I couldn't, could you?
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
United States
April 26, 2020 12:41pm CST
Residents of Winston were startled awake in the early hours of the morning of November 2nd, 1902. Concrete from the reservoir crashed down, causing the earth around it to reverberate. 800,000 gallons of water washed through the streets, destroying homes and sending one couple on a 500 yard journey atop their mattress.
Nine people were killed that day, and several sustained injuries. One man clung to a fence while the water rushed around him.
I couldn't imagine how terrifying that would have been for the residents, and how devastating. Could you?
November 2, 1904, Winston-Salem History, City's Water Reservoir Bursts, Water supply, disaster
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
26 Apr 20
Floods atleast you could expect. This was not on anyone's minds when they went to bed the night before.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
26 Apr 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I was in one with no warning, woke up to water at the level of my bed.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
26 Apr 20
I think about a few years ago when the trash truck startled me awake. It came about for in the morning and jolted me from a restful sleep. I thought it was the end of the world, and I can imagine these people thought so too.
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@much2say (55607)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Apr 20
Omg. Sorry I often have a similar story to tell 
. Relatively locally, there used to be a St. Francis Dam . . . the dam broke in 1928 in the middle of the night . . . crazy water ran all the way through to the ocean . . . something like 12 billion gallons of water 
. Oh yah, people and communities washed away.
We actually visited the dam area . . there are still bits and pieces of the dam concrete left. I am not one to feel spirits or ghosts . . . but I will tell you it was the eeriest/negative force I have ever felt. I am not a swimmer or water person to begin with, so to know the history really creeped me out. Definitely unimaginably horrific!
. Relatively locally, there used to be a St. Francis Dam . . . the dam broke in 1928 in the middle of the night . . . crazy water ran all the way through to the ocean . . . something like 12 billion gallons of water . Oh yah, people and communities washed away.
We actually visited the dam area . . there are still bits and pieces of the dam concrete left. I am not one to feel spirits or ghosts . . . but I will tell you it was the eeriest/negative force I have ever felt. I am not a swimmer or water person to begin with, so to know the history really creeped me out. Definitely unimaginably horrific!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
26 Apr 20
It must have been. To think of waking up to a loud crash. I imagine some must have thought the world was ending.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
26 Apr 20
@Nevena83 I can't imagine! That would have displaced so many people.
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@Nevena83 (65277)
• Serbia
26 Apr 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum We had a flood a few years ago and in some cities the water was covering the roofs of houses, it was horrible.
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