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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Razzle set pistol
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Contagious sienna casino goal in life
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Silver vigorous public bath affirmative action
  07/07/25
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  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
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  07/06/25
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Cocky idea he suggested
  07/07/25
Jfc
Motley Hyperventilating Gas Station
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Razzle set pistol

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: Contagious sienna casino goal in life

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: Silver vigorous public bath affirmative action

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: Gaped Wine Newt

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Cocky idea he suggested

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: Cocky idea he suggested



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Motley Hyperventilating Gas Station

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Obsidian house wagecucks

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)