Will the Gates of Hell swallow us all?
An earthquake in Washington, DC?
A major hurricane threatening New York City?
What a week! What else could the subject of this week’s Friday Fun Links be but… Weird Disasters?
The granddaddy of 20th Century weird disasters — the Tunguska Event. Was it a comet? An asteroid? Or a UFO heroically sacrificing itself to prevent the destruction of Planet Earth?
The worst industrial disaster in U.S. history — an entire freighter full of ammonium nitrate goes BOOM!
1944 was a really bad year for weird disasters in the U.S. — the great Cleveland, Ohio gas explosion and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut
A pair of weird man-made disasters in the old Soviet Union — the evaporation of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest inland sea in the world; and a massive crater in Turkmenistan filled with natural gas that has been burning for the past forty years, known as “The Gates of Hell”
A “pea-souper” fog in London in 1952 that caused the premature deaths of four thousand people
Here at Fantastical Andrew Fox.com, we’re really into food — how about a flood of molasses, a deluge of beer, and an explosion of tapioca?
Earthquakes and hurricanes are starting to seem mundane…
