☞Flash Flood!
☞Flash Flood! ☞Today in History -- On today’s date 208 years ago, Tuesday, October 17, 1814, in a curiously-interesting case of sad misfortune, the infamous Great London Beer Flood occurred in the Parish of Saint Giles at London, England. ☞It was at the Messrs. Henry Meux & Company’s Horse Shoe Brewery on that fateful day that one of the brewery’s massive wooden vats filled with over 135,000 Imperial gallons of beer was ominously bulging at the seams. The Brobdingnagian barrel stood 20 feet tall & was held together by twenty-nine 700-pound wrought-iron bands. Suddenly, at precisely 6:00 PM, the vat ruptured, causing adjacent vats to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 Imperial gallons of beer smashed through the brewery’s 25-foot-tall brick walls & gushed into the streets of London. The resulting wave of beer destroyed two homes & drowned eight people. ☞The torrent smashed two houses & the nearby Tavistock Arms pub on Great Russel...