Tag: Flood

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15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston

15th January 2022
Tagged as: America, Boston, disaster, Flood, USA

21 people were killed and a further 150 were injured after 2.3 million gallons of molasses swept through North End in Boston, Massachusetts after a storage tank collapsed.

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14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

14th December 2021
Tagged as: Amsterdam, Flood, Medieval, Natural Disaster, Netherlands, North Sea, Storm

In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in Europe.