and did you know there was a similar molasses disaster in Mississippi in 1932? http://home.swbell.net/dietricj/molasses/history4.htm Unfortunately it reports inaccurately that this was the first and only large scale molasses disaster of its kind. It did dump the whole contents of 2 million gallons that day, but hey, what about Boston?!
Oddly, in 1957 they started recreating the disaster by releasing 10,000 gallons into the streets - and it's now an annual event - the sugar race. I wonder if that's true.
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Date: 2003-09-27 12:10 am (UTC)http://www.mv.com/ipusers/arcade/molyank.htm
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/arcade/molpark.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/molasses/molasses.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa123197.htm
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/molasses.htm
http://www.ooze.com/ooze6/X0024_The_Great_Flood.html
http://www.3ammagazine.com/short_stories/non-fict/truetales/molasses.html
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/arcade/molasses.htm
and did you know there was a similar molasses disaster in Mississippi in 1932?
http://home.swbell.net/dietricj/molasses/history4.htm
Unfortunately it reports inaccurately that this was the first and only large scale molasses disaster of its kind. It did dump the whole contents of 2 million gallons that day, but hey, what about Boston?!
Oddly, in 1957 they started recreating the disaster by releasing 10,000 gallons into the streets - and it's now an annual event - the sugar race. I wonder if that's true.