The Blizzard of 88

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A collection of narratives from survivors of the Blizzard of 1888, which dumped 50 inches of snow across the northeast over a 2-day period. When I was a kid, my grandparents had an elderly neighbor (she died at 104) who had lived through the storm in Connecticut. She told us how her father dug a tunnel from the house to the barn to feed the animals and of people who froze to death in the storm.

#Nonfiction2022
Prompt: I‘m a Disaster

Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Wow! That‘s some ingenuity! 2y

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Amiable

The Blizzard of 88 | Mary Cable

Hunkered down in my house for the Blizzard of ‘22 seems an appropriate time to start this one. ❄️❄️❄️

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Blueberry

The Blizzard of 88 | Mary Cable

#snowstorm #namastenovember @Eggs

Eggs Great choice! This may have been the same winter of which Laura ingalls wilder wrote in

The Long Winter

Blueberry @Eggs I believe so. Also in Giants in the Earth. I have read up about it because I saw in genealogy reports that I had ancestors die in it. 4y

Crazeedi @Blueberry @Eggs I read a book from a series set during this blizzard too. People died on the streets 4y

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NataliePatalie Hope the snow here this Winter doesn't look like that 😬😬😬 4y

Blueberry @Eggs I watched a interview on CSpan by the lady wrote Prairie Fires about Laura Ingalls Wilder. She said The Long Winter was in 1981. They must have had a series of crazy bad winters! 4y

Eggs Yes @Crazeedi they‘d get lost on their way to the barn!! 4y

Eggs @Blueberry there was Indian wisdom (as reported by Charles Ingalls) that every 7 years was a deadly winter, but the 7th 7th in a series was the worst/deadliest 4y

Crazeedi @Eggs that's probably a true thing. They knew 4y

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