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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Laughsome flesh roast beef tanning salon
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
puce rough-skinned den
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Purple vibrant casino
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
Beady-eyed mexican sandwich
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
saffron garrison puppy
  07/06/25
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saffron garrison puppy
  07/07/25
Jfc
indecent bonkers volcanic crater
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Charismatic maroon water buffalo
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Laughsome flesh roast beef tanning salon

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: puce rough-skinned den

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: Purple vibrant casino

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: Beady-eyed mexican sandwich

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: saffron garrison puppy

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: saffron garrison puppy



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: indecent bonkers volcanic crater

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Charismatic maroon water buffalo

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)