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Subject: Town names synonymous with a disaster/tragedy
Posted by: Perm Dude
- [5510572522] Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 10:53
Can anyone think of some town names for which, when see the name, we think of a singular disaster or tragedy there?
Kent State
Altamont
Bhopal, India
Jonestown
Three Mile Island
[No, Baldwin. Woodstock is not included. :) ] |
| 1 | DWetzel
ID: 278201415
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 10:58
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I'll take Columbine for $100, Alex?
Chernobyl for $1000.
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| 2 | DWetzel
ID: 278201415
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 10:59
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And probably, depending on how finely you want to tune it, Hiroshima.
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| 3 | Tree, not at home
ID: 18342816
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 11:06
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Lockerbie
Dachau, Auschwitz, (and really, many of the concentration camps named after the towns they were in)
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| 4 | Boldwin
ID: 4693818
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 11:09
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Love's Canal
Cherry [mine disaster]
Beslan [school takeover]
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| 5 | Seattle Zen
Leader
ID: 055343019
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 11:42
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PD, I like the idea but your four of your five examples are not even towns, one is a university, the next is a pass in California. Jonestown was the name those guys called their compound/camp and Three Mile Island was just an island.
As for Auschwitz, thankfully that was not the name of the town near the camp, that's just the German name for it, it's name in Polish is Oświęcim
Boldy - Neither Love Canal nor Cherry are towns.
My contribution - Cleveland... THE singular disaster!
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| 6 | C1-NRB
ID: 2672611
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:12
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Mount Carmel/Waco
Ruby Ridge
It's nice to see that Dallas didn't make the early lists. Have we finally moved on?
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| 7 | DWetzel
ID: 278201415
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:14
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Meh, and I'm -$900 too, since Chernobyl wasn't a town either.
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| 8 | Tree, not at home
ID: 18342816
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:15
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FWIW, i think some of the above are really being stretched.
Cherry and Beslan, at least in the American vernacular, are hardly definitely not names that in my mind automaitcally translated to tragedy. Even Waco - i think of Baylor football.
to me, Lakehurst is more immediately linked to tragedy than any of those, and it barely registers.
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| 9 | Perm Dude
ID: 5510572522
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:16
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Good points, Zen. KSU is in Kent, a name which has a vague English countryside feel to it. Maybe I'll have a bonus section for places like that.
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| 10 | weykool
ID: 138481617
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:34
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Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
New Orleans
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| 11 | The Left Behind
ID: 66232012
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:52
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Detroit (Economic disaster)
Honolulu
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| 12 | Frick
ID: 42825248
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:00
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Chicago
Andersonville
Antietam - Or any town named for a Civil war battle.
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| 13 | Da Bomb
ID: 508161517
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:06
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Pompeii
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| 14 | biliruben
ID: 358252515
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:07
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Waterloo.
It's love canal, love.
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| 15 | biliruben
ID: 358252515
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:08
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Troy.
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| 16 | Khahan
ID: 373143013
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:09
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chicago - have you seen the disaster that is their sports teams the past few years?
On a more serious note:
If you're going to the university don't forget Va Tech.
I wouldn't include TMI. It was definitely a big scare, but was not actually a disaster (I grew up being able to see the towers from my yard).
Not only Jonestown, but there is also Johnstown (The Great Flood of 1889).
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| 17 | Seattle Zen
ID: 10732616
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:12
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Chicago
Ah, yes, the Cubs.
Pompeii
Ouch, too soon :)
If we are using war sites, and I don't agree with their inclusion, the only one really cringe-worthy is Waterloo, Belgium.
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| 18 | weykool
ID: 138481617
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:18
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
The 1906 SF earthquake/fires.
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| 19 | boikin
ID: 532592112
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:44
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Donner pass, not really a town.
Somme, not really a town either
dunkirk
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| 20 | Boldwin
ID: 4693818
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 13:46
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SZ, not sure about the canal. That could be a subdivision for all I know, but Cherry is most definitely a town which I live 10 miles from.
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| 21 | Frick
ID: 42825248
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 14:15
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I said Chicago thinking of the great fire, more than my poor Cubbies.
And don't forget Atlantis.
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| 22 | boikin
ID: 532592112
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 14:27
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Jericho
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| 23 | Tree, not at home
ID: 18342816
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 14:49
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Jericho
man, i miss that show.
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| 24 | Mith
ID: 28646259
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 15:12
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Bam, Iran. 2003 earthquake killed 25,000 people.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 2010 earthquake killed 100,000 to 200,000 in the area.
Labutta Township, Myanmar 2008 cyclone killed 80,000 and 50,000 more in nearby areas.
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| 25 | Khahan
ID: 373143013
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 15:58
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Some of these are just places where bad things happened. I think thats a bit off the mark. When you say, "Pompei" I think of the volcano. When you say, "San Francisco" I may think of earthquakes in general. I may think of the earthquake that interrupted the world series. But I also think of a lot of other things and often think of those things first. In other words, San Fran is not synonymous with a specific bad event, even though there may be a well known disaster that happened there.
chicago though. Synonymous with the cubs and the cubs....what more can we say?
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| 26 | The Left Behind
ID: 66232012
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 17:09
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Washington D.C.
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| 27 | Perm Dude
ID: 5510572522
Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 18:42
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#25: Exactly. These are places when you hear the name, you think of that particular disaster.
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| 28 | PuNk42AE
Donor
ID: 036635522
Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 01:17
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Homestead, Fl
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| 29 | sarge33rd
ID: 47847175
Sun, Oct 03, 2010, 12:50
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Dresden, Germany
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| 30 | sarge33rd
ID: 47847175
Sun, Oct 03, 2010, 13:43
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should add Salem, MA to the list I think.
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