Wind blew 'great guns' in killer Thanksgiving blizzard of 18

It’s remembered as the Thanksgiving blizzard of 1896 because it struck Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, but the winds howled for three days and the temperatures plunged below zero after the storm passed.

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