LUDINGTON, MI - For Great Lakes mariners, sometimes the difference between having your own epic tale of survival to tell - or having someone else tell your story - really just comes down to being ...

LUDINGTON, MI - The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot ...

It was the day of the Armistice Day Blizzard ... of warning is what made it so deadly. Since then, weather predicting has changed and a storm of this magnitude can be predicted days in advance.

"In 1940, weather forecasting wasn't 24/7/365 like ... Nearby, the third freighter lost on Lake Michigan during the Armistice Day storm was the William B. Davock, a 420-foot steel steamer bound ...

1940 Armistice Day Blizzard ... hand account of surviving this deadly storm that led to Minnesota finally getting the power to forecast its own weather.

FARGO — The infamous Armistice ... in the heavy snow and falling temperatures. In Lake Michigan, 66 sailors drowned as numerous freighters and other small boats were sunk. The storm came on ...

Seventy five years ago Wednesday, Mankato residents were planning a giant parade on what started out as a balmy day ... blinding snow.” A total of 154 deaths was blamed on the storm, which ...

The Armistice Day storm and another, on March 15, 1941, led Minn. Gov. Harold Stassen and U.S. Rep. R.T. Buckler of Crookston to excoriate the Weather Bureau for its inadequate warnings and lack ...

Armistice Day 1940 dawned drizzly but mild ... Chastened by its spectacular failure to warn of such a massive storm, the weather service reexamined its policies and procedures, created additional ...

Because Armistice Day — now Veterans Day — fell on a Monday in 1940, the Mississippi saw a high turnout of waterfowlers that day. With a rumored weather ... of the storm were realized, the ...