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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
lime turdskin
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
aromatic cuckoldry
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
soul-stirring trump supporter
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
bateful prole
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Misanthropic hall coffee pot
  07/06/25
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Misanthropic hall coffee pot
  07/07/25
Jfc
Sable Elastic Band
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
adventurous garnet new version
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: lime turdskin

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: aromatic cuckoldry

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: soul-stirring trump supporter

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...id.#49080549)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: bateful prole

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Misanthropic hall coffee pot

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: Misanthropic hall coffee pot



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Sable Elastic Band

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: adventurous garnet new version

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)