Re: Favor Please From Weather History Buffs... Severe Winter of 1925
Posted by
BobbiStorm on 10/29/2009, 8:12 am
Not about "if" about "could" and my focus was how weather...a severe record breaking weather event affected the United States economy... in the middle of the "Roaring" 20s and that along with bad press up north negatively affected the 1926 Winter Tourist Season that was important to investors as the tourists were expected to buy up the new home sites being sold and put on the market and it was a disappointing tourist season in South Florida and the end of the boom before the first wave of storm surge from the 26 Storm hit the shore.
Read the info.. printed the info and the other info.
It's for an article I was asked to write on how weather (both tropical and not) has affected history.
I was surprised doing research how strong the winter of 1925/26 was and it is rarely mentioned. There are other years often mentioned, snowstorm that ate NY (for instance) .... It is sexier to talk about an event than a year.
Year of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane and 1935 were infamous for extremes of weather. See saw like weather...
Bad winters have been attributed to changing the course of both the Revolutionary War and the War Between the States.
Weather matters.
As you made the comment years back on your show.. That as much as we worry about terrorism and other sorts of disasters (words not exact) that weather .. disasters from hurricanes and other weather CAN be counted on always to happen.
Be it a hard freeze, an ice storm, a hurricane or a group of tornadoes... can drastically shake up our lives locally and at times globally if the crops are destroyed or there is an inability to travel from place to place.. affects the economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado
A very severe year in weather.
Didn't have anything to do with current October as
much as this October has been a cold one in many places with variations from extreme cold to warm up periods and then unseasonably cold weather.
Weather matters always, it is often an overlooked part of history on an economic level as well as how it affects demography.
Hope this helped explain where my mind was..
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