I love that you created this into a family business. I grew up working in my dad's liquor store and I learned a whole lot more about history from the old-timers there then I would have in any classroom.
There is a recent winter with a similar storm to one of those in 1880-81. The first storm of the winter of 2007-08 came in November, and dumped a whole winter's worth of snow in about 8 hours here in Ottawa. A couple of hours into Quebec it was worse. They were losing 2-story houses in the drifts. But we only got one storm like that in that winter, not storms like that one after the other for the whole winter.
Last month I was watching bios of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family and they contributed the fact that her younger sisters never had children to the lack of nutrition they sustained for such a long time during a critical period of their development. A result of that storm that no one would have anticipated.
The Mars Society and the combined SETI and Mars Institute both decided to build an arctic research station because there's an impact crater on Devon Island that's one of the better approximations of the surface on Mars on Earth. Devon Island is a large island immediately south of Ellesmere Island, where Lady Franklin Bay is located. No attempt to build overwintering facilities was attempted at either station. (The reason is that the summer is when the conditions most closely match the conditions on the parts of Mars that are intended to be the targets of early manned exploration, near the Martian equator. The winters are much harsher in the subarctic than things ever get on the Martian equator.)
I moved from New York to NC 20 years ago and the winters in NC are extremely mild compared to the North East but there was always at least a dusting. This was the first year in my life that I haven't seen a single snow flake.
From very NW Montana, we pray for a deep snow pack , makes fire season shorter 🤠. My distant relatives moved from Minnesota to Oregon in 1880, maybe the snow chased them out, they were farmers. I lived in North Pole Alaska in 91 and Trinidad Colorado in 97, both really heavy snow and cold years and your right, we mostly had power and the roads were cleared in a couple days, they did close the hwy from Eilson Air force base to to just north of Anchorage for most of the winter. But they flew in supplies to the different communitys
It's 3-3-2023 I'm walking my dogs Steve the town I live in and I can't help but notice although it's very nice right now you could even say typical March weather there are salt trucks prepping the road for the snow storm that's headed this way. And honestly I don't, Chicago has had an unbelievably mild winter. It's actually a little disappointing.
This is incredible history. I have one comment to make though...a correction. Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder. Eliza Jane Wilder is the sister of Almanzo making her the sister-in-law of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane's aunt. At the 6:04 point, there was a mention of Eliza Jane Wilder (Thayer Gordon) being Laura's aunt. Unless there is some other info that I don't know - I believe I am correct. Love your channel!
If anyone is interested and haven't read it, Admiral Richard E. Byrd's book "Alone" is about his time at an Antarctic outpost, in 1934, where he spent nearly half a year alone, so not just dealing with living in a very hostile environment, but how to remain sane when his only contact with other people was by radio! Today, an explorer could do something similar, yet it would never be the same, with communications, transportation and our knowledge of the world all being so far advanced compared to then.
I love that you created this into a family business. I grew up working in my dad's liquor store and I learned a whole lot more about history from the old-timers there then I would have in any classroom.
Glad to see family working together, especially father and son..
You sure can tell that your son is your son! Y'all sound so much alike! 😄
There is a recent winter with a similar storm to one of those in 1880-81. The first storm of the winter of 2007-08 came in November, and dumped a whole winter's worth of snow in about 8 hours here in Ottawa. A couple of hours into Quebec it was worse. They were losing 2-story houses in the drifts. But we only got one storm like that in that winter, not storms like that one after the other for the whole winter.
Last month I was watching bios of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family and they contributed the fact that her younger sisters never had children to the lack of nutrition they sustained for such a long time during a critical period of their development. A result of that storm that no one would have anticipated.
The Mars Society and the combined SETI and Mars Institute both decided to build an arctic research station because there's an impact crater on Devon Island that's one of the better approximations of the surface on Mars on Earth. Devon Island is a large island immediately south of Ellesmere Island, where Lady Franklin Bay is located. No attempt to build overwintering facilities was attempted at either station. (The reason is that the summer is when the conditions most closely match the conditions on the parts of Mars that are intended to be the targets of early manned exploration, near the Martian equator. The winters are much harsher in the subarctic than things ever get on the Martian equator.)
Accustom yourself to hardship. For by doing so, adversity has but a little sting.
I moved from New York to NC 20 years ago and the winters in NC are extremely mild compared to the North East but there was always at least a dusting. This was the first year in my life that I haven't seen a single snow flake.
Lucky. We've had a pretty low snow this year in Alberta but we've gotten a couple inches this week.
Last summer was far too dry. No wild nuts and fruits to speak of in MO.
We got all your rain and snow out in the West. Thank you, we needed it.
From very NW Montana, we pray for a deep snow pack , makes fire season shorter 🤠. My distant relatives moved from Minnesota to Oregon in 1880, maybe the snow chased them out, they were farmers. I lived in North Pole Alaska in 91 and Trinidad Colorado in 97, both really heavy snow and cold years and your right, we mostly had power and the roads were cleared in a couple days, they did close the hwy from Eilson Air force base to to just north of Anchorage for most of the winter. But they flew in supplies to the different communitys
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It's 3-3-2023 I'm walking my dogs Steve the town I live in and I can't help but notice although it's very nice right now you could even say typical March weather there are salt trucks prepping the road for the snow storm that's headed this way.
And honestly I don't, Chicago has had an unbelievably mild winter.
It's actually a little disappointing.
This is incredible history. I have one comment to make though...a correction. Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder. Eliza Jane Wilder is the sister of Almanzo making her the sister-in-law of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane's aunt. At the 6:04 point, there was a mention of Eliza Jane Wilder (Thayer Gordon) being Laura's aunt. Unless there is some other info that I don't know - I believe I am correct. Love your channel!
Thanks for all the good stuff you guys are really good bub
If anyone is interested and haven't read it, Admiral Richard E. Byrd's book "Alone" is about his time at an Antarctic outpost, in 1934, where he spent nearly half a year alone, so not just dealing with living in a very hostile environment, but how to remain sane when his only contact with other people was by radio! Today, an explorer could do something similar, yet it would never be the same, with communications, transportation and our knowledge of the world all being so far advanced compared to then.
Thank you for being my coffee maker early in the morning
No matter what you have experienced, one hundred miles up is worse. This universe really really wants to stop you.
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26th, 28 February 2023
Nice! A Good morning listen with my good morning coffee :)