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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
At-the-ready public bath
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Mischievous awkward legal warrant
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
indigo pervert
  07/07/25
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Curious Anal Giraffe
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
fishy cracking striped hyena karate
  07/06/25
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fishy cracking striped hyena karate
  07/07/25
Jfc
pale wonderful shitlib
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
bull headed overrated pistol indian lodge
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: At-the-ready public bath

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignited into a giant blaze that even the floodwater couldn’t put out, so masses of people were just getting washed into a fiery incinerator.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood#/media/File%3AThe_Great_Conemaugh_Valley_Disaster.jpg

Also there was apparently a random *barbed wire factory* in town that did a lot of slicing and dicing once the meatbag-filled waters were running past it. Real Event Horizon shit.



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Mischievous awkward legal warrant

Have you read Captains Courageous?

If you visit Johnstown, there's an old church near the town center that stood up to the flood while surrounding buildings got washed away.

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: indigo pervert

i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part

that's almost cartoonishly horrible

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Curious Anal Giraffe

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: fishy cracking striped hyena karate

Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie’s hunting club that owned (and poorly maintained) the dam that failed but no one ever got in any significant trouble for it.

lol at that compared to libs trying to blame the TX flood on Drumpf and Elon.



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: fishy cracking striped hyena karate



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: pale wonderful shitlib

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: bull headed overrated pistol indian lodge

David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book about it. Tremendous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49080496)