City of Ruin: The Texas City Disaster

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On April 16,1947, the port of Texas City,Texas was destroyed when a ship containing 2,200 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded. The accident killed 581 people and left hundreds more hurt or missing. It is still considered one of the deadliest industrial accidents in world history.

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0:00.0	Fancy a fever tree and vodka.
0:03.8	Yes, vodka, not gin, because this is fever tree Mexican lime soda.
0:10.0	Yes, soda, not tonic.
0:12.9	With Mexican lime and Japanese yuzu for a zesty, refreshing lime soda that's just sweet enough.
0:19.6	Delicious with vodka or on its own. Fever tree, Mexican lime soda that's just sweet enough. Delicious with vodka or on its own.
0:23.1	Fever Tree Mexican lime soda.
0:25.5	Mix with the best.
0:27.7	Mmm, now that hits the spot.
0:43.1	Hi everyone and welcome to History Dweaves.
0:44.5	I am Tim.
0:50.6	Welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.
0:56.6	Today we're going to talk about the Texas City disaster because because Brandy, we know you love a good disaster story. I do. I really do. Yes. We're trying something different.
1:03.4	We're going to, we're trying to get you guys better sound because we know our sound has not been
1:07.4	the best. And we're going to try something different.
1:11.0	So be patient with us.
1:12.9	I'm sure it's going to get better.
1:14.7	Every week, Brandy, we get better and better.
1:18.2	Yeah.
1:19.1	Yeah, that's not historically been the case, but sure, we can try it this week.
1:23.5	Well, it's going to be this week.
1:26.4	We have the Colonel sound engineer on the case
1:29.8	timmy we don't have to worry about that anymore and his skills uh with his phone is he working
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