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Surviving a Winter Storm in the Middle Ages

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The Baltic Sea froze over twice in 13 O3 and again over the winter of 13 O 6 to 13 O 7.

This was the start of what we now call the Little Ice Age .

The Great Famine struck northern Europe , from Poland in the east down to the Alps in the South .

People resorted to eating wild grasses, edible roots, nuts and tree bark.

The Catholic Church blamed any natural disaster on the people and their sinfulness.

Storm tides swept across England , Denmark , the Netherlands and the German coast, wiping out entire towns and districts.

Huge extra tropical cyclones hit northwestern Europe in January of 1362 .

The winter of 1363 to 64 was particularly harsh, not just in the north but also in the southern countries like Italy .

Antwerp , in what is now modern day Belgium , had 15 weeks of continuous frost in the winter of 1433 to 34 .

In 1442 , Miriam Andrew Queens , the French King Charles the 7th got stuck in Carcassonne in the South of France for three months when 6 feet of snow hit the region.

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