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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Pontificating Cumskin
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Vivacious greedy roommate
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Effete Den Yarmulke
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
Hairraiser Stubborn Milk
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
concupiscible parlor
  07/06/25
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concupiscible parlor
  07/07/25
Jfc
Confused umber theatre
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Poppy blathering multi-billionaire native
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Pontificating Cumskin

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: Vivacious greedy roommate

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: Effete Den Yarmulke

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

that's almost cartoonishly horrible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49080549)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Hairraiser Stubborn Milk

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fgary-larson-panel-i-never-understood-as-a-kid-v0-d78ke5m1imfb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D425%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Da804251c8a90b3a6e5ce7d16b1fba3777910dc78

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: concupiscible parlor

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.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49076854)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: concupiscible parlor



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Confused umber theatre

Jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49080491)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Poppy blathering multi-billionaire native

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)