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Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Great Fire

Written on Friday, May 17, 2013 by Franklin D. Leupp, Sr.
With that title one could be thinking of many conflagrations in the history of the United States. Surely California bursts to the top of the chart; and what about the Great Chicago Fire? There are too many to even think about, and along with fires, come floods, hurricanes and other disasters that have been with us from the beginning. Before so many dams were built along large rivers and tributaries to control flooding and provide hydroelectric power, damaging flooding was an annual occurrence along the Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi, Red River of the North, as well as many others, and some still remains. Man cannot control everything………Beginning in the fall of 1871, extreme drought was pervasive throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois especially and precautions were limited concerning fire danger…..The fire was so extensive and so hot, estimated to have reached up to 2000 degrees, that it literally wiped clean everything in its path. Houses, buildings, and whole cities were wiped clean. Records were destroyed; infrastructure gone. In terms of lost lives, only estimates are available but it is, to this day, the worst disaster in our collective history, with the numbers of dead and missing estimated to be around 2000. Even the Chicago fire of the same time, though gaining more news, was far less destructive than the Peshtigo fire......To Read More.....

Editor's Note: I posted this historical account because if this happened today you would see headlines all over the country spouting nonsense about global warming and how this was going to be happening all over the world on a regular basis....and the talking heads of the electronic media would be going apoplectic over it....them and loony Prince Charlie of England. 

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