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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Contagious Cyan Generalized Bond Macaca
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
slimy public bath
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Flesh flatulent principal's office round eye
  07/07/25
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Unhinged french chef
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Galvanic judgmental tattoo
  07/06/25
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Galvanic judgmental tattoo
  07/07/25
Jfc
clear talking den personal credit line
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
vengeful institution becky
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Contagious Cyan Generalized Bond Macaca

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: slimy public bath

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: Flesh flatulent principal's office round eye

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: Unhinged french chef

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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Galvanic judgmental tattoo

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: Galvanic judgmental tattoo



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: clear talking den personal credit line

Jfc

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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: vengeful institution becky

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)