Obscure disasters (formerly "Ever hear of Texas City Disaster...?)

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Dust clogged the atmosphere worlwide to the point that 1816 was called The Year Without a Summer and the Norther Hemisphere suffered the biggest famine of the 19th century.

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There are studies that suggest this was the cause of a wave of migration from New England to (what is now) the Midwest.

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Do you have a link to this? I've heard of the famine, but I thought that it was related to the Tambora volcano eruption.

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Ummmm, yes. BigPoppa's post was about the eruption, which caused the 'Year Without a Summer', which spurred migrations west and south.

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Oh oh oh...sorry, I misread it. I thought he said that the migrants caused the climate shift [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]