I'll see your flooding river and raise you The Great Molasses Flood of Boston: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster http://en.m.wikipedia.or

I'll see your flooding river and raise you The Great Molasses Flood of Boston: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster 21 dead. 150 injured. Had they done their calculus/physics homework properly, they'd have known to calculate thickness of the tanks required as a function of the depth of the liquid. Stay in school, kids.