Grace

Busy Blowing Blizzards!  Hi, my name is Grace and I live in [|St. Louis], Missouri and go to [|MICDS] school in Ladue. In my geography class, we are making small websites with information on natural disasters and severe weather events. The purpose of this site is for our 5th grade class to show how geography impacts how people live their lives. All the information on this wiki is from websites provided by our teacher and the information from the books in our school's library and in our 5th grade science books. I choose blizzards for my severe weather event. Try not to get blown away by busy blowing blizzards! Click here to see our MICDS weather station! []

media type="custom" key="12337242"

media type="custom" key="12337284"

Blizzard Current Event Grace 5G2 __Killer blizzard hits Colorado__ by Seven K. Paulson, Feb. 3, 2012, ABC News, [|ABC News Source]

An awful blizzard hit Colorado. It was the most powerful storm of the winter. It snowed six inches on Friday and it snowing at about one to two inches per hour. This was great for the ski resorts because of all the snow. People were stuck in traffic and the visibility was nearing zero. All transportation was pulled to a stop. Some 600 flights were canceled due to the storm. The reaction from the people of Colorado was complete shock, while the ski resorts there say it’s one of the best things that have ever happened. The blizzard also hit southeast parts of Wyoming, western Kansas and Nebraska. The ice and snow made driving hard as far south as New Mexico.

Two important facts I learned that how hard it’s snowing during a blizzard can change over how long the blizzard goes on. Another fact that I learned was that some blizzards can move from place to place. This blizzard is on its way east. This story is important to science because it can help scientists figure out how a blizzard moves and why. It can also help meteorologists find out more information on why this blizzard was so bad and why it only moved east instead of going west.

 Click the blizzard button below to check out my awesome Power Point on Blizzards!

 Historical Blizzards [|The Blizzard of '96] The blizzard of '96. A blizzard so bad, it covered 20 states, killed hundreds, and trapped millions in their homes. The blizzard covered Washington, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and Colorado are just a few of the 20 states hit with the blizzard. In Fountain Hill, Virginia, a 60-year-old man pushed his70-year-old neighbor for accusing him of dumping snow on his car and the man fell and died. But the main reason so many people died during the blizzards is not because of slipping; but by heart attacks triggered from Sisyphean shoveling. Sisyphean shoveling is endless shoveling.

[|FEMA natural disasters] The blizzard was unexpected, so not very many people were prepared. The people who were not prepared for the blizzard should have had rock salt, thicker blankets, a good supply of wood, snow shovels and snow removing equipment, and a radio or television to find out any information on how long the blizzard will be. The blizzard was unexpected, so not very many people had the required preparation needed. Multiple people did not have one of the most important things; an emergency kit. If the hundreds who died during the storm had all of the items needed, more that half wouldn't have died.

Resources Used [|FEMA natural disasters] Storms And Hurricanes By Kathy Gemmell: New York: Scholastic Inc. September 1996 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">WEATHER: Nature in Motion By Anne Ohman City of Publication: Washington D.C: National Geographic, Summer 2007 <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">LeMone, Margaret A. “Blizzard” World Book Vol. 2. Chicago: World Book, 2007 <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">[|The Blizzard of '96]