First freeze of the year for us out there at the moment, which will probably blacken the nice green elephant ears in the rancho’s front flower bed.
But this is mild (only 30 degrees) compared to the one that walloped Tulia, Texas this morning back in 1899. Forty thousand cattle dying overnight? Yipes.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged 1899 Big Freeze, Texas, Tulia
Not the ongoing snow/sleet/rain/cold event, but the Big Freeze of 1899:
“On this day in 1899, Tulia, Texas [south of Happy, “the town without a frown” in the Panhandle], reported the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state–minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit. This was part of the ‘Big Freeze,’ an infamous norther that killed 40,000 cattle across the state overnight.”
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Posted in Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged 1899, Big Freeze, Texas, Texas State Historical Association, Tulia
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