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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
galvanic chartreuse chapel
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
bronze dead shitlib whorehouse
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Apoplectic Ivory Scourge Upon The Earth Boiling Water
  07/07/25
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Hot Fragrant Forum Tattoo
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
zombie-like milky telephone
  07/06/25
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zombie-like milky telephone
  07/07/25
Jfc
light fiercely-loyal useless brakes
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Pale costumed water buffalo knife
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: galvanic chartreuse chapel

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: bronze dead shitlib whorehouse

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: Apoplectic Ivory Scourge Upon The Earth Boiling Water

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: Hot Fragrant Forum Tattoo

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: zombie-like milky telephone

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: zombie-like milky telephone



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: light fiercely-loyal useless brakes

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Pale costumed water buffalo knife

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)