Given the magnitude of this, I think it's crazy that I had never heard of it until now. We in the US can be self-absorbed, but something that big, that happened just next door - all of North America should be familiar with it.
Okay, I think a wall of molasses moving at 35mph is one of the scariest things I've ever heard of. I guess I'll have to stop using the phrase "slower than molasses", too.
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Date: 2007-12-06 02:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-06 03:04 pm (UTC)Not a good day in history at all....
Date: 2007-12-06 03:24 pm (UTC)1,664 years ago... they kill Santa...
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Date: 2007-12-06 03:46 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oaRr6A-gkA
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Date: 2007-12-06 05:19 pm (UTC)For instance, not every knows about the Boston Molasses Disaster, either.
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Date: 2007-12-06 05:38 pm (UTC)We still talk about the Titanic - and fewer lives were lost there than in Halifax.
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