Neighbors Laughed When She "Buried" Her Cabin In A Hill — Winter Proved It Was Genius скачать в хорошем качестве

Neighbors Laughed When She "Buried" Her Cabin In A Hill — Winter Proved It Was Genius

In 1887, Clara Vogel stepped off a train in Nebraska with $47, three children, and no husband. When she started digging her home into a hillside, neighbors called her foolish. A hole in the ground, they said. Her children would freeze. Then came January 12, 1888—the Schoolchildren's Blizzard. Temperatures plunged to 42 below zero in hours. 235 people died across the Great Plains, most of them children caught in the white-out conditions. But Clara's children woke the next morning alive. While her neighbors' homes bled heat into the killing wind, Clara's earth-sheltered dugout held steady at 31 degrees—warm enough to survive without fuel. She had bet everything on one principle: the earth six feet down stays 52 degrees year-round. This is the true story of a widow who couldn't afford to build wrong, and the forgotten science that saved her family when fire couldn't.