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145 - History's Most Interesting Non-Water Floods

No Dumb Questions

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What Day of the Week Did We Figure Out What Day of the Week Was This Happening?

This was january fifties in nineteen nineteen nine d wednesday but the problem was it was in the middle of the day right yeah not one a.m so with this one you just get this bizarre rolling avalanche of sweet sludge that is both freaky at first but then a curiosity which is part of the problem what do you mean well as i understand it the fact that people didn't recognize the threat immediately is part of what went wrong. You have no context for how you would move in something like that and so it sounds like the urgency throughout the spill wasn't the same as it would have benefited been a fiery explosion or a wall of water rolling toward you. 21 people died

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