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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Beady-eyed Hyperactive Candlestick Maker
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Thriller home corn cake
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Green Contagious Round Eye
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
curious lay sandwich
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
hairraiser harsh kitchen volcanic crater
  07/06/25
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hairraiser harsh kitchen volcanic crater
  07/07/25
Jfc
Clear Incel Bbw
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Big stage
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Hyperactive Candlestick Maker

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=2E#49076813)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Thriller home corn cake

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=2E#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: Green Contagious Round Eye

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=2E#49080549)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: curious lay sandwich

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fgary-larson-panel-i-never-understood-as-a-kid-v0-d78ke5m1imfb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D425%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Da804251c8a90b3a6e5ce7d16b1fba3777910dc78

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: hairraiser harsh kitchen 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=2E#49076854)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: hairraiser harsh kitchen volcanic crater



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Clear Incel Bbw

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Big stage

David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book about it. Tremendous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2E#49080496)