3/4/2007:
Although this time of the year brings much appreciated longer days and warmer temperatures, it also brings the threat of one of nature’s deadliest forces…the spring blizzard, and on this date in 1966 the Midwest was in the midst of one of the most severe blizzards of the century. When the storm cleared by the morning of March 6, people discovered 30 to 40 foot high snowdrifts, impassable roads and railroad tracks and snow-packed farm yards. All totaled the blizzard claimed 18 lives across the Great Plains, including 5 in North Dakota. One of those North Dakotans was a 5 year old Strasburg girl who became separated from her brothers walking from the barn to their house…6o feet away. She was found two days later, a quarter of a mile away…frozen to death.
Source: The Relentless Blizzard of March 1966
By Douglas Ramsey and Larry Skroch
By Merrill Piepkorn