Reddit reviews The Children's Blizzard

Ya'll weathergeeks should read the book The Childrens Blizzard. In 1888 a body of low pressure was stuck up in Canada that keep building and building energy until it "broke" and slid down the east side of the rockies at more than 100 mph. Towns further east suffered the most casualties because children had gone to school on the unseasonably balmy day, only to be overtaken by the storm within a matter of seconds. What you will read will truly haunt you and leave you with a new understanding of nature and will.

It's not just about the storm, but extremely in-depth accounts of early immigrants, governments, and the first meteorology services in the country. 12/10 would recommend.

Is this related to the book The Children's Blizzard? I haven't read it yet, but it's one of the books on my list of "shit I plan on reading at some point".

Read [The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Childrens-Blizzard-David-Laskin/dp/0060520760)

or look at the wikipedia page about the same storm, the blizzard of 1888

We've done a lot to mitigate the damage from blizzards already by giving people a heads up that a storm is coming.

What eventually happened was the US government realized the need for weather forecasting.