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Iowa weather has steeper mood swings than a feisty toddler. When you live here, you get used to things like freak snowstorms in May and temperatures shooting down at the drop of a hat. In 2016, our state broke a 101-year-old record for the widest temperature difference in a single month. On Feb. 13, it was 17 below zero. Fifteen days later, it was 75 degrees F! Of course, all of these recent events pale in comparison to the legendary storms of decades ago. Here are accounts of just three of the craziest storms on record. 1. The Train-Burier of 1915 — This blizzard raged for days in the icy depths of February, leaving huge drifts and coating the state in icicles. It also wreaked havoc on the railroad. As OnlyInYourState. com puts it, “Several miles of railroad tracks were encased in ice and had to be chipped out of the snow by hand.” Trains were stranded in the snowfall along with people and cargo. 2. The ‘Great Snowstorm’ of 1973 — In most places, you’re safe from snowstorms by April, but not in Iowa! On April 8, 1973, a blizzard dropped between 15–19 inches of snow across the state. According to The Gazette, “The wind piled the snow into drifts as high as 16 feet.” The paper also reported 14 deaths, abandoned snowplows, mail delivery hiccups, and a full stop to public transportation. In Cedar Rapids, police and firefighters even used a toboggan to haul a pregnant woman through the drifts to the hospital.
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3. The Super Bowl Blizzard of 1975 — Just two years after the Great Snowstorm, another blizzard struck the Hawkeye
State. Its brutal winds whipped up snow tornadoes, and 58 Midwesterners and thousands of animals died. On the anniversary of the storm in 2015, Dickinson County Emergency Management rounded up news articles covering the event. They told stories of power lines, water shortages, and rescue missions. But there were some fond accounts, too. One paper reported a local motel was literally a port in the storm, writing, “Landlord and Mrs. Vern Drawbaugh of the Oaks Motel hosted 17 guests at a candlelight breakfast last Saturday morning, serving rolls delivered by snowmobile by Donna (Mrs. Dudley) Short of the Spirit Lake Bakery the night before.”
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