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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
rambunctious church
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
lake karate
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Vivacious disrespectful meetinghouse
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
hairless indigo center
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Motley whorehouse
  07/06/25
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Motley whorehouse
  07/07/25
Jfc
plum abnormal french chef dragon
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Stimulating Piazza Faggot Firefighter
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: rambunctious church

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: lake karate

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: Vivacious disrespectful meetinghouse

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: hairless indigo center

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: Motley whorehouse

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: Motley whorehouse



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: plum abnormal french chef dragon

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Stimulating Piazza Faggot Firefighter

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)