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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Tan headpube genital piercing
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
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  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Tan headpube genital piercing

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: cordovan bat-shit-crazy elastic band

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.

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: aromatic heaven pisswyrm

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: Magenta Vengeful Ape Mexican

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: chest-beating vermilion casino

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
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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Jet costumed mental disorder

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Excitant mauve nowag

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)