Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919: How One of America’s Strangest Tragedies Happened

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http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/bostons-great-molasses-flood-of-1919.html

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1. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Shoddy workmanship, ignored regulations, sounds just West Virginia & South Carolina.

[marble falls]

5. Its right around this time with TR that regulations were just starting to come about. The Federal ..

gumint was getting stronger as an enforcer, during the same time. Starting with a Republican President!

[2naSalit]

2. Nicely

concise video. And it's true, you can still smell molasses on hot days in that part of the North End. Been there, smelled it.

ETA: you can smell it but only when the tide is in, otherwise you will be smelling the clam flats!!

I saw pictures of the disaster that my grandparents had in their photo albums, my grandfather used to tell us tales about it and show us the pictures when I was young.

[Neoma]

3. Killed by molasses...

Yuck.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Book rec: "Dark Tide" by Stephen Puleo

http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780807050217