[Sca-cooks] Harvest times
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Fri May 12 01:47:04 PDT 2006
If so, then why were the trains not able to get in or out? Why were there high
snow drifts? Why did the people nearly starve and/or freeze to death? Her
account doesn't jibe with what you are saying. You should read her book, "The Long
Winter".
Huette
--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >> If memory serves, 1881 was a relatively mild winter. The really nasty
> >> one
> >> was "The Big Die of '86, that essentially killed the free range cattle
> >> industry. Some of the Worst blizzards on record are those of 1885-86 and
> >> 1886-87.
> >>
> >> Bear
> >
> > I guess that depends on where you were that year. Laura Ingalls Wilder
> > was in
> > De Smet South Dakota, which she wrote about in her book The Long Winter,
> > where
> > snows and blizzards started in October 1880 and didn't stop until May
> > 1881.
> >
> > Huette, who grew up with those books...
>
> De Smet didn't start keeping weather records until 1889, but Yankton
> recorded the following for 1880-81 in the Weather Service records (as lifted
> from one of the Wilders):
>
> Date High Low
>
> Oct 80 84 15
> Nov 80 67 -5
> Dec 80 64 -19
> Jan 81 36 -32
> Feb 81 52 -23
> Mar 81 44 -8
> Apr 81 79 -3
> May 81 88 38
>
> This doesn't say much about the number of storms or how long individual
> patches of bad weather hung on. BTW, the winter 0f 81-82 is one of the
> warmest on record.
>
> The winter of 1885-86 may be the worst on record for the plains. It didn't
> last as long as the winter of 80-81, but temperatures hit extreme lows (-48
> to -70 in Montana) and left frozen cattle from Montana to Texas (it's
> estimated 50% of the cattle on the plains died). Curiously, the Dakotas
> appear to have been less affected than places further west and Chicago was
> only an average 3 degrees below normal.
>
> Bear
>
>
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