Malicious Storms In History: The School Children's Blizzard

The Omaha Storm Chasers are a Minor League Baseball team founded just outside of Omaha, Nebraska in the city of Papillion. Due to the Storm Chasers being located in a high population, such as Omaha, the team can interest a larger community of fans that most Minor League teams can’t do. This outstanding Minor League team is affiliated as the Triple-A organization for none other than the defending World Series champions the Kansas City Royals, and has been affiliated with the Royals since 1969, giving the fans of the Royals a team to cheer for in Nebraska. The Storm Chasers play their games at the beautiful Werner Park, a place that provides wholesome entertainment and quality baseball games for the thousands of fans watching. This ballpark can hold up to 9,000 thrilled fans, also this unique park has a grass berm seating section in the outfield area, making the experience a little different than a regular ball game.

The reason for this is because they had no idea the blizzard was coming. In this time the weather forecasts

The article “Blizzard!” by Jeanie Mebane and the poem from “The Blizzard Voice” by Ted Kooser both portray the blizzards of 1888. For example, the first sentence of the article “Blizzard!” says “no one on the prairie was prepared for the violent blizzard” that shows the reader that it's not just a couple of inches of snow, it shows that the blizzard will be windy and there will be a lot of snow and damage, also the fact that no one was expecting it makes it a whole lot worse. Another example is in paragraph 5 “Hunt and her students were blinded by the force of the blizzard and almost immediate felt their eyelashes crust over with ice.” Even though it doesn't specifically say that it's windy you just know because of the details. Also in the

In Jim Murphy’s book, “Blizzard!” the blizzard took over most of the East Coast, therefore leading to the moral and ethical consequences towards the citizens and society. The blizzard threatened the safety of others and blocked all communication systems as well transportation systems. Due to the blockage of communication and transportation systems, separation of families and friends began to happen because they could not get to each other or contact each other. The blockage of communication and transportation systems kept New York isolated from the rest of the East Coast.

On top of that there was alarm failure and human error multiple times which we all know is never good in a situation like this no that’s not it there were high speed winds reaching almost 60

As the “black blizzard” passes through their area. They would gasp within their breathing. Also they prayed that they would be okay after the storm, because some people aren’t so lucky when it comes to storms such as the “black

If the disaster was handled differently the men could have put cloth on their faces and go outside to water the plants. If the disaster had not occurred then we would still be bad at farming. If we did not have this disaster then our crops would be poorly planted. Another thing is if the disaster had not occurred then people who lived through the disaster would have never known that they were bad at farming and kept farming that way till a bigger disaster came.

Before the Act, most farmers living in the east were renters who only borrowed land from larger owners, they had to pay taxes and split their gains. After the Act, there was a hope and realistic chance that small farmers could be counted among the landowners. Stated in The American Pageant, “rapid filling of empty spaces and to provide a stimulus to the family farm” (Kennedy 645), this quote refers to how the land was now for the common man not the businesses, the central focus is for the farmers and their benefits. The Homestead Act and a few other land policies were important in the encouragement of the settlement in areas like current day

Most children were being sent on their way home and most adults were working in their farms. The storm hit mostly rural areas in Nebraska, South Dakota, northern Kansas, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Winds were extremely high and temperatures fell to 40 below zero, the temperature dropped almost 100 degrees in 24 hours according to some accounts. The heavy snows created zero visibility. The blizzard was so severe it left trains unable to run for hours.

That was the first really bad dust storm. That we remember.”. Earl V. Stager from Castro county Texas said it was completely black and it sent birds flying for safety, people and him as well feared the end of the

Gods’ Hand in Devastation In the sixteenth century, a highly infectious disease known as the Black Plague, began to spread across the shores of Europe. The term the Black Plague was quickly recognized and feared by all Europeans. In just a short amount of time the disease had spread throughout the entire continent of Europe, killing roughly fifty percent of Europeans. Those who survived the disease were left wondering “why did this happen?”.

The Mongols were a spiritual civilization who believed unfavorable weather could be influenced by religious specialists and saw their natural disasters as god’s will. North Africans, on the other hand, viewed the black plague and other natural disasters with acceptance as they were nature’s way of recycling itself. Europe only saw fear in the black plaque and went through great costs to evade it. How a natural disaster is perceived is very much dependent on the society in which is being

The Remembrance Of The Hurricane Creek Mine Disaster December 30, 1970 is the day everything changed for 39 families in the small town of Leslie County, Kentucky. The Hurricane Creek explosion was the most deadly coal mine disaster in eastern Kentucky history, and remains the most lethal mining disaster in America in the last 45 years(Lexington Herald Leader). The Hurricane Creek mine disaster was very devastating for the families, friends, and the one man that lived that day. The coal mines play a huge role in the job industry in Kentucky. This tragedy caused the whole company to shut down, which put a lot of people out of work.

I was not aware that some people living in that time period viewed disasters as what was expected to happen in order to reach a

The Storm Lightning crashes overhead as I race back into the house, dripping wet. I was just returning back from an adventure in the woods. The storm was unexpected, even the forecasters had never expected it. Luckily, I managed to make it back inside safely.