TQOTD: Man-made Disasters....

It sounds like an urban legend, but it isn't. The date: January 15, 1919. The place: Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster: a great flood of.... what?

( And the answer is..... )

Errata

Because of a missing end bracket on on a cut tag, a portion of the answer to the TQOTD was omitted. (The answer was there, but other ancillary information was lost.) The entry has now been corrected, in case anyone was interested.

I hate doing cut-tags.