EP 176 - The Children's Blizzard

The blizzard ripped the roof off a schoolhouse. What happened?

A fierce blizzard swept across the US Midwest, ripping the roof off a schoolhouse. Minnie and her students trudged through the snow and wind, in an attempt to reach a nearby farmhouse. Did they make it?

Hosted by - Ana Thomas (a teacher from Australia)

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Sources -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQtkEoOdJwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memRHo1ia7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKwiC78_cM

https://www.greatdisasters.co.uk/the-schoolhouse-blizzard/

https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-january-12-1888-schoolchildrens-blizzard-strikes-great-plains/

Find a Grave

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1888-01-18/ed-1/seq-8/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKlD3VH10E – Nebraska song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGkh1W5cbH4 – blizzard sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vplX-qr4AIE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard

https://www.weather.gov/unr/1888-01-12

https://www.minnpost.com/minnesota-history/2013/01/125-years-ago-deadly-children-s-blizzard-blasted-minnesota/

https://americacomesalive.com/weather-at-its-worst-the-schoolhouse-blizzard-of-1888/

https://www.getepic.com/book/40297083/the-childrens-blizzard-of-1888

Laskin, David - The Children's Blizzard, Harper Collins New York, 2004.