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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
citrine temple persian
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Maize seedy brunch psychic
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
massive maniacal indirect expression electric furnace
  07/07/25
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odious well-lubricated set stain
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
henna foreskin theatre
  07/06/25
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henna foreskin theatre
  07/07/25
Jfc
Hilarious abusive dilemma voyeur
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Dashing keepsake machete milk
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: citrine temple persian

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: Maize seedy brunch psychic

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: massive maniacal indirect expression electric furnace

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: odious well-lubricated set stain

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: henna foreskin theatre

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: henna foreskin theatre



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Hilarious abusive dilemma voyeur

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Dashing keepsake machete milk

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)