Boston Molasses Disaster

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02-11-2011, 06:12
Csargo

Boston Molasses Disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster

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The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 and 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (56 km/h), and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft² (200 kPa). The molasses wave was of sufficient force to break the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and lift a train off the tracks. Nearby, buildings were swept off their foundations and crushed. Several blocks were flooded to a depth of 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 cm).

This is crazy, so I thought I would share it with you guys.
02-11-2011, 06:23
Hooahguy

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

I actually read a book about this a while ago.

Very bizzare.
02-11-2011, 06:41
drone

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

Weird. As industrial accidents go, it's no Union Carbide, but it's strange to think of so much molasses. Good link to the London Beer Flood on that page, that's how I want to go. :barrel:
02-11-2011, 11:12
rajpoot

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

Very weird....and hard to imagine....
02-12-2011, 05:20
Motep

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

Talk about a sticky situation...
02-12-2011, 05:30
Major Robert Dump

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

HAHA "speeds up to 35 mph".

I wonder how many people just fell asleep from a sugar coma and they thought they were dead
02-12-2011, 12:05
Hosakawa Tito

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

All yer rum belong to us...argh:pirate2:
02-26-2011, 15:59
a completely inoffensive name

Re: Boston Molasses Disaster

Did they eat their way out?