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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Indecent ladyboy institution
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
angry wild fanboi
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Disrespectful Adventurous Quadroon Menage
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
Slimy whorehouse
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
canary talented dingle berry mad-dog skullcap
  07/06/25
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canary talented dingle berry mad-dog skullcap
  07/07/25
Jfc
wonderful heaven
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
razzle-dazzle dopamine
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Indecent ladyboy institution

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.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49076813)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: angry wild fanboi

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: Disrespectful Adventurous Quadroon Menage

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: Slimy whorehouse

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: canary talented dingle berry mad-dog skullcap

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: canary talented dingle berry mad-dog skullcap



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: wonderful heaven

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: razzle-dazzle dopamine

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)