Selects: The Texas City Disaster of 1947

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🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	This is Tracy V. Wilson from Stuff You Missed in History Class. Do you like podcasts, music, and audiobooks?
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0:33.4	start listening. Terms apply. Hey, everyone, it's me, Josh, and for this week's SYSK Selects, I've chosen our episode
0:41.4	on the Texas City disaster. In Texas, they do everything bigger, including industrial disasters.
0:48.0	In this episode from March of 2021, we cover one of the biggest explosions in American history
0:53.9	made up of not one but two huge blasts that leveled the refinery poor town of Texas City.
1:00.7	I hope you find this one as riveting as we did.
1:07.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:16.9	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there, and this is Stuff You Should Know.
1:30.8	It's about the same. Jerry over there, and this is stuff you should know. I was about to say natural disaster edition, but unnatural disaster edition.
1:35.2	Industrial disaster is what they call these.
1:37.6	Yeah, human-caused.
1:39.1	In fact, from what I saw, what we're going to talk about today, the main thing we're talking about today is the
1:44.3	largest industrial disaster in united states history still oh still huh yes what 70 almost 75 years on
1:54.3	man sad this is a big one yeah everything about this really big, but in basically all the wrong ways.
2:03.3	Right.
2:03.7	We're going to talk today about a disaster called the Texas City explosion.
2:09.5	And sadly, you might say, which one?
2:12.4	Because there's been multiple massive explosions in Texas City.
2:16.5	One of the reasons why is because Texas City has made a name for itself
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