The 1948-49 blizzard left over 75,000 people marooned and close to 34,000 miles of roads impassable. See photos of how Nebraska weathered the storm.
Houses west of Imperial were almost completely covered in snow. Occupants of this house tore the screen off the window in order to get in and out of their home.
Journal Star file photo
A. small town in western Nebraska looks likes a ghost town after the entire population made a mass exodus before roads were blocked.
Journal Star file photo
Unable to get around by automobile, Lorene Hickok, Mrs. Hickok and brother Verne Hickok used a horse-drawn wagon to make their milk deliveries.
Journal Star file photo
Bulldozers participating in Operation Snowbound cleared patterns on the Nebraska landscape in an attempt to reach and save stranded people and cattle.
Journal Star file photo
Farmers in western Nebraska had to uncover their chicken houses from a blanket of snow that hit the state in 1948.
Journal Star file photo
Pilot Don Higgins perches atop the chimney at the Lester Goodrich farm home, where he answered a distress call.
David Madsen wasn’t reported missing; he had left his lodge for a solo day trip. It wasn’t until his bill went unpaid three days later that staff reported him missing.Â
