Coming Was An Understatement: The Great Molasses Flood

This week, we match each other's bad energy, the bracket has a slappin' bop, we deliver the content people want, Melanie only has one pull-quote for any story, the ants come and they might be rude, and capitalism was the real villain all along.

Content warnings: structural damage/collapse, claustrophobia, deaths by drowning/suffocation, horse deaths.

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/430831098/?terms=john%20barry%20molasses%20flood&match=1

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114116-incredible-physics-behind-the-deadly-1919-boston-molasses-flood/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-boston-molasses-disaster-was-so-deadly-180961209/#:~:text=When%20the%20tank%20gave%20way,farther%20and%20been%20much%20thinner.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/14/nearly-century-later-new-insight-into-cause-great-molasses-flood/CNqLYc0T58kNo3MxP872iM/story.html

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/01/12/great-boston-molasses-flood-timeline/

https://erenow.net/common/dark-tide-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Molasses-Flood

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/first-hand-accounts-great-boston-molasses-flood/

https://www.census.gov/history/www/homepage_archive/2019/january_2019.html#:~:text=Twenty%2Done%20people%20died%20from,were%20injured%20in%20the%20flood.

https://www.history.com/news/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/

https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science