The great Boston molasses flood
0 Comments Published by Alexandra on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 7:03 PM.
On January 15, 1919, Boston was engulfed in a giant wave of molasses that killed 21 people and injured 150, making its sticky way through the city at speeds of 56 km/h. A huge molasses tank 15 m tall, 27 m in diameter and containing as much as 8,700,000 L collapsed near Keany Square. The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 2.5 and 4.5 m high. Witnesses stated that as it collapsed there was a loud rumbling sound like a machine gun as the rivets shot out of the tank, and that the ground shook as if a train were passing by.Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage. Here and there struggled a form — whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell. Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared. Human beings — men and women — suffered likewise.I tell everyone this story and they tell me it's not real. And I say to them, hey, fuck you, this is real. And it's probably my best dinner party story.
But what I'm really trying to say is, Boston Spaceships are go. Featuring Robert Pollard as well as John Moen from The Decemberists, you know it's got to be good. And they're conveniently named after the city I will be living in, in 1.5 years time. Don't let my prejudices fool you.
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