![]() ![]() Both places saw violent wind conditions and extreme temperature drops. 8, shifting from Medicine Hat, Alberta, to Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. A massive cold air mass had formed around Jan. ![]() What the settlers did not know - could not know, because the Army Signal Corps chose not issue a Cold Wave warning the previous night - was that a dynamic blizzard was just then sprinting across Montana and northern Colorado. “It was a beautiful day for mid-winter and no one even thought of what a change an hour’s time could bring,” wrote Nobles County native Morton Bassett in a personal collection of pioneering stories. ![]() Norwegian immigrant Knut Knutson made a run to Rushmore, Minn., for extra supplies. Johnny Walsh, a 10-year-old farmer’s son in Avoca, Minn., walked a mile to go visiting at a neighbor’s house. Erik Olson, a Swedish bachelor farmer in Beaver Creek, Minn., took off on a half-mile walk to his strawstack, to get the raw stuff for the twisted-straw sticks he burned for heat. Many settlers jumped at the arrival of fine weather. Carl Saltee, a 16-year-old Norwegian immigrant in Fortier, Minn., remembered that “on the 12th of January 1888 around noontime it was so warm it melted snow and ice from the window until after 1 p.m.” ‘A beautiful day’ ![]()
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