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2001-04-12.10:43 p.m.

Sweet Jesus

In January 1919 a giant tank atop a building � fifty-eight feet higher than it's 3 story building and ninety feet across holding 2,500,000 gallons of molasses � exploded in the North End of Boston. The sticky sweet syrup flowed down the city streets at speeds of 35 miles an hour. The wave carried people, horses and buildings in its wake.

It killed 21 people, injured 130, crumpled the steel support of an elevated train, and knocked over a fire station.

People were crushed as well as drowned in bubbling boiling molasses sludge� that took over a month to fully clean up.

It turns out that someone forgot to open the pressure release valve when the temperature went up from 2 degrees above zero to 48 degrees above zero in less than 2 days.

Now I see this as the difference between Providence and Boston � besides size and a 45 minute drive � because the same thing happened in Providence around the same time, but Providence�s catastrophe is no where to be found on the web� just that damn show they shut down the city every summer to film.

Real city envy gets sticky

and yes, I should be shot for that last comment� or drowned in molasses.



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