{"id":931,"date":"2014-01-06T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2023-01-03T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:12:28","slug":"san-diegos-big-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"San Diego&#8217;s Big Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><i>The city awoke this morning in a climate apparently transplanted. Shivers ran where shivers had not run before and the weather bureau was bombarded from early morn with telephone calls to know the reason why. Lightly constructed &#8220;Southern California&#8221; houses shrank with the cold and fairly trembled with the quivering of their occupants. <\/i>&#8211;San Diego Tribune, January 6, 1913.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">A century ago San Diego got a cold taste of winter weather. <strong>The story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Big_Freeze.pdf\">Big Freeze<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_933\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-933\" data-attachment-id=\"933\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=933\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg?fit=1454%2C1656&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1454,1656\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"freeze1913\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg?fit=899%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-933 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg?resize=503%2C574\" alt=\"freeze1913\" width=\"503\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg?resize=899%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 899w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/freeze1913.jpg?w=1454&amp;ssl=1 1454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Union, January 7, 1913.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D931&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city awoke this morning in a climate apparently transplanted. Shivers ran where shivers had not run before and the weather bureau was bombarded from early morn with telephone calls to know the reason why. 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