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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (187915)12/6/2009 1:52:43 PM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (3) of 225578
 
Amelia..........I am reading a book called "The Children's Blizzard" and thought you might be interested. It is full of information about the early Weather Department, how it operated, and how difficult it was to forecast weather. The author goes into great length to describe how weather reports were first reported and how much early Americans........especially farmers.......relied on those reports. The interesting thing about the book is it goes into great detail in describing the characters........who they were, what role they played in decisions and the egotistical tug of war going on between amateur and "professional" meteorologists of the time.

The blizzard of 1888 killed hundreds of people..........mostly children who were at school when it suddenly hit, and the author describes those children, theirs and their families backgrounds and what it must have been like to be caught in the circumstances that led to the catastrophe of what is also know as the "Schoolhouse Blizzard."

amazon.com

en.wikipedia.org

Many of these states were just United States territories at the time:

* South Dakota (territory)
* North Dakota (territory)
* Nebraska
* Minnesota
* Montana (territory)
* Wyoming (territory)
* Idaho (territory)
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