No Quarter The Armistice Day Blizzard
Winter doesn’t officially begin until late December, but it seems that Old Man Winter doesn’t own a calendar, because some of the deadliest blizzards in U.S. history have struck during the month of November. One of the worst November storms of the last century fell on November 11, 1940, during the Armistice Day holiday (which is now recognized as Veteran’s Day). On a day set aside for celebrating the end of a devastating World War, the weather was anything but peaceful across the Midwestern United States, as a cyclonic blizzard cut a swath 1000 miles wide through the center of the country, from Kansas to Michigan, blanketing the region in more than two feet of snow....