Neighbors Laughed When She Extended Her Roof To The Ground — Until It Saved Her During the Freeze

Описание: In 1883, a young widow named Ingred Anderson shocked her Dakota Territory neighbors when she extended her sod house roof all the way to the ground. They mocked her, called it madness, and claimed she was burying herself alive. But when the deadly blizzard of 1884 struck with temperatures dropping below 20 degrees below zero and winds roaring at 55 mph, her strange design saved her family’s life.

This emotional Wild West survival story shows how one brave woman used old Scandinavian engineering to build a winter-proof home that outperformed every cabin for miles. While others froze and burned through mountains of wood, her children slept warm thanks to a forgotten frontier method of earth-bermed insulation and wind-breaking roof design.

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