration: 09:34:02
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By Friday morning, January 13, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled.
As Laskin writes in this gripping chronicle of meteorological chance and human folly and error, the School Children’s Blizzard, as it came to be known, was “a clean, fine blade through the history of the prairie,” a turning point in the minds of the most steadfast settlers: by the turn of the 20th century, 60% of pioneer families had left the plains…. Their stories of bitter struggle in the blizzard, which Laskin relates via survivors’ accounts and a novelistic imagination, are consistently affecting. And Laskin’s careful consideration of the inefficiencies of the army’s inexpert weather service and his chronicle of the storm’s aftermath in the papers (differences in death counts provoked a national “unseemly brawl”) add to this rewarding read.—Publishers Weekly
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
October 20th, 2023
Sad story. And proof that the climate is constantly changing.
October 20th, 2023
The sad story here is that some people believe–or pretend to believe–one blizzard is proof of climate change.
October 20th, 2023
This blizzard was in 1888. Long before Al Gore invented Climate Change.
October 20th, 2023
Thank you!
October 20th, 2023
“60% of pioneer families had left the plains…”
There are some places where people were never meant to live. At least not in great numbers.
The far Outback and central Australia is another example. Apart from Alice Springs with about 31k people and Broken Hill with about 17k people, there no other town with more than 4k.
October 21st, 2023
Never heard of this, such a sad event. If this happened today, all the climate lunatics’ would be screaming CLIMATE CHANGE!!
October 22nd, 2023
It wouldn’t be just one blizzard today which is why it would be called climate change versus a meteorological chance that was unprecedented.
Thanks for the upload!
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