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The Fargo Forum from March 18, 1941, days after one of the deadly Ides of March Blizzard. The Forum
FARGO —On March 15, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor was still more than eight months away, the big-band music of Glenn Miller, Harry James and Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey was taking over the radio and the Upper Midwest was about to see a beautiful spring day turn snowy, windy and deadly.
The Ides of March Blizzard that struck from March 15-17, 1941, ranks as one of the worst in the Red River Valley's recorded history and one of the most disastrous ever nationwide. Over three days, the storm claimed the lives of 72 people, including 38 in North Dakota, 28 in Minnesota and five in Canada.
In an article commemorating the 75th anniversary of the storm, the Grand Forks Herald summed up the horror of the storm: “The blizzard slammed into the valley virtually out of nowhere with the force of a tornado or a hurricane and turned what had been a bright, sunny, warm spring-like day into a raging nightmare.”
