November 25

If you are ever tempted to complain about bad weather, try putting whatever it is you want to complain about in its proper perspective. Is it a bit of rain? Perhaps some snow? Toads falling from the skies? Although lately the latter doesn’t happen quite as often as it used to, so that probably won’t come in to play. In any event, before you start frightening small children with your rants about the weather consider the fact that on Thanksgiving Day, the 25th, in 1926, there was an outbreak of 27 tornadoes in the Midwest of the United States that ranged in strength up to F4. So don’t start complaining about a couple of days of rain, o.k.?

Heber Springs, Arkansas was the municipality hit the hardest, with 51 known deaths in that town alone.