Malicious Storms In History: The School Children's Blizzard

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

In conclusion, the abominable, execrable weather instigated all the hardship during this day. As the snow swarmed the plane gloating, as it deliberately tried to bring it down, which it accomplished. Also, the water vexed over and over again to sweep away the people and take their lives. Notwithstanding, the wind participated in the destruction the plane and death of passengers. All in all, the elements did everything they could to hurt the plane and

Portraying the storm as a natural occurrence allows for the fact that human shaping of the environment plays a hand within the storm. With highlighting the storm as a natural disaster, blame is misplaced. The human shaping of the disaster at hand is lost and not acknowledged within the media representation. Within the media representation, there is no talk of how the hurricane came about or what could have caused it. The article simply accepts the hurricane as something natural and always plausible.

The sick or those thought to be sick were discarded, even children were not immune to this inhumane treatment. “This disaster had struck such fear into the hearts of men and women that brother abandoned brother…and – even worse, almost unbelievable – fathers and mothers neglected to tend and care for their children as if they were not their own” (203). Europe’s attitude became very much indifferent to the sick and dying, there was no religious or fate elements just simply self-preservation. These civilizations responded to their natural disasters in occurrence with how the lived as a society.

However there was some leaves and limbs in the roads, minimal flooding, and one thing that I found most disgusting is the mushy dirt from all the rain but still nothing major. Shockingly the power was still on in my area, but not for long. While processing the clutter from the storm all of a sudden there was a loud explosion. The fuse box on one of the light poles had blown. Personally, I was so scared, to see the sparks falling and the flames starting I thought for sure this uncontrollable fire would break out and everything was going to burn down.

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?”.

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.