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The disruption to weather patterns meant the ensuing winter was unusually harsh, with consequent spring flooding claiming more lives. In America the Mississippi reportedly froze at New Orleans.

Oh, man.

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I am rereading Following the Equator by Mark Twain and he mentions the Mississippi freezing at Memphis and ice as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas, this was during his days as a riverboat pilot.