Disasters Of The Century | Prairie Storm 

My family is from south of Weyburn .... on the Montana border. People who have never seen the prairies can't understand how cold these blizzards can be. We always left cars and houses unlocked not because "we don't need to worry about theft", but because a locked door could be a death sentence for a neighbour or traveller in distress. You don't know what remote and lonely is until you've seen southern Saskatchewan. It's a great place to come from..... tough place to make a life. Great story and I miss this series. 👍

That poor horse. He didn't deserve to be out in that

Can't see anything and keeps driving his car until he hits a parked truck. Even drives through a town without knowing it. Brilliant.

Reminds me of my idiot dad driving home from work in the Blizzard of '78 instead of staying put. He got within a mile of home before the drifts across the roads were too deep, then parked his Buick in a farmer's field at the top of a hill where the wind sweeps it bare a and WALKED home in the dark. He is so, so lucky he found his way and didn't get buried. Those old farm roads in Pennsylvania and other places on the east coast are 300 years old, so they've worn down 10-15 feet deep below the banks, and the snow blows across and fills them in like glaciers in a valley. And then you have a long driveway that can be half a mile back into the fields or woods before you reach the house. We were snowed in for a week before the plows came, no power for several days, but we had a camp stove in the garage and a wood fireplace, so we were fine. Except we had to find his car and dig it out once the blizzard passed. And that was rural Pennsylvania. I've been across the Canadian prairie and seen the snow fences, lived in Boston, and my parents moved to Utah, so I know snow, but.... only just enough to know how strong those winds are. I can just barely remember horse and sled when I was a kid... winters are too warm in Pennsylvania now for that; I wonder if they still work in Canada.

Disasters of the Century aired when I was a preteen, and I watched it religiously. This show is nostalgic for me, and I get a bizarre comfort from it

I drove through the Blizzard of 1996. Scariest thing I ever did. I had never until then experienced a white out. That is very frightening. It really was like a hurricane.

Humans still don't learn.. there was a big storm that blew through my province the other day, and a group of wind surfers thought it'd be a great time to go out. Didn't realize how bad it was going to get.. one guy got knocked out from hitting water hard (they tried to beat the storm to the shore.) and had to be hospitalized. I'm thinking.. if there is a wind warning in effect, I don't think that's the kind of wind you want.. not to mention storms can move in faster than you can run o-o Never underestimate a storm. Better to be wrong and be fine than to be wrong and die. RIP to all the people who died..

Where I live in Australia we never get snow even though it gets very cold in Winter. I can't even imagine how horrific it would be to get totally lost in a blizzard and be so close to your home without knowing it. This was a great video thanks heaps for posting. Take care from your Aussie friend Ann xoxo 🇦🇺👏💖

This storm sank a lot of ships on the Great Lakes. Not as many as the 1913 storm, but still a lot of ships.

Always a pleasure when I see you've out up a new video, even if I don't get to watch them right away.

I love these, thank you for uploading and making them!

You learn from childhood in Saskatchewan to keep essentials in your vehicle, only taking them out for a few summer months, then back in they go. Drove through the worse winter driving in my life in March 1997 from Regina home in north central Sask, so yes March can be an iffy month weather wise in our beautiful province!

"It's been a wonderful day making soap" .... so innocent.

Winter is never officially over until the 1st of July. And summer is never over until December.

I live in alberta right under galgary in lethbridge! Very interesting to know but also very sad R.i.p to all those who lost their lives

these episodes are great. please upload more. tnx

"...couldn't see nothing, so we just kept going..."

This is why I keep my gas tank full, a wool blanket and rain ponchos in my trunk year round.

My Grandpa's aunt survived this. She was from calgary

Loss of human life is tragic. But curious, did horse also succumb?

Oh my gosh these are beyond sad. Every single story tugs on my heart especially when the little ones are involved. You do an AMAZING job by the way!!

“It was a horse we went to school with, we thought she should have known her way home!” I’m impressed….our horse couldn’t even acquire his GED.

I learn a lot by watching these videos. 👍

Never underestimate the weather.

What about the horse?! What happened to the poor horse?!

Poor people in a whiteout so close to shelter, very sad.🙏

There are at least three major lessons here: 1. Take the weather forecast seriously, especially weather warnings. 2. If a blizzard comes up and you are in any kind of adequate shelter, stay there if all all possible. 3. Related to the second point, don't leave the shelter of a vehicle to search for a house, since the nearest one could be a few miles away.

Being home sick from school, I would be watching Disasters of the Century and Unsolved Mysteries. This channel is a relaxing breath of nostalgia

What happened to the horse? It was a big draft horse, if the reenaction is correct, and maybe it was ok. Wish I knew, poor horse lost in the storm. I was working at a hospital in the blizzard of '78 but we were way off the bus line so you had to walk about 3/4 mile down to the stop at the end of the line. We couldn't get out and relief staff couldn't get in so we stayed until a few staff straggled in the next morning. The man I was going to get a ride with couldn't find his car, I mean he really couldn't find it. You couldn't even see where the parking lot was, so we walked out since the main road was plowed by then. There wasn't a soul in the area and we were getting pretty cold and figuring no bus was going to come when we saw snow flying up over one of the snowbanks. The little diner that was there was actually open since the owner hadn't been able to get home and it was crowded. It was full of cops drinking coffee and eating donuts, lots of donuts! Getting home was tricky, I literally had to "swim" up our driveway since the snow was to deep I couldn't reach the ground with my feet, but I went out again later. It was a beautiful day and everyone was having a blast and making snowmen and moving groceries and kids on sleds some even drawn by big dogs that people had. Every now and then you would see an aerial sticking up and you knew there was a car in there somewhere but there wasn't even a bump in the snow. One of the best days of my life.

I guess the horse died too...

I wonder if they’ll ever do an episode on the coronavirus. Always heed weather warnings!

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Reminds me of the movie " day after tomorrow".......

That has always bothered me about the weather, how when it's spring it will still have what I call "winter flashbacks." It also likes to wait until the last minute before it gets ugly, as opposed to doing so in Dec & Jan when it makes more sense.

How did the horses fair in the blizzard?

Great docamentry

Did their horse die too?

live in stupid places, win your stupid prizes