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Post by WestmoGuy on Feb 1, 2010 13:17:20 GMT -5
I happened upon this site while looking for some info. GenDisasters it's called. Events that touched our ancestors lives. I never heard of this site. Also, never heard about this Steamboat Explosion just east of Utica. www3.gendisasters.com/new-york/3412/utica,-ny-steamer-%2526%2523039;hon.-titus-sheard%2526%2523039;-explosion,-june-1896 Enjoy the site. Tony |
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Post by Clipper on Feb 1, 2010 13:23:29 GMT -5
Cool, Now I have ONE MORE place to read and enjoy daily. Is there any way we can expand the day to 26 or 27 hours so I can keep up with all of this, get my farming done on Facebook and still have time for poker and offline activity?
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Post by WestmoGuy on Feb 1, 2010 13:52:04 GMT -5
Cool, Now I have ONE MORE place to read and enjoy daily. Is there any way we can expand the day to 26 or 27 hours so I can keep up with all of this, get my farming done on Facebook and still have time for poker and offline activity? Woah Woah Woah..... You use Farmville?? LOL  |
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 1, 2010 13:57:47 GMT -5
That's it! Clipper, we need to have an intervention. Mafia Wars is fine, but farmville?!
Just kidding.
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Post by lucy on Feb 1, 2010 15:34:16 GMT -5
I'm sure that Clipper also plays Sorority Life..... hahahaha......
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Post by Clipper on Feb 2, 2010 7:51:52 GMT -5
I don't do farmville either very often. When I go there I usually have had all my crops croak and the rest of the farm needing harvesting, milking or collecting, haha.
My weakness on FB is the silly status updates, and Zynga Poker, where I could play texas holdem for hours on end.
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Post by fiona on Feb 2, 2010 12:38:01 GMT -5
gen disasters? Yes, I have visited that sight many times. Thought everyone knew about it. Sorry. Don't tell Dave about that site- he'll abandon OGH and start writing about exploding steamboats!
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Post by fiona on Feb 2, 2010 12:46:16 GMT -5
Westmo guy: come and join on on OGH!
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 2, 2010 15:47:54 GMT -5
gen disasters? Yes, I have visited that sight many times. Thought everyone knew about it. Sorry. Don't tell Dave about that site- he'll abandon OGH and start writing about exploding steamboats! What an awful disaster! One moment you're looking out over the beautiful valley from the deck of a steamboat on a lovely summer day, smelling the fresh mown hay, and the in next second your body parts are fired up in the air in several directions. The descriptions in the news account are clinically simple and all the more savage. "Blown several feet in the air, landing on a hawser hook on a passing boat, disemboweling him." And, "badly scalded about the face and neck; death caused by drowning, although heroic efforts were made to save her life" tells a worse story of not having her ordeal over more quickly . But, "head blown off; killed instantly," is almost humorous for the unnecessary ending of the couplet. I'm not enough of a student of journalism to say when reporting style changed and began to look aside and report far fewer details of an accident victim's demise. Disregarding the feelings of the family, I have to say a lot is lost when the gore is left out. The list of injuries as written captures the surprise and revulsion and shock and pity any bystander would experience after they picked themselves up and surveyed the aftermath. What an awful thing to happen on a peaceful summer outing. In that day, to not die in your bed was to be lamented. But to be killed on your day off must have been worse. |
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Post by Clipper on Feb 2, 2010 16:02:13 GMT -5
Most of the disasters listed on that site are described in vivid detail. I spent about an hour reading of train wrecks, fires, fireworks factory explosions, auto wrecks, etc.
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Post by WestmoGuy on Feb 3, 2010 8:02:33 GMT -5
Westmo guy: come and join on on OGH! Lemme know what OGH is  |
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2010 9:03:26 GMT -5
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