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    Posted: 20 hours 38 minutes ago at 8:44pm
 Saw Something neat on YouTube today. They were talking about the winter of 1886/87. Temperatures were -60 degrees + windchill. Ranchers those free ranged cattle lost 80% of their herds that winter. One guy who was an engineer had studied the weather and saw that a severe winter was predicted had built an underground shelter capable of holding 300 head. They said after that winter ranchers built more shelters for cattle to prevent winter loss. I wonder if there are any of those underground shelters in existence today?
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Points: 1946 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DanWi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 hours 37 minutes ago at 9:45pm
Sorry no. Was watching YouTube on the the smart TV earlier. Posting from my phone now. Just search North Dakota winter 1886
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i cant imagine doing all that by hand...
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Points: 1946 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DanWi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 8 hours 36 minutes ago at 8:46am
I was wondering about the labor to create something like that? Did they have any kind of steam shovel or bulldozer in the 1880s otherwise it would have taken many men to build this. And you would wonder how long it took? That part they didn't say. It said he was studying the weather patterns when he decided to build this. So did he build that year before winter?
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apparently the winter of 1886 was a bad one for most of the US....Consider what it would take to DIG that hole... feed needed for 2-300 cattle... confined shelter space ... where to get the water... how to get rid of POO ....... this might just be a  GOOD STORY ! Wink
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Clearly an AI video. There is getting to be a lot on YouTube these days
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My Cousin died in that blizzard as he went out o barn to check on livestock , never made it back to house - found his remains after weather cleared and wife went looking for him .
 His brother came over from Germany to settle his estate and stayed on in the US - he married his brother's widow a couple years later - that branch of family still resides in Southern MN around New Ulm MN 
 My side of family ended up a few years later moving to Canada where now most of direct  relatives live .
 My side of family farmed around Big Stone Co MN (Madison area) then moved to S Dakota - my great Granddad had invested in the US also and on a trip over from Germany ended up passing away in S Dakota and buried there at a town that no longer exists .
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