Comments on: The Great Blizzard of 1899: Deep South, Deep Freeze

By: Sam Price

Sam Price — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:43:31 +0000

I live in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Am researching the Great Blizzard of 1899 in the local newspapers. Never heard of it. It was amazing. I note above someone from southwest Missisippi wanting information. Please contact me.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:45:38 +0000

Dallas, Texas recorded -8F in the 1899 blizzard…Dallas’s second-coldest day was just -2 in 1949. That shows how unusual it was.

By: whiteout

whiteout — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:28:36 +0000

I like blizzards almost as much as i like men

By: Naince

Naince — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:22:48 +0000

I remember a friend had parents living in Miami in
about 1976 and their swimming pool froze solid. We live close to Lake Lanier and all the coves were frozen and there was ice about 5 to 6 feett out from all the shorelines. We had several inches of beautiful soft and fluffy snow on April 1, 1983 in Hall Co above Atlanta. Then we had the blizzard of 1993. Back in the late 1950s we had snow every Tuesday night for 3 weeks in a row and school would be closed until Monday. We would go to school Monday and Tuesday and get up on Wesnesday morning with a foot or more of snow.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:40:33 +0000

8-o, an omigod! smiley

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:10:20 +0000

My family grew up in an area of southwestern TN near the Tennessee River. My Dad who is 80 yrs young, told us stories from the “old folks” of a time when the river froze so solid that they could drive a mule team with a loaded wagon across it. I wonder if this was that time.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:08:57 +0000

I grew up in a very rural area outside of Gainesville, FL and I still live there. I was 7 in ’85 and man do I remember how utterly cold it was. We didn’t have central heating or AC so we all slept in front of the fireplace to stay warm. I made a tiny snowman that my mom kept in the freezer for the longest time for me. I’ve only seen snow twice in Florida.

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:23:24 +0000

It has been a mild winter here in Sagle Idaho. The higher elevations have recieved the right amt of snow for snoshoing, skiing,and winter sports, but not enough to suit the people who love the winter sports. But for those of us who are not southern birds, its been cold, and the frost is deep this winter, it will take the ground a long while to thaw.
I am afraid our growing season will be shorter than usual. Wish I had a green house.

By: chellemac333

chellemac333 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:01:57 +0000

I remember the extremly cold winter of 1985 in Florida. My husband, I and our two little boys lived in Central FL near Orlando. It was so cold that we had to buy winter coats for the first time. All the orchards froze, they turned on the sprinklers to coat the orange trees!
It was beautiful and bizarre at the same time.