There is an old Chinese saying: If there is no beauty or evil in things, it will become a disaster if it is passed. It means that saying anything good, overdone will turn into disaster. This is undoubtedly true, for example, since ancient times, many people have lived too well because of their adolescent life, resulting in the inability to adapt to society when they grow up, and even become a scourge of society? This good life can also be called "sweet". The sweetest thing is sugar.
Whether in the era of material scarcity or in the modern society of material abundance, each of us has a very good memory of sugar. Especially when you are a child, if you can eat a piece of sugar, you will enjoy the infinite fun of life. Now when we look at the children who eat sugar, we can't help but feel a sweet taste from them, but sugar is also a disaster: 10,000 tons of sugar leaks, people are glued to amber like ants, and 21 people are glued into sugar people, becoming a sweet tragedy.
The story begins in 1915. At that time, the United States developed very rapidly, starting from the British North American colonies in 1776 to strive for independence, the United States began to gradually embark on the fast track of development. Far from the war, the vastness of the land, coupled with the gradual abolition of slavery in 1865, and the Industrial Revolution, the country's economy and commerce developed rapidly. Especially in places like Boston, it has developed rapidly.
Boston was a famous commercial city as early as the British rule, and it was here that the famous Boston Tea Pour took place in 1773. At this time, Boston had been freed from British control and could trade freely, so various industries and commerce developed rapidly. Sugar has also become an important product urgently needed here, because sugar can be used to make alcohol, can be used in arms, and is a very valuable industrial raw material.
To do this, a huge sugar storage tank needs to be built here. The tank is 15 meters tall, 25 meters in diameter and has a capacity of 7.5 million liters of sugar. Originally, as a chemical storage tank, although sugar did not seem to be a dangerous product, it was still required to be built far away from the residential area. But it was a big project and a huge opportunity to make money, so its director, Arthur Gyal, built it haphazardly in a residential area.
This can speed up the construction period, but also save the money to buy land, but also convenient to recruit workers to work on the spot, reducing the cost of accommodation for workers. Arthur Gyal would not have thought that it was his seemingly unproblemious choice that would have saddened him with heavy consequences. His construction team is very mixed, and the technology of the construction team is uneven, and everyone thinks that it is just a large jar with no technical content, and it does not need to be so careful.
The main thing is that the more sloppy they do, the more money they make. They even made perfunctory welding, making the welding joints of the jar very sloppy. Arthur Gyal looked into his eyes, but turned a blind eye, because most of the money he ended up saving still went to his hands. As for the jar, he was not very worried, after all, it was not a high-pressure container, and it was a big deal to leak a little sugar out, and he couldn't do anything big.
Soon the jar was built, and at first Arthur Gyal was a little worried, but after 4 years of using it without problems, he thought it should be fine. The winter of 1919 was more chaotic than in previous years, especially the temperature difference was very chaotic. The temperature plummeted for a moment, and the temperature rose sharply for a while, and Arthur Gyal had fifteen buckets of water in his mind, seven up and eight down.
After all, he is also a person, knowing that thermal expansion and contraction can cause great damage to the weld joints, and his poor equipment is very casual in construction. But at this time, he was also raw rice cooked to maturity, helpless. A few days later, the temperature suddenly rose from 17 degrees to 24 degrees, and cracks appeared above the sugar storage tank. Arthur Gyell was still wondering if he wanted to make it up, but before he could figure it out, he heard a loud noise, and the jar was actually squeezed open by sugar.
The pressure of 14,000 tons of sugar on the storage tank was released in this instant, and the violent "sugar stream" spewed out like a flood, and the entire residential area was damaged. Those sticky things can't be torn off by people, which is very scary. At that time, more than 150 people were injured because of these "sweet" sugars. The most frightening thing is the people who stand directly opposite the squirted sugar, and they are sprayed with "sweetness".
Not only did they squirt their faces, their entire bodies were surrounded by "sweetness", and the sugar stuck to them and made them unable to breathe. The relevant personnel quickly organized rescue, but these "sugar men" who were frozen like amber by sugar were really completely unable to rescue - by the time the rescuers fished them out of the sugar, they had suffocated and died - standing in front of such a huge amount of sugar, humans did not seem to be much different from the ants stuck with rosin.
This story tells us not to covet too much for anything. Sugar is so, so is money, if Arthur Gyal does not take so much money that should not be taken, where can there be such consequences?