Blizzard of 1941

[My Good Babushka]

In 1941, a March blizzard struck the Midwest claiming 151 lives. Temperatures dropped 14 degrees in 15 minutes. There were white out conditions with 85 m.p.h. winds. In North Dakota, a 75 year old man froze to a telephone pole 50 feet from his front door. Two teenage girls wandered onto railroad tracks and were struck by the Northern Pacific train. The engineer didn’t know what had happened until he found one girl’s body frozen to the cowcatcher.