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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
multi-colored up-to-no-good sweet tailpipe
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
violent federal school water buffalo
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
chestnut soul-stirring doctorate piazza
  07/07/25
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Azure confused mother
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Sooty Set
  07/06/25
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Sooty Set
  07/07/25
Jfc
bisexual mind-boggling state
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
disrespectful learning disabled boiling water generalized bond
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: multi-colored up-to-no-good sweet tailpipe

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: violent federal school water buffalo

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=2Reputation#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: chestnut soul-stirring doctorate piazza

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: Azure confused mother

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Sooty Set

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: Sooty Set



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: bisexual mind-boggling state

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: disrespectful learning disabled boiling water generalized bond

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

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