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The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, [2] or Children's Blizzard, [3] hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths , it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.
In mid-January 1888, a severe cold wave passed through the northern regions of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains of the United States, then considered to be the northwestern region of the nation. It led to a blizzard for the northern Plains and upper Mississippi valley where many children were trapped in schoolhouses where they froze to death.
Blizzard Category 4 March 12–16 — 993 hPa (29.3 inHg) Storm — October 23–28: 9 inches (23 cm) 955.2 hPa (28.21 inHg) Blizzard — December 25–29: 36 inches (91 cm) 960 hPa (28 inHg) Blizzard Category 2 2011 January 8–13: 40.5 inches (103 cm) — Blizzard Category 2 January 25–27 — — Blizzard Category 1 January 31 – February 2
The Great Blizzard of 1888. ... It left 12 states and Washington, D.C. in states of emergency in January 2016. The two to three feet of snow across the East Coast was joined by powerful winds that ...
January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school. January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. January 19 – The Battle of the Grapevine Creek, the last major ...
Starting on Jan. 31 of that year, snow began falling in the Windy City harder than ever before. ... the snow bank to catch a bus on Michigan Ave. during a blizzard in Chicago. According to an ...
On January 12, 1888, a blizzard hit Verdon suddenly. Students in the township's school, located about a mile north of town along the railroad tracks, were stranded. A rescue party was organized and went to the school with a wagon set on the tracks. A human chain was formed and successfully ferried the students back to town safely on the wagon. [10]
One of the most recent blizzards in Chicago took place on Feb. 1-2, 2011, when over 20 inches of snow piled up in Chicago.The powerful storm responsible for the blizzard also dealt wintry weather ...