Johnny Rambles dirt and grass only last so long. This seems to show the dam was already saturated on the inside. I'd understand if it had been spilling over the top, but it looks like that's not the case.
Hopefully you all know that isn’t a dam, whoever thought that was gonna hold isn’t logical. Dirt will not hold water in any class for a long time, should’ve been some sort of actual blocker in between the water and the dirt.
We got flooded in baton Rouge in 2016 and shit still ain't the same, I feel for y'all and a good word of advice is HIRE A GOOD contractor that hires REAL workers and not a bunch of tweakers off of Craigslist. Fema ain't gonna do shit,and the RED CROSS is some bullshit. Life is gonna suck for a minute but it won't last forever.
@Roger Clemons Are you saying i should give "Nun" of my money, to the Red Cost? Just givin' you the business. Rest, In Peace, Ken Osmond. Did you know, one need not donate/give a damn thing, to a Beaver and that Beaver will build a Dam, regardless. In other words.....you can leave it, to a Beaver or leave nothing, to a Beaver........
Daniel Lindsay this isn’t the first time midland has flooded I lived in midland for five years and it flooded 3 times when I lived there, midland Michigan is just so flat haha.
@@logancooke9929 I get ya, y'all get the tornadoes too. We get a bad hurricane sometimes. But the 2016 flood was some bullshit, the storm parked itsself over us and rained for 3 days straight
Michigan's never had good roads because Michiganders have never wanted to pay for them. Same thing with these dams. The dam owner didn't want to pay for upgrades, and the property owners around the lakes didn't want to pay either. Nobody wanted to pay. Nobody wanted to take responsibility. Now all those property owners live on a mud canyon. The value of their properties just plummeted. But, hey, they really showed that they weren't paying for no stinking dam repairs.
This wasn't an accident, one way or another this was allowed to happen. I can not believe that 'nobody knew' this was not a distinct possibility after being warned the levels were being kept too high.
The power company who owns the dams asked the govt if they could lower the level of the lakes to protect the dams( because after all they were like 100 years old) and the govt said no after people who lived along the shoreline didn't want their docks and boats not to be near the water, plus they thought the mussels would die - Mother Nature doesn't really care I guess
I seriously thought pretty much the same thing. LOL. I thought: “it sucks for the guy who used to mow that grass. It looks like a pleasant piece of real estate to take care of.”
Concrete could be worse in certain situations, water could permeate through the bottom and then erode the soil from underneath causing the same effect only you're out of a couple million more.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 They're very chill. Peacefully protesting laws that go against constitutional rights, giving out haircuts. You wanna see no chill? Look at Hong Kong, it looks like a warzone!!
What do you expect from someone that films in portrait when every TV, computer monitor, movie screen is in landscape? I see it every day. Why waste 50% of the filming opportunity?
Beavers keep inspecting and maintaining their dams, this one was in a legal limbo of responsibility for a few years from what I've heard, that allowed the water to get too high, and disputes over how what standards should be used in gaguing its safety. So...you're technically correct. Beavers just do what needs to be done, they don't care abput politics and bureaucracy.
problem is humans don't know squat about dams and environment like beavers do. Humans will probably killed the beavers for fur and complaining about water evading the lower woodland.... humans are never satisfied with NATURE
The beavers left after the Dem Michigan Gov mismanaged the forestry funds for illegal beavers. Didn't you notice in the video the amazing amounts of grass and no trees anywhere to be seen?
My heart breaks for these people😢 We had horrible floods in 2010 where I'm from in Tennessee and it was terrible. The only positive thing that comes out of tragedy like this is witnessing how everyone comes together to help each other.
In fairness, the dam was designed almost a century ago. The repair/replacement will have to take into account the possibility of increased rainfall as time goes on. It won't be a cheap fix.
@@xcalibertrekker6693 Liquefaction is exactly what it was. Happens in Japan a lot - I can't believe an engineer wasn't on-sight with a full crew and equipment standing by.
Joe beetz dude this isn’t fake this is live and real happening right now it my great state SO DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ISN’T TRUE MOST OF IT IS LIVE AND REAL DUMBASS
Correct me if I’m wrong but if you’re trying to make a wall of dirt that holds in water, wouldn’t you at least want to plant some shrubs and stuff so the roots hold the dirt together?
Actually, no, it's the last thing you want. Shrubs & trees sink roots deep into the earth & toward water, aka the reservoir side. The water, under tremendous pressure, will find these tiny breaches, & migrate along the roots, the soil will liquefy into mud and lose it's integrity, & the dam will fail. This happens even on small ponds that have an earthen bank dam. Only shallow-rooting ground cover, like grass, is planted to prevent surface erosion from precipitation. Fill any reservoir with an earthen dam well over capacity for an extended period, & this sort of failure is bound to happen sooner or later, especially if excessive rainfall is an additional factor.
some 150 years old dams in India are made with Surkhi(Lime and jaggery!!!!) stronger than concrete dams. some old bridges made with this material was dificult to demolish even with large jcb jackhammer!!!!!
I agree, I heard a dam failed, googled it, and this is the first thing I see... Not what I was expecting. That was very mild. I wanted to see a multi hundred foot tall concrete wall collapse and wash a town away :(
@@basketman2517 The fact that you DONT want to see it is worrying. Chaos and destruction is great when its not affecting you. You cant deny a massive failure would make for some good footage! Look at the Hindenburg, The Reno Air Races crash, that huge explosion in China, tornadoes, motorsport crashes, forest fires, the list goes on. You watch em and say "Damnn thats wild" and have a good time :)
Thank you for repeating it in slow mo just in case we missed it the first time it collapsed. Luckily you then repeated it again for those who missed the slow mo..
I like how its the same thing repeated 3 times because I forget things sometimes. I almost forgot the dam broke until he said there it goes, it helps me because I sometimes forget things sometimes.
Was he talking about the dirt, the water, the grass or the dam? Which one? It’s all so confusing. There it goes and I’m looking at all of them wondering “which one?” The rush afterwards was lost in the confusion. What makes up the rush? Was it a rush of emotion? Or a rush of confusion over which to be excited about?
Great video, I was standing in parking lot on Monday with water gushing. Neighbor call and said get your pontoon boat out, we stop along the way to cabin and I knew we were in trouble. We were one of the lucky ones . Pulled boat out on Wednesday. I am still praying for all our family's in that area.
The backlog of needed maintenance on this countries infrastructure would make even the most competent person cry. We haven't been doing the foundational work to get the work done that we need to for decades.
Infrastructure spending is a slow and complicated process which can span multiple political terms. Politicians vying for reelection tend to focus on lower hanging fruit that they can easily sell to the public.
@Judy Hinterlong it was flagged as a problem back in 1999. The company who owned it wanted to lower the levels back in April but the state told them they couldn't because it would affect property values and Wildlife, more specifically some kind of a mussel.
@Judy Hinterlong the feds gave their warning a few years ago and then walked away saying it's up to the state. The state of Michigan was in charge of overseeing this damn as of about 2 years ago. Environmentalists and the homeowners around the lake fought tooth-and-nail for any lowering of the water level.
The water levels are definitely a massive factor in the collapse. After Katrina these kind of things should be getting done sooner vs later you should be able to do repairs without jumping through hoops to get it done. If the levels were high why wasn’t it lowered? I am only asking to find out how it works. Local personnel should be able to lower so this doesn’t happen. By no means am I saying anyone was at fault.
So let me get this straight....you had a dam made out of soil.....what type of sense does the make? Please someone tell me because I know I'm slow but I'm not that slow to know that water breaks down soil....LIKE IM SO CONFUSED!!!!🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🙄🙄🙄🙄
Gavin Thomas lol 😂, some folks just have no clue in life at all. I sposed he could have started a riot like in Minneapolis cause since they’ve been rioting there have been no more dam failures !
I feel for the people that live on the lake. You can finally go boating again, but memorial/4th weekends are cancelled, and now your boat is sitting on dirt in a dry lake bed
These would be the people who didn’t contribute to upkeep and repairs on the failing dam? As it was a private structure, it was their ‘responsibility’ and now it's their dam fault.
William Swenson the water was always trying to move down it’s just that the dirt wall was always pushing back, until it, being the weak spot in the wall, broke.
We had a lot of rain here in Michigan a week ago, there was so much water that this dam and several others were just ticking time bombs. I'd imagine there were people filming most of the lead up to the final collapse of this berm, just waiting for the inevitable to happen.
My niece’s dad have a place up further from there. For days, she posted photos of rising waters creeping up to the house just barely. At that hour, she had photos of the lake going down in two hours to the lakebed.
EGLE did you hear the screaming of the clams ? Obi Wan Kenobe heard them …."like a million little clam voices all crying out in terror and then were suddenly silenced". Colonel Kurts heard them…."The horror....The horror" …."EGLE you think that if you can just save 1 little clam that you won't here the screaming anymore " ? Even if you overwhelm the dam and cause it to blow ?
@@johnreese7973 no, no, no going to Chicago worked back in the day but sir......its a whole nother day we're living in. Better off below th broken dam than in Chicago!
To all the know-it-alls commenting on here, most dams are made of earth. Tree roots weaken dams. The emergency spillway was inadequate, water should have never been allowed to top over the dam. That’s the only thing that caused it to fail. Tops of dams usually are kind of narrow, water is never meant to get that high. At the emergency spillway elevation, the dam is much wider. Dams are built taller than their intended water level to add strength to the structure. Rip-rap (large stones) do not add strength, they simply prevent erosion from wave action.
The man is clearly a certified expert on how things go.
That’s funny.
Yep....."There it goes".....
and there's the rush! Lol
Well he sounds like he's probably let himself go, so yeah id say he's a professor on the science of letting stuff go.
Haha the most underrated comment. Mostly went over certain people's heads.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👽
This guy has been walking around, recording various aspects of life and saying, "there it goes" for years. Finally, his hard work has paid off.
Im laughing on if this could be true for someone out there 😭🤣
Locals shocked as dam built from mowed grass cuttings collapsed.
It's stood there for every rain storm for almost 100 years.
Johnny Rambles dirt and grass only last so long. This seems to show the dam was already saturated on the inside. I'd understand if it had been spilling over the top, but it looks like that's not the case.
@@phatsdonahue2516 Yes, this looks like underwater erosion as opposed to spill over damage.
@The Wraith the "left over" sod went to someone on the board's house....so not to waste it.
Hopefully you all know that isn’t a dam, whoever thought that was gonna hold isn’t logical. Dirt will not hold water in any class for a long time, should’ve been some sort of actual blocker in between the water and the dirt.
Bystander: "Excuse me sir, how does it go?
Guy: "There!"
There it goes !!!
🤣 🤣
His brother is famously known for "There she blows"
this deserves more like than just me
And then there is his sister.... but TH-cam has rules.
I live in this part of michigan and I'm like the last dam person to know about it
We got flooded in baton Rouge in 2016 and shit still ain't the same, I feel for y'all and a good word of advice is HIRE A GOOD contractor that hires REAL workers and not a bunch of tweakers off of Craigslist. Fema ain't gonna do shit,and the RED CROSS is some bullshit. Life is gonna suck for a minute but it won't last forever.
@Roger Clemons Are you saying i should give "Nun" of my money, to the Red Cost? Just givin' you the business. Rest, In Peace, Ken Osmond. Did you know, one need not donate/give a damn thing, to a Beaver and that Beaver will build a Dam, regardless. In other words.....you can leave it, to a Beaver or leave nothing, to a Beaver........
Daniel Lindsay this isn’t the first time midland has flooded I lived in midland for five years and it flooded 3 times when I lived there, midland Michigan is just so flat haha.
@@logancooke9929 I get ya, y'all get the tornadoes too. We get a bad hurricane sometimes. But the 2016 flood was some bullshit, the storm parked itsself over us and rained for 3 days straight
@@MixelTheGonk LOL i was looking to see if anyone that replied, mention it!
Hopefully Michigan can fix all the dam breaches faster than they fix roads
It was a private dam, the owner didn't want to spend the 83k fixing it to handle water like thus!
Michigan's never had good roads because Michiganders have never wanted to pay for them. Same thing with these dams. The dam owner didn't want to pay for upgrades, and the property owners around the lakes didn't want to pay either. Nobody wanted to pay. Nobody wanted to take responsibility. Now all those property owners live on a mud canyon. The value of their properties just plummeted. But, hey, they really showed that they weren't paying for no stinking dam repairs.
blame china!
Lmao
@@wtxrailfan well un-dam them all!
There it goes!!
There it goes!
There's the rush!
There it goes!
There it goes!
There we go
Legend has it, he's still standing there saying "There it goes!"...
At least buddy IS part of a legend! 😂
I was there last week. He not there anymore.
Technically this dam failed long before the video started.
Nah. Not really. The dam worked perfectly until it didn't.
Like 100 years -See comments above
This wasn't an accident, one way or another this was allowed to happen. I can not believe that 'nobody knew' this was not a distinct possibility after being warned the levels were being kept too high.
Eric uh no, seems likely the water been in that thing and was just building up
Technically you’re adopted
Thank you for playing it in slow motion, I couldn't see it the first time.
Nice
lmaoooooo.
The only up I’ve thumbed in the whole dam comment stream.
Caught on tape from 3 different angles! (all within 3ft of each other)
that's frk'n funnnnyyyy...LMAO..hehe
Did one of you bully 2020 as a kid or something? Because he pissed!
Stuff like this happens every year tho, except for the coronavirus lockdown obviously.
Marc W
Don’t act like 2020 isn’t the worst year ever lol, it’s not just that.
Marc W
World war 3 on January 3rd ish, killer hornets, this, etc...
When other years had an actual world war and a pandemic that was way worse
@@RandomUserr_ there is 5 million people who have been diagnosed with Coronavirus and 300,000+ has died. So yeah, it is a bad year. Should I say more?
Is there a longer version? Showing more of this incident?
Interesting. Longer version? That's probably the "Pay Per View version."
There it goes!
Only fans Dam is where you wanna head to
But at least we saw this snippet three times. Because we don't know how to go back in videos ourselves.
Id say he got the H*ll outta dodge is why....
Michigan 2019: "Fix these damn roads!"
Michigan 2020: "Fix these damn dams!"
this dam apparently was privately owned
😂
Michigan 2021: "Fix the damn Dem Governor!"
The power company who owns the dams asked the govt if they could lower the level of the lakes to protect the dams( because after all they were like 100 years old) and the govt said no after people who lived along the shoreline didn't want their docks and boats not to be near the water, plus they thought the mussels would die - Mother Nature doesn't really care I guess
@@fiddleDdee excuses excuses
I mean there is a thing called concrete.
Also I would be pissed if I was the one who just mowed the grass..that shit looked good.
Totally agree with you there. Damn, what a shame.
I seriously thought pretty much the same thing. LOL.
I thought: “it sucks for the guy who used to mow that grass. It looks like a pleasant piece of real estate to take care of.”
Concrete could be worse in certain situations, water could permeate through the bottom and then erode the soil from underneath causing the same effect only you're out of a couple million more.
If he hadn't cut the grass so short the dam might have held. It was a structural, load-bearing, lawn.
@@monsterdoc "Dam"
lifetime occurrence and you stopped filming why?
Oh, I don't know, fear for one's life?
Daniel Taylor that’ll do it! Glad your okay!
@@dtaylor404 they seemed to not be in danger lol
@@dtaylor404 back to their desks?
@@hans3331000 how do you know?
That’s the dam? I thought it was going to be one made out of concrete 😂
Dam that's crazy
The dam is where the river flow is. That portion of the hill must have been the weakest link in the chain and the water burst through there.
Most dams are built from earthen fill. Derp
@@awboat thanks Urkel
Quit yer dam fighting
If you have a longer recording, please post the full duration.
Jike Menkins he'll just keep replaying the same footage
"there it goes "
Hopefully he hauled ass after this.
iHeisenburger hahaha
There she goessss
Yeah. Rare event? Huh, maybe I should hit the red "stop recording" button. XD
Thank you to the narrator for walking us through what we were seeing
No people hysterically screaming. I love how chill people in Michigan are.
There weren't any women around. Why is women have to scream at everything?
no women.
@@cplcabs There's literally a woman in the video though. Says "there it is" near the start.
@Joe. You are forgetting those gun toting Trump clowns that showed up at the Michigan statehouse with guns. No chill in those "boys".
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 They're very chill. Peacefully protesting laws that go against constitutional rights, giving out haircuts.
You wanna see no chill? Look at Hong Kong, it looks like a warzone!!
Me after eating too much Taco Bell:
did u clog the toilet
Haha so funny😐
o m g o s h e w
😂😂💀
@@trinity4138 r we related?
Note to Self: What to say when dam breaks.....
Random guy: There it goes!
What do you expect from someone that films in portrait when every TV, computer monitor, movie screen is in landscape? I see it every day. Why waste 50% of the filming opportunity?
@@gettinghosed you see dams fail everyday? Are you in the US?
I was thinking “I should take a big dump in it as it goes!”
Someone hire a beaver to build good damns
Beavers keep inspecting and maintaining their dams, this one was in a legal limbo of responsibility for a few years from what I've heard, that allowed the water to get too high, and disputes over how what standards should be used in gaguing its safety.
So...you're technically correct. Beavers just do what needs to be done, they don't care abput politics and bureaucracy.
Brandon Carmona 😄😄😄
problem is humans don't know squat about dams and environment like beavers do. Humans will probably killed the beavers for fur and complaining about water evading the lower woodland.... humans are never satisfied with NATURE
The beavers left after the Dem Michigan Gov mismanaged the forestry funds for illegal beavers. Didn't you notice in the video the amazing amounts of grass and no trees anywhere to be seen?
@Roy G Biv omg you guys are too funny
Love that there is always some guy giving super-obvious commentary.
No kidding. Shut your pie hole.
@@danmyers9372 *cake
My heart breaks for these people😢 We had horrible floods in 2010 where I'm from in Tennessee and it was terrible. The only positive thing that comes out of tragedy like this is witnessing how everyone comes together to help each other.
Oh dam
aaayyyy
Damit someone made that joke before me.
Dam I should have said that
Ba dum tisss
Boo
Boo to all of you.
This is still so crazy to believe. We live a couple hours away from all this in MI and it is still affecting us!!
They should have fixed that dam along time ago
Let's see if they get right this time
In fairness, the dam was designed almost a century ago. The repair/replacement will have to take into account the possibility of increased rainfall as time goes on. It won't be a cheap fix.
Who is they? The Corps of Engineers? They haven't had many dollars in the budget lately for infrastructure maintenance and improvements. Just sayin'
More like DONT
@@williamswenson5315 Doesnt really matter the price because they could have prevented something terrible like this from happening :/
@@williamswenson5315 in fairness the condition of the deteriorating damn was known for years and Whitmire knew all along
That pile of sand with grass on it would not be considered a "Dam" here in the Netherlands.
👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣
dammit !
Always remember, the contractor with the cheapest offer gets it. And cheating is not only a Chinese game.
Is it nice to be perfect? Can anyone come there and be perfect too? I for one envy your perfection, please give us more advice stating the obvious!
Yeah, it'd be kind of hard to decide which hole to stick your finger in.
"There it Goes!" Yea, there goes your lake front property values, literallydown stream!
Craig Schultz
That’s crazy if true. Why engineers would allow it is criminal.
that looked so weird when all the grass and dirt just came apart
I know right?
Think maybe it was liquifaction or something close where the soil becomes so saturated it behaves like a strange liquid.
That's what happens when You hire illegal Alien Invaders to build a dam
It's called piping, and yep, the earthen embankment becomes saturated, Kablooey . Very common how embankments fail.
@@xcalibertrekker6693 Liquefaction is exactly what it was. Happens in Japan a lot - I can't believe an engineer wasn't on-sight with a full crew and equipment standing by.
It’s 2020 and people still don’t realize they can shoot video horizontally.
It's 2020 and people still don't realize ain't nobody wanna hold their phone with two hands.
@@chrisofstars it's 2020 and people still can't learn the incredibly easy skill of holding a phone sideways with one hand. It's like 300-400 grams.
@@thedeathcake Nope. I'm right and you're wrong and the evidence is all the videos. Ain't nobody wanna hold their phone that way. CASE CLOSED.
Madwrestler 145 found another person that shoots video vertically everyone!
@@chrisofstars really? Have you used TH-cam? Minus the Flat Earthers and people over 70, I think everyone else had mastered it.
If only there had been some little dutch boy there to stop that LOL
I know its only been an hour but I'm calling it, underrated comment.
That's what the fool trump might have wished for,
Fake News ,Fake News
Joe beetz dude this isn’t fake this is live and real happening right now it my great state SO DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ISN’T TRUE MOST OF IT IS LIVE AND REAL DUMBASS
@@joebeetz1832 it's not fake it's all over the news
Correct me if I’m wrong but if you’re trying to make a wall of dirt that holds in water, wouldn’t you at least want to plant some shrubs and stuff so the roots hold the dirt together?
Shrubs and trees would seem to be obvious...
Actually, no, it's the last thing you want. Shrubs & trees sink roots deep into the earth & toward water, aka the reservoir side. The water, under tremendous pressure, will find these tiny breaches, & migrate along the roots, the soil will liquefy into mud and lose it's integrity, & the dam will fail. This happens even on small ponds that have an earthen bank dam. Only shallow-rooting ground cover, like grass, is planted to prevent surface erosion from precipitation. Fill any reservoir with an earthen dam well over capacity for an extended period, & this sort of failure is bound to happen sooner or later, especially if excessive rainfall is an additional factor.
Just when you thought reality TV had faded out, along comes 2020 with it's 5,000 episodes of a new show called "Apocalypse".
Wouldn't want my life and house dependent on an earthen dam.
Are you sure it isn’t? 87% of dams in the US are earthen embankments.
In some places they use more than just dirt
@@elguapo221 🤦♂️ I hope you aren't serious
some 150 years old dams in India are made with Surkhi(Lime and jaggery!!!!) stronger than concrete dams. some old bridges made with this material was dificult to demolish even with large jcb jackhammer!!!!!
@@joeybebeau2634 Why wouldn't he be? There are many dams made of purely concrete. I live next to two.
Legend has it Lynn Coleman is still by the dam saying "There it goes!"
Probably the most damn anti climatic video I've watched in my entire life
I agree, I heard a dam failed, googled it, and this is the first thing I see... Not what I was expecting. That was very mild. I wanted to see a multi hundred foot tall concrete wall collapse and wash a town away :(
The fact that you want to see that is slightly worrying.
@@basketman2517 The fact that you DONT want to see it is worrying. Chaos and destruction is great when its not affecting you. You cant deny a massive failure would make for some good footage! Look at the Hindenburg, The Reno Air Races crash, that huge explosion in China, tornadoes, motorsport crashes, forest fires, the list goes on. You watch em and say "Damnn thats wild" and have a good time :)
Chris L. I mean they can be cool to watch sometimes, like how crazy it is when it happened
@@basketman2517 it's awe inspiring power, who wouldn't want to see it?
This breaks my heart. Praying for Edenville people of MI.
Thank you for repeating it in slow mo just in case we missed it the first time it collapsed.
Luckily you then repeated it again for those who missed the slow mo..
There's a special place in hell for people who still, in 2020, film in portrait mode.
and it’s like...square
Yeah, this would have been way more professional looking with shakey cam and people running away.
That's extreme.
@@cassie11723 Luckily God is the most merciful.
I like how its the same thing repeated 3 times because I forget things sometimes. I almost forgot the dam broke until he said there it goes, it helps me because I sometimes forget things sometimes.
Its for the yanks.
I know what you mean. Then shortly after the 3rd time, I forgot what to go back to for a reminder. Guess I'll start taking notes.
Way way too narrow of an earth damn for that amount of water. How it lasted 96 years is amazing. It should have collapsed decades ago.
Shoulda. Woulda. Coulda. Time told.
Was he talking about the dirt, the water, the grass or the dam? Which one? It’s all so confusing. There it goes and I’m looking at all of them wondering “which one?” The rush afterwards was lost in the confusion.
What makes up the rush? Was it a rush of emotion? Or a rush of confusion over which to be excited about?
Great video, I was standing in parking lot on Monday with water gushing. Neighbor call and said get your pontoon boat out, we stop along the way to cabin and I knew we were in trouble. We were one of the lucky ones . Pulled boat out on Wednesday. I am still praying for all our family's in that area.
Please, take all the dam pictures you want. Now, are there any dam questions?
Where's the Dam bait.
They had 2 decades to fix this problem and they ignored it.
The backlog of needed maintenance on this countries infrastructure would make even the most competent person cry. We haven't been doing the foundational work to get the work done that we need to for decades.
Infrastructure spending is a slow and complicated process which can span multiple political terms. Politicians vying for reelection tend to focus on lower hanging fruit that they can easily sell to the public.
I have a slope engineering exam tomorrow this is giving me an anxiety attack
Answer to all questions= nothing works anyway + link to video 💯!
Good luck bruh
Three rules - Water is the enemy, You can't compact water, Water is the enemy!
According to my employer’s HR department, I don’t think we can say “slope” anymore.
I remember seeing this when it first happened, my first thought was the earth dam did not look very wide to hold a lake of that size back
Just me, but I immediately thought, "Wow that's a really tough miniature golf hole!" ⛳🏌️♂️
And...it includes a really gnarly water hazard!
When you get a stimulus check, but you live on Sanford lake... there it goes!
Got to admit shutting down barber shops is a better use of resources than monitoring dams!
The local officials should be monitoring this on a regular basis. They obviously epically failed
@@Justbeingme971 Tara Lange lol historic rain and flooding led to this. Also this dam was under private ownership until 2019 I believe.
@Judy Hinterlong it was flagged as a problem back in 1999. The company who owned it wanted to lower the levels back in April but the state told them they couldn't because it would affect property values and Wildlife, more specifically some kind of a mussel.
@Judy Hinterlong the feds gave their warning a few years ago and then walked away saying it's up to the state. The state of Michigan was in charge of overseeing this damn as of about 2 years ago. Environmentalists and the homeowners around the lake fought tooth-and-nail for any lowering of the water level.
The water levels are definitely a massive factor in the collapse. After Katrina these kind of things should be getting done sooner vs later you should be able to do repairs without jumping through hoops to get it done. If the levels were high why wasn’t it lowered? I am only asking to find out how it works. Local personnel should be able to lower so this doesn’t happen. By no means am I saying anyone was at fault.
So let me get this straight....you had a dam made out of soil.....what type of sense does the make? Please someone tell me because I know I'm slow but I'm not that slow to know that water breaks down soil....LIKE IM SO CONFUSED!!!!🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🙄🙄🙄🙄
Right place at the right time and does anyone know why it failed and what could of been done to prevent it from failing
Yikes. But where is the rest of the video? It stops early on and repeats.
Every time I take I dump ima day “There it goes” 🤣🤣😂💀
JAS TODD Say*
Normal Videos you got the point. Chill
There's the rush!
Instead of filming why didn't you try to stop it?
Who do you think dug the trench then sat back & filmed -
@@jwarmstrong who?
What do you suggest he do 🤔
@@officialWWM alert the little villages or something more productive smartarse
Gavin Thomas lol 😂, some folks just have no clue in life at all. I sposed he could have started a riot like in Minneapolis cause since they’ve been rioting there have been no more dam failures !
Would love to see a longer video of this
would this be a bad time to talk about your cars warranty?
Great timing of the dam breakage and flooding!
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that flint Michigan still does not have clean water
it's a dam shame...
Tragic occurrence. Prayers to those affected by this. Heads should roll.
Prayers have stopped the flooding already - thanks.
I feel for the people that live on the lake. You can finally go boating again, but memorial/4th weekends are cancelled, and now your boat is sitting on dirt in a dry lake bed
For a long, long time. You might as well plant trees and grass on the site.
These would be the people who didn’t contribute to upkeep and repairs on the failing dam? As it was a private structure, it was their ‘responsibility’ and now it's their dam fault.
@Peg Leg You'd think the property values would decline and so the taxes. Yeah...right.
Why do people think showing it over and over makes it better. It doesn't
I live in southern Michigan and those people up there dealing with clean water problems. Now this ?my prayers go out to them and stay strong God Bless
Water is like a teenager.... It always takes the path of least resistance.
Well, I don't know. The path of least resistance would be a stationary one. That water, is booking downhill.
@@williamswenson5315 then it wouldnt be moving...water always takes the path of least resistance, always .
William Swenson the water was always trying to move down it’s just that the dirt wall was always pushing back, until it, being the weak spot in the wall, broke.
basic physics
"There it goes" aka the old man's favorite saying "I told you so"
kinda strange someone was standing there filming. just at the right time.
I think he hit it with a 16oz claw hammer moments before?
I think it got infected by Covaids. lol
We had a lot of rain here in Michigan a week ago, there was so much water that this dam and several others were just ticking time bombs. I'd imagine there were people filming most of the lead up to the final collapse of this berm, just waiting for the inevitable to happen.
My niece’s dad have a place up further from there. For days, she posted photos of rising waters creeping up to the house just barely. At that hour, she had photos of the lake going down in two hours to the lakebed.
my stepmother lived there as a child and its crazy to see the whole place flooded
Bro how, I live in Michigan and had no idea this happened
EGLE did you hear the screaming of the clams ? Obi Wan Kenobe heard them …."like a million little clam voices all crying out in terror and then were suddenly silenced". Colonel Kurts heard them…."The horror....The horror" …."EGLE you think that if you can just save 1 little clam that you won't here the screaming anymore " ? Even if you overwhelm the dam and cause it to blow ?
Now they are all dead
forget about that, Arrest those barbers!
BTW who was measuring rainfall 500 yrs ago?? and where are the records?
Seems like some well maintained trees with big deep roots would’ve held that dam together better than soggy sod
"There it goes" - Lockdown 2020
The dam peices: aight imma head out
Every single one of these is destined to fail. Increase pore pressure, decrease shear strength.
Gotta ask
Where’s the next twenty minutes of video of it
That would be cool to watch
How did more water not come gushing out? The water level was still so high??
Me: expecting to see a Hoover Dam sized failure...
me: felt the same way about covid-19.....
Lol right? This was the smallest "dam" fail I've seen.
Led Zeppelin- When the Levee breaks
... we'll have no place to stay.
yeah, looks like it's time to head to Chicago
@@johnreese7973 no, no, no going to Chicago worked back in the day but sir......its a whole nother day we're living in. Better off below th broken dam than in Chicago!
"ThEre iT gOes!" -Michigan Guy
To all the know-it-alls commenting on here, most dams are made of earth. Tree roots weaken dams. The emergency spillway was inadequate, water should have never been allowed to top over the dam. That’s the only thing that caused it to fail. Tops of dams usually are kind of narrow, water is never meant to get that high. At the emergency spillway elevation, the dam is much wider. Dams are built taller than their intended water level to add strength to the structure. Rip-rap (large stones) do not add strength, they simply prevent erosion from wave action.
You know we can hit the 10 seconds back button instead, right?
This is exactly what happens after I eat Taco Bell.
💩
Lmfaoooo
😂😂😂😂
Do people still eat that shit?
That's why I prefer Del Taco. They use meat T.B. is afraid to put in it's stuff!
There it goes! 1 min of my life I’ll never get back!
A fish is swimming. Hits a wall. What does he say? "Dam."
Is that a river in the background? Whatever is in the background looks way worse than this little breakage
My Grandma Lives In Edenville. She Is So Lucky She Survived.
Confirmed: "there it goes".
0:05 when I flush my turd down the toilet
HAHA! Like the last straw!
THERE IT GOES!!!
Yeah ive had a few stressfull moments when a dump just wouldn't flush away until the water hit the top of the rim of the toilet D:
When you’re constipated and it finally comes out.
The number of civil engineers and their knowledge here in the comments is astounding.
it's amazing how one little leak turns into a major loss for alot of people there.prays for them all.
...which is why you don't build such a ridiculously inadequate dam.
*2020 apocalypse*
This guy: there it goes! 🤓
He should have said "Ah, Ah, I'm coming!!!!"
You have to just love Earth Dams proven to fail time after time
It's the Damocrats fault.
So how many great lakes do we have in Michigan now?
The question is, will they try to rebuild downstream from the new dam?