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Back in the middle of summer sometime in the late '80s, I read in the paper about a semi full of chocolate syrup from the Hershey's plant in Oakdale got hit by a train the day before right outside Escalon, so I jumped in the truck to go check out the accident scene. No, it doesn't take much to entertain me.
I could see a dark haze a half mile out. Clouds and clouds of flies. They were so thick that even with my windows up I was still getting flies in the cab somehow - either that or the resident truck flies smelled the chocolate as we approached and got excited.
Oddly enough, they have been talking about chocolate prices and shortages for the last week or two. Used to be easy, being a conspiracy theorist, but now, it's a lot of work just to keep up...
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From Wiki - The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
ReplyDeleteA large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons of molasses, burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour, killing 21 people and injuring 150. The event entered local folklore and residents claimed for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days.
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Thus giving lie to the expression, "Slow as molasses in January."
Worst fly story ever. Out hunting in Eastern Montana with dad. I look at dad and say, didn't you wear blue jeans? Because his pants were black. As I look closer, there was no blue just a writhng mass of small black flies.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow Batman, we brush ourselves off and do a double Chinese fire drill and hop in the rig. We start bouncing across the prairie with a cloud of black gnats in chase. And i mean sci-fi action adventure chase not Warner Bros. We had trouble losing them on the prairie but finally found some flatter ground and beat them at 12mph.
Had a similar chase with mosquitoes in Burns, Oregon several years back.
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