Boston Molasses Disaster

**Csargo** · 02-11-2011, 06:12

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

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.

**Hooahguy** · 02-11-2011, 06:23

I actually read a book about this a while ago.

Very bizzare.

**drone** · 02-11-2011, 06:41

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.