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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Violet Big-titted Prole
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
razzle-dazzle blue dog poop den
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
rough-skinned curious antidepressant drug boiling water
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
concupiscible rigpig
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
180 Wine Theatre
  07/06/25
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180 Wine Theatre
  07/07/25
Jfc
Bateful marketing idea
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
crimson digit ratio state
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Violet Big-titted Prole

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.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2#49076813)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle blue dog poop den

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: rough-skinned curious antidepressant drug boiling water

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: concupiscible rigpig

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: 180 Wine Theatre

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: 180 Wine Theatre



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Bateful marketing idea

Jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2#49080491)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: crimson digit ratio state

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)