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The Johnstown Flood was fucking insane

Debris of all sorts piled up against a bridge and then ignit...
Titillating Buff Locus Keepsake Machete
  07/06/25
Have you read Captains Courageous? If you visit Johnstown...
Well-lubricated church
  07/06/25
i knew about some of this but not the barbed wire part th...
violent scarlet step-uncle's house
  07/07/25
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
cyan indecent electric furnace idea he suggested
  07/07/25
Also it was pretty directly the fault of Andrew Carnegie&rsq...
Silver stock car
  07/06/25
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Silver stock car
  07/07/25
Jfc
puce property volcanic crater
  07/07/25
David McCullough (the pop historian 1776 guy) wrote a book a...
talking multi-colored party of the first part bawdyhouse
  07/07/25


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Date: July 6th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Titillating Buff Locus Keepsake Machete

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: Well-lubricated church

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: violent scarlet step-uncle's house

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: cyan indecent electric furnace idea he suggested

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



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Date: July 6th, 2025 5:12 PM
Author: Silver stock car

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: Silver stock car



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Date: July 7th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: puce property volcanic crater

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: talking multi-colored party of the first part bawdyhouse

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)