Brother Knut Nelson

When Sigrid's brother Knut arrived in North Dakota, he was welcomed with classic prairie weather:

Winter came one month too early and they had to close the school. They couldn’t bring the little ones to school in the cold and all this snow on the prairie. . . As I have already said – winter came too early for many – yes, entirely too early because there are many who haven’t threshed, and many had thought of building more and preparing better, but the snow wouldn’t wait till they were done. A few days ago we had a terrible blizzard for four days. It blew and snowed so all that time. Some people tied a string to the corner of the house so they could find their way inside again. Yes, that was the worst snowstorm I’ve ever seen since I came to America, and I hope I never see it again.