Armistice Day Storm 1940

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I hunted the South Platte river in eastern CO as a kid with my dad. When the cold weather hit the river would be choked with ice coming out of the mountains. It was no place for our lab or us kids wearing rubber hip boots.

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Lots of articles on that 1940 storm.  My Dad was 11 and talked about that storm with great reverence.  The weather during the Fall of 1940 was uncharacteristically warm and pleasant.  That beast of a storm is the same one that took out the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge on November 7th.It was ravaging the Upper Midwest on November 11th.  So many went to duck hunt with only warm weather gear totally unprepared for the Blizzard.  Good read with many articles at refugeforums.com/threads/49-duck-hunters-perished-today.484868/  As a duck hunter this storm really intrigues me.   

Several Books on the Subject  - https://www.amazon.com/All-Hell-Broke-Loose-Experiences/dp/188237696X

More Articles -

A Deadly Day for Duck Hunters by Chris Madson

The Icy Winds of Death - https://www.iowadnr.gov/portals/idnr/uploads/Iowa Outdoors Magazine/Hunting/files/IcyWindsOfDeath.pdf 

Armistice Day 1940:  The Storm Remembered by Sean Valentine as printed in the Nov/Dec 1985 Issue of The Minnesota Volunteer

Death on the Mississippi - Winona Daily News 11/13/40 as printed in the Nov/Dec 1990 Issue of The Minnesota Volunteer

The Icy Winds of Hell -https://www.mprnews.org/story/2000/11/10/the-winds-of-hell  

In the Eye of the Storm: Recollections of the Great Blizzard of 1940 by Steve Penick