NaNoWriYe and the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

[crowdog66]

Coffee's on, and that's all I can really say about the day so far.

Through another blog I've found a link to the NaNoWriYe nessage board, which I'll have to investigate later. Hurray! Something to possibly light a fire under my butt about my novel! Trouble is, the site is as slow as molasses in January...

...which actually isn't THAT slow, as we know from the Great Boston Molasses Flood of January 15th 1919. No, seriously. I'm not making it up.

From the Wikipedia link above: Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage. Here and there struggled a form — whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell. Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was.... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared. Human beings — men and women — suffered likewise.

I'm surprised that more people don't know about the Great Boston Molasses Flood, but of course that was one of the years of the Spanish Flu pandemic, which was a much greater and more lethal tragedy.

EDITED TO ADD: Just checked my blood sugar after a couple of sips of coffee with milk. 15.2. Gah.

Comments

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

what is a good reading supposed to be?

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

A good pre-meal reading is between 4.0 and 7.0, and a good after meal reading is between 5.0 and 10.0.

As you can see, I'm WAY over.

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

oh...... :(

is it due to missing the metformin? or is it something else?

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly, the little commemorative plaque mentioned in the article, was erected and dedicated just a few years back. It's one of those "something this wierd could only happen in Massachusetts" sort of things.