Natural Disaster · 1888

The Day It Went From Sunshine to -20 in One Hour

On the morning of January 12th, 1888, children walked to school across the American Plains in shirtsleeves. The sun was out. By noon, the newspapers in Omaha were running the headline: Midnight at Noon.

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