Storms kill more people than any other extreme weather event–a reported 242,000 deaths in the 2o years to 2015. Any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5C degrees, or even 2C above the pre-industrial global temperature, as sought in the December 2015 Paris Accord, evaporated in 2017. No one knows how high the temperature […]
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Kayoed by blizzard in street brawl
Prairie blizzards were so fierce and blinding that a lifeline was once necessary between the farm house and the outhouse to avoid getting. Things were sometimes not much better in town. Shortly after his arrival at Regina, the new Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territories, Charles Mackintosh, penned a letter to a friend in […]