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Financial_Cancel1577 t1_j1i7vv0 wrote

Reply to comment by humdaaks_lament in Stay safe out there Boston by TuesdayTrex

God the molasses flood really was hilarible. On the one hand, killed by a notoriously slow liquid. On the other hand, because it was so thick and slow they kept it at near-boiling all the time so they could pump it out faster. It was basically hot tar. Edit: turns out I was full of crap. My apologies.

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Vanilloideae t1_j1ian2l wrote

I don't think that's correct. I've read a lot about the disaster, including Dark Tide, and I've never heard anything about heating the molasses. It was certainly warmer than the air temp in January (apparently ~40F) due to fermentation but it wasn't even close to "near-boiling".

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Financial_Cancel1577 t1_j1j4i18 wrote

Huh. I swear I didn't make it up, but now I can't find the source, so you're probably right. Thanks for the correction.

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