I've been to Niagara Falls ONCE in my life. And it was during this time when the falls were 'turned off'. I remember my mom telling me... _"Remember this, because it will never been seen like this again."_
Unless, another repair and/or maintenance needs to be conducted, or, the rockface collapses again and they need to re-route the flow until it's corrected. I've studied geologic tables and the rockface at the edge is slowly crumbling, just like it did in the 1940s, 1970s and late 1980s. The earth always reclaims what belongs to it. it just takes time.
I know that we already limit the Falls to 10% of their capacity to keep erosion as slow as possible, but it's still amazing that we're able to switch off a natural wonder like that.
My father works at the power authority. One time a while back, a man was going to try and canoe over the falls, and in an attempt to save the man’s life, every dam on both the American and Canadian side diverted as much water as possible, and it nearly drained the falls as you see in this video.
No. The flow is 50% during the daylight hours of the tourist season and 25% at other times. There is a flow control gate that spreads the flow evenly to preserve the beauty at all times.
Great place, added to the beauty is all the lore, tales of people trying to conquer the falls in some contraption. Seeing the images of the time when the entire falls froze and with this video seeing the rocks and the edge of the falls while the river is diverted is also amazing.
From the Falls, but live in the Florida panhandle (Pensacola first, now Panama City) since retiring from the Navy in 1988. When this happened I was stationed at the Naval Hospital Philadelphia and was unable to come home, sorry that I missed it. Recently found some old slides of my parents took and they were there when they opened the Coffer Dams to let the water flow again.
@@Taima:... there is some footage of the construction of the cofferdam, I've seen some of it, I'm afraid I can't provide a link, but it is out there, I'm sure Google will know...! 👍
Was home for the 50th Class Reunion of NFHS Class of 1964 in September of 2014. Was saddened by the supports of the old bridges and understand that they plan to shut the water again to make the repairs. Hope to make it home when or if they shut them down again.
I was there in 1969. I remember my Dad saying they shut off the water. Watch the 'Niagara' movie to see what the experience was like, with Marilyn Monroe. They had locker rooms with rain suits. The American Falls were turned off.
When Niagara Falls’ first power plant came online on Nov. 18, 1896, Nikola Tesla ushered in a new era for the natural wonder as a leading electric producer. Within several years, the Falls were able to power the elevated railways and streetlights of New York City. The alternating current Tesla discovered, in direct competition to Thomas Edison's direct current system, still powers homes and offices all over New York State today.
We lived 4 miles upstream and went to see it plugged. We got some pennies from a workman that had 2 buckets of them so yea they got them and I got yours.
@@KevAlberta it’s already been reinforced, and will still turn into rapids in about 15,000 years. Just much more slowly than before. It only loses about 4 inches of height per decade, which is nice.
There were hundreds and hundreds of coins, all over the river bed, particularly in the shadow of the footbridge that leads from goat Island to luna Island. I don't think many, if any were actually gold, I've feeling they were currency coins, thrown in and the person may then have "made a wish"
@@michaelrawson6261 I'm not talking about coins lol. Rivers are a good place to find gold, and gold normally gets deposited at the bottom of waterfalls.
@@evilemperordude 1.5 -2 ft on the American Falls because it is 6 feet higher than the Horseshoe Falls. 6 feet deep at the Horseshoe Falls, which is why it doesn't have rocks at the bottom (talus). The force of the 6 foot deep water has carved out the riverbed below the falls, and the broken rock falls below the surface.
@@aslmad1 When it's cleaned up, the falls on the American side will look dramatic and beautiful again. Tourism $ will increase. The city of Niagara Falls also needs cleaned up, fresh managment ideas and jobs. We need corporations and factories to make Niagara Falls home. I love the Niagara Falls and the Buffalo area, things are improving.
@@jasoningram4617 They determined the expense would be too enormous, like you said would probably come back. I think it looks interesting and natural the way it is. It's still a big attraction and the Canadian side will always be more of an attraction because that's the side you can see both falls from.
They should actually build a flood gate at the top there so they can close it whenever they need to. Then again it's humans destroying more of nature's beauty, isn't it?
I came here to see if the mom n kids who fell intentionally . Nw I suspect their bodies must b in between the rocks., that is y they r nt still found to this date.
what a dumb film , they should have filmed the water stopping and all so the water returning . All we have here is no better than a photo , whats the point in even filming it ????
The water stopping and starting again were slow processes. They had to build the damn and later take it apart. You would have to be willing to watch about 100 hours of film total.
I've been to Niagara Falls ONCE in my life. And it was during this time when the falls were 'turned off'.
I remember my mom telling me... _"Remember this, because it will never been seen like this again."_
You should go again . .. . . ..
Go again
Unless, another repair and/or maintenance needs to be conducted, or, the rockface collapses again and they need to re-route the flow until it's corrected. I've studied geologic tables and the rockface at the edge is slowly crumbling, just like it did in the 1940s, 1970s and late 1980s. The earth always reclaims what belongs to it. it just takes time.
I have done many videos from there. The park is nice, but the city and Buffalo have gone downhill.
I know that we already limit the Falls to 10% of their capacity to keep erosion as slow as possible, but it's still amazing that we're able to switch off a natural wonder like that.
My father works at the power authority. One time a while back, a man was going to try and canoe over the falls, and in an attempt to save the man’s life, every dam on both the American and Canadian side diverted as much water as possible, and it nearly drained the falls as you see in this video.
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No. The flow is 50% during the daylight hours of the tourist season and 25% at other times. There is a flow control gate that spreads the flow evenly to preserve the beauty at all times.
Great place, added to the beauty is all the lore, tales of people trying to conquer the falls in some contraption. Seeing the images of the time when the entire falls froze and with this video seeing the rocks and the edge of the falls while the river is diverted is also amazing.
From the Falls, but live in the Florida panhandle (Pensacola first, now Panama City) since retiring from the Navy in 1988. When this happened I was stationed at the Naval Hospital Philadelphia and was unable to come home, sorry that I missed it. Recently found some old slides of my parents took and they were there when they opened the Coffer Dams to let the water flow again.
This so so fascinating! I had been there 2 years before with my family when I was 7 wish we could have seen this!
I wish we had footage of the november 1969 dynamite release from upstream! Now THAT would be cool.
Agreed!
Yes!
Kinda baffles me that there wasn’t more footage of it. I’d like to have seen the beginning of them damming up the falls too.
@@Taima:... there is some footage of the construction of the cofferdam, I've seen some of it, I'm afraid I can't provide a link, but it is out there, I'm sure Google will know...! 👍
I'd be totally down for a whole documentary on this event. How they did it, all their finds, reinforcing the cliffs, and releasing the flow again.
Was home for the 50th Class Reunion of NFHS Class of 1964 in September of 2014. Was saddened by the supports of the old bridges and understand that they plan to shut the water again to make the repairs. Hope to make it home when or if they shut them down again.
See, I told you they can turn it on and off like a faucet.
Nope it was a coffer dam the first time and same thing again
Who are you talking too?
I was there in 1969. I remember my Dad saying they shut off the water. Watch the 'Niagara' movie to see what the experience was like, with Marilyn Monroe. They had locker rooms with rain suits. The American Falls were turned off.
"Yeah let's just quickly turn off this waterfall"
When Niagara Falls’ first power plant came online on Nov. 18, 1896, Nikola Tesla ushered in a new era for the natural wonder as a leading electric producer. Within several years, the Falls were able to power the elevated railways and streetlights of New York City. The alternating current Tesla discovered, in direct competition to Thomas Edison's direct current system, still powers homes and offices all over New York State today.
It's famous war called by time AC Vs DC
In my opinion AC is better cause for long distance using
WONDER IF THEY GOT ALL THE PENNIES I THREW IN THERE OUT ?
We lived 4 miles upstream and went to see it plugged. We got some pennies from a workman that had 2 buckets of them so yea they got them and I got yours.
In a few 1,000 years, the falls will become a class 5 rapids.
Not if it’s artificially reinforced
@@KevAlberta Mother nature ALWAYS wins in the end.
Dan Burch 100%
@@KevAlberta it’s already been reinforced, and will still turn into rapids in about 15,000 years. Just much more slowly than before. It only loses about 4 inches of height per decade, which is nice.
son muy lindas pero, nada que ver con la grandeza y hermosura que son las Cataratas del Iguazú !!!
Would there by any gold at the bottom of the waterfall?
There were hundreds and hundreds of coins, all over the river bed, particularly in the shadow of the footbridge that leads from goat Island to luna Island. I don't think many, if any were actually gold, I've feeling they were currency coins, thrown in and the person may then have "made a wish"
@@michaelrawson6261 I'm not talking about coins lol. Rivers are a good place to find gold, and gold normally gets deposited at the bottom of waterfalls.
Seems freaky to stop a force of nature like that.
No not really dams are very handy
They didn't stop it. They diverted it. It just flowed over to the Horseshoe Falls side of the island.
And i thought they would find skeletal remains of Jimmy Hoffa.
He wasn't dead yet. He disappeared in 75. They could look now. :-)
He was in Miami in July 1969
They did at least find two other bodies
They found some... but it wasn't Jimmy...! 😂
Is on a border of both
I thought it would be deeper 🤔
Apparently it's only 2-3 feet deep on average above the falls.
@Game app Reviewer - Maybe you're thinking of the Canadian falls?
The deepest part of the Niagara gorge is right below the Horseshoe Falls at 167 feet. It’s as deep as the falls are high!
@@evilemperordude 1.5 -2 ft on the American Falls because it is 6 feet higher than the Horseshoe Falls. 6 feet deep at the Horseshoe Falls, which is why it doesn't have rocks at the bottom (talus). The force of the 6 foot deep water has carved out the riverbed below the falls, and the broken rock falls below the surface.
That's what she said..........
I think it's time to clean up the rock rubble, yes it will pile up again in a few decades, clean it up anyway.
Jason Ingram why?
@@aslmad1 When it's cleaned up, the falls on the American side will look dramatic and beautiful again. Tourism $ will increase. The city of Niagara Falls also needs cleaned up, fresh managment ideas and jobs. We need corporations and factories to make Niagara Falls home.
I love the Niagara Falls and the Buffalo area, things are improving.
@@jasoningram4617 They determined the expense would be too enormous, like you said would probably come back. I think it looks interesting and natural the way it is. It's still a big attraction and the Canadian side will always be more of an attraction because that's the side you can see both falls from.
@@aslmad1 And not just that - the rocks are actually supporting the ledge. So the risk might not be worth the investment.
Old shore line
How high
Hey did they find my watch? I dropped
who those Sharp rocks at the bottom of Niagara Falls Of course no one will survive- Idk why people keep trying.
People actually have survived
People go over the Horseshoe Falls it doesn’t have the rocks at the base.
They should actually build a flood gate at the top there so they can close it whenever they need to. Then again it's humans destroying more of nature's beauty, isn't it?
I came here to see if the mom n kids who fell intentionally . Nw I suspect their bodies must b in between the rocks., that is y they r nt still found to this date.
now you go there and what you are goibg to see are turbans hahahahahaha
repair?...like cars
E pensar que tinha gente que se jogava ai dentro de um barril
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not so impressive without the water.
Americans should have left it; think of all their ill fated projects they could have built.
with money you can do this...😂 stop tourists.
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what a dumb film , they should have filmed the water stopping and all so the water returning . All we have here is no better than a photo , whats the point in even filming it ????
The water stopping and starting again were slow processes. They had to build the damn and later take it apart. You would have to be willing to watch about 100 hours of film total.