Episode 24: The Schoolhouse Blizzard

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🗓️ 26 December 2016

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The morning of January 12, 1888, towns across the Great Plains of the United States encountered relatively warm weather for an area experiencing a frigid winter. But the afternoon would bring a nasty surprise at about the same time as children were being let out of school for the day. A ferocious blizzard raced across the plains like a stampeding horse, moving with supernatural speed and swallowing those outside at the time whole before they even knew what was happening.

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1:02.1	all times mentioned are in the central time zone in the United States and all of the temperatures
1:06.8	mentioned are in Fahrenheit. And with all of that taking care of, thank you very much, and welcome to
1:14.5	disaster area.
1:22.4	Episode 24, the Schoolhouse Blizzard. Januaryth, 1888. Over 250 deceased, hundreds injured.
1:34.4	I have seen the dread of Dakota, homesteader Sadie Shaw about the schoolhouse blizzard in a letter to relatives back east.
1:45.6	Every year on Christmas, a lot of us hope for a white Christmas, but hoping for snow or
1:52.5	even just expecting snow can turn out worse than you can possibly imagine.
1:59.7	Our story today starts in 1888, or at least takes
2:02.9	place in 1888, and just to give you some idea of the news stories that were going on in 1888,
2:09.2	what was going on in the world at the time. The previous November in 1887, six men had been
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