That Time Chicago Sent a Trainload of Snow to Florida

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

How one girl’s dream for a snow day came true during the infamous blizzard of 1967.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.0	What school's...
0:05.0	Who decides what the next...
0:07.0	Where's that story?
0:08.6	Why they keep the look?
0:10.6	What is this?
0:12.9	It's Curious City.
0:14.3	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:19.9	Logan Jaffe, Curious City's multimedia producer here. Every time it snows in Chicago, the region, and its people. Logan Jaffe, Curious City's multimedia producer here.
0:23.2	Every time it snows in Chicago, I dream about Florida.
0:27.4	But I can tell you, come wintertime, there are Floridians dreaming of Chicago, too.
0:33.0	I was one of them.
0:34.6	I grew up there, a kid without a snow day, stuck with the hurricanes and
0:40.2	mosquitoes while the rest of the country made snowmen and had snowball fights. And I felt
0:46.2	left out. So when I saw this question come into Curiosity, I thought this one is for me. It's from
0:53.2	a classroom of fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina
0:55.8	who wanted to know about the quote,
0:57.9	snow surplus from the Chicago blizzard of 1967,
1:01.9	the biggest snowstorm in the city's history.
1:05.5	They heard that some of the snow was somehow shipped down to school kids in Florida,
1:10.4	and they wanted the full story,
1:12.3	the who, the why, the how.
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