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Posted: 15 Feb 2022

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 Dinesh
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Early on the morning of January 16, 1882, Greely watched with fascination as the barometer fell quickly and a brisk southwest gale started to blow, first at just four miles per hour, but increasing every hour. By 11.00 a.m. it was blowing nearly wenty, and Greeley sensing a significant storm cycle forming, ordered reading taken every fifteen minutes. By noon the wind had shifted to the north-east and was howling at fifty miles per hour. Greeley ordered two men at a time, buttressing each other in the gale, to make reading while shielding each other’s faces from the biting snow. Tidal reading were also done in pirs, Greeley employing a “buddy system” because of the dangers involved of falling down the steep embankment, as had happened to Gardiner.

By afternoon the freak storm became like a hurricane, with winds screaming at sixty-five-miles per hour. It took six of the strongest men, ass roped together, to make it to the observation huts to take the reading. Brainard said they were driven back by the wind’s force, and “the air was so full of snow which adhered to firmly that a full cast of the face could be taken after a few moments exposure.” . . . In the next few hours, the sustained, violent wind gave way to intermittent gusts that hammered at the walls at up to ninety miles per hour. ` Page 47

LABYRINTH Of ICE
4 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
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Similar conditions expected here tomorrow night, Storm Dudley, and Friday, Storm Eunice. The Wrath of Eunice will be greater. “ For God’s sake, look after our people.”
4 years ago.

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