Armistice Day Blizzard, Excelsior Blvd., West of Minneapolis. Minn. Historical Society photo, NOAA.
Wednesday, Veterans’ Day or Armistice Day, is the 102nd anniversary of the end of World War I. But in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, it is remembered as the 80th anniversary of the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940, which was responsible for taking 145 lives. Here are two previous posts about that blizzard: