Rapidan Dam: Home falls into Blue Earth River
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- After the dam suffered a partial failure, a home on the western side of the dam has fallen into the Blue Earth River.
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The bedrock on that side of the dam appears to be gone and the river has changed course. The power of water is amazing.
Another 24 hours of erosion and the Glacier road bridge could become compromised.
It's just sandstone.
Strongest force in nature.
@@mikepalmer2219 ice is stronger but it is a type of water also cheers
3 days we wait for the house to fall in, and you miss it?
Another channel has it falling in.
So sad..😢
Some kid caught the picture while taking video footage of the flood from the east side of the dam. Talk about being in the right place at the right time with a video camera on their phone running.
Click Bait: "Home falls into Blue Earther River" and then have no footage of home falling into Blue Earth River.
It’s blink and you’ll miss it but it’s there @ 1:24
@@thelukesternater Actually, all their footage is after the bulk of the house has already fallen in. They literally have not footage of it falling in. Other YT posts show it.
partial failure???
um, am I missing something?
The dam itself is the concrete structure you still see standing. What failed is the abutment, where the dam is connected to the surrounding terrain. The only part that failed is one of the abutments, hence it is a partial failure because 2/3 components are intact. The dam structure itself does not need to fail for an uncontrolled release of water to occur, though it usually does, particularly in catastrophic failures such as the St. Francis Dam.
Another example of a partial failure vs a full failure is the Oroville dam in California, where it was concern that the emergency spillway would collapse that prompted evacuation warnings and the continued use of a heavily damaged main chute. The dam did not fail, but an uncontrolled release of water resulting in structural damage to parts of the dam occurred. Hence, a partial failure of the dam vs a full failure.
Right, the damage has failed totally even though part of it is still showing.
The landscape is changing right before our very eyes, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Some believe that the Grand Canyon was created just like this. Not over millions of years, but in one enormous flood.
Not in the Biblical term, but a massive lake that burst from the northern ice sheet during the last ice age.
@@Do-UR-Research2749 Not being rude but do you have any articles about that, that'd have insane implications for both geology and potential archaeology
Dams and infrastructure have to be kept up and monitored. So much for Biden's infrastructure policy. More of our Country has been destroyed because no one is watching out for the Country or any part of it. It is being ruined right before our eyes. Bridges falling down, the roads are horrors now, the cities are s holes, and we are grasping at straws to stay alive.
@MrDibbin I actually watch an hour long video of a geologist explaining his theory. I don't recall the title. Let me see if I can find it.
That’s true. Never build a house along a river bank is wise. Cool to live along one, but it’ll flood or worse eventually.
The rest of the dam isn't going to "fail". It's irrelevant now. It will have to be taken down and probably never replaced.
Water always finds a way.
I am just a common old lady, but my common sense is suggesting that they blow up the dam. The dam is changing the course of the river. Water will continue to chew away at soil until it hits solid rock.
The community voted against removing the dam even though it was virtually condemned. This was after numerous flooding incidents.
Its the Dam Store. They serve Dam burgers and Dam pie.
Stop saying the dam is more than 100 years old. Does this mean it suppose to happen. 😂😂😂😂
I heard a report yesterday saying typically dams are only expected to last around 40 years
It's more pointing it out because its impressive it lasted this long and technically the dam it still holding. The earth around the dam gave way.
@@CountryAndProud yes - I find it a bit irritating the various news programmes keep saying “the dam was breached” when the dam actually held.
Yes.
Your question should preface your statement, but nonetheless. Since about that period of time, the turn of the century, pretty much any infrastructure - including skyscrapers and railroads - is designed with a "design life" in mind. And, in that is a roadmap for how long the structure or tool is meant to be maintained for, and an agreement/contract is written up for the holders to enforce to ensure that the design life of the object is met. You would be surprised to learn that these early industrial engineers did very well considering their constraints and budgets (often surpassing intended design lifes). Unlike the opposite which is lamented about today.
Sorry to rattle on, but I believe the number is over 200, for the amount of dams that have passed their 40,60,80,100 etc life cycles and we have not replaced, maintained or created any equivalent infrastructure.
Last thing in mind, we have entire counties and states relying on decades old records of these structures with internal maintenance records often managed by 3rd party companies. Really, I could go on all day, you'd be surprised how this country is even running and not falling to parts. Makes you appreciate the govt more although the social aspects give us headaches.
The water level has dropped way down since Monday..
because the water is going around
OP, if you're marveling at how far down, even thru sandstone "bedrock" the water has cut in two days, then I agree.
@@EattheApple666 Yup for sure.
@@nicotti I am.
1 year old or a 100 years old .....If it hadn't plugged up with debris probably would have been fine.
🎯
Are there any engineers in the U.S. anymore or did Biden fire all of them so the Country could fall apart quicker?
Thanks for your civil engineering insight. Much appreciated. As an actual fact, dams have a design life as do all structures. But you already knew that right?
@@RichardWagenknecht The county's civil engineer said during tuesday's press conference, that the debris clogging the spillways and stream flow being the second highest in recorded history for the dam were the deciding factors.
Mother nature and common sense would say, don't build a home next to a dam.
Other way round. The house was first.
Hear that 12 million residents of Florida?!? 🤔 Yet, they still moving there.
Yes, anything along a river will flood eventually. They build them here in Texas, and people buy them. A few years later, you see them on TV getting saved by boats. People have choices, and so be it. Just don’t complain when you lose your chit.
Show the damage,
Not your face!
No shit, They show about 10 seconds of shaky Blurry zoomed in shots of the Bank, Then the rest this jaggoff
The dam store may be next, sadly, given the rate of erosion.
How horrific for that family to watch their home slowly slip away (or not so slowly once it gave way). It seemed like they were fortunate to have some time to get stuff out, but hopefully they were able to fully move out before it was swept away.
The owner was interviewed on another station and her brother and husband along with neighbors got all the valuables out of their home and everything out of their Dam Store business several days ago.
@@jimw1615 Oh good. Thanks for that update. Still sucks, but at least they had that opportunity.
@@jimw1615 well that is some good news people in my state would have just watched happened last year search leominster floods 2023
Poor condition on the dam? Seems like the earth failed not the dam. I would say 114yo Engineering -1 Bedrock -0
Having survived a major flood in 2008 (I am from Cedar Rapids Iowa) there is no way in hell that I would ever live next to the river or a dam.
The water level is way down but still flowing fast.
Spend money fixing dams instead of changing flags and pride month.
How much does Pride month cost? Are you not proud? What's your fixation on that about? Did your son or daughter switch sides? You can tell us...we understand.
We tried but the Republicans blocked our bill.
@@garyspence2128 I mean states should spend money on priorities that protect communities from catastrophes like this. Stop spending money on WOKENESS. If you like pride month, spend you own money .
@@garyspence2128 The industry around "pride", including merchandising, mass media, advertising and pharmaceuticals (since nowadays homosexuality and non-conformity to sex-role stereotypes are pathologized and many are encouraged to take hormones to "be their true selves") is worth over two billion dollars per year the last time I checked, which was about two or three years ago, so thanks to inflation it's likely even more than that now.
It's a waste of money, considering before mass marketing, corporate "pride" and pharmaceutical companies became involved, it was well under a billion per year (still over-spent on frivolous made-in-China crap, but it was more reasonable than it is now). I always hear infrastructure in the US is failing all over the place and overdue for replacement, upgrading, etc. and the last big wave of infrastructure construction in the US was post WWII, wasn't it? Seems like a good idea to stop spending money on brain rot stuff or poisoning children with chemical castration and maybe build some bridges that need replacing, for example. Who would be against that?
spend money removing dams and freeing river so this does not have to occur again is a better option support dam removal
Why is there no mention of the 'person in charge' did not have the debris removed from upstream of the dam so the water would not rise that high. All the gates were wide open and probably would have kept the water level below the emergency spillway height. Once it started going around the dam, it washed the spillway soil quickly out of it's path.
Out of focus......
Good thing we’re giving money to foreign countries, instead of fixing our infrastructure.
It's only $175 billion. And it has only cost 600,000 Ukrainians their lives. But think of all the campaign donations I will get from the arms manufacturers who will hire me after I'm out of office.
Why aren't the insurance companies paying for this destruction?????
Same as the bridge collapse caused by the ship running into it????
Because that is not their true purpose. They exist to enrich executives and shareholders at customers expense.
This wasn't caused by anything humans did. I think this counts as an act of God.
Biden gave all of our money away. Iran, Ukraine, China , Russia trillions. He put us in a hole we will never dig our way out of.
Ship running into the bridge is not an act of God.
If talking about the dam its design failure not act of God but designed by humans which is failure by design not God. Act of God is something like lightning hit something.
Why touch the dam? Leave it as a pier. The river has found a new course.
Now they're saving that the house did go into the river
"No one was hurt."
Watch YOUR home fall into a river and tell me it doesn't hurt.
What's really sad is all the destruction across the region from flooding. Towns like Spencer, IA have been wrecked by flooding this week.
Confucius say;
Don't build house by river
Wait look at all those different layers in the cliffs. Hundreds of years from now a tour guide will say it took millions of years for the river to cut out this gorge
Yep. He will say it with a beer in one hand, and a joint in the other.
Geology… obviously not your strongest subject. Lol
American education 😳
Save the Dam Store!!!
There's no need to swear ! And you spelled damn wrong ...oh wait !
This is going to be an Engineers nightmare when the water subsides completely to determine what next.
It seems that the water levels dropping diverted the entire pressure from the spillways to the new path, which is eroding the banks.
correct cheers i happy some else understands
Start the "Home falls into Blue Earth River" video footage just *after* it falls in, good job!
Is there no way at all to clear the debris blocking the dam proper and release some bypass water pressure?
Somebody dropped the ball
Very Sad…
Nature flexing its muscle.
The Mighty One of Jacob
What was the point of this dam?
Mother Nature isn't going to take "no" for an answer.
They’ve got some deep topsoil.
Can they repair this?
🙏❤️
hey fox where they hell are the updates
Funny how they keep saying 'partial failure' and the dam was in 'poor condition' when it is still standing (narrative much?). The floodwaters merely chose to carve a new channel around the dam. Still, it sucks to be the owners of that house and store...
As a massive tree falls in the river behind him.
Unless it's on video, I don't trust a FOX station talking head.
vous pouvez lui barrer la route , tot ou tard l'eau trouvera toujours son chemin !!! dame nature reprend ses droits !!!!
Wow.....u can see the rock bed on other side.......pie house will live.......cheers
The house is falling in! Let me pan right and zoom out bit. /s. Yeesh.
Dam owners needs to pay for the house and land the destroyed, and dam needs to be removed
thr dam is public property they would be sueing themselves but go for it
Build a dam, but screw re-enforcing the banks!😮
Anyone got a lodge of beavers?
This is amazing and shows how the Grand Canyon was actually made in days when an Ice Dam broke during the Ice Age 14,000 years ago… note the same step cliffs and swearing bowls that huge volumes of water creates.. it happened a few times in the Grand Canyon, but it wasn’t carved out over millions of years, it was carved out in days… hopefully everyone down stream is ok… terrible.. 😇🙏
NO
Oh shut up Gram Hancock. lol
You need to study up on ice age floods a little! Do you confuse Grand Coulee with Grand Canyon?
trump built the grand canyon in a weekend,
its in the bible.
@@Bitterrootbackroads no.. but the north west shows huge canyons and the ground wiped clean, so much water.. the canyons are actually made when the water starts to subside it was huge walls of water 1,500 feet high
Nothing to see here folks...🤬
Cam ain’t doing much now
Said this before, and , once again...in my time here, no one has focused on infrastructure in America...antiquated grid systems, bridges, motorways, water systems, trains falling off their tracks...you continue to expose Americans to disasters, with this inefficiency....at least this community had the foresight, to evacuate people, to mitigate disaster.....and FOX, you really do take a long time to come to truth.....I most certainly am NY 1962 Tom's very British/Brazilian future wife MD, Veteran, Middle East & Cont. of Africa
That's what you get when you don't get Reed of the dead tree's on the rivers
It's not partial anymore😂
Question for China bashers: Is this what you mean by Tofu Construction?
Joe to the rescue, again. The other guy would have shown up with a case of paper towels and thrown them at the news reporters. Remember that gem?
😭
more like crappydam am i rite
Good one!
I see Joe Biden build back better workings!
It is working in Israel
trump would have nuked that storm and this would have never happened.
Yes, Trump 2024
Funny, I’m seeing the direct results of climate change deniers.
its owned by the county not feds
Cutting a new channel.
Most people are stupid when it comes to the power of moving water.
*Power of the LIVING God! Fixed it for you! 😊 🙌🏾
Build Back Better
home owner wins darwin award, congrats for living next to a raging river genius 😅
House no.2 and the covered patio,the gravity of things and the waterway that was never designed for the new age flood.110 yrs ago the stream that was dammed for hydro power and water retention has left the scene,all its doing is diverting water now,the new spillway seems to be working just fine its clogged up with tree and debris,sediment now,so when the water leval drops it needs to get backhoed out,and a brand new dam can be built for next years summer flood.P.S.SOMEONE CAN BUILD A PIPELINE FOR WATER TO THE SOUTHWEST DESERT WHERE THERE IS A TRUE WATER SHORTAGE?
Are you an engineer ?
@@jayf8308 hi no im not,ive done some const.work in the past.the extreme seriousness of the situ.is heartbreaking and sad for the losses,in all states,a little cheerup to ease the extreme pain.if i was to give an idea of hope,a larger dam if posible,alot of people are suffering from the 5 state area,esp in nebr.
“President Biden” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
its owned by the county biden had nothing to do with this, biden and trump should copulate with eachother
Yay! More fishing spots!
Florida Residents please don't say the word Climate Change, It is illlegal to do so... Everything is fine, nothing to see here.
Ok You just pay all the taxes to stop the climate change crisis and everything will be okay! Love & God Bless.
Sure. There has never in the history of mankind been a flood before.
@@barbaraemanuel1379 We won’t pay it, it’s going on the credit card for the people who will wish we would’ve done something.
@@barbaraemanuel1379 instead we pay the taxes to clean up the mess, which is far more expensive to do. brilliant.
@@theboringchannel2027 yep taxes taxes taxes it's the cure worst than the illness.
Two things : ignoring climate change and not spending enough on roads and bridges. It seems like one party is denying both.
The Uniparty! Just keep paying more taxes.That'll fix all the climate change.Buy more batteriesthat'll fix it
Climate change is a joke😆
@@barbaraemanuel1379 The problem could be fixed if billionaires, millionaires and businessmen, paid the same tax rate as I currently pay.
@@user-kj5td9hd3s exactly 💯
climate change is a cop out to distract from environmental destruction and plans to mine the ocean get a grip and fight the real environmental battles like deforestation and dams like this. this is an ecologist telling you this
#FreePalestine
Hopefully no one was in that part of the house when it was happening otherwise 🪦
Proverbs 10 verse 25.
bIBLE bABBLE bULLSHIT