I’ve been a trucker for 38 years now. I’m a local oilfield driver now but back when I was driving across the country many years ago during the winter months I always kept my big coat and blankets at the front of my bed in my sleeper just in case I rolled the truck over. The blankets and coat would be within my reach if I was hurt or maybe they would even fall on me. I only had one bad scare near Pierre, SD about 18 years ago when my fuel gelled up and my truck stopped running in a terrible blizzard. The interstate was shut down in both directions and I was all alone out there in the night. I was already terribly sick with the flu and couldn’t stop coughing. I’m still here thanks to the good Lord above. At least we all know those kids are in Heaven with the Lord and their parents are with them now. Nature will always rule over our lives and we’ll just have to adjust to it.
I grew up in Michigan, lived in the thumb of MI at the time, farm country...many open fields...I got stuck in a blizzard once, was wearing only a hoodie & leather dress boots w/jeans...it was nice that weekend, I stayed at my parents house & wanted to do my normal 1 hr drive home...also had my 4 lb toy fox terrier entow. Since the fields are open on a snowy windy day lots of snow drifts accumulate...all you see is WHITE...I couldn't tell what lane I was in, I was driving like 5 miles an hr...I pulled over a few times...I helped a guy who had no heat in his car, let him sit in my warm car for a few, let him use my phone & let him take my blanket til we met up in the next town...well, I lost him & never saw him or my blanket again, his family did call my phone & I did tell them about where I lost him & said I couldn't see in front or back of me & I certainly wasn't going back...they thanked me & said they'd find him. I kept driving, mind you...its already 5+ hrs now driving very slow, white knuckling it ALL the way home!! Since I was driving so slow & all I saw was white as it was getting darker I had no clue that in front of me was a snow drift as high as my windows on my car...drove right into it...I was stuck!! Thank god I had 3/4 of a tank of gas to start with, thank god I had my phone charger, thank god I had heat...it was a freezing wet snow, whole passenger side of my car froze shut...so I couldn't take the chance of walking with just a hoodie, or couldn't take the chance of leaving my dog in case I couldn't make it back...I was close to some friends who tried the police 1st & they refused...there were 3 ambulances already in ditches...they could not risk it...so some very braves soles risked their lives & time to pull me out & watch me drive to the closest place I knew to go...I was stranded there for 2 1/2 days...they banned anyone from driving!! 8 hours of pure fear...I literally had panic attacks from then on in the snow...I now live in California ;) (sorry for such a long story!)
@@MrsRobinson0741 Wow, I was on the edge of my seat reading that and thank God you and your dog made it! You're one brave lady! Thank you for sharing. Best regards from England 🙂
@Gearjammer Much respect to you Sir and all your fellow truckers. Backbone of the nation. Amazing story and again, thank God you made it ok. To think of where to store your blankets in the event of an accident just blew me away, I would die for sure.. 😐 Best regards.
living in NYC & watching a couple of blizzards from the warm safety of my 18th floor high rise condo, always surrounded by people, im so enthralled listening to stories like these in the country & wide open spaces.
I moved to Colorado in January of 2017. After 6 months of living in this beautiful state I learned quickly to keep a blanket, hat, gloves, hoodie and a gallon of Eldorado spring water in the vehicle from Oct to May. I have seen these types of storms happen here. That wind is no joke when it gets going!
I am a native of So. Colorado and now live in western KS. Weather like this happens every spring. The prairie is a tough beautiful land, home to tough beautiful people. Thank you for honoring their memory.
Times sure have changed in the past 100 years. As a lover of History, I appreciate this tragic story. Life and death on the prairie was just a step away back then. My great, great and great grandparents, the McClures and the Marchbanks both Homesteaded near Rush, Colorado. My dad said when he would get in trouble as a kid in the 1930's he would get sent out there to work on their ranches. They had no phone, no electricity - but they did charge up car/farm batteries off the windmill with a generator. That was pretty self reliant ingenuity for the 1930s.
Poor little souls have seen it all. My Mom & Dad (especially Dad) remember the horrific times of war. Loaded up for a concentration camp, having a cousin go to war and never come back, having a Nazi airplane shooting at my Mom and my Gramma, my Dad watching his father at age 45 die a horrible death for 9 months from an illness no one knew about, having a Nazi shoot at my Dad as he was told to run back home and not to look back as the Nazi laughed etc. Yes. Poor little souls have seen much in this world owned by the devil. One can never be " normal" after a tragedy, but they mange to go on. It doesn't destroy their lives.
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it." Abraham Lincoln
@@davidspears1452 Fascinating! Was it covered in a class on American history, or did you run across the information on your own? And if you can recall the type of source (Book? Documentary? Article?), I'd love to learn more about this incident.
My whole family lives in North Texas. My grandparents actually own and farm a little under 700 acres of wheat fields in Colorado and Kansas! They have property in Towner that holds all the equipment and housing for the harvesting! Towner is REALLY SMALL!! I remember my first time going out there my grandparents told me this story and took us to the memorial. Such a SAD story but that bus driver is a damn fine man!! A saint!!!!
@Robert Gardea No, when I went to school (in Colorado) Colorado history consisted mostly of the gold rush, the Tabors, Molly Brown, some mention of the Ludlow Massacre, CF&I, Bent's fort, Pike's Peak and stockade. No mention of this story. I didn't learn about Amache until I was an adult.
A lesson to be learned from 1931 falls on deaf ears today. How many times do you see adults and children dressed in shorts or maybe pajamas getting out of vehicles at stores or gas stations in the middle of a blizzard. They assume technology will save them. There is no guarantee a cell phone will work, or that you can even reach it in the event of an accident. Vehicle can slide off the road and become completely hidden with no trace that anything happened. Anticipate any abnormally clear warm day in late fall to late spring will most likely be followed by a strong storm.
@Michael That is a shame. Some of those furnaces back then were a real pain to light. If you have shelter stay put, hunker down, and remember the situation is temporary. Figure 12-24 hours.
They do that here in the UK too !! I find it baffling I wouldn't be seen dead in my local supermarket in my pyjamas lol I have more decency than to do that and it's so bloody weird lol 😂
Shain Andrews I remember breaking down in winter once. We had just got groceries. Happened 2x but once the snow was so deep our feet were wet. I keep warm clothes in my car. Also keep some dryer lint, matches and batteries. My granny always demanded we keep at least a gallon of water and small amount of food. I keep food but am bad about the water. I’ll probably fix that tomorrow.
I remember riding to school in the bus out there in the early '70's with snow so high you couldn't see out the windows. They would plow and the wind would fill it back in and then they'd plow again....
It is sad that the children and their bus driver endured such a tragedy and had no mental health at the time. Everyone on the bus fighting to keep each other awake and moving are heros.
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it." Abraham Lincoln
I was there about 10 years ago at Easter. When we left Kansas it was a summer day at 94 degrees. By the time we hit the state line it had dropped 60 degrees. Then in 14” of snow and no visibility they closed the highways. I got the impression it was a usual occurrence.
Yep. I know this area. A little town NW of Holly is where my father and grandmother lived and where I went to school for several years. Both used to tell me stories about the 1930's in that area. I think my family missed out on this tragedy by being in OK for 1928-9.
It stands a testimate to the harshness that the midwest even faces to this day. Every year there is always one or 2 snow storms that shut down the schools, and be it all they can the DOT can only do so much to keep just the highways safe, it was a lesson to be learned and it's sad that the lesson had to come at the expense of such young lives being lost. I live in tribune which is east of Towner, and we are educated in the 5th grade about this event. I have yet to find the marker but I know now where it is.
Some people in the country know. I knew an entire family, parents and kids who lived in a broken down bread truck in the mid 90s. Hard winters. Those kids are mid 20s now. We lived so far out the electric went out for a month once. Some neighbors had outhouses and pump well. Our well wasn’t good so we went to theirs and carried the water back.
I was born and raised on a farm in north east Colorado. I can remember as a very young boy, the afternoon and evenings when the wind hardly blew at all. The comment about the wind blowing all the time is completely wrong in my opinion. I can recall many summers when the wind was not much more than a breeze, unless there was a thunderstorm brewing off to the northwest of our place. Then about 2:30 or 3:30 pm the wind would suddenly switch to the northwest and those thunderheads would come plowing across the land. Most of the time we would get a fair shower, but it never lasted much over thirty to forty-five minutes and it was all over with. Then we usually had a beautiful rainbow in the eastern sky before sunset.
The worst school bus fatality incident occurred not here in 1931, but rather just outside of Greeley, Colorado on December 14, 1961. On that cold, wintry day, a school bus driver failed to see the rapidly approaching locomotive on the tracks and pulled into its path on the diagonal crossing. Twenty children were killed on impact and 16 others injured. The driver survived with injuries too.
I have seen the monument where it happened. They are buried in one section of the cemetery in Holly, Co when some of the parents passed away years later, they were buried side by side with there children. The child that was considered the hero, met President Hoover.
@m norton buswell God didn't send the storm. God is love, all things good come from the Lord. Satan sent the storm, all things evil are from Satan, death, disease and destruction. Satan does everything in his power to misrepresent God's character here on earth.
@m norton buswell Judging by your comment you haven't read the bible in a long, long time. Why not start today???? Umm. I recommend a great book ' Desire of All Ages,' written by Ellen G White. I wish you well, God bless.🕊
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it." Abraham Lincoln
In Alaska l have always kept a cold weather grab bag in my truck since l began to drive, it has saved my life several times during sever winter weather.
I am not sure but I think caribou huddle up , walking in a big circle and take turns migrating to the center of the circle so the coldest ones on the outside get a break.
Great documentary...except the girl that kept saying the bus was the size of a mini van. We've all seen similar rigs in person. Way bigger than a mini van.
@@rebeccabilbrey1849 technically you're wrong 1885 is still considered 1800s It is generally acknowledged that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS! I NEVVER HEARD OF THIS EVENT BEFORE! I HAVE HOWEVER DROVE TRUCKS THROUGH THIS AREA OCCASIONALLY IN WINTER! I THINK THAT WHAT THEY CALL SNOW HERE IS WHAT WE CALL HEAVY FROZEN SLEET HERE IN EASTERN KANSAS! WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL I WAS ON A SCHOOL BUS THAT GOT STUCK IN THE SNOW NORTHWEST OF GARDNER KS! IF I HAD HEARD THIS STORY IN MY VERY YOUNGER DAYS IT WOULD HAVE REALLY SCARED ME! AS IT WAS WE WERE DELAYED ABOUT AN HOUR GETTING HOME! MR WESTHOFF THE BUS DRIVER HIKED TO A NEARBY FARM HOME AND GOT HELP! AFTER A BIT HE RETURNED WITH THE FARMER DRIVING A FARMALL M TRACTOR AND FLAT BED WAGON AND TOOK US TO THE FARM HOUSE! SOON AFTER ARRIVING ANOTHER SCHOOL BUS ARRIVED ACCOMPANIED WITH A TOW TRUCK FROM TUNISON GARAGE IN GARDNER! THE BUS TOOK US THE REST OF THE WAY HOME FOLLOWED BY THE TOW TRUCK. THE TOWNSHIP ROAD GRADER LATER PLOWED OUT THE ROAD AND THE BUS WAS PULLED OUT OF THE DITCH BY THE TOW TRUCK! MY DAD TOLD ME IN CASE OF POSSIBLE BLIZZARDS TO STAY AT THE SCHOOL AND THEY WOULD COME GET US! WE WERE LUCKY BEYOND BELIEF AND DIDNT REALIZE IT AT THE TIME!!
It's interesting how they dealt with this. "If you had a burden to bear, you just kept quiet." I was raised to do this by parents who could have been on this bus had they lived in eastern Colorado. To this day, I just don't talk about 911. I could, but I would break down and be incapacitated to do what I need to do. For a long time, I had nightmares and panic attacks, but they got less and less until now, only occasionally. This and other things are kept on a shelf in my mind. I really don't care to take them down and inspect their contents. To what purpose? Life goes on.
So you don't have to live for years the way you are. Talking about things normalizes them. Normalizing them frees you from it. Psychology has come a long way.
My dad told me way back when , if you get stuck in a blizzard and you can see a light in the distance stay in your truck because you will never make it .
I’m reminded of another school bus tragedy - during the surprise devastating hurricanes of 1938. Seven children in Rhode Island as their bus was swamped and swept away. Several had held on right to the foundering bus. The father of four of the children from the bus, and the bus driver himself, watched in horror as they went under. I’m haunted by that story.
Robert Gardea It really would be nice if there were more programs to help the homeless who really want to get back to work. The part of L.A. County that I reside in is just south of Kern County. I actually work in Kern County. The cost of living in Kern County is even way more reasonable than that of Denver & Colorado Springs.
Robert Gardea North L.A. County is very scenic. We have everything from mountains to tumble weeds. This place is more Texas than Texas. And with our ski resort [Mountain High]; kind of like Colorado. The ski resort is an hour north from Los Angeles.
@Adam Fears LOL your pussy generation would be in grief counseling,I was raised by parents that went through a depression and a world war.Go back to your basement
Edward clark weak? Name the last time this many kids died because a bus got stuck in the snow. What are you, maybe 50 plus? This generation has been fighting the longest war America has ever been in. Weak? The bus driver was probably a fake tough guy like you. And that is the type of narrow minded ignorant thinking that got these kids killed. Shut the hell up you soft old scarecrow.
There are some damn foolish comments here. None of you were there, none of you know the size of the ‘bus’ and know only what the creators have told you. Do a little research. A ‘29 Chevy truck was much smaller than what is depicted in this video. The man used it to haul hay and farm so it was likely a flat bed with a temporary box fashioned into a crude people carrier at best. You cannot compare rural 1931 life to what rural life is today. I guess such short sightedness is to be expected.
Seems like fluorescent orange would be an even better color for school buses. Similar to many life jackets. So sad that those parents thought their children were safely tucked away in their classrooms that whole time, having no idea they were dying in a stranded bus.
They never mention who the fifth child was. Three died on the bus and then Arlo died at the farmhouse. There was a fifth child who died after the rescue. Unless I missed it?
Living in Colorado one should learn to carry what will be needed for any type weather-things to stay warm and things to stay cooler and never drive in snowy weather out of city limits.
I ended up buying a property in upstate New York that is in the Adirondack State Park but we used to get snows that would come from lake Erie so in addition to normal snows we get the Erie the lake effect snows and one year we got five and a half foot of snow what year was that I forget but I remember going to help somebody who lived in a mobile home shovel their roof because it was starting to cave in and after getting done that night I proceeded to walk home which was only a quarter of a mile but by the grace of God I found my house not by seeing it but by walking up to it and touching it I luckily remembered about how many footsteps it was or how many feet it was from my neighbor's house and I'm surprised I did find it cuz I've heard about people getting lost going to the barn or to the outhouse but yeah there was snow just about over my head and it was pretty amazing I've got more stories about that blizzard but I'll tell you what the skiing the next day was some of the most amazing skiing you could imagine on the East coast the stuff that was in the woods which was usually unskillable the boulders and the cliffs we were skiing that stuff it was like skiing the back areas of snowbird or Alta Utah some of the best skiing I have seen anywhere in the whole continent in a little ski area called oh hell what was the name of that damn somewhere by the town called Stratford
Very very sad story. The only good thing that came out of this was that they stiffened up the provisions. Which is a huge Miracle. These lives were sacrificed to save others.
@@breadlowry I would love for folks like that boomer crying about superiority to keep their asses at home when a major medical emergency happens. They should just tough it out😆
Now our buses are on truck chassis and have big diesels. With chains on the duel wheels on the back they almost never get stuck. Besides theres a million guys like me that have lifted diesel pick up trucks to pull the bus home.
Oh shut up STUPID! Having a pickup truck that’s lifted or having a diesel engine in it has absolutely nothing to do with towing another vehicle. Go do your homework Moron! 😖
4:00 Yes It's Colorado, Anyone who's lives ther for a while KNOWS It can be bright and sunny from sun up till noon then a Blizzard Roles in..Pretty much something to be prepared for. It happened to me and I was Stuck on Highway; Bumper to Bumper from 11:30 a.m from Dillon Eisenhower Tunnel all the way to Golden. didnt make it home until 3 am. turned out TWO semi trucks Jack-knifed next to each other , Blocking both sides of the highway Really Sucked for everyone. Couldnt imagine what these kids went through..
@@MF-LXRD "Generally Speaking" so in you wind it would have been a waist of time to do that and save some or most. If i'm an idiot for making my suggestion, what was yours.- do you think you'll be moving out of your parents basement soon?
@@MF-LXRD Yo, I read your comment and the first impression I received was the meaning of your name: Slaughter them. That a wonder name to use when the very lives of 21 little children are about to parish. WAHH.
The bus driver was getting a hundred bucks a month to keep the bus maintained didn't even have a damn window in it. That's the equivalent of getting several thousand dollars a month in today's dollars. Typical example of someone going to the government trough for a free ride.
In 1931, almost 90 years ago, Five children and a bus driver freeze to death because their school bus was not adequately equipped for extreme cold weather. Some will suggest that this video is not the right time or place to talk about school shootings. So when is the right time, where is the right place? I expressed sadness at this and expressed that because of this event, which made national news at the time, changes were made to improve the safety of children riding school buses. Because of this I have been called a “Raving lunatic”, “Nazi”, and a host of other insults including “Tuna” (whatever that means). All because I have suggested that unlike the tragedy in this video the almost countless school shooting of our time where far more children die there are no laws or regulations passed to even reduce the occurrence of gun massacres in schools, churches, malls, movie theaters and so on. And all of this lack of change is due to the millions of dollars the NRA gives to corrupt politicians in order to continue a system where guns are sold to lunatics who go out and murder children. Then those who fear gun control laws go out and buy tens of millions of dollars of more guns. Then the cycle continues. I don’t think that caring about the sad deaths of children 90 years ago and pointing out reasons why I care about the deaths of children today makes me a Raving Lunatic. I never said I would ban guns. But I do support requiring gun owners to pass a background check, be not mentally ill, not a felon, not under a restraining order. I support requiring guns owners to pass a course and be licensed. I support gun registration, restrictions on private sales, restrictions on the types of guns and accessories and perhaps most important, mandatory gun liability insurance. When the children of this video died their silent voices were heard across America. Changes were made to protect future children from a similar tragedy. But today the silent voices of our children murdered by lunatics with guns are kept silent by the NRA. In 1931 the parents of that time had the sense to take responsibility for a problem and work to solve it. But today the parents of our dead children are not allowed the same right. Instead these parents are threatened, intimidated, harassed. Dead children are said to be fake, never existed, “False flag victims”. Surviving children are not called heroes instead they are called “Crisis actors”, there stories of survival diminished and their character questioned. And for sharing my deeply held belief that we should learn the lesson of this video and do something to protect the children of today I am called a raving lunatic and a Nazi? Fine. What do you call anyone who says “Nobody is gunning kids down enough to justify a total firearms ban”. What do you call that person? I suggest that person is a typical NRA supporter who accepts the NRA claim that EVERYONE has a right to have a gun in America (no regulations) and NO ONE in America has a right to feel safe. (Better go out and buy guns $$ NRA $$ ). Obviously I disagree with the NRA and with those who support the NRA. I think as a nation and as a society we can and should do better.
NRA doesn't make more or less money based on how many guns are sold. Their money comes from members more than anything. I know they make a convenient boogey man, but they are not the powerhouse that their detractors claim. It's just hard to admit that the anti gun movement is a losing position politically. Not an NRA member, I just recognize the reality for what it is.
@@tardisrider25 The NRA is a lobbying organization that funnels money from manufacturers, dealers and foreign governments to corrupt politicians who vote to prevent any form of gun regulation. Trump got 30 million dollars from the NRA, allegedly from the Russians. After the terrible school massacre in Florida Trump said he wanted to help support laws to prevent such massacres but he had accepted that 30 million dollars from the NRA. You can see the bind he was in. Sorry friend but the NRA is the boogie man in this evil story. The majority of the American people support some form of gun control but they are never going to get it as long as the NRA is there to pass out the money. And school children will continue to die and parents will cry and ask why no one does anything about it. Thanks.
@m norton buswell Why? Because it doesn't fit with your approved talking points? The fact is the voting power is not with the anti gun politicians. Even Obama knew this. Even with a shooting happening in his first term he was almost dead silent on the subject until he won his second term. I mean what power do you think the NRA actually has. The amount that two bit lobbying group has donated to campaign is tiny compared to other groups.
@@dalecs47 I would leave the crazy Russian conspiracy theories out of this. Saying you want laws to prevent massacres does not necessarily mean knee jerk reaction laws. It might mean laws to deal with the actual people and issues behind the shootings. This he has tried to do, but because it was something he tried to do the leftists block it. Because it has become very clear democratic politicans would rather more people die than let him get the credit for stopping the deaths. And yes most Americans support some form of gun control. That doesn't mean all the crazy lefties ideas of gun control. Call for a gun ban you're voted out. Make it illegal to let you hunting partner to borrow or even buy your rifle? How is that even a relevant idea? Mandatory liability insurance on a protected right? That's guns only for the rich. Ant my favorite, let's ban guns based on what they look like. No one who owns or even understands anything about guns supports that kind of stuff. None of it even would have stopped any of the shootings we've had.
This happened during the depression, money to buy things such as wind generators and telephones was very scarce. Now I want to ask you, why are you typing in all capital letters? Are you screaming? If so, calm down.
A sad tragic story but with a positive ending, changes, reforms, progress towards improving school bus safety were made. Such as yellow school buses. So why can't we make any progress today regarding the far more often and more deadly tragedies of school shootings? Because the NRA makes a lot of money promoting the sales of guns to lunatics. The NRA bribes politicians to oppose any improvements in gun safety, you name it, the NRA pays a politician to oppose it. NRA has blood on its hands, as does any one who supports the NRA. How would this bus documentary be presented today? The NRA would promote stories that the "Bus never got stuck in the snow, the frozen dead children were fake, never existed and the survivors were crisis actors". And the parents of the dead frozen children would be vilified as communists, traitors to America and not Christian. This is how the NRA treats the parents of children murdered in school shootings today. Sorry if that offends you. I do respect this video, the tragic story and the heart felt memories of those who lost their loved ones. That is the difference between myself and those who support the NRA. I care about human life and grieve when it is lost. The NRA cares only about making money, no one's life matters to them.
I and millions of responsible gun owners and shooters resent your remark. I have been an NRA member since 1967, when I returned from the war. I was an NRA-certified police firearms instructor for over 20 years. As far as the video, I winced when I heard that the bus driver was going into that blizzard to get help. He knew it was suicide to try, but he went anyway. My hat is off to that man.
@@MrTruckerf Thank you for our replay, but what does what you said have to do with what I said? Being a Fox news viewer is great entertainment but it does not prepare you for dealing with real issues in an honest way, instead you deflect and change the subject. I will share this with you: My brother in law was a crazy person. He was in and out of mental hospitals most of his life. Our local NRA people told him "Don, you have every right, under the constitution to have and use guns." So he did. In the end he tried to murder my sister and the kids but only ended up killing himself. However the trauma of that series of incidents still haunts the family. That is my NRA story. So please tell me again why you are offended?
dalecs47 I think if you look at Chicago where they had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes in 2016 they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn't helped there.
@@TreeLBollingTreeMan We have over 40,000 gun deaths in America each year and hundreds of thousands of injured. Just so the NRA can make more money. Imagine if after those kids froze in the snow the NRA pushed campaigns to not allow improvements in bus safety, emergency communication and improved weather forecasting? That is what the NRA has done with guns. This is what you support? Really?
@@dalecs47 I'm not a member of the NRA and I don't own a firearm! Now why don't you go preach your hate towards the NRA somewhere else, it has NOTHING to do with this video and doesn't belong here!~
I’ve been a trucker for 38 years now. I’m a local oilfield driver now but back when I was driving across the country many years ago during the winter months I always kept my big coat and blankets at the front of my bed in my sleeper just in case I rolled the truck over. The blankets and coat would be within my reach if I was hurt or maybe they would even fall on me. I only had one bad scare
near Pierre, SD about 18 years ago when my fuel gelled up and my truck stopped running in a terrible blizzard. The interstate was shut down in both directions and I was all alone out there in the night.
I was already terribly sick with the flu and couldn’t stop coughing. I’m still here thanks to the good Lord above. At least we all know those kids are in Heaven with the Lord and their parents are with them now. Nature will always rule over our lives and we’ll just have to adjust to it.
I grew up in Michigan, lived in the thumb of MI at the time, farm country...many open fields...I got stuck in a blizzard once, was wearing only a hoodie & leather dress boots w/jeans...it was nice that weekend, I stayed at my parents house & wanted to do my normal 1 hr drive home...also had my 4 lb toy fox terrier entow. Since the fields are open on a snowy windy day lots of snow drifts accumulate...all you see is WHITE...I couldn't tell what lane I was in, I was driving like 5 miles an hr...I pulled over a few times...I helped a guy who had no heat in his car, let him sit in my warm car for a few, let him use my phone & let him take my blanket til we met up in the next town...well, I lost him & never saw him or my blanket again, his family did call my phone & I did tell them about where I lost him & said I couldn't see in front or back of me & I certainly wasn't going back...they thanked me & said they'd find him. I kept driving, mind you...its already 5+ hrs now driving very slow, white knuckling it ALL the way home!! Since I was driving so slow & all I saw was white as it was getting darker I had no clue that in front of me was a snow drift as high as my windows on my car...drove right into it...I was stuck!! Thank god I had 3/4 of a tank of gas to start with, thank god I had my phone charger, thank god I had heat...it was a freezing wet snow, whole passenger side of my car froze shut...so I couldn't take the chance of walking with just a hoodie, or couldn't take the chance of leaving my dog in case I couldn't make it back...I was close to some friends who tried the police 1st & they refused...there were 3 ambulances already in ditches...they could not risk it...so some very braves soles risked their lives & time to pull me out & watch me drive to the closest place I knew to go...I was stranded there for 2 1/2 days...they banned anyone from driving!! 8 hours of pure fear...I literally had panic attacks from then on in the snow...I now live in California ;)
(sorry for such a long story!)
@@MrsRobinson0741 Wow, I was on the edge of my seat reading that and thank God you and your dog made it! You're one brave lady! Thank you for sharing. Best regards from England 🙂
@Gearjammer Much respect to you Sir and all your fellow truckers. Backbone of the nation. Amazing story and again, thank God you made it ok. To think of where to store your blankets in the event of an accident just blew me away, I would die for sure.. 😐 Best regards.
Yes they are. They are home with Jesus.
living in NYC & watching a couple of blizzards from the warm safety of my 18th floor high rise condo, always surrounded by people, im so enthralled listening to stories like these in the country & wide open spaces.
I moved to Colorado in January of 2017. After 6 months of living in this beautiful state I learned quickly to keep a blanket, hat, gloves, hoodie and a gallon of Eldorado spring water in the vehicle from Oct to May. I have seen these types of storms happen here. That wind is no joke when it gets going!
I'm Australian but love watching stories like this. It's amazing how spoilt we really are these days.
Terrible tragedy for the children and town
I am a native of So. Colorado and now live in western KS. Weather like this happens every spring. The prairie is a tough beautiful land, home to tough beautiful people. Thank you for honoring their memory.
Times sure have changed in the past 100 years. As a lover of History, I appreciate this tragic story. Life and death on the prairie was just a step away back then.
My great, great and great grandparents, the McClures and the Marchbanks both Homesteaded near Rush, Colorado.
My dad said when he would get in trouble as a kid in the 1930's he would get sent out there to work on their ranches. They had no phone, no electricity - but they did charge up car/farm batteries off the windmill with a generator. That was pretty self reliant ingenuity for the 1930s.
Poor little souls how horrific to freeze and watch your friends die . R.I.P Little ones
@Honeysuckle Blossom good idea 😔
Poor little souls have seen it all. My Mom & Dad (especially Dad) remember the horrific times of war. Loaded up for a concentration camp, having a cousin go to war and never come back, having a Nazi airplane shooting at my Mom and my Gramma, my Dad watching his father at age 45 die a horrible death for 9 months from an illness no one knew about, having a Nazi shoot at my Dad as he was told to run back home and not to look back as the Nazi laughed etc. Yes. Poor little souls have seen much in this world owned by the devil. One can never be " normal" after a tragedy, but they mange to go on. It doesn't destroy their lives.
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it."
Abraham Lincoln
I wish every state did this kind of series-I have a graduate degree in history, and I had never heard of this tragedy.
Me neither..
I haven't either.
I’m in the UK and have heard of this lol
@@davidspears1452 Fascinating! Was it covered in a class on American history, or did you run across the information on your own? And if you can recall the type of source (Book? Documentary? Article?), I'd love to learn more about this incident.
I had a second grade teacher who knew I loved history and gave me a book to read on this tragedy
My whole family lives in North Texas. My grandparents actually own and farm a little under 700 acres of wheat fields in Colorado and Kansas! They have property in Towner that holds all the equipment and housing for the harvesting! Towner is REALLY SMALL!! I remember my first time going out there my grandparents told me this story and took us to the memorial. Such a SAD story but that bus driver is a damn fine man!! A saint!!!!
An amazing story I'd never heard before.
NOW I know why school buses are painted yellow !!!!!!!!!
@Robert Gardea No, when I went to school (in Colorado) Colorado history consisted mostly of the gold rush, the Tabors, Molly Brown, some mention of the Ludlow Massacre, CF&I, Bent's fort, Pike's Peak and stockade. No mention of this story. I didn't learn about Amache until I was an adult.
Robert Gardea You must have been asleep when they explained this part.
@Robert Gardea You must have been asleep during school, too: it's must "have", not must "of".
@Robert Gardea
Ahhh, hiding behind TH-cam bullying people, you must be so proud!
I was so blessed to know Lois McCracken and to hear the story. I actually worked @ the assisting living where she lived I was her housekeeper.
A lesson to be learned from 1931 falls on deaf ears today. How many times do you see adults and children dressed in shorts or maybe pajamas getting out of vehicles at stores or gas stations in the middle of a blizzard. They assume technology will save them. There is no guarantee a cell phone will work, or that you can even reach it in the event of an accident. Vehicle can slide off the road and become completely hidden with no trace that anything happened. Anticipate any abnormally clear warm day in late fall to late spring will most likely be followed by a strong storm.
@Michael That is a shame. Some of those furnaces back then were a real pain to light. If you have shelter stay put, hunker down, and remember the situation is temporary. Figure 12-24 hours.
I just moved to Montana and it's common to see people walking around in shorts. It baffles the heck out of me!!
@@lizzyliz9915 -As is said, "Natural Selection will not be cheated for too long"..
They do that here in the UK too !! I find it baffling I wouldn't be seen dead in my local supermarket in my pyjamas lol I have more decency than to do that and it's so bloody weird lol 😂
Shain Andrews I remember breaking down in winter once. We had just got groceries. Happened 2x but once the snow was so deep our feet were wet. I keep warm clothes in my car. Also keep some dryer lint, matches and batteries. My granny always demanded we keep at least a gallon of water and small amount of food. I keep food but am bad about the water. I’ll probably fix that tomorrow.
I remember riding to school in the bus out there in the early '70's with snow so high you couldn't see out the windows. They would plow and the wind would fill it back in and then they'd plow again....
I heard about this tragedy when I was a child but your story gives it a real heartbeat. Thanks for posting.
It is sad that the children and their bus driver endured such a tragedy and had no mental health at the time. Everyone on the bus fighting to keep each other awake and moving are heros.
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it."
Abraham Lincoln
amazing video, sad that kids lost their lives.
They are all dead now, even the survivors.
I was there about 10 years ago at Easter. When we left Kansas it was a summer day at 94 degrees. By the time we hit the state line it had dropped 60 degrees. Then in 14” of snow and no visibility they closed the highways. I got the impression it was a usual occurrence.
This is truly heartbreaking.
Outstanding video
I'd never heard of this before! Just wow!!
Yep. I know this area. A little town NW of Holly is where my father and grandmother lived and where I went to school for several years. Both used to tell me stories about the 1930's in that area. I think my family missed out on this tragedy by being in OK for 1928-9.
I'm a grandson of Wyatt Tremain. This is only 3 miles from his ranch.
I’m a distant relative of Mary Louise Stonebraker!
@@lindastonebraker2512 Hello, I don't know that name. I remember Seth Crum the Reinarts Bud Smith. Where was their land located ?
It stands a testimate to the harshness that the midwest even faces to this day. Every year there is always one or 2 snow storms that shut down the schools, and be it all they can the DOT can only do so much to keep just the highways safe, it was a lesson to be learned and it's sad that the lesson had to come at the expense of such young lives being lost. I live in tribune which is east of Towner, and we are educated in the 5th grade about this event. I have yet to find the marker but I know now where it is.
Colorado isnt the midwest.
Such a STRONG generation !!! Folks today don't realize how good we have it.
Some people in the country know. I knew an entire family, parents and kids who lived in a broken down bread truck in the mid 90s. Hard winters. Those kids are mid 20s now. We lived so far out the electric went out for a month once. Some neighbors had outhouses and pump well. Our well wasn’t good so we went to theirs and carried the water back.
I was born and raised on a farm in north east Colorado. I can remember as a very young boy, the afternoon and evenings when the wind hardly blew at all. The comment about the wind blowing all the time is completely wrong in my opinion. I can recall many summers when the wind was not much more than a breeze, unless there was a thunderstorm brewing off to the northwest of our place. Then about 2:30 or 3:30 pm the wind would suddenly switch to the northwest and those thunderheads would come plowing across the land. Most of the time we would get a fair shower, but it never lasted much over thirty to forty-five minutes and it was all over with. Then we usually had a beautiful rainbow in the eastern sky before sunset.
I was a truck driver and have been there a lot. Did not know about the bus tell now. And yes the wind didn't stop.
Kind of a weird coincidence but I randomly came across and watched this less than 24 hours before the Humbolt bus accident in Saskatchewan.
The worst school bus fatality incident occurred not here in 1931, but rather just outside of Greeley, Colorado on December 14, 1961. On that cold, wintry day, a school bus driver failed to see the rapidly approaching locomotive on the tracks and pulled into its path on the diagonal crossing. Twenty children were killed on impact and 16 others injured. The driver survived with injuries too.
Well if that doesn't make your heart ache? Thank God they didn't lose them all!
I have seen the monument where it happened. They are buried in one section of the cemetery in Holly, Co when some of the parents passed away years later, they were buried side by side with there children. The child that was considered the hero, met President Hoover.
Mom nearly died in that storm. She had to go to the road/mailbox and had a very hard time navigating the 200 yards back to the house in the blizzard.
Lord I pray you blessed these children.....
@m norton buswell God didn't send the storm. God is love, all things good come from the Lord.
Satan sent the storm, all things evil are from Satan, death, disease and destruction. Satan does everything in his power to misrepresent God's character here on earth.
@m norton buswell Judging by your comment you haven't read the bible in a long, long time.
Why not start today???? Umm.
I recommend a great book ' Desire of All Ages,' written by Ellen G White.
I wish you well, God bless.🕊
@m norton buswell You glorious and brilliant savage, you 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 Your comments are killing me😆(* Have a great Thanksgiving)☺️
".. a comfortable, sleepy warmth when you're freezing to death..." I can't imagine children having to experience this.. sad!
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it."
Abraham Lincoln
What a sad story. Mother Nature is real!
In Alaska l have always kept a cold weather grab bag in my truck since l began to drive, it has saved my life several times during sever winter weather.
O my gosh!! This would be so scary.... 😥
This is when huddling into a big group would have helped, not much but would have kept warm for a while.
I am not sure but I think caribou huddle up , walking in a big circle and take turns migrating to the center of the circle so the coldest ones on the outside get a break.
@@commonconservative7551 well they tried keeping them moving, but they ended up falling to the cold unfortunately ☹️
They WERE on the bus 33 HOURS! Gads some of you are dense.
Great documentary...except the girl that kept saying the bus was the size of a mini van. We've all seen similar rigs in person. Way bigger than a mini van.
yeah your right. about the size of a short bus
I wish I could get 21 in my minivan.
Amazing thank you
God bless them all.
Was this the same storm that has been called “The Children’s Storm”?
No, the children's blizzard was in the 1800's. They didn't have cars then.
@@rebeccabilbrey1849 technically you're wrong 1885 is still considered 1800s It is generally acknowledged that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim
@@MF-LXRD How about "they" are the people living in the Great Plains and "they" didn't have cars (or probably know about them)?
First time hearing of this tragedy
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!
I NEVVER HEARD OF THIS EVENT BEFORE!
I HAVE HOWEVER DROVE TRUCKS THROUGH THIS AREA OCCASIONALLY IN WINTER!
I THINK THAT WHAT THEY CALL SNOW HERE IS WHAT WE CALL HEAVY FROZEN SLEET HERE IN EASTERN KANSAS!
WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL I WAS ON A SCHOOL BUS THAT GOT STUCK IN THE SNOW NORTHWEST OF GARDNER KS!
IF I HAD HEARD THIS STORY IN MY VERY YOUNGER DAYS IT WOULD HAVE REALLY SCARED ME!
AS IT WAS WE WERE DELAYED ABOUT AN HOUR GETTING HOME!
MR WESTHOFF THE BUS DRIVER HIKED TO A NEARBY FARM HOME
AND GOT HELP!
AFTER A BIT HE RETURNED WITH THE FARMER DRIVING A FARMALL M TRACTOR AND FLAT BED WAGON AND TOOK US TO THE FARM HOUSE!
SOON AFTER ARRIVING ANOTHER SCHOOL BUS ARRIVED ACCOMPANIED WITH A TOW TRUCK FROM TUNISON GARAGE
IN GARDNER!
THE BUS TOOK US THE REST OF THE WAY HOME FOLLOWED BY THE TOW TRUCK.
THE TOWNSHIP ROAD GRADER LATER PLOWED OUT THE ROAD AND THE BUS WAS PULLED OUT OF THE DITCH BY THE TOW TRUCK!
MY DAD TOLD ME IN CASE OF POSSIBLE BLIZZARDS TO STAY AT THE SCHOOL AND THEY WOULD COME GET US!
WE WERE LUCKY BEYOND BELIEF
AND DIDNT REALIZE IT AT THE TIME!!
....my ears bleed 🙉
STOP WITH THE CAPPPPSSSS!!!!!
It's interesting how they dealt with this. "If you had a burden to bear, you just kept quiet." I was raised to do this by parents who could have been on this bus had they lived in eastern Colorado. To this day, I just don't talk about 911. I could, but I would break down and be incapacitated to do what I need to do. For a long time, I had nightmares and panic attacks, but they got less and less until now, only occasionally. This and other things are kept on a shelf in my mind. I really don't care to take them down and inspect their contents. To what purpose? Life goes on.
So you don't have to live for years the way you are. Talking about things normalizes them. Normalizing them frees you from it. Psychology has come a long way.
My dad told me way back when , if you get stuck in a blizzard and you can see a light in the distance stay in your truck because you will never make it .
Read about this in elementary school.
Whats it called
Interesting documentary. I cannot imagine what their young minds endured. I pray the Lord blessed them. My thoughts go to the families affected. 🙏💕
Darrell Speer was my junior high school science teacher.
So sad... 😔
I’m reminded of another school bus tragedy - during the surprise devastating hurricanes of 1938. Seven children in Rhode Island as their bus was swamped and swept away. Several had held on right to the foundering bus. The father of four of the children from the bus, and the bus driver himself, watched in horror as they went under. I’m haunted by that story.
I lived in kiowa CO. They are not jokin about the wind
Gypsy Treasures They are not lying. I lived in Simla, Limon, and Hugo in the span of 8 years. I couldn't take it anymore; I moved to L.A. County.
Robert Gardea It really would be nice if there were more programs to help the homeless who really want to get back to work.
The part of L.A. County that I reside in is just south of Kern County. I actually work in Kern County. The cost of living in Kern County is even way more reasonable than that of Denver & Colorado Springs.
Robert Gardea North L.A. County is very scenic. We have everything from mountains to tumble weeds. This place is more Texas than Texas. And with our ski resort [Mountain High]; kind of like Colorado. The ski resort is an hour north from Los Angeles.
They look so cute in their GROWN UP Clothes!
That's Colorado, I have seen all five seasons at once....
with no tech the people had to rely on eyes nose and ears
And the Lord up above... maybe.
Im from Towner, the weather is ver bipolar here in Colorado
Some of these kids still had a war to fight,I look around today and wonder how we became so weak.
@Adam Fears LOL your pussy generation would be in grief counseling,I was raised by parents that went through a depression and a world war.Go back to your basement
Actually ...past generations made what we are today.
Edward clark weak? Name the last time this many kids died because a bus got stuck in the snow. What are you, maybe 50 plus? This generation has been fighting the longest war America has ever been in. Weak? The bus driver was probably a fake tough guy like you. And that is the type of narrow minded ignorant thinking that got these kids killed. Shut the hell up you soft old scarecrow.
@@eltrane5127 STFU. you little freak crawl back in your basement you inbred piece of shit
+Edward clark did you know that you can save 15% or more on your car insurance now because of what these kids went through?
And how does the Weather Channel "Help" people now?
Why do tragedies always seem to occur on beautiful days?
I believe your guard is down , dont think much could happen with good weather
I love finding this history but it makes me sad I can’t always find more, it makes it worse when stories are forgotten
In the 80s we had 2 storms that hit and we were snowed in at the school twice.
There are some damn foolish comments here. None of you were there, none of you know the size of the ‘bus’ and know only what the creators have told you. Do a little research. A ‘29 Chevy truck was much smaller than what is depicted in this video. The man used it to haul hay and farm so it was likely a flat bed with a temporary box fashioned into a crude people carrier at best. You cannot compare rural 1931 life to what rural life is today. I guess such short sightedness is to be expected.
Holy Cow 🐮 at 14:50 Mary Louise Stonebraker is mentioned. Obviously I had to look into that. I’m a distant relative, Wow!
N
Not surprising. It's a really unusual name.
How awesome to see another Stonebraker I'm one of Blanches great grand sons!
So so sad
Seems like fluorescent orange would be an even better color for school buses. Similar to many life jackets. So sad that those parents thought their children were safely tucked away in their classrooms that whole time, having no idea they were dying in a stranded bus.
They never mention who the fifth child was. Three died on the bus and then Arlo died at the farmhouse. There was a fifth child who died after the rescue. Unless I missed it?
I thought the same...
25:12 😔😭
Living in Colorado one should learn to carry what will be needed for any type weather-things to stay warm and things to stay cooler and never drive in snowy weather out of city limits.
If one lives in Colorado, they aren’t necessarily in a city.
@@truepeacenik True indeed
We have councilors and such now by the boat load, and the kids are a million times more screwed up.
I don't know they way they just put they dying girl in the back so they wouldn't have to look at her was a little messed up
Cite your sources proving that, please.
I ended up buying a property in upstate New York that is in the Adirondack State Park but we used to get snows that would come from lake Erie so in addition to normal snows we get the Erie the lake effect snows and one year we got five and a half foot of snow what year was that I forget but I remember going to help somebody who lived in a mobile home shovel their roof because it was starting to cave in and after getting done that night I proceeded to walk home which was only a quarter of a mile but by the grace of God I found my house not by seeing it but by walking up to it and touching it I luckily remembered about how many footsteps it was or how many feet it was from my neighbor's house and I'm surprised I did find it cuz I've heard about people getting lost going to the barn or to the outhouse but yeah there was snow just about over my head and it was pretty amazing I've got more stories about that blizzard but I'll tell you what the skiing the next day was some of the most amazing skiing you could imagine on the East coast the stuff that was in the woods which was usually unskillable the boulders and the cliffs we were skiing that stuff it was like skiing the back areas of snowbird or Alta Utah some of the best skiing I have seen anywhere in the whole continent in a little ski area called oh hell what was the name of that damn somewhere by the town called Stratford
sshhhheeeze my grandpa walked 10 miles to school, barefoot in the snow (j.j.)
shelby cullins Lol 😂
Uphill both ways even!
Terrible Tragedy
Very very sad story. The only good thing that came out of this was that they stiffened up the provisions. Which is a huge Miracle. These lives were sacrificed to save others.
DO YOU THINK CHILDREN THESE DAY'S COULD LAST FOR 33 HOURS TOGETHER STRANDED,FREEZING. I DO NOT!
People back when had a lot more fortitude than the past few generations.
Our ancestors would be ashamed of what we have allowed ourselves to become.
Your perspective is skewed. Weve been to the moon, and we will go further.
@@breadlowry I would love for folks like that boomer crying about superiority to keep their asses at home when a major medical emergency happens. They should just tough it out😆
Now our buses are on truck chassis and have big diesels. With chains on the duel wheels on the back they almost never get stuck. Besides theres a million guys like me that have lifted diesel pick up trucks to pull the bus home.
Oh shut up STUPID! Having a pickup truck that’s lifted or having a diesel engine in it has absolutely nothing to do with towing another vehicle. Go do your homework Moron! 😖
Gearjamme go jam a gear where the sun don't shine a hole!
Frank Wilson then why does my lifted dodge diesel cruise thrpugh it like nothin ! Punkass!
4:00 Yes It's Colorado, Anyone who's lives ther for a while KNOWS It can be bright and sunny from sun up till noon then a Blizzard Roles in..Pretty much something to be prepared for. It happened to me and I was Stuck on Highway; Bumper to Bumper from 11:30 a.m from Dillon Eisenhower Tunnel all the way to Golden. didnt make it home until 3 am. turned out TWO semi trucks Jack-knifed next to each other , Blocking both sides of the highway Really Sucked for everyone.
Couldnt imagine what these kids went through..
I recently learned about that tunnel and heard about people getting stranded on I-70.
Hello TH-cam Algorithm... We meet again
Huddle together, a lot of bodies generate heat.
Yes that's true but generally speaking it is not enough to survive especially when we're talking about young children idiot.
@@MF-LXRD "Generally Speaking" so in you wind it would have been a waist of time to do that and save some or most. If i'm an idiot for making my suggestion, what was yours.- do you think you'll be moving out of your parents basement soon?
@@MF-LXRD Yo, I read your comment and the first impression I received was the meaning of your name: Slaughter them. That a wonder name to use when the very lives of 21 little children are about to parish. WAHH.
I think the expert should check her dictionary. These poor souls had HYPOthermia, not hyperthermia.
Another KAREN folks...
leave it to the shameful media to exploit their story only to make things even worse. : (
not human , old time religion.
seatbelts everyone
There was not 20 kids in a van the size of a modern mini van. Right from the gitgo you lost your cred.
Yes it was very small smaller than any small bus that exists today. My great grandmother was there.
idi ot... karen
The bus driver was getting a hundred bucks a month to keep the bus maintained didn't even have a damn window in it. That's the equivalent of getting several thousand dollars a month in today's dollars. Typical example of someone going to the government trough for a free ride.
The window was broken by one of the children accidentally as they were exercising to try to keep warm.
Idi ot. May
How about not 5 mins of intro
I believe this was a PBS program. Not just something that was done for TH-cam.
Idi ot... PBS production intro IS standard.
In 1931, almost 90 years ago, Five children and a bus driver freeze to death because their school bus was not adequately equipped for extreme cold weather. Some will suggest that this video is not the right time or place to talk about school shootings. So when is the right time, where is the right place? I expressed sadness at this and expressed that because of this event, which made national news at the time, changes were made to improve the safety of children riding school buses. Because of this I have been called a “Raving lunatic”, “Nazi”, and a host of other insults including “Tuna” (whatever that means). All because I have suggested that unlike the tragedy in this video the almost countless school shooting of our time where far more children die there are no laws or regulations passed to even reduce the occurrence of gun massacres in schools, churches, malls, movie theaters and so on. And all of this lack of change is due to the millions of dollars the NRA gives to corrupt politicians in order to continue a system where guns are sold to lunatics who go out and murder children. Then those who fear gun control laws go out and buy tens of millions of dollars of more guns. Then the cycle continues. I don’t think that caring about the sad deaths of children 90 years ago and pointing out reasons why I care about the deaths of children today makes me a Raving Lunatic. I never said I would ban guns. But I do support requiring gun owners to pass a background check, be not mentally ill, not a felon, not under a restraining order. I support requiring guns owners to pass a course and be licensed. I support gun registration, restrictions on private sales, restrictions on the types of guns and accessories and perhaps most important, mandatory gun liability insurance. When the children of this video died their silent voices were heard across America. Changes were made to protect future children from a similar tragedy. But today the silent voices of our children murdered by lunatics with guns are kept silent by the NRA. In 1931 the parents of that time had the sense to take responsibility for a problem and work to solve it. But today the parents of our dead children are not allowed the same right. Instead these parents are threatened, intimidated, harassed. Dead children are said to be fake, never existed, “False flag victims”. Surviving children are not called heroes instead they are called “Crisis actors”, there stories of survival diminished and their character questioned. And for sharing my deeply held belief that we should learn the lesson of this video and do something to protect the children of today I am called a raving lunatic and a Nazi? Fine. What do you call anyone who says “Nobody is gunning kids down enough to justify a total firearms ban”. What do you call that person? I suggest that person is a typical NRA supporter who accepts the NRA claim that EVERYONE has a right to have a gun in America (no regulations) and NO ONE in America has a right to feel safe. (Better go out and buy guns $$ NRA $$ ). Obviously I disagree with the NRA and with those who support the NRA. I think as a nation and as a society we can and should do better.
Yeah what nick said. Tuna. Jk i really have no idea what that means. But am going to start calling my friends that
NRA doesn't make more or less money based on how many guns are sold. Their money comes from members more than anything. I know they make a convenient boogey man, but they are not the powerhouse that their detractors claim. It's just hard to admit that the anti gun movement is a losing position politically. Not an NRA member, I just recognize the reality for what it is.
@@tardisrider25 The NRA is a lobbying organization that funnels money from manufacturers, dealers and foreign governments to corrupt politicians who vote to prevent any form of gun regulation. Trump got 30 million dollars from the NRA, allegedly from the Russians. After the terrible school massacre in Florida Trump said he wanted to help support laws to prevent such massacres but he had accepted that 30 million dollars from the NRA. You can see the bind he was in. Sorry friend but the NRA is the boogie man in this evil story. The majority of the American people support some form of gun control but they are never going to get it as long as the NRA is there to pass out the money. And school children will continue to die and parents will cry and ask why no one does anything about it. Thanks.
@m norton buswell Why? Because it doesn't fit with your approved talking points? The fact is the voting power is not with the anti gun politicians. Even Obama knew this. Even with a shooting happening in his first term he was almost dead silent on the subject until he won his second term. I mean what power do you think the NRA actually has. The amount that two bit lobbying group has donated to campaign is tiny compared to other groups.
@@dalecs47 I would leave the crazy Russian conspiracy theories out of this. Saying you want laws to prevent massacres does not necessarily mean knee jerk reaction laws. It might mean laws to deal with the actual people and issues behind the shootings. This he has tried to do, but because it was something he tried to do the leftists block it. Because it has become very clear democratic politicans would rather more people die than let him get the credit for stopping the deaths. And yes most Americans support some form of gun control. That doesn't mean all the crazy lefties ideas of gun control. Call for a gun ban you're voted out. Make it illegal to let you hunting partner to borrow or even buy your rifle? How is that even a relevant idea? Mandatory liability insurance on a protected right? That's guns only for the rich. Ant my favorite, let's ban guns based on what they look like. No one who owns or even understands anything about guns supports that kind of stuff. None of it even would have stopped any of the shootings we've had.
mother nature has a weird sense of humor
Damn global warming !!!!
mike s 😂🤣😄
My loving. Mother. Eva. Archuleta. Told. Me. Of. A. Stories. Of. All. Archuletas. Children. Went. Off. To. School. But. Got. Lost. They. Said. They. Walked. All. A. Round. Looking. For. The. School. Mom. Said. They. Walked. The. Too. Of. The. Fence. Post. Till. They. Could. Not. See. Them. Mom. Said. They. We're. Just. Walking. All. Day. Lost. In. A. Big. Snow. Storm. It. Was. Late. In. The. Day. Macario. Archuleta. Said. Where. The. Kids. Elveria.said. They. Went. Off. To. School. But. Not. Home. Yet. Very. Late. So. Macario. Archuleta. The. Father. Went. Out. Looking. For. His. Children. Till. He. Found. Them. Brought. Them. Back. Home. The. Kids. Crying. Telling. There. Father. We. We're. Lost. Did. Not. Know. Witch. Way. To. Go. He e. Told. His. Wife. Elveria. If. The. Weather. Is. Bad. Don't. Send. The. Kids. To. School. Blizzard. Hit. Colorado
EVERY FARM COULD HAVE HAD ITS OWN WIND GENERATOR: ALL OF THE TECH ALREADY EXISTED.
This happened during the depression, money to buy things such as wind generators and telephones was very scarce. Now I want to ask you, why are you typing in all capital letters? Are you screaming? If so, calm down.
Idi ot.
A sad tragic story but with a positive ending, changes, reforms, progress towards improving school bus safety were made. Such as yellow school buses. So why can't we make any progress today regarding the far more often and more deadly tragedies of school shootings? Because the NRA makes a lot of money promoting the sales of guns to lunatics. The NRA bribes politicians to oppose any improvements in gun safety, you name it, the NRA pays a politician to oppose it. NRA has blood on its hands, as does any one who supports the NRA. How would this bus documentary be presented today? The NRA would promote stories that the "Bus never got stuck in the snow, the frozen dead children were fake, never existed and the survivors were crisis actors". And the parents of the dead frozen children would be vilified as communists, traitors to America and not Christian. This is how the NRA treats the parents of children murdered in school shootings today. Sorry if that offends you. I do respect this video, the tragic story and the heart felt memories of those who lost their loved ones. That is the difference between myself and those who support the NRA. I care about human life and grieve when it is lost. The NRA cares only about making money, no one's life matters to them.
I and millions of responsible gun owners and shooters resent your remark. I have been an NRA member since 1967, when I returned from the war. I was an NRA-certified police firearms instructor for over 20 years.
As far as the video, I winced when I heard that the bus driver was going into that blizzard to get help. He knew it was suicide to try, but he went anyway. My hat is off to that man.
@@MrTruckerf Thank you for our replay, but what does what you said have to do with what I said? Being a Fox news viewer is great entertainment but it does not prepare you for dealing with real issues in an honest way, instead you deflect and change the subject. I will share this with you: My brother in law was a crazy person. He was in and out of mental hospitals most of his life. Our local NRA people told him "Don, you have every right, under the constitution to have and use guns." So he did. In the end he tried to murder my sister and the kids but only ended up killing himself. However the trauma of that series of incidents still haunts the family. That is my NRA story. So please tell me again why you are offended?
dalecs47 I think if you look at Chicago where they had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes in 2016 they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn't helped there.
@@TreeLBollingTreeMan We have over 40,000 gun deaths in America each year and hundreds of thousands of injured. Just so the NRA can make more money. Imagine if after those kids froze in the snow the NRA pushed campaigns to not allow improvements in bus safety, emergency communication and improved weather forecasting? That is what the NRA has done with guns. This is what you support? Really?
@@dalecs47 I'm not a member of the NRA and I don't own a firearm! Now why don't you go preach your hate towards the NRA somewhere else, it has NOTHING to do with this video and doesn't belong here!~
I'd say it was bigger than a minivan....duh.
It was not!
Geez Karen, none, of us figurd that out.
Every one of those kids are adorable. I see what my grandmother ment when she used to say "kids today are soooooo ugly". Kids today are ugly as sin
16:05 this woman seems to really enjoy this story. Maybe a little too much lol
Idi ot... then you go "lol".
CUT THE CHEESY BACKGROUND MUSIC ALREADY! IT'S DISTRACTING AND INAPPROPRIATE. SOUNDS LIKE A 50'S SOAP OPERA.
Idiot. It IS a PBS production... You Karens are so typical... and you ignorantly use ALLL CAPPPSSSS!!!