1888 Blizzard Essay

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One of the most tragedies disasters are on January 12, 1888 a blizzard in the center of the North America. That blizzard hit the settlers coming from Europe to the North Dakota, and South Dakota to search for an opportunity to acquire farmland there. The storm killing between 250 -500 the factors that made the higher number of death from that blizzard due to the several factors including a failure technology for alert system, bad luck, and bad timing.
During 1888 that time weather forecast does not exist from that time period a turning point in the history of technology meteorological was limited as there no satellite images are displayed in television or broadcast weather in the local radio device for the region and limited contact as the only way to contact that time was by telegraph. All of these can be explained by the lack of knowledge,
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Farmers after three decades of cropping land that was desert and that was their dream at the time the piece came to those snowstorm and lost dreams they did not know the vagaries of climate, soil, and they put their faith and trust in the land that love. Farmers arrived after their work quickly was not violent temperament we teach our volatile climate of the sky. They were not aware of the risks there is no warning there was a telegraph office and the railway but it was far from them driven back to some of the messages to warn them of what might happen No one knows what will happen after that morning and when it came to the snowy wind coming from the north-west winds filled the atmosphere with snow white, what happened after that are frozen the children between the grass and under the snow and the storm blew off the roofs of houses and Fuel carried from homes out and shacks fell cattle and cows, farmers lose

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