Grand Cities’ forgotten tornado of 1887
June 15, 2012 at 2:21 pm in Grand Forks Herald
A trio of meteorologists document a violent storm that occurred 125 years ago todayIt killed eight, injured 100 and caused an estimated $60,000 in property damage, or about $1.6 million in today’s dollars. Yet it has been largely lost to the collective memory of area residents. No plaques remember its victims. No history books attested to its destructive power.
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“Grand Cities’ forgotten tornado of 1887″
I thought the “Grand Cities” crap was over and done with years ago.
“The book was aimed to debunk the theory that tornados cannot develop, “above the tornado belt,” an imaginary line where tornados supposedly could not form north of. The line was drawn at the border of North and South Dakota and cuts Minnesota in half. ”
Why is a modern book needed to debunk that theory, when Fargo and Hatton have had tornadoes within living memory? If Fargo didn’t debunk the theory, Hatton certainly did. I have every expectation that there have been many tornadoes in North Dakota. What’s to debunk?
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Personally saw the one that hit Antler on July 4, 1965. That’s a heckuva lot further north than either ‘Grand City’.
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Perhaps you should read the article again, and perhaps a third time. It’s ok to be slow.
If you would do that, and perhaps a page or two of the book, you would realize that this is not a current myth that you are so blindly criticizing. This is what people believed in the late 1800′s at the time that the tornado happened. The article references a map, again, made in the 1800′s where tornadoes supposedly could and could not form
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Perhaps you should read the article again, and perhaps a third time. It’s ok to be slow.
If you would do that, and perhaps a page or two of the book, you would realize that this is not a current myth that you are so blindly criticizing. This is what people believed in the late 1800′s at the time that the tornado happened. The article references a map, again, made in the 1800′s where tornadoes supposedly could and could not form. Everybody and their brother knows this is not in reality the case. You forgot to mention the EF5 in Manitoba a few years back. So your brainless claims are unwarranted and absolutely incorrect.
Like I said, next time actually read before you go complain.
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I’ll type slow so you don’t get confused.
OF COURSE the myth is ancient. Anyone with near-normal intelligence can understand the historical proof of tornadoes farther north than the ND/SD border.
Point is, the –BOOK– is not disproving the myth, because the myth was disproven to any rational person based on evidence of decades ago.
And yet, THE TEXT OF THE ARTICLE, which I quoted, is claiming the aim of the book is to disprove that myth…
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Northwood had an EF4 tornado in aug 2007 and another on 8 miles west of Northwood a couple years ago. Not Hatton.
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Whoops. You’re right. I was wrong.
Concept is the same. Plenty of tornadoes north of the SD border.
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grand forks(lower case) has a history of coverups.. This does not surprise me…
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That book was really good. Not only does it talk about the tornado, but it talks about the founding of Grand Forks. Worth the money.
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Some of us are from here, and we know tornadoes are here. Its people who aren’t from here who act like tornadoes don’t exist here. Its weird.
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