Episode 31: The Storm that Took the Midwest by Surprise: Armistice Day’s Deadly Blizzard

It’s easy to take weather forecasting for granted, especially given the difficulties with producing accurate forecasts, but at least we almost never get surprised by big storms. That wasn’t true in 1940, when an unusually warm November day turned deadly. In this episode, I tell the story of the Armistice Day Blizzard, a massive

By |2023-11-27T17:41:40-05:00November 1st, 2023|Podcast|Comments Off on Episode 31: The Storm that Took the Midwest by Surprise: Armistice Day’s Deadly Blizzard

Episode 6. Twin Tragedies: Cholera and Fire Devastate St. Louis in 1849

In 1849, St. Louisans must have wondered what they had done so wrong to deserve suffering through two terrible tragedies. Steamboats brought cholera to the city, triggering a deadly epidemic that would ultimately kill thousands of people. In the early waves of the epidemic, a steamboat fire on the levee got out of control

By |2022-09-14T14:41:56-05:00September 14th, 2022|Podcast|Comments Off on Episode 6. Twin Tragedies: Cholera and Fire Devastate St. Louis in 1849
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