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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Turquoise institution
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Trip casino jew
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Talented theatre old irish cottage
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
khaki dashing indirect expression
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
elite brindle sweet tailpipe laser beams
  07/06/25
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elite brindle sweet tailpipe laser beams
  07/07/25
Jfc
Plum kitchen
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
Self-centered shrine
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Turquoise institution

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: Trip casino jew

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: Talented theatre old irish cottage

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: khaki dashing indirect expression

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: elite brindle sweet tailpipe laser beams

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: elite brindle sweet tailpipe laser beams



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Plum kitchen

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Self-centered shrine

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)