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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Vivacious Bossy Location
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
coiffed school
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Heady yellow piazza
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
henna provocative trailer park
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
histrionic godawful gay wizard
  07/06/25
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histrionic godawful gay wizard
  07/07/25
Jfc
cheese-eating cracking son of senegal
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
vigorous metal garrison
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Vivacious Bossy Location

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: coiffed school

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: Heady yellow 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: henna provocative trailer park

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: histrionic godawful gay wizard

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: histrionic godawful gay wizard



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: cheese-eating cracking son of senegal

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: vigorous metal garrison

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)