Johnstown!

On our way to the Creation Museum (I posted about that here) we stopped at Johnstown to visit the flood museum and the world's steepest vehicular inclined plane! And when we got there we were told it was CLOSED to the public...!! What? They changed their hours on their website...it must have been right after the moms planned our trip to Johnstown. But they were super kind about it and we even got a tour! The tour guide was very knowledgeable and so nice! While we were waiting to know for sure if they would let us in we ate lunch in a park in the middle of town, pictured below.

When we walked into the museum the whole back wall looked like that ↓. It shows how full of debris the water was when it his Johnstown. Not exactly beautiful beach water....

 There was an awesome 3d display case thingy that showed how the water broke through the dam and flowed down through the mountains and into Johnstown.

 

 It showed it with moving lights. And the red is the fire that happened at the stone bridge when all the debris clogged up. There is a picture of the stone bridge later on, so keep reading :).

 This is a famous picture portraying the extreme damage that happened.

 This is some water in a bottle from the flooding. Yuck.

facts about the flood: (a sign in the museum)

 

 

 

 Above the museum there was an old running track. It was super small. The guy who donated the building for the museum was fond of physical and mental strength. Therefore, a track and a museum. 

 Looking at the pictures

 A little house next to the museum. After the flood they brought in mostly pre-assembled houses like this one for those whose houses were destroyed in the flood. They were called an Oklahoma house because that's where the houses were brought in from. Tiny! The families who would have lived in these were bigger also. Imagine living with approximately nine siblings in that ↓ house!

 And....

 And that's what it looks like ;)

 High water mark sign on a bridge!

 Going up!

 This is the stone bridge I was talking about earlier.

 And the view of Johnstown from the top of the incline plane. The incline plane was built after the Johnstown flood so that in future floods people could escape up the hillside faster.

 Mom and I at the top