June 3, 2021 • 14 mins
The Northwest plains have weather that is not for the faint of heart. Even this past year a prolonged arctic outbreak struck the area and the Farmer’s Almanac predicted a snow train coming down from Canada.
The Children’s Blizzard is also known as the Schoolhouse Blizzard or the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard.
In the 1940s, a group of seniors organized the Greater Nebraska Blizzard Club to collect and organize survivors’ stories to try and record the sense of sheer terror of that day.
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