Lake vanishes after Michigan dam fails during record flooding
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Wixom Lake, a reservoir of the Edenville Dam was entirely drained after record flooding cause the embankment to fail on Tuesday, March 19, 2020. This footage captured on May 20 shows the devastation caused around the lake and immediately downstream of the dam.
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If there was a time to do dock maintenance - it's now.
yesterdaysguy you mean move the docks that lake ain’t coming back
Lmaooooo.
@@D.S.44 maybe some years to refill
Lol
So much for waterfront property.
Imaging finishing the dock for $5000 last fall thinking you’re going to finally get a Boat this summer.
@TheOtherWhiteBread0 what are you smokin? seriously, i want some... 5k is plenty to finish a dock in this lake...
@@DominicciSkycam I guess he's using gold instead of wood
TheOtherWhiteBread0 Here in Michigan 5grand is a lot to spend on a dock. A lot of the docks are pre made modular sections that are removed every fall because otherwise they would be ripped apart and sent downstream when the ice breaks up or during spring flooding. This isn't Florida. Aluminum docks with wheels are popular on wixom. Easy in, easy out. Same with boat lifts.
Yep I use to put docks in the Michigan lakes. Put in spring take out fall.
Better to have a useless dock than a useless dock and boat!!!
I imagine they’ll find all kinds of things people wanted to hide in that lake
Lol yeah if you’ve seen Ozark you might get an idea
Agenda 21 is at play here. Remove your lakes
Especially if the Clinton's have ever been there...
@@seachers6124 Why do you gotta bring politics into everything?
I freaking found the Caddy. Yep, you know the one. Jimmy Hoffa. Keeping the location secret though.
As luck would have it I sold my home on Wixom Lake at the first of March.
Now go play the lottery.
@@michaelb.8953 he's a lost cause
great for you...sucks for the new buyer...lmao....awsome
New home owner: I'm never gonna financially recover from this.
at least the new home owner wont have to worry about drowning.. ohh wait im wrong there gonna drown in debt..lmao..
House for sale. Private dock. The lake is down this year.
Water front property....?
@@specialp5362 mud front property
Buyer: Where is the lake?
Seller: You came during a low tide.
Wow, that really suck. I feel bad for the ones downstream than the ones that lost a view.
@Roy G Biv stinks of what? Why would it stink?
@@209alfredo2091 decomposing organic matter exposed to oxygen.
All that expensive lake side property basically worthless now.
man made lake. dam was made and water kept high for their boats
Nah they just expanded their access
No. The same taxpayer money will go into rebuilding it so the same affluent owners can move back in and demand those same taxpayers to stay the hell off their property. Unless you are "in" with lake property owners then you aren't welcome there, period.
Craiglist 034334Erd454 wtf were you expecting? “The public is welcome to picnic and launch their boats anytime year round at the Steve Jones home at 123 Lake St.”?
2A Supporter Nah this exact thing happened to Lake Delton in Wisconsin Dells around 2008. The dam failed and the entire man made lake drained into the river. It was a lot more spectacular than this, I remember 4 big houses collapsing and being sucked into the raging waters on video I’m sure it’s here in TH-cam.
A few years later it’s back as it was and now there’s a nice historical plaque at the spot where it failed.
Bet this never happens in New Hampshire where all the politicians park their boats to avoid taxes
@canWego Backintime
they don't care about us
It's like people never heard of man made lakes before, lol.
Built by shills. Where where the footings and proper coffer supports?
LOL? Did you giggle when your granny got covid-19? Does puppy torture give you a stiffy? Laugh out loud?
@@railroad7401 wtf wrong with you
@@railroad7401 you smoking some good stuff mate
I can't "LOL" about people losing their houses and livelihoods. Maybe you do not understand my reply. 1337 pwnage thinks its funny? Hence the snide rebuttal. Thats "wtf" is wrong with me Aaron.@@OMGitsTerasu
Their house values just dropped with the lake level.
Yup lol and they lost their expensive boats also
Wow, very astute observation.
Usually on waterfront you own to the water edge or high water mark. With the water back to a river, I wonder if they can claim that land now?
@@TheBeingReal HIGHLY doubt it not in Merica
@@TheBeingReal lakes generally have a 50' easement from mean waterline which allows for general ingress/egress.
bet 200$ your property taxes will still be assessed as "lake front"
With state of emergency declared, there may be some tax breaks. I remember when a gas pipeline explosion took out a neighborhood in California, that area was declared an emergency and tax rules were different for them. My dad lived so close to that he stood on his front porch and got photos of flames shooting up over the rooftops of the homes across the street from him. It happened one block over. Way too close for , well, just way too close.
@@recoveringsoul755 in this state our non refundable FICA is 6.5% and state tax that you get back is only 4%. Trust me they will be getting boned on their taxes.
* $200
That would truly be a kick in the sack, no bueno.
You might as well bet a million on that cuz you know you're right
The water molecules are just practicing social distancing.
XD
LMAO
Imagine buying lakefront property, and then the next morning the lake says: "Aight, I'mma head out"
😭😭
Rite on
That happened to more than one person in this instance. Literally.
🤣
Hahaha 🤣😂😁 that's a good one👍
I guarantee you there will be trees growing in the lake before they rebuild. If they ever?
@Donald Kasper that's not how dams work, the lake would be deeper, yes, but its normal level would be at the same spot the shallow version had, meaning - increase inflow would still make it run over the dam, they need to increase the bank height (and/or more flood area) if you want more capacity to handle more than usual inflow
@Preston Hanson All the money that should have been spent in America has been paid to Lockheed Martin etc and then offshored. Same in the UK, the roads are appalling, cheap patches on top of cheap patches - we welcome the water board digging anywhere as their's are the best patches. The money went on the expensive campaign to bomb the Syrians for their (now worthless) oil.
jz1199 not necessarily. Lower lake bottom means a lower head can be maintained before spring rains
geheimschriver 6 months tops
If you’re
Isn’t this stuff what politicians should have been concerned with in Michigan?
No because dams should not have been built in the first place
@@xingatumatri1025 go away
No, Governor Witless is too busy arresting people for not wearing a mask or being in a park.
ViciousAlienKlownWell she has that for an excuse covid 19. what was the other previous governors excuses.
dean m thank you..we act like we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
When given the chance, water will go where it wants to. Hope all are safe.
The governor was advised to lower the water level but was apparently to busy arresting people in the park and small business owners.
The people around the lake petitioned to keep the water level up over the advice of the professionals. The owners of the dam knew the math behind it and are at fault.
"Nature has always had more force than education." --Voltaire
"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men" -- Blue Oyster Cult
@Unimportant Person "Look, it's Prince Lotor... Just hanging out in the bridge" ~Voltron
Thick cement dams can hold nature back dirt dams always fail in a huge flood. The people that run Michigan need to be educated.
@@rockclimber3045 One cement dam somewhere has failed. Cement dams always fail.
"Nature has always had more force than education." - Voltaire -
Or lack of education...
Engineers warned county officials back in 2018 that this particular dam couldn't withstand an increase in water, but was ignored.
No, they warned Lee Mueller, the private owner of these dams, not "county officials". Mueller, has been warned about these dams for years, and actually wanted the lakefront property owners to pay for the near 100 grand repair(back in 2011, it was probably far more than that now since he neglected them for so long) to the dam, even though he owns them, and was making money hand over fist from them.
They warned Boyce Hydro LLC. A private company that owned these dams. Get your facts straight.
@@Schelle7000 i heard the dams lowered the water levels and the property owners and the state complained. The courts intervened and required them to raise the water level.
Phil Hall
Oh, Jesus. Physics isn't political.
Just like trump ignored the intelligence report of the corona virus.
I'm sure relief agencies from all over the world are rushing to send money and aid.
Joshua Gusman that’s funny!
US bombed out roads & bridges in Syria - maybe they will help
Funny thing is that they do during disasters because they see how bad we've become yet we never accept it.
I see a perfect chance to take advantage of this time to improve on the waterway, maybe do cleanup, dock repairs and shoreline erosion control, it isn't all bad
Best coverage I've seen yet
Yeah I haven’t been able to find much down stream coverage yet
Because news stations are more concerned with Trump
A good time for those waterfront homes to become farm homes
Ground should be good and fertile.
I was just thinking. Well all those properties got a heck of allot bigger. Good idea
While you wait for your crops to be carried away by the next flood.
That's the beauty of climate change. It's the new normal. Things won't be like they were before, ever again.
Just like with the Coronavirus.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher I was just talking to my dad about this last night. And in 1986 the year I was born the croton dam broke and flooded newaygo. Damn climate change has been taking down dams for over 30 years. No... not climate change. Lazy people and mother nature did this.
@@brantswanson3763 these two, I don't think this was climate change. Most of the stormy and-or fiery shit over the past decade is made worse by climate change but mismanagement led to these dams being felled.
“Is this the god dam?” - beavis
"Wixom Lake resident"
You mean, former Wixom Lake resident.
The lake residents didn't lose their property. The people down stream did.
My brain just cannot compute this lake being gone. It’s been there my whole life and I’m nearing 50. Just wow!! 😳
That land is sacred and white man never listen to spirit n physicAl native Aboriginal so higher power pushed the button on Gretchen whitmer,s toilet more will come ask our spirits water holds memory n my family energy is there so thank n may most high have mercy on your souls
Democrats spending money on crap instead of maintaining the states assets. MAGA and vote republican and MMGA
Ya, Frump already threatening to hold back federal funding...its all the Libs fault. I get so tired of the political bullshit
@@davisdavis3406 your IQ also went down with the lake level
@@JavaZombie ----Both dams were privately owned, they were warned for years about the spillways being inadequate to handle large volumes of water.
Imagine all the treasures one might find while the water is gone 🤨
Break out the metal detectors lol
@Roy G Biv ...a dead body or two....💀👀😱
Sure. Because of all the Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek Roman and Middle Ages cities that were there in ancient times...
@@MariaMartinez-researcher sure, because that's the only stuff that classifies as treasure
Thought the same thing. Lol
While the lake's out, check for Hoffa's body.
What Jimmy Hoffa is doing right now. (See picture of speed bump)
Nah he was cremated
Hoffa is part of the air pollution in Detroit
I’m in TN now but I grew up in the area not too far away up in Clare County. My heart is hurting for y’all so much. This is an area of hardworking, busy their butts from dusk til dawn, salt of the earth folks that don’t have a whole lot but what they do have they are damn proud of it because they worked hard for it. Seeing my home look like this especially after seeing my 2nd home destroyed here in TN destroyed by a tornado in March it really weighs heavy on me. My prayers are with y’all
Wow. 2020 is going to be a year to remember.
Yeah and it's not even half over yet. I wonder what's in store for the 2nd half of 2020 ?
@@walkernicholasbarr8703 🙄
@@walkernicholasbarr8703 Trump can't hold a press conference.
Or a year not to remember
@@walkernicholasbarr8703 Michigan destroyed the country with their votes. Now their state gets destroyed. A fitting punishment.
So sorry for everyone’s loss. I so miss 2019!
(Your sentiment is appreciated. However, the emoji represents a sleeping person in a funny way.)
María Martínez duly noted and corrected-thank you.
*I miss 2017. Because the next year (2018) my mom died of inoperable bladder cancer. So...ANYBODY else wanna BITCH about ANYTHING? I took my turn. Bye now.*
@@benjamintielking7126 im so sorry for your loss
Welcome to the worst year ever!
So who is the owner of all this potential farm land now
Good place for a great golf ⛳ course 👍.
Most deeds probably read that the lot boundary runs to the lake's edge. So, all those lakefront lots have now tripled in size. A weird exception to such a setup is the boundary between Maryland & Virginia, along the Potomac, where the Maryland boundary is the _Virginia_ shoreline. Yeah, that's mixing apples & oranges, but it's a neat fact.
Can you imagine the dispair of the homeowners who had waterfront properties on those Lakes.
Cry me a river. Or a mud pit! Haha
Since they were among the groups demanding the lake be kept dangerously high I feel little sorrow for them Jun Gleno.
I’d be walking around with a metal detector. Got a be lot of good loot dropped off boats over the years
that was my first thought
@Shaun ONeil @Mason Quimby Same here
that was exactly my first thought
Idk, maybe most was washed away when the dam broke
That bottom is probably 9 feet of pudding right now.
Just goes to show, you can’t tame nature.
Anthony D yes but they apparently been told the dam needed fixing but ignored it now look at the damage this governor should’ve taken precautions to fix dames and roads
@@juliaweber5026 She campaigned on it.
Nor can we seem to "Tame" negligent local politicians
Looks like it was tamed just fine for years.
"I'm going to have a beautiful lake front home this summer" - Homeowner
"Hold my bear" - Nature
kxmode
Growl!
@Chad Kunka 😂
One day you own a lake house. The next, just a house. This is the state of neglected infrastructure nationwide. SAD!
Denise Ellenburg
I sense sarcasm, but not sure. Confirm or deny.
But this was a privately built dam, someone said?
Soil will be amazing for crops in the next 10-20 years.
I would rather have natural forest to take over...
because you're an expert? plants dont need near that. it washed away all the topsoil
@@lolwtnick4362 I believe they are talking about where the lake use to be.
Dang right! Come down to black river
lolWT nick There’s always an ass hole in the bunch.
This Should Fall Squarely on Politicians Shoulders - For Not Listening - To The Facts Given in 1999.
Yup this Dam had multiple Federal violations but the Governor is too busy having everyone on lockdown and trying to play politics with people's lives. Shame on her.
@@joehouses5097 I doubt this natural disaster has anything to do with the current governor.
@@halucinator1 This is not natural disaster. This is man made disaster. Nature does not create damns in front of your house.
@@swedensy unless we're talking about beavers, but this wasn't a beaver dam. It was an easily preventable disaster if the government had listened and given the army corps of engineers the funding to make the nessecary overhauls to prevent this from happening. It was listed as hazardous back in 2018. They had 2 years to do something, and they just let it sit there till it failed.
@@joehouses5097 it's private property bro. even with their licenses revoked the leases didn't expire until 2022
When will they learn, if you want a dam that'll hold it needs to be concrete!
I love it when mother nature does her thing.
Why? you must not own a home or anything of value...Couch potato, I bet.
So much for Your lake front property
Looks like it won’t be long to get some cheap formerly lake front property soon.
Nature reclaiming the river, silly humans.
loll
I wonder where all the fish went to? Gotta be alot of carcasses laying about smelling up the place. Sad indeed
Leatherbark not necessarily. they probably went with the water.
The river feeds into the Saginaw River out to the Saginaw Bay and into Lake Huron, downstream shouldn't have been much of a problem, if the fish just rode it out they would be fine.
@@jimarmstrong2630 I'd think it would be hard to "ride out" a sudden gush of water like this, with all the silt, turbulence and debris.
Andrew Velonis
Nope
@@andrewvelonis5940 Maybe for you and I, but they are fish swimming for their lives, bet a lot of them make it.
This happened to Lake Wisconsin. It emptied completely out. They eventually fixed the dam, and the lake is back.
Maybe now they can find Jimmy hoffa body
He was processed into ground beef.
@@JimmyT132 at the Machus Sly Fox
If anybody’s lost anything in that lake now is the time to go look for it...
Now, that's what I call quick-wit.😉
Well worked out Einstein.
Kind of cruel!
Except thanks to the river flow its now 30km down river.
For this to happen it take incompentence.
Specifically, incompetence among the dam owner (Boyce Hydro) for failing to make improvements to the dam, and the State of Michigan for lax regulations. Boyce Hydro and the State are already in a legal blame game over who is at fault.
@@souvikrc4499 Boyce is guilty of under investment but they tried to lower the water level to improve the safety margin and the state (AG Dana Nessel) made them raise it back up.
The lowering had killed some freshwater mussels and the state took Boyce to court over it in April of this year.
What happens when people ask for the level to be raised against recommendations.
America’s average grade for all infrastructure -INCLUDING DAMS- is a D-.
Kevin did an excellent job of painting a descriptive picture of events! My heart goes out to Michigan
Thanks for posting the drone footage, it really puts it in perspective!
We all know what flows down hill, so as I sit here near the Lake Ontario shoreline, all I can do is wait as the water levels are sure to rise to record levels again.
Play Safe!
Gotta love 2020.
The year of “F” up’s.
Does this mean their property tax goes down now because they’re no longer waterfront property?
Oh that's a really good one. Send it to Comedy Central
Unbelievable, take care and be safe brothers and sisters of Michigan. Love from Texas
❤❤❤
Thank u feathers up sister
" i shall not be stopped"
- nature
Exactly, the river was flowing unstopped since the last ice age.. about 14,000 years.. the dam was there only 95 years... nothing compared to 14,000 years.
Cement damns never fail and that's no nature! duh!!!!
Rock Climber where do you get it’s not caused by nature?
Psalm 147:15-18 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
15 He sends forth His command to the earth;
His word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.
17 He casts forth His ice as fragments;
Who can stand before His cold?
18 He sends forth His word and melts them;
He causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow.
The problem of the day is the world gives glory to everything else...and has forsaken God...His word says this of those and the nations who have forsaken God.
Psalm 9:17 The wicked will return to hell, Even all the nations who forget God.
Isaiah 45:6-7
6 That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
That there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other,
7 The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.
Amos 3:6-7
6 If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it?
7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets.
Totally agree. Mankind with all its technology and false bravado are insignificant . Nature rules , and when shes fed up of us ignoring all here warning signs , then and only then , , shes decides to give us a lesson . But we in our false pride and foolishness , dont seem to either pay heed or we tend to forget and go back to our foolish ways .
Hmm, dam's gone, and all of a sudden, some how the lake is gone. How did that happen????
Mystery of the ages!
The lake didn't vanish, it just moved into town...
Don’t believe the media, Stan and cartman broke the dam.
"I BROKE THE DAM."
"NO ONE ELSE JUST ME."
I broke the dam
They killed kenny
Simpsons did it
What a tragedy! This is so unbelievable and sad!
Now just imagine what the Iraqi, Libyan, Afghan, Syrians etc went through for years on end.
@@nayanmalig 🤦🏾♀️stfu
Naya why are you telling them to stfu? They literally made a good point. Those people have been getting raped, beaten, shot and bombed by the American military for years...
@@LilRed90skid Trump ended that Obama-mess
This isn't a fucking tragedy. No one even died
Oroville dam in California is facing the same threat with 100s of thousands of people at risk
Is the California Government forcing the dam lake to be kept dangerously full too ShakespeareCafe?
Listen to this guy talking about water level going down being "devastation" because he can't use his dock and boat anymore.
Nothing happened to him and his neighbors. People actually lost their homes and businesses because the water was kept dangerously high due to lakefront water level complainers.
Usually lakes like this are created to be used as a source of drinking water, so yeah, that is devastating
@@adamgottlieb5818 They can also be extremely wasteful. Look at Lake Powell for example, loses unimaginable amounts of water due to evaporation every year. Maybe more feasible in the humid conditions of Michigan, but nothing good comes from meddling with waterways.
I'm thinking this was a MANMADE LAKE TO START WITH!
Boy, how did you come up with that... a Dam dams up a river creates a backwater and you think the dam was man made? You sure it wasn't beavers that learned how to use cement?
Dan Champion 😂👍
Could’ve been alien made too! 😂
Devastation still the same!! And who is in charge of inspecting dams!! 2 dams fail!! Mighty poor inspection!!
@@DanChampionJr SOME WORKERS DIDNT INSPECT THE DAMS SUFFICEINTGL. MAYBE ONE DAM- BUT 2!!!
Cathy Holland Feds inspected and warned... ‘Tis in the description
It just keeps reinforcing to me enjoy the day you never know my heart goes out to the people there. I have travelled up through there beautiful country
Wow, TH-cam, thanks for recommending me something recent and not 5 years ago! Anyway, I feel so bad for those families. I love Michigan people!
They should dredge out the bottom some more if they plan on fixing it.
It was a man made lake.. What man takes nature takes back and at a price
He said we lost...the water said Freedom!!
So bever made lakes are evil too?
@Dehydrated Water Thank you for taking time to educate idiots on YT. It's a never-ending occupation.
Property values going up. They will build a better dam. May dredge it, clean it up.
Is there anything that is not a problem to some?
I spent my childhood riding my bike to those dams and lakes to go fishing, I still can’t believe what I’m seeing.
You're not losing a lake, you're gaining a river.
My family from Saginaw used to rent cabins for a week or two every summer -- at Lockwood Beach resort, now called Pleasant Beach resort. Those were the high points of my year as a kid! Swimming, fishing, berry picking, nature rides -- lots of time without adult supervision, can you imagine?! Wixom Lake will always be in my and my sibllings' hearts.
2020 got no chill.
Good time to take my White's metal detector out there. Silver lining?
Funny! I have one too ( but covid makes me a criminal if I try to use it)
@@tryingtoknow8190 You have got to be kidding. Oh, Michigan. Sorry boss.
@@KalRandom I'm not kidding. In my neighborhood park, next to our river, a guy using his Fisher, like mine, was fined $880. I'm in Canada.
@Smooth Move we call them liberals and I did NOT VOTE for that creep PM. I did not vote liberal in provincial or municipal elevations either. Canada is lost.
I remember when this happened to Lake Delton in Wisconsin. It will come back.
Mother nature can't always be contained ..I'm praying for those affected by this damage
Time to make farms!!! Till the lake comes back.
YES, AMAZING, my first thoughts exactly, "PLANT IT, SOON AS YOU CAN !" The fertility should be great. Another idea, move the dirt shown in the final photograph to reconstruct the DAMN DAM PROPERLY, then set logical limits on depth. PAID FOR BY THOSE WHO WORLD BENEFIT and THOSE WHO ALLOWED THE CATASTROPHE. stay safe.
Lake isn't coming back... Sad.
It's a resevoir, man made. It used to provide hydroelectric power but it hasn't for years.
'Till'
And this week Chicago opened up the river locks and reversed the flow of the river into lake Michigan.
Asian carp into the lake ??
😔
Howard Asian carp are invasive and will crowd out other species by competing for food and disrupting food chain.
@kurtis howard you eat them ?
As if the housing price crisis wasn't enough. These places just got mega de-valuated.Though that's the least of concerns.
First rule of physics and geography WATER ALWAYS WINS
JR
My sympathy with all affected by this disaster.
From a former Exchange student in Merrill from Denmark.
I love you Melissa! I'll never forget our crazy summer of love together!
I can Imagine all the treasure hunters going there with their metal detectors loll
Daes B Time to solve some cold cases.
Daes B I’ll bet anybody who dumped a body into that lake is shitting bricks.
@@joncampos5551 it long gon now
The money is in Old Fishing Lures... 🎣 💸
Good idea lol
Imagine having a house on the lake now imagine having no house and no Lake
Realtor: I’ve got some really nice lake side properties to show you next week.
*Dam breaks open
Realtor: Did I say lake side? I meant riverbank properties.
Utter devastation. 🙏 for everyone impacted by this sad event.
This was a very good coverage. I live in Austin, Texas and we a have a about 3 dams on the Colorado River that form several lakes. We do pay attention to water levels. If those dams fail Austin would be under water.
Who’s in charge of the silt fence???
This exact thing happened to Lake Delton in Wisconsin Dells around 2008. The dam failed and the entire man made lake drained into the river. It was a lot more spectacular than this, I remember 4 big houses collapsing and being sucked into the raging waters on video I’m sure it’s here in TH-cam. There’s a Wikipedia page specifically on the flood.
A few years later it’s all back as it was, and now there’s a nice historical plaque at the spot where it failed.
It wasn’t as big a deal as people here are making it seem.
Michigan residents my 🙏🏽to you. Smdh. Just one thing after another.
You are under attack by you dictator governor. This is no coincidence.
@@crystaloracle8711 lol
My prayers go out to everyone 🙏🙏🙏
Prayers for the people of Michigan from Roanoke VA 👑🙏✝️
My dad was from Michigan 👑🙏💞✝️🐾🕯🕯🕯
As someone who loves outdoor activities this hurts to watch. My heart goes out to our friend Michigan from WA
stop damming rivers and populating flood plains..DUH!
Thoughts and prayers 🙏 from Thailand.
Sweet! Now I can go find the hook I lost 20 years ago.
What is a terrible year!
Hope we can through it and be strong America
The state of Michigan was warned that the dam was starting to fail two years ago, as there was an inspection. Witchmer's crew did nothing to fix the problem.
It was privately owned. I don't like Whitmer either but what should she have done pray tell?
@@Michfan4life After the state did their inspection they could have moved in and made sure the problems were taken care of. I had to deal with inspectors all of the time when I was a contractor. The building would be private, but I still had to do what the inspector wanted done. I had no choice in the matter.
@@cashstore1 Tons of inspectors have been to that dam. Federal and state. Multiple inspectors told this company what to do but they didn't do it. They were taking steps to get the dam into compliance but unfortunately too little too late. Honestly the full blame of this disaster rests on Boyce Hydro period.
I have an idea! Bulldoze that former lake bed (optional), seed it with grass, dig 18 small holes, put 1 flag to each hole and *BAM* you have a golf course for almost free and very little effort provided by nature :)
lamebubblesflysohigh ...... the lake would have to be man made, which it probably isn’t, eventually, that golf course would flood, lakes form again over time, especially up near the Great Lakes, their river systems are insane. Gotta remember some of them are large enough to where you can’t see land on the other side at all and have waves.
@@smac919 ehh still would be a temporary golf course lol
@@smac919 Well make it an extreme golf course then .
Silt build up behind dams is usually extremely fine. Unstable and almost liquid like.
@@smac919 it was manmade when they built the dam.
Stupid official that approved a dirt dam should be held accountable!
How ironic is it now? People that bought lake front property, were complaining as early as this year, about the water level being lowered to help save the dam. They said it would ruin property values...🤔
Michigan, I be praying 4 u. And the rest of the🌐 as well. Even 4 myself. The 🌍 is going through it.
I won't pray for stop protesting with your guns out thank you God for destroying Michigan they deserve
Here come the rv parks, and atv's.
The crazy Governor will fill that new land up with illegal aliens and muslim refugees forcing Michiganian out of their homes, towns and cities. Thats what crazy Democrat's do.
So who will all those folks that no longer have expensive lakefront property sue to recover all the value they no longer have ???
This “lake” looks like it was less than 10’ deep. Was it man made just to create elite waterfront property?
Are you stupid?
Elite?? Lol