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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Mustard deep temple
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
autistic property fortuitous meteor
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Vigorous startling theatre
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
Canary senate
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
cracking immigrant volcanic crater
  07/06/25
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cracking immigrant volcanic crater
  07/07/25
Jfc
Swashbuckling Corner
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
multi-colored spot
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Mustard deep temple

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: autistic property fortuitous meteor

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: Vigorous startling theatre

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: Canary senate

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: cracking immigrant 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.



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: cracking immigrant volcanic crater



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Corner

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: multi-colored spot

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)