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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Vibrant Lodge Friendly Grandma
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
pontificating heaven selfie
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Brilliant chapel legal warrant
  07/07/25
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olive geriatric ladyboy area
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Anal famous landscape painting
  07/06/25
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Anal famous landscape painting
  07/07/25
Jfc
Vivacious khaki lay
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
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  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Vibrant Lodge Friendly Grandma

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: pontificating heaven selfie

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: Brilliant chapel legal warrant

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: olive geriatric ladyboy area

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Anal famous landscape painting

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: Anal famous landscape painting



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Vivacious khaki lay

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: contagious canary mad-dog skullcap sanctuary

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)