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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Trip love of her life
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Snowy razzmatazz main people psychic
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
thriller rigor shrine
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
maroon aphrodisiac home mediation
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Smoky concupiscible messiness doctorate
  07/06/25
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Smoky concupiscible messiness doctorate
  07/07/25
Jfc
hairraiser misanthropic native multi-billionaire
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
aromatic rehab
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Trip love of her life

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: Snowy razzmatazz main people 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.

(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: thriller rigor shrine

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: maroon aphrodisiac home mediation

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Smoky concupiscible messiness doctorate

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: Smoky concupiscible messiness doctorate



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: hairraiser misanthropic native multi-billionaire

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: aromatic rehab

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)