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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Aquamarine histrionic pocket flask
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
ebony thirsty casino
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
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  07/07/25
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Onyx passionate background story cumskin
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Fantasy-prone peach volcanic crater
  07/06/25
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Fantasy-prone peach volcanic crater
  07/07/25
Jfc
motley den
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
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  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Aquamarine histrionic pocket flask

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/en-en/#49076813)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: ebony thirsty casino

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/en-en/#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: slate contagious jew ticket booth

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/en-en/#49080549)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Onyx passionate background story cumskin

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2/en-en/#49080635)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone peach volcanic crater

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/en-en/#49076854)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone peach volcanic crater



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: motley den

Jfc

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Boyish infuriating philosopher-king 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/en-en/#49080496)