@@etonbachs4226 And the dams in this video are like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH xd
@@Tony-eu2dj c'mon dude, in authoritarian countries like Laos, China, N. Korea, the media is censored and news are distorted, much like back when the soviets tried their best to hide the chernobyl accident and the nunber of victims.
So the Chinese dam bursting was _"one thousand times worse, to be exact"_ - I wonder how they calculated such a vague thing with such precision. Not 99 times worse, not 101 times worse, but exactly a thousand times worse. That's hella impressive.
According to that company Flex tape that man can fix anything he could make a boat out of that stuff he can make a rocket ship to go to Mars so why not
I think the US is one with the worst infrastructure in the world, as a developed country it suffered more damage as China, because of infrastructure failure
The Edenville/Sanford dam broke almost a year ago and most of the town was destroyed. The sanford lake was the place me and my buddy would go to all the time and now all those memories were swept away. You can still drive by there and see the empty lake and all the destruction the break left. Glad to see this disaster got recognized.
Im gonna kill you... but first We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you No, I'm never gonna give you up No, I'm never gonna let you down No, I'll never run around and hurt you Never, ever desert you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you No, I'm never gonna give you up No, I'm never gonna let you down No, I'll never run around and hurt you I'll never, ever desert you
I live in Midland, Michigan and the dam failures are still affecting so many people. With all the lawsuits involved with this, people will not see a dime for a very longtime. The damage is still very visible and many are still displaced from their homes.
You should always assume that everyone is bad at their jobs. World War 2 could have been prevented on two separate occasions but incompetence and straight up ignoring intelligence allowed the blitzkrieg to happen. History is crazy, it's almost all human incompetence.
it doenst even makes sense. They could save money by building it properly, so its working for a long amount of time. I dont have to mention your country folks may approve you more if you dont killing their entire village, do I?
@@Mirolp7 they don’t save money for no reason. They save money for their pockets and assume everything goes well so they can keep the money for their wealth
@ALLEN DAWE There's a channel that's all about the investigations of large scale industrial accidents; chemical plant spills, gas plant explosions, and the like. Can't remember the name, I'll look and come back in case you're interested. It never fails that companies won't take an extra recommended safety measure at $0.20 per employee, but then a year or so down the road that would have prevented an accident that cost 3 lives, thousands in hospital bills, millions in lost revenue while the plant was down for repairs and untold costs in bad faith with the community and negative press. *smh* EDIT: The channel is USCSB.
Dam construction crew: "well, soil is too soft and concrete can break. What can we make dams out of so we never have to worry about another break again?" Phil: "hi! Phil Swift here with FlexSeal!"
As a resident in Idaho in the US I participated in the clean up after the collapse of the Teton Dam on June 5, 1976. It was incredible to see the damage
As one of the thousands who experienced the catastrophic spillway collapse of the Oroville Dam, I can tell you that it is one of the most frightening things I have ever been through.
Vale is responsible for more than 3 of those in Brazil, they're known for that by here, I had family in one of the cities destroyed and a branch of the family had to move out due to the river being dead, we were lucky to have Israel helping us to locate survivors 😢. The biggest dam in the world is half in Brazilian territory, vale is the bad apple by here, most of the dams here are concrete made and not land made.
When I first visited a dam in my country I only stayed on the lake side , until my dad called me to look at the other side ... Let's just say I got scarred for life.
@@patiencelloyd1568 the dam was 130 m high and there was no fence or anything , just a 50 cm border. I was imagining how would it be if I tripped over there and fall in void.
Here's an off-subject, fun fact that this video reminded me of - My friend spent time in Laos, while in the military, and said it rained 24 hours a day, for two whole months. He was certain that was the worst place on earth until coming back to the states and having to spend time in Kansas. He now knows he was wrong. Kansas, according to him, is definitely the worst place on earth. 🤣
When I lived in Rexburg, Idaho I heard stories from people living though the Teton Dam break in 1976. A local museum has a map of the extent of the flood and my home would have been right at the very edge of the flood.
Why can't anyone just post the video they advertise? Just RAW, UNCUT,NO MUSIC,OR ANNOYING SARCASTIC COMMENTATOR. PLEASE JUST PLAY THE FOOTAGE YOU CLAIM IS SO AWESOME. 🌊ℹ🆘️
I lived in Estes Park, CO. for 10 years, which has been flooded not once, but twice by the Lawn Lake Damn in the Rocky Mountain National Park. The first time in 1981 (I believe), and the second time in 2013 which made National news. Both dam ruptures were bad enough, but the water traveled over 60 miles in 2 different directions. One path was towards Boulder, CO, which devastated Estes Park, Boulder, and all other towns in its path. The other flow was towards Loveland, Longmont and Ft. Collins. The worst part is, in both dam breaks, the water took the same paths, claiming lives in both breaks.
Does this guy make his videos, then upload it at 0.75 speed? This would be completely unwatchable without increasing the speed. Thank you TH-cam for that option!
We have had a few earthenworks dams fail in the USA too. This is among our worst dam failures of all time. The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The dam broke after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. South Fork Dam was an earth- and rock-fill dam located about 8 miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. ... The resulting flood wave that contained 20 million tons of water and debris caused 2,209 fatalities and became known as the “Johnstown Flood”. South Fork Dam an earthen works structure. So you see we had our damn failures too and look at that death toll. All because some super rich 1%'er goof's wanted a private fishing lake.
@@AUTISTICLYCAN "All because some super rich 1%'er goof's wanted a private fishing lake."(sic) Don't you mean by wonderful collective government for the good of the people? I mean most of you lunatics who cry about people having more money than you are usually all for public works like this..... except when they go wrong, then you blame the rich. "The South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838-1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the canal system to be used as a reservoir for the state's Main Line of Public Works canal basin in Johnstown. It was abandoned by the commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests."
@@sammorgan31 In this case, the rich definitely need blamed. The Commonwealth were not the ones still using the dam for their own fun while neglecting to maintain it and HIDING it.
I was in downtown oroville when the damn cracked and spillway broke it was insane! It was like no laws mattered people were driving cars on sidewalks and just abandoning vehicles too and running on foot, where I lived at the time was right next to the damn and when I finally got home, I could see the damns spillway just breaking more and more. As soon as I saw this video I knew this had to be in here so I watched👌🏼
I think the US is one with the worst infrastructure in the world, as a developed country it suffered more damage as China, because of infrastructure failure
This is an older one but the flood of Johnstown. It's a smallish town in Pennsylvania approximately a half an hour from where I live. The story is pretty interesting and definitely worth looking into
YES!!!! Thank you for dragging Vale into this video. They're basically the "pharma-bro" of mining companies. They've also yet to pay a quarter of those fines by some estimates due to the rampant corruption within Brazil's government. And for future reference - Vale is pronounced more "veil" because of...reasons? Either way, keep mispronouncing their name to antagonise them or pronounce it properly to raise awareness - both are fine by me.
Hey Be Amazed, back in 2016, my hometown of Somerville, TX was flooded with 4 feet of water, and the Brazos River, along with the Yegua (yewaw) Creek burst their banks and turned another town, Clay, into an island. This was the result of the infamous storms on Memorial Day weekend and left me, my family and my friends trapped in Clay for 3 days with no food or water.
In the town I live in has a river that runs through it burst its banks a few years ago and flooded a large portion of the town I wasn’t living here at the time but my mum told me about it.
Fascinating! Dams that failed to hold, but still can be fixed. I'm impressed by this, I love it. Counties around the world had this problem, the dam descriptor. Fun fact: what dam would break into one piece? This world has big questions to be told, to be answered.
Actually a lot of dams are made from soil and normally it’s done like this to not only cut costs but because it’s actually A good material to make a The dams out of!
Given, I haven’t been to my childhood town in a few years now, but I remember the local dam having cracks in it. I’m not sure if they fixed it or not but watching this video makes me worried that even if they did, it probably will eventually collapse and absolutely annihilate the houses that are DIRECTLY below the dam wall...
@@semoby8049 Look at the captions, and then look up what a fortnight is. I’m not sure if you’re referencing the video game as a joke or not, but if you are, sorry for being so persistent XD r/whoosh me if you are
I grew up near the Spencer Dam (13:21 - 14:37 minute point). The area below it was my favorite party place. Much of the financial loss was due to the next dam below (Gavins Point on the Missouri River) having to fully open its gates and widespread flooding from it.
Not sure why this video decided that “it was made of soil! Soil! Not concrete!” is the fault that caused the failure. There are a large number of dams all over the world made from soil. They are called Earthen or Earthfill Dams and are if cared for, will last longer than a concrete dam. The reason for it to fail was that it wasn’t finished when the water began to back up behind it. Earthfill dams are not able to hold back water until all of the layers of different types of soil are in place. For this reason, the river must be diverted around or through a tunnel to keep it from backing up behind the dam just like a concrete dam. This means that not only is the video wrong about soil being the problem, they are also wrong about rain being the cause of the fault.
Believe it or not the thumbnail is a real life depiction of me after taco bell
You don't say
Fair
Wow
Me urinating in the morning
@BE AMAZED Where'd you find the thumbnail?
the narrator sounds like we are on a game show, just saying. what did they win, Bob?
😂🤣😭
I'm kinda starting to like the voice
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Lol
They won.....A BROKEN DAM!
A dam opening its emergency valve is like a man peeing after a traffic jam "ahhh" 😌
More like ''ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh''. Lol
As a woman, I can’t relate to this comment.
Yes
Your mind is odd lol.. but true.
@@etonbachs4226 And the dams in this video are like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH xd
I just like the fact that he never clickbait’s us
Your knowledge is so wide for nature topic. Good job!
1:47 "This became all too clear on September 11th, 2017"
*Pft, they had it easy.*
I judt started looking through the comment to see if anyone else noticed it happened on 9/11 ur the only one ive seen
Its in real a very bad and sad date considering Marybeth Roe Tinning was also born on September 11th
9 11 water edition
it all comes back to September 11th
Yeah I noticed that too
"Miraculously no lives were lost in the catastrophic event"
Source: Laos State Media
Hehe yea exactly
This is Untrustable
I dont get it
@@Tony-eu2dj c'mon dude, in authoritarian countries like Laos, China, N. Korea, the media is censored and news are distorted, much like back when the soviets tried their best to hide the chernobyl accident and the nunber of victims.
Coming from the same country who used soil instead of cement.
I love how 100 people are first 🤣🤣
I'm 2,800th
Yea lol
They all peaked too soon like their dads.
So the Chinese dam bursting was _"one thousand times worse, to be exact"_ - I wonder how they calculated such a vague thing with such precision. Not 99 times worse, not 101 times worse, but exactly a thousand times worse. That's hella impressive.
Or 99.73?
there's alot of digging here to put this up, awesome video thank you
I know how to solve those problems, just use flex tape, your welcome:)
According to that company Flex tape that man can fix anything he could make a boat out of that stuff he can make a rocket ship to go to Mars so why not
Ngl it’ll probably work
Mmm
Yes
Tape won’t work cuz when you get tape wet it gets unsticky
"Do you have any stories share them in the comments." I bet you $10 Michigan will be in this. I was right. I live in Michigan.
Gbu
Yes
I don't live there anymore, did tjo
Ask the people of Sanford, Michigan.
I do to
the guy who owns vale should be doing a life sentence, thats whos responsible
I think the US is one with the worst infrastructure in the world, as a developed country it suffered more damage as China, because of infrastructure failure
Not only the owner should be accountable. Anybody who had the information on the danger of the dams should be accountable.
@@carlcarl5306 agree
@@Ezekiel903 half life 3
He is serving a life sentence. Coke, bitches, and cash to burn as midnight oil.
My mom always called me a damn failure but this is on another level...
Get it?A DAM failure?!Huh?Huuuuuuh?
@@mohdmarwanmarzuqibinmarfai5054 its a parental joke, not a dumbass pun
@@pensharer69 aPARENTly
The Edenville/Sanford dam broke almost a year ago and most of the town was destroyed. The sanford lake was the place me and my buddy would go to all the time and now all those memories were swept away. You can still drive by there and see the empty lake and all the destruction the break left. Glad to see this disaster got recognized.
It would have been nice if they had they facts right. it wasn't 2 dam but 3 dams. All the dams have been taken over by the 4 lake task force.
@@ffieditor Forever ago, but no? It was Edenville and Sanford. I'm gonna assume you live here since you like to talk like you do. Otherwise, shush.
I live in bay city looking at the lake beds was just horrific no water and boats just sitting there on the lake bed
@@ffieditor no I live near it in bay city and it was only two they had it right
*their dams are "laosy"*
plz don't kill me
Nice one
Noice
Im gonna kill you... but first
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
No, I'm never gonna give you up
No, I'm never gonna let you down
No, I'll never run around and hurt you
Never, ever desert you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
No, I'm never gonna give you up
No, I'm never gonna let you down
No, I'll never run around and hurt you
I'll never, ever desert you
Plz no kill!
@@bigchungusdriplord2301 ahhh damn
I live in Michigan and our state is going to see the affects of our dam breakage for more time to come.
I live in NY and have family in Michigan and i never heard about what happened. I hope recovery will be quick
I live in Midland, Michigan and the dam failures are still affecting so many people. With all the lawsuits involved with this, people will not see a dime for a very longtime. The damage is still very visible and many are still displaced from their homes.
Getting famous off of comments day 42 so I can live the dream of becoming a big youtuber, Live Life to the fullest!
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Great video! Good editing, good script, good information, good footage!
Who ever voices this video has an amazing voice for videos like this 😎👍
16:38 so they knew the damn thing was defective and they used it anyway???? I seriously hate people! I really do!
You hate people, that's why God invented dogs cats and animals well that's all the same thing but you know what I'm saying I agree
there greedy, and like most care only about them selves.....sad how things are
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“Damn thing” unintentional pun
You should always assume that everyone is bad at their jobs. World War 2 could have been prevented on two separate occasions but incompetence and straight up ignoring intelligence allowed the blitzkrieg to happen. History is crazy, it's almost all human incompetence.
the whole thing revolves around money save, save, save at the cost of lives
it doenst even makes sense. They could save money by building it properly, so its working for a long amount of time. I dont have to mention your country folks may approve you more if you dont killing their entire village, do I?
@@Mirolp7 they don’t save money for no reason. They save money for their pockets and assume everything goes well so they can keep the money for their wealth
@@SigmaHayate And then they lose all of it when something goes wrong.
@@goni2493 “money makes you blind”
@ALLEN DAWE
There's a channel that's all about the investigations of large scale industrial accidents; chemical plant spills, gas plant explosions, and the like. Can't remember the name, I'll look and come back in case you're interested.
It never fails that companies won't take an extra recommended safety measure at $0.20 per employee, but then a year or so down the road that would have prevented an accident that cost 3 lives, thousands in hospital bills, millions in lost revenue while the plant was down for repairs and untold costs in bad faith with the community and negative press. *smh*
EDIT: The channel is USCSB.
Dam construction crew: "well, soil is too soft and concrete can break. What can we make dams out of so we never have to worry about another break again?"
Phil: "hi! Phil Swift here with FlexSeal!"
Watch me break this dam! THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE! We can fix it with flex seal.
@@tickinhonda4127 DAMage*
😆
I could have watched this all night.
Sincerely Yours, King X
As a resident in Idaho in the US I participated in the clean up after the collapse of the Teton Dam on June 5, 1976. It was incredible to see the damage
ur amazing dude
As one of the thousands who experienced the catastrophic spillway collapse of the Oroville Dam, I can tell you that it is one of the most frightening things I have ever been through.
And, unlike the 300 feet the video describes, the spillway at Orville Dam is 3000 feet long.
Just the noise would wake the dead. You have experienced something rare
Always amazed by this kind of videos
Wish I was lol
@MAUREEN GRAHAM ya!
i just dislike my own comment
what
@MAUREEN GRAHAM Do you get some kind of commission for the be amazed animal video? 😁
I think the driver in that catapillar killed other people trying to escape !
Agonizing indeed. Thanks for playing.
Vale is responsible for more than 3 of those in Brazil, they're known for that by here, I had family in one of the cities destroyed and a branch of the family had to move out due to the river being dead, we were lucky to have Israel helping us to locate survivors 😢.
The biggest dam in the world is half in Brazilian territory, vale is the bad apple by here, most of the dams here are concrete made and not land made.
When I first visited a dam in my country I only stayed on the lake side , until my dad called me to look at the other side ...
Let's just say I got scarred for life.
Why? What did it look like?
@@patiencelloyd1568 the dam was 130 m high and there was no fence or anything , just a 50 cm border. I was imagining how would it be if I tripped over there and fall in void.
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@@silviu4248 ohh shit that does sound scary!
"just watch as these 2 truck drivers come within seconds of being swept into" *ads play*
Grrr
THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO!
That’s why I pay for no ads , well worth it . Can’t stand em
Yep, same here!
Brave browser. No ads. Ever.
@@monabeth47 what are ads exactly???🤔🤔. Idk🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dams be like: OH HEY BABE *RELEASES WATER AGRESSIVELY*
Lol
😂😂😂
Lol
18:30December 1 be like
Disasters can happen anywhere but this is like the 394754th reason I'm thankful to live in America.
Part 2 please 😇
I feel like dam failures is just mother nature giving a middle finger
Fr
dam that hurts
dam that hurts
dam that hurts
dam that hurts
Here's an off-subject, fun fact that this video reminded me of - My friend spent time in Laos, while in the military, and said it rained 24 hours a day, for two whole months. He was certain that was the worst place on earth until coming back to the states and having to spend time in Kansas. He now knows he was wrong. Kansas, according to him, is definitely the worst place on earth. 🤣
When I lived in Rexburg, Idaho I heard stories from people living though the Teton Dam break in 1976. A local museum has a map of the extent of the flood and my home would have been right at the very edge of the flood.
Why can't anyone just post the video they advertise? Just RAW, UNCUT,NO MUSIC,OR ANNOYING SARCASTIC COMMENTATOR. PLEASE JUST PLAY THE FOOTAGE YOU CLAIM IS SO AWESOME. 🌊ℹ🆘️
I lived in Estes Park, CO. for 10 years, which has been flooded not once, but twice by the Lawn Lake Damn in the Rocky Mountain National Park. The first time in 1981 (I believe), and the second time in 2013 which made National news. Both dam ruptures were bad enough, but the water traveled over 60 miles in 2 different directions. One path was towards Boulder, CO, which devastated Estes Park, Boulder, and all other towns in its path. The other flow was towards Loveland, Longmont and Ft. Collins. The worst part is, in both dam breaks, the water took the same paths, claiming lives in both breaks.
When he said “the fact you haven’t subscribed yet” I couldn’t help but say “I actually have subscribed.”😆
Me to
@Liam Hagie you know he is referring to those who haven't subbed right??
What was that dam inspector thinking 🤔 ??!
..😁 you see what I did there ?
In the States... Unfortunately... The answer for around two dozen states is "What dam inspector?" ;o)
I live and Texas and... OF COURSE WE CAN SWIM WHAT DO YOU THINK WE ARE DIM WIPS 😒🙄
Dammit.
Get it? Dam? Like ya know. The water wall?
Lol got me
Does this guy make his videos, then upload it at 0.75 speed? This would be completely unwatchable without increasing the speed. Thank you TH-cam for that option!
People:HELP THE DAM BROKE
Badlands:Enough talk
I guess you’ve never heard of an earthen dam? They’re quite common, even here in the USA.
We have had a few earthenworks dams fail in the USA too. This is among our worst dam failures of all time.
The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The dam broke after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water.
South Fork Dam was an earth- and rock-fill dam located about 8 miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. ... The resulting flood wave that contained 20 million tons of water and debris caused 2,209 fatalities and became known as the “Johnstown Flood”. South Fork Dam an earthen works structure. So you see we had our damn failures too and look at that death toll. All because some super rich 1%'er goof's wanted a private fishing lake.
@@AUTISTICLYCAN "All because some super rich 1%'er goof's wanted a private fishing lake."(sic)
Don't you mean by wonderful collective government for the good of the people? I mean most of you lunatics who cry about people having more money than you are usually all for public works like this..... except when they go wrong, then you blame the rich.
"The South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838-1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the canal system to be used as a reservoir for the state's Main Line of Public Works canal basin in Johnstown. It was abandoned by the commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests."
@@sammorgan31 In this case, the rich definitely need blamed. The Commonwealth were not the ones still using the dam for their own fun while neglecting to maintain it and HIDING it.
"This became all too clear on september 11th"
*Hold up*
Omg ur right-
9/11 flashbacks
Seems like that date is just unlucky
HAY! I have been a subscriber for a while 🤷
This is a very satisfying video. Also a very interesting video.
I was in downtown oroville when the damn cracked and spillway broke it was insane! It was like no laws mattered people were driving cars on sidewalks and just abandoning vehicles too and running on foot, where I lived at the time was right next to the damn and when I finally got home, I could see the damns spillway just breaking more and more. As soon as I saw this video I knew this had to be in here so I watched👌🏼
Now I can finally say
GoDAM now that's a lot of DAMage
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Check out the fail of lake delton in wisconsin the whole lake drained !!
Pat I'll be checking it out shortly thanks for the info
@@Mr.Robert1 cool it took out a bunch of houses that collapsed into the water !!!
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That was water getting into a salt mine IIRC? It literally melted. Predictable, but fortunately not fatal (if it's the one I'm thinking of).
I think the US is one with the worst infrastructure in the world, as a developed country it suffered more damage as China, because of infrastructure failure
I liked this dam video and all its dam information about all these dam failures. Keep up the dam work.
You know the water is insanely powerful when it looks like its moving in slowmo
A hydroelectric power plant fails at dawn
"Dam, sun..."
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE OMG
4:56 "what caused this"
The first 2 words in an ad: "Oregon homeowners"
This is an older one but the flood of Johnstown. It's a smallish town in Pennsylvania approximately a half an hour from where I live. The story is pretty interesting and definitely worth looking into
How far is this from phila
@@rikkipowers3921 Johnstown is closer to Pittsburgh than Philadelphia.
THE DAM PUNS ARE INSANE
Nothing has happened to my hometown yet but I fear it might. The Norris dam is 87 years old
*when you waited all day to take a piss and finally get home from school* :
Waste of time
If you can't read the sign bathroom.
YES!!!! Thank you for dragging Vale into this video. They're basically the "pharma-bro" of mining companies. They've also yet to pay a quarter of those fines by some estimates due to the rampant corruption within Brazil's government. And for future reference - Vale is pronounced more "veil" because of...reasons? Either way, keep mispronouncing their name to antagonise them or pronounce it properly to raise awareness - both are fine by me.
PS: Feel free to contact me about these a-hole's colossal screw ups, I've got quite the treasure trove of info about them.
Prison or death life in prison is moral for such screw ups. Think about what would happen if you or I killed that many people just by being ignorant
@@michaelmeddaugh2124 Prison would be the least of our worries. 🙄
The miniature: water exploiding and flying everywhere
Me: Haha water go brrr
Hey Be Amazed, back in 2016, my hometown of Somerville, TX was flooded with 4 feet of water, and the Brazos River, along with the Yegua (yewaw) Creek burst their banks and turned another town, Clay, into an island. This was the result of the infamous storms on Memorial Day weekend and left me, my family and my friends trapped in Clay for 3 days with no food or water.
Oh my god, that’s terrifying
@@BeanKally yeah it was, especially when we found out someone was tragically swept away less than a mile away. They didn't make it sadly
Damn, this was a good video
When you realize that your name is in the title
I didn’t know my name was dam
JK lol
6:34 "the dam ruptured in the most terrifying way possible". What non-terrifying ways are there for a dam to rupture?
"Damm" man...
*pun gun noises*
Takes a whole lot of greed and arrogance for engineers to turn a blind eye to a damned dam 🦫
It’s SICKENING how it seems 99^ of the time no one is charged for dam failures!! Unbelievable 😠
In the town I live in has a river that runs through it burst its banks a few years ago and flooded a large portion of the town I wasn’t living here at the time but my mum told me about it.
I remember the Nebraska one it was on the news for literally months every time I went to check the weather before work
That's the real use of cowboy hats that we've carefully kept secret for years. They're used as flotation devices.
Kinda like flotation devices on airplanes don't do much good when your doing 300 + MPH straight into the ground
The thumbnail is crazy
Fascinating! Dams that failed to hold, but still can be fixed. I'm impressed by this, I love it. Counties around the world had this problem, the dam descriptor. Fun fact: what dam would break into one piece? This world has big questions to be told, to be answered.
Actually a lot of dams are made from soil and normally it’s done like this to not only cut costs but because it’s actually A good material to make a The dams out of!
Well “Dammit” I’m not first😂
Given, I haven’t been to my childhood town in a few years now, but I remember the local dam having cracks in it. I’m not sure if they fixed it or not but watching this video makes me worried that even if they did, it probably will eventually collapse and absolutely annihilate the houses that are DIRECTLY below the dam wall...
Not going to lie though it's looking satisfying
Wow the 2018 Kerala floods didn’t even make the list
5:16 It's crazy how that dam was 91 y/o & broke in 2019, 91 is 19 backwards. Strange coincidence
I bet that dude on the tracker was like "fuck! fuck! fuck! fuuuuck!" Kudos to that guy making it on that slow ass tracker lmao.
lol
Earthen or Tailing Dams are the most dangerous types of Dams.
What is not scandalous is that I subscribe to your channel long ago
What is it with buildings falling down on 9/11?
16:08 did anyone else hear him say "fortnite"?
He did... "fortnight." It means a two week period. I looked it up XD
@@suzannedemoranville7120 No it's fortnite
@@semoby8049 Look at the captions, and then look up what a fortnight is. I’m not sure if you’re referencing the video game as a joke or not, but if you are, sorry for being so persistent XD r/whoosh me if you are
@@suzannedemoranville7120 it was a joke
1:45 what are you doing step br- *cuts throat*
Those engineers might have graduated of zoom and Microsoft team.
the thumbnail 😳😳😳
Dammm, liked the video
Sorry I had to
The narrorater be like:
"And 17 people died... Dammit"
I grew up near the Spencer Dam (13:21 - 14:37 minute point). The area below it was my favorite party place. Much of the financial loss was due to the next dam below (Gavins Point on the Missouri River) having to fully open its gates and widespread flooding from it.
mother nature: water dragon justu
damn, those dam damned
DAMN!!!
I live 45 minutes away from lake Oroville in California. Our dam almost had a massive breach when the spillway started to collapse
Damn it, the dam blew up
Not sure why this video decided that “it was made of soil! Soil! Not concrete!” is the fault that caused the failure. There are a large number of dams all over the world made from soil. They are called Earthen or Earthfill Dams and are if cared for, will last longer than a concrete dam. The reason for it to fail was that it wasn’t finished when the water began to back up behind it. Earthfill dams are not able to hold back water until all of the layers of different types of soil are in place. For this reason, the river must be diverted around or through a tunnel to keep it from backing up behind the dam just like a concrete dam. This means that not only is the video wrong about soil being the problem, they are also wrong about rain being the cause of the fault.
This video was DAM good
Not a word about the Army Corps of Engineers responsibility for inspection of Dams. How does Congress fund that?