In 1947 the port town of Texas City, Texas became the site of the largest industrial disaster in American history. An enormous explosion blew ships out of the water, created a tidal wave that flooded the town, and killed hundreds of people instantly. Find out all about it in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, everyone. It's me, Josh. And for this week's SYSK Selects, I've chosen our episode on the Texas City disaster. In Texas, they do everything bigger, including industrial disasters. In this episode from March of 2021, we cover one of the biggest explosions in American history, made up of not one, but two huge blasts that leveled the refinery poor town of Texas City.
I hope you find this one as riveting as we did.
Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.
What?
I was about to say natural disaster edition, but unnatural disaster edition.
Industrial disaster is what they call these.
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