To hide the leaks in the tank they painted it brown to match the molasses.
And blamed the failure on ‘anarchists’ despite the tank not even meeting the incredibly low safety standards of 1919
Anarchists getting strays from both capitalists AND tankies is so fuckin annoying bro 😭
Another good case of corporations killing people AND getting away with it! Hurray!
Damn, that’s striking!
You should post that to !historyphotos@piefed.social !
Oh heck yeah!
Oh man what a great rabbithole
Definetly. I also found this list of non water floods for further rabbithole diving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-water_floods
Will a glass of rum suffice? They were definitely not storing massive amounts of molasses as a baking ingredient.
They wanted to store that before Prohibition came along so that was probably the reason.
No offense but if you can’t outrun molasses in January maybe you deserve to swim.
Lotta weight behind that molasses, some 35 mph worth.
Turns out, I AM slower than molasses in January…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour)
Think you can outrun a bear? Because the molasses was faster than a bear
I always travel with a hiking partner I can outrun in bear country.
Well, that’s your first mistake, son. This here’s molasses country!
It’s the same basic principle though right?
Molasses hungers
