All Hell Broke Loose

I loved this book even though I wasn't alive during that time. I am a substitute teacher and I often read excerpts of it to my students. They love to hear the stories of survival and people helping other people in difficult times-like the story of the school bus that was stranded and all the children that stayed at a farmhouse for several days.

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This book will stay in your memory for years! I keep a copy near me and often relate a story or two from it. There are lots of stories from people from all walks of life in Minneapolis and surrounding communities. Many towns and farms and places are described. If you live around here, you will recognize many of the places. The stories that touched me the most had to do with the rural farmers - some readily accepted stranded guests and some did so reluctantly. Many risked their lives in saving people. Some people were prepared for the blizzard, but most were not. Some were struck with tragedy, and some with a lot of good luck! It is fun to relate to your children some of the hardships that people in the 1940's had to go through during the winter back then and they might like to hear some of these stories during a rare "snow day" that we have now and again here in Minnesota!

I highly recommend this book. I picked it up at my grandparents' house and couldn't put it down. It tells the personal accounts of a devastating, unexpected Minnesota blizzard that caught hundreds of hunters out on what was expected to be a beautiful, mild Indian summer day. The details are memorable: women caught wearing sandals in the snow, people taking hours to walk 2 blocks, and more. This book is one of those valuable record-keepers of Minnesota history. Thanks to the publisher for publishing it.