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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Marvelous corner
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
lake razzmatazz persian
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
irradiated stead preventive strike
  07/07/25
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burgundy know-it-all hall electric furnace
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Aphrodisiac tattoo roast beef
  07/06/25
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Aphrodisiac tattoo roast beef
  07/07/25
Jfc
sooty bespoke theater stage boistinker
  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: Marvelous corner

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: lake razzmatazz persian

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: irradiated stead preventive strike

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: burgundy know-it-all hall electric furnace

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac tattoo roast beef

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: Aphrodisiac tattoo roast beef



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: sooty bespoke theater stage boistinker

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: excitant stag film old irish cottage

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)