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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
carmine piazza dingle berry
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
dashing mustard office sound barrier
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Hairraiser Cordovan Marketing Idea Dog Poop
  07/07/25
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Wonderful Overrated Temple Philosopher-king
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
indecent sex offender national
  07/06/25
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indecent sex offender national
  07/07/25
Jfc
infuriating space
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
brass garrison regret
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: carmine piazza dingle berry

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: dashing mustard office sound barrier

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=2)#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: Hairraiser Cordovan Marketing Idea Dog Poop

i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part

that's almost cartoonishly horrible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49080549)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Wonderful Overrated Temple Philosopher-king

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: indecent sex offender national

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.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2)#49076854)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: indecent sex offender national



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: infuriating space

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: brass garrison regret

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

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