Blizzard - question

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They're showing this episode on Hallmark now. In the beginning Charles and Mr. Edwards are at the train station..no coat on..like it's a spring day. Now if a huge snowstorm was on it's way..wouldn't it be more colder out??

Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:00 pm

You would think so! LOL!
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:24 pm

Blizzards can come through very quickly and without notice. Even our weather is unpredictable. We went from 75º the other day to below 30º within a few hours, so if Charles and Edwards were in their shirts and no coats, and then a blizzard, it must have come in very fast. Kind of like in Laura's, "The Long Winter" when the old Indian came into the store and told them bad weather was coming in and would be there for a long time. The men thought he was crazy, but by afternoon, they knew the Indian knew something.........
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:07 pm

Exactly...blizzards may come quite unpredictabily. It must be even hot little time before they starts. My father, who grew up in a blizzard territory can tell...It was awful. But he said that the more awful of all things is the sound of the wind. It can make a man crazy...

Vanesa.
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:54 pm

There's a blizzard on record, commonly referred to as "The Children's Blizzard", which happened on the Dakota-Nebraska prairie in 1888. It says the day started out unseasonably warm and many children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, with no warning, temperatures plunged and a blizzard ripped through the area. By the next morning, over 500 people had died, many children on their way home from school.

I asked Susan McCray if the LHOP episode "Blizzard" was based upon this event, but she didn't know. She did, however, tell me that Michael often used historical events for his scripts.
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:04 am

How sad about "The Children's Blizzard"!! It's true about the blizzards coming so quickly with no warnings and many aren't prepared.

Those poor babies!!

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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:23 pm

I think the DVD bonus video on the other thread said that the episode was based on "The Children's Blizzard," but Michael chose to have it happen on Christmas Eve.
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:41 pm

The most awful of the story is when this poor boy's father died when he was looking for him. So sad...no relief possible at the end of the episode after it...I was heartbroken the rest of the day the first time I saw it... Blue

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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:50 am

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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:23 am

i lived in MN this is true.. it was june in 01
summer time that night it snowed got about 2''
so yes it can happen... remember the storm was coming from
international falls near thief river
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:03 pm

Yes it was chaged in the show to be on Christmas. The actual blizzard happened when the real Laura was 21.
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Subject: Re: Blizzard - question Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:42 pm

Well. But in her book "The Long Winter" she wrote about several blizzards and how one caught her at school and she and her classmates were almost lost in the snow.

Vanesa.
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