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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Odious unhinged rehab skinny woman
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Disgusting Boistinker Blood Rage
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
dashing legend
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
pearl exciting knife parlor
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
mischievous thriller electric furnace parlour
  07/06/25
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mischievous thriller electric furnace parlour
  07/07/25
Jfc
Jade associate station
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Diverse Candlestick Maker
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Odious unhinged rehab skinny woman

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: Disgusting Boistinker Blood Rage

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: dashing legend

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: pearl exciting knife parlor

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: mischievous thriller electric furnace parlour

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: mischievous thriller electric furnace parlour



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Jade associate station

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Diverse Candlestick Maker

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)