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Mar 14, 2015 · The blizzard started on Sunday Jan. 2, 1949 and proved the worst of the century. The first storm would be followed by two more months of snow and bitter cold. The National Weather Service eventually reported 12 people dead in Wyoming after the first storm. Twenty-eight more died in western South Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska.
Though the Jan. 2-5 Blizzard of 1949 paralyzed North Platte with 15 inches of snow, the city was punished again at winter's end with a bookend March 29-30 blizzard that dropped a total of 17.7 ...
Memories melt over the course of 70 years, but the Winter of 1948-1949 looms large in the minds of those who endured it. Twenty Nebraskans and thousands of livestock animals perished. Roads that drifted shut in mid-November remained impassable for five long months. So much stifling, smothering snow fell from November to April that survivors ...
In a fateful winter spanning from November 1948 to February 1949, a barrage of blizzards unleashed havoc across the Northern Great Plains. As snow descended from the sky, the ground was transformed into treacherous barriers, burying houses and bringing train tracks to a standstill. The dire situation reached a tipping point when millions of ...
The winter of 1948-49 brought Nebraskans the most prolonged battle with the elements in the state’s history. Harl A. Dalstrom’s “I’m Never Going to Be Snowbound Again,” in the Fall/Winter 2002 issue of Nebraska History magazine, is a detailed examination of the winter and its effect on Nebraska. The first snowstorm hit November 19 ...
Just as the Nebraska economy was settling down after the war, the blizzard of 1948-49 hit. Its magnitude staggers the imagination. It was the worst blizzard in recorded history. A series of storms began in November of 1948 and continued straight through to February of 1949.
Jan 18, 2023 · Jan 18, 2023 Updated May 23, 2023. The 1948-49 blizzard left over 75,000 people marooned and close to 34,000 miles of roads impassable. See photos of how Nebraska weathered the storm.
