145 - History's Most Interesting Non-Water Floods
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The Great Molasses Flood
It's one of those little water containment like like wood stilted short water towers that you see on the roofs of buildings and old depictions of new york. It was made of steel okay and they think the way it ripped is people reported hearing sounds like a machine gun firing and that would be the rivets ripping apart. Later after analyzing what happened after the fact they found that this particular type of steel didn't have the correct level of manganese which ended up making the steel more brittle in my class.
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