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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Crusty locale
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
vivacious boistinker
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
transparent bbw codepig
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
comical cheese-eating church feces
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Sapphire dog poop boiling water
  07/06/25
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Sapphire dog poop boiling water
  07/07/25
Jfc
trip people who are hurt gas station
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Aphrodisiac Harsh Business Firm Potus
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Crusty locale

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 boistinker

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...id#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: transparent bbw codepig

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: comical cheese-eating church feces

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Sapphire dog poop boiling water

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: Sapphire dog poop boiling water



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: trip people who are hurt gas station

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Harsh Business Firm Potus

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...id#49080496)