For obvious reasons I held off a day before posting this item about the very odd incident on September 11th, 1911.
It was called the Great Molasses Flood and it hit New Orleans 112 years ago. The Sugar Planters Storage and Distributing Company had nearly a million gallons of molasses burst from its tanks, causing a literal molasses flood that spread for over a quarter of a mile.
Ultimately, the affected area expanded to around two miles after water mains burst and added to the mess. Streets were flooded up to a depth of fifteen feet in some spots and twelve inches in the deluge’s outer reaches.
No one was killed but many people had to be rescued from being (literally) stuck on the streets or inside buildings with several pets needing to be extracted from the morass.
A plague of flies then descended on the flooded areas for days afterward.
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That’s amazing. I wonder how we’d deal with that now.
Yes, that’s a good question!
We would blame Trump unless culpability was inescapable, in which case we would paint it as good for the environment, economy, life, liberty, and Democratic votes.
THAT sounds exactly right, Espy!
Well, not exactly…
Ha!
I remember reading about this a few years ago. I didn’t know about the plague of flies, but that makes sense. So gross. LOL :O
Ha! Yeah, and in 1919 Boston suffered an even larger molasses flood of over 2.3 million gallons of the stuff, but since that one gets so much more coverage I decided to go with this one instead.
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Fun times at NOLA Central High. (Home of the Blackstraps.)
Is that the real name of the team?
Oh, come on. You of all people!
Ha! The specificity of the high school fooled me!
Like my alma mater, South Hamtramck Institute of Technology, home of the Fulcrums.
A storied institution …