Storm of the Century - the Blizzard of '49

i wish this channel make great documentaries ever again!

One whole minute about one tribe of SD Indians in this documentary. It goes to show you how disgusting white people still are about human beings who look differently than us. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

I was 6 years old in Laramie & remember trying for a week to dig out the clothesline, snow was deeper than the posts, so Mom could hang laundry out. Wind would fill in all I did the day before. Stubborn kid I was!

I watch this to go to sleep, my grandparents were in Idaho during this time , for some reason this broadcast calms me missing my daughters every night they’re at their moms . 💜 💜💜 thanks for helping me sleep .

Damn, this music sounds and awful lot like interstellar. Interesting.

All's I can say is at least one thing you got this one right 🤫

This is the American spirit .. may not say hi to you today but tomorrow your in need I got your back.. million air or bumb I’ll help you. GBA..

I’ve been in Wyoming snow storms .. you can die in hours.. don’t ever go past Evensten without a full tank and 3 days of food..

They still got those drift fences next to the highway?? Used to wonder what those were as a kid.

I got hung up in Mount Shasta for 30 hours.. even with chains I could not move.. I was a trucker with 12 hour duty day.. think I abided buy that ?? When i finally got free I drove 200 more miles to get home. So happy to be out of there dident even ask FedEx for my overtime pay. Just glade to be on dry roads again and on my way to my house. Man I sleep good that night.

I got hung up in Mount Shasta for 30 hours.. even with chains I could not move.. I was a trucker with 12 hour duty day.. think I abided buy that ?? When i finally got free I drove 200 more miles to get home. So happy to be out of there dident even ask FedEx for my overtime pay. Just glade to be on dry roads again and on my way to my house. Man I sleep good that night.

Ok … mr weather man I ain’t stupid but you wave your hand across a map and Say we got a troff here .. I have no idea what your talking about. Just tell me if we’re getting rain or sun and the expected temp. Do the cows need to go in the barn??

Grew up in Portland Maine.. sometimes we had snow drifts half way to our roff..couldn’t even open front door. Us kids though it was pretty cool .. dad left his car running all night so he could get to work in the morning. Today I wouldn’t even try to go to work.

74 years ago and the tree huggers are saying it’s our fault for what we’re doing today.. we‘ve had EPA regs in place for decades..we’re trying.. A power plant today puts out nothing compared to a 100 years ago. I remember in 1960 the snow was black on top. That don’t happen today.

climatic change makes these areas even colder, so get used to these pictures. YOU will experience it.

$1 million in 1888 would be worth $23,876,190.48 today.

My father in law told stories of the train plows and rotaries going through the cuts and running into herds of animals that had taken refuge. It was horrific.

Incredible

My grandma was pregnant with my father during this storm, my Dad was born on April 22 in Laramie WY 🙏🏼

They had architecture of a weather model. That’s way more than I expected.

I just Can not believe that we now have to sign in to watch this Documentary!

Since it is only mankind that creates climate change, I wonder what they were putting into the atmosphere in 49 to cause this! We must ask these questions if we believe the experts!

I find meteorologist are still wrong and have bo clue whats coming. I live in Montana and id say they are right 10 to 15 percent of the time

This storm was similar in ferocity to the one that trapped the Donner party in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Historians say it snowed and snowed and snowed for weeks

Watching about a once in a Gen event during one....imagine that. It feels like 3 degrees in south Mississippi and I'm glad I'm down here

Wouldn't want the death and destruction but a blizzard like this would help dried out lakes and rivers

As for such a notable winter storm strangely still no relevant Wiki article. Very well made, very interesting document about the true weather horrors that nature hides in her arsenal.

man made storm

This is just your average winter in Labrador

The thing I find sad is that the farmers must known soon that it was going be bad why didn’t they bring there cattle in to barns or bring them near to there home

I had to go back and replay the section that said the men shoveled at 1 mile…. Per hour…. That is absolutely insane. That’s back when men were men…

I was a storm of 49 baby...born in January 49 in Hollywood with snow on the ground in SoCal.

How interesting that "only the Elk" made it through the Blizzard of '49 better than any of the other animals. I've traveled to Wyoming and have seen the Elk and also Caribou and they are awesome creatures.

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Here at 7,994,472 views.

Weatherman has been wrong all these years

we had storms like this in Wisconsin when I was a girl.

Different time, Truly different!!

I certainly can identify with what these people had to go through. Those of us in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana lived through the same type of Blizzard in 1978. It is an experience that I will never forget.

Thank you for putting this on!
Just look at the foolishness of electric vehicles. We need to be prepared.

Oreo Blizzards are nice.

HATS OFF.....

When we get big storms now it's because of so called global warming. Was there global warming back in '49?

There was the snow storm in La Jolla California San Diego California January 1st 1949 and again in January 1st 1967. I was there for the storm in 67 and saw the history related in the newspapers then. Snow covered the ground little more than a dusting of a Midwest type snow storm where I grew up. It was memorable and fun.

I’m sure a lot of us lived through 78.. I was 8
My older brother left his car on the middle of the highway and walked home along w many others.

Can you imagine the wokes getting through that , ha.

I guess they should have thought of all that carbon they were putting in the air to cause such climate change.

Had to be global warming.