This day in history: The Great Blizzard of 1888 began on this day along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people. This was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Snow fell from 10 to 58 inches in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and sustained winds of more than 45 miles per hour produced snowdrifts in excess of 50 feet.
Many modern alarmists don't know that the 1880's experienced some of the most storms and hurricanes in recorded American history...long before we had SUV's to blame them on.
"The 1880s were the most active hurricane decade for the United States, with a total of 25 hurricanes affecting the nation...The least active decade was the 1970s, with a total of only 12 hurricanes affecting the American coastline. A total of 33 seasons on record passed without an Atlantic hurricane affecting the country—the most recent of which was the 2015 season. Seven Atlantic hurricanes affected the country in the 1886 season, which was the year with the most United States hurricanes." Source
"In my opinion, the idea that we human beings are creating bigger hurricanes is wildly implausible. The sun-earth system of physical forces and the earth’s own system of forces have to overwhelm anything we might be doing. This thinking is based on the size and strength of those earthly forces that we have always been exposed to on the planet going back 1000s of years: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifts in solar activity, huge ice ages, asteroids hitting us, wobbling in our orbit, changes in the earth’s tilt, changes in the positions of the continents and seas, and changes in Earth’s molten core."~Michael S. Rozeff
