The Day Boston Drowned in Molasses: The Great Flood of 1919
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Discover the tragic events of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, when a massive wave of molasses wreaked havoc on the city. Learn how this disaster unfolded, the engineering failures behind it, and its lasting impact on Boston's North End. Chapters: 00:00 A Wave You Can't Outrun 00:12 Boston's North End, 1919 00:24 The Tank Over the Rooftops 00:36 Molasses Was Liquid Gold 00:48 Built Without an Engineer 01:00 It Leaked From Day One 01:12 Painted Brown to Hide 01:24 Warm Cargo, Cold Tank 01:36 An Unseasonably Warm Day 01:48 Rivets Like Machine-Gun Fire 02:00 Twenty-Five Feet, Thirty-Five Miles 02:12 A Brown Tsunami 02:24 The Elevated Railway Buckles 02:36 Trapped Like Flies 02:48 The Firehouse Falls 03:00 The Flood Chose No One 03:12 Cadets of the Nantucket 03:24 Wading Into the Tide 03:36 Twenty-One Lives Lost 03:48 A City Sticky for Months 04:00 Blame the Anarchists 04:12 One Hundred Nineteen Lawsuits 04:24 The Verdict of 1925 04:36 The Rules Written in Syrup 04:48 The Sweet Smell Lingered 05:00 What the Flood Taught Us
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