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Children of the Storm

The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy

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Children of the Storm

By: Clark Secrest, Ariana Harner
Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
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The story of twenty schoolchildren on the southeastern plains of Colorado, fighting for lives that had just begun....

Imagine being one of twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, stranded in a makeshift school bus for thirty-three hours, during the worst blizzard to hit Colorado in over fifty years. The gripping narrative of Children of the Storm leads you through this haunting experience.

The morning of March 26, 1931, began with sixty-degree weather and students excitedly running to board Carl Miller's bus for their routine ride to the Pleasant Hill School. By the time they arrived at the pair of forlorn one-room schoolhouses, it was dark, windy, and cold—obvious signs of a spring snowstorm. Soon after, following the teachers' orders to drive the children to a nearby home for safety, Miller lost his sense of direction in the ensuing whiteout and lodged the bus in a ditch. When rescuers found the survivors a day and a half later, the blizzard had taken its deadly toll.

©2001, 2024 Ariana Harner and Clark Secrest (P)2001, 2024 Tantor Media
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