IN SWEET TURNED DEADLY: THE GREAT BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD

On a sultry January afternoon in 1919, the unthinkable happened in Boston's North End. A massive tank overflowing with sticky molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a tidal wave thick, brown goo that consumed the streets below. Hundreds of people were caught in the catastrophic flood, buried under the unexpected force of the molasses. The sc