quote:The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.
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Ah this reminds me of the molasses disaster in Boston (was it?) a long time ago when some molasses storage tank burst, sending out a snail paced tsunami of sticky stuff that engulfed everything in its path. It is said that you can still smell molasses when it's damp in that area of town.
Now I must google for the true facts of the case. My memory is too bad!
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Yes, sndrake, the company had previously responded to warnings about the unsafe condition of the tank by painting it brown so you couldn't see the molasses leaking out so easily.
It's good to know some things haven't changed. Sometimes I'm tempted to think stuff like that is new to our times.
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It's weird how many things that have come to my notice lately happened in 1918-1919. Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918, I just read in the book of his letters that's just come out. No mention of the influenza pandemic in the year of his birth. Thank goodness it didn't take him! I guess we'd never know what we lost if it had, but anyway I'm glad it didn't.
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