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    Sweet Destiny

    It was promising to be an uncharacteristically warm winter day in Boston. The temperature on Jan. 15, 1919, had soared to 40 degrees from 2 degrees earlier in the week, prompting many downtown workers to head outdoors.
    Shortly after noon in the city’s bustling North End, as Model T Fords chugged by and elevated trains screeched above Commercial Street, a group of firefighters sat down for a game of cards in a firehouse near a massive tank that stored molasses used in the production of industrial alcohol.
    As the firefighters puzzled over their hands, they heard a strange staccato sound. The rivets on the 50-foot-high storage tank began to shoot off and a dull roar followed. At the noise, firefighter Paddy Driscoll whipped around. “Oh my god!” he exclaimed as he saw the dark torrent spilling out. “Run!”
    The Great Molasses Flood was underway. The syrup swamped one of Boston’s busiest neighborhoods, killing 21 and injuring 150.
    “Midday turned to darkness as the 2.3 million gallons of molasses engulfed the Boston waterfront like a black tidal wave, 25 feet high and 160 feet wide at the outset,” Stephen Puleo recounted in his book “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919,” which vividly captures details of the disaster, including the chilling reactions of Driscoll and others to the tank rupture.
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    The Great Molasses Flood!
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    I bet there was one heck of a run on biscuits in the aftermath.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    I bet there was one heck of a run on biscuits in the aftermath.
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    I didnt mention it the other day but the night before you posted this thread I was looking thru YouTube at Air crash investigations , Engineering disasters etc. I came across a YouTube of this Molasses disaster but passed on it as I'd seen it a few times previously. Its a good story as are many of them regarding engineering , aviation , the universe etc
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