The blogs are ligthing up with traffic on the Jonestown floods of 1889 and 1977. There is also a recent movie about the Jonestown Kool-Aid flood. While tragic, they are nothing compared with the flood of mollasses that hit Boston in 1919.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_molasses_disaster
Can you imagine a wave of mollasses rolling up on you at 35mph. The survivors had best be thankful it was January, the month in which mollases moves slowest.
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Four people, who were intended to be poisoned, decided not to cooperate and survived. They were:
* 76-year-old Hyacinth Thrash, who hid under her bed when nurses were going through her dormitory with cups of poison;
* 36-year-old Odell Rhodes, a Jonestown teacher and craftsman who pretended to get a stethoscope and hid under a building;
* 25-year-old Stanley Clayton, a kitchenworker and cousin of Huey Newton, faked out security guards and ran to the jungle; and
* 79-year-old Grover Davis, who was hard of hearing and so missing the announcement on the loudspeaker to assemble, lay down in a ditch and pretended to be dead.
Imagine how long it would have taken people to die if they had used mollases instead of kool-aid.
imagine how long it would have taken people to die if they had been waiting for you to return a phone call and tell whether you could watch their pets or not before dying.
Um, I believe the floods were in Johnstown, PA.
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