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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
walnut cracking mood
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
stirring church
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
aphrodisiac patrolman
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
apoplectic peach hell main people
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
yapping weed whacker
  07/06/25
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yapping weed whacker
  07/07/25
Jfc
Filthy translucent digit ratio
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Sick Swashbuckling Home
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: walnut cracking mood

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: stirring church

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: aphrodisiac patrolman

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: apoplectic peach hell main people

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: yapping weed whacker

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: yapping weed whacker



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Filthy translucent digit ratio

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Sick Swashbuckling Home

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)