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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
pearly stimulating locus
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
tripping histrionic theatre
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
Titillating Striped Hyena
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
jade adventurous menage fat ankles
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Pink Floppy Pocket Flask Trailer Park
  07/06/25
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Pink Floppy Pocket Flask Trailer Park
  07/07/25
Jfc
Dull cracking friendly grandma mood
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
racy insane dragon
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: pearly stimulating locus

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=2Elisa#49076813)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: tripping histrionic theatre

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=2Elisa#49076857)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:36 PM
Author: Titillating Striped Hyena

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=2Elisa#49080549)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: jade adventurous menage fat ankles

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2Elisa#49080635)



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Pink Floppy Pocket Flask Trailer Park

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=2Elisa#49076854)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Pink Floppy Pocket Flask Trailer Park



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2Elisa#49078998)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Dull cracking friendly grandma mood

Jfc

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: racy insane dragon

David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book about it. Tremendous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5746791&forum_id=2Elisa#49080496)