10 Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera
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- 10 Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera
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Edenville Dam footage captured by Lynn Coleman
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Edenville Dam: 100 years. I don’t think the problem was caused by the original builders. Seems more like it’s the fault of people thinking it was just going to last forever without adequate maintenance.
Yep, dam owners negligence. So terrible, so sad what happened to those Michiganders. They're rebuilding the dams now but it will be 2 years before the lake comes back.
Looks like water was way too high at Edenville. They should have released water.
@@marylafrance9547 likely much longer...5 years probably
I agree. Short cuts don't last for 100 years if short cuts were taken as claimed by the forensics team claims.
can i have one plzz
im brazilian and the brumadinho dam disaster was widely covered by media. It turns out it was very negligenciated by the VALE corporation, who chose profit over security, and all warnings by specialists were dismissed. It resulted in lots of deaths and the firefighters spent months crawling in the mud to recover the missing bodies. The body recovery operation ended two years later with a handful of bodies still missing. It was a great environmental catastrophe too, doing irreparable damage to the fauna and flora where it passed through, and destroying a couple of rivers. "Fun" fact, 4 years ago a similar dam collapsed from the same corporation, doing the same environmental damage and with lots of human losses, it was the mariana dam incident. Watching the brumadinho dam collapse and its effects felt like I was rewatching the same episode
No surprise that they chose profit over everything else. The higher ups know all they have to do is pay some bribes and the politicians will leave them alone. There is a special place in hell for the people who allow the negligence to happen and continue to choose profit over the lives of their workers and people.
And your politicians and judges did nothing to punish the company and its executives for their wrongdoings i bet ?
@@akiraraikuof course, they did, but part of the company belongs to Soros. Who fights him?
A slap on the wrist. They were charged to pay reparations and help the people they wronged. Needless to say, they have missed deadlines and are taking their sweet long time to pay the fine, while rewarding generous bonus to their executives.
@@rabonssons nothing have happened to them despite the charges. Today their stocks have quadrupled and they are becoming even richier
Damn those damn dams.
The evidence is damning.
@@rideshareog lmao what's a dam, tho? Sorry, English isn't my first language and i have never seen that word been used as something else than "mother" 😩
Ha, love it! 😄
Dam those damn dams
I would NEVER live downstream of a dam. Never. My town suffered an embankment break of a big canal for shipping during construction that was only half full at this time. The destruction was massive and several people died. It was in the 70s and my Dad worked at the port authority for that shipping canal that was already built and was partly in use on the other side of a lock. - And it always amazes me that people try running from water away instead of uphill... And thank you for showing actual dam breaks instead of just water release from dams.
A childhood friend talked about his grandparents living downstream from a dam in West Virginia back in the 50's, while working as a geologist at a nearby coal company. His grandma kept complaining about that dam made her nervous and eventually his granddad got another job in Pittsburgh. About a few years later, the dam collapsed due to heavy rains and failure by the coal company to maintain the spillways properly. Their house was wiped out and several neighbors died from the collapse and subsequent flooding. Turns out grandma had legitimate concerns and a family history of disaster. Grandma's family had been running a farm downstream of the Saint Francis dam in the San Francisquito valley (moved there after WWI as part of the Westward migration of Vets after the war). They had gone to another family's home for a big get together and came back to no farm, no buildings, and no workers. At least a dozen of their Mexican migrant workers died or disappeared that night after the collapse of the dam. They sold off the land to the state water commission (who was frantically trying to cover up the disaster losses). Later when a family member went back (during WWII) they found that state had never counted the dozen migrant workers that his family listed (by name and place of birth) as missing and only one dead (the only migrant from their farm found downstream and identified by her father). Estimates are that over 1,000 people actually died that night and California undercounted the losses (mainly the migrant workers) due the outcry against Los Angeles Water Works and Supply and William Mulholland (a self-taught engineer who designed and built the dam). Most of these disasters were preventable, but due to money and politics many dams were built even though local people (and even competent engineers) thought it was a bad idea.
Cool
"Most disasters are preventable if we hold our inferior supergenius superiors feet to the fire day one!
Almost all " company " dams fail.
No one rocks the boat until it sinks."
Prof. I. Ver Mectin
WV is a bad place for flooding...
Would you send this info to Forgotten History channel or another similar one? It’s good to pass on this information.
That sounds like the Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia.
#10 What the narrator failed to mention is that when the Edenville dam failed, all the water from Wixom Lake went downstream to the Sanford Lake dam in Sanford and caused that one to fail as well.
then why don't you say it instead?? yeah exactly! you didnt think of it first
@@JenkemJohannes69 What type of stupid ass comment is that
The narrator also states that the footage shown was the initial breach but if one looks deeper in the frame. You can see the initial breach. This breach was only a secondary or tertiary breach as evidenced by the lack of water immediately following the breach
@@stargate937 the water evaporated due to global warming
@@JenkemJohannes69 wtf you on about? You off your medication?
I actually saw an ice damn give way on the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh in the 90s. I was with my friend and his uncle helping them retrieve a tow truck that had broken down earlier. We heard a weird creaking and loud booms, we looked back at the river (which is a fairly massive river, its easily 150 yards across down by the city) and saw HUGE truck sized chunks of ice playing leap frog and tumbling down river at a scary fast pace. A few barges had come loose of their moorings and slammed into a RR bridge pylon (the booms). We watched it for a while and then took off to get away from the banks just in case it got worse. The next day the news said flooding damage down in the city had occured. Nature can be scary.
Indeed! Very scary. Mother Nature does not like her rules disobeyed, and gravity will ALWAYS prevail -- if not today, then tomorrow or in the near or distant future, but nature ALWAYS wins in the long run!
Check out the Lake Misoula and Lake Bonneville multiple ice dam floods from 12000 years ago in the Pacific northwest
I am most disturbed by the person who captured a dam failing in real-time and kept his phone vertical
Photoshopped thumbnail = Don't recommend channel
I once resided in Edenville, and I often pondered the potential aftermath if the dam in question were to fail. There was a period when I would commute past that very area
Woah dude this is why I get high yall got crazy stories.
LOL MICHIGAN REC BABY@@TheFunkIsThis
I’ve seen many of the videos in this, but there has never been any info given as to where and why the disaster happened. Thank you for the info you provided along with the visuals.
I lived in Edenville at one time, I used to wonder what things would look like if the dam in question failed. I used to commute past that area at one time.
we lost a lot of good fishing spots that just got reduced to small streams
Nature always wins. Nature always finds a way,
Mother nature always wins stop screwing with her she knows what she's doing
When someone believes they know what nature is doing is when catastrophes occur. Humans are setting things up for a big catastrophe.
True.
That motor grader holding up the vans trying to escape the work zone was unassed by the driver earlier. He left it running in gear, and it blocked the road. Heroes are everywhere.
I don't know about anyone else but for me watching huge pieces of grass sliding down a bank looks crazy & I can't stop watching it.
11:11 the dude running is a lot smarter then the camera man 😂😂😂
Ice dam guy: "Holy smokes!" and "Oh my gosh!" Nice family friendly exclamations there. I think I would have sounded more like Richard Pryor.
I'm thinking that a damn that lasted 100 was built correctly. Sounds like it held up pretty good to me.
This has been a pretty dam good video.
7 months later but i lived downstream of the dam when it failed. it was built correctly the owner just failed multiple inspections before hand and chose to pay the fine instead of fix it. got sued by most of the people in the city
I lived a little ways (fortunately upstream) away from Edenville and it was absolutely poir maintenance and neglect that caused it. The owner was warned so many times that it was in very poor condition and needed immediate action but he refused to do anything.
After the 1959 Hebgen quake in southwest Montana, there were fears that the earth fill dam at Hebgen Lake might fail, esp. With the aftershocks. So there were extensive checks on the solidity of the dam after. Since it was also hydroelectric, the examinations were supercritical. Fortunately it didn't fail, but several of the towns downstream were evacuated until the safety checks were done.
Hello Adrienne
Yes! And that is the way it should be! Better, safe than sorry, it's better to evacuate and may irritate some people. But it's for their own good!
Jesus loves u!!
Hey, that's actually awesome! Thanks for sharing a positive story! 😁👍🏻
is that the same earthquake that created quake lake and the giant mountain landslide?
In 2018 my grandparents sold their property on wixom lake. We were upset cause it was a great vacation spot. But my grandparents old cottage on the lake could be seen from the overhead view of the failed dam. Crazy how lucky we got with not being stuck with that property.
Crazy how unlucky the next owners got.
You missed the $$Millions but hey atleast you are safe!
az nem véletlen baleset volt, vannak fent képek (google earth), hogy az északi fal közepénél van egy robbanásból eredő kráter és kifröccsenés és ebből eredeztethető a sarok kiszakadása
Here in England we had a very near dam failure in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire in about 2019. The dam was on high ground and it would have been catastrophic if it failed. Water was seen leaking from the embankment and towns were on high alert. They managed to drain nearly the entire reservoir into the nearby river, which saved the day. Poor maintenance was blamed on this occasion. The dam is now safe and refilled but I imagine those living nearby will be on high alert for quite some time to come.
I remember that. I’ve always been interested in Dams and was amazed by the Toddsbrook Dam incident in 2019 with it being so close to home. (I’m from Leek, Staffordshire)
i hate how they use "poor maintenance" as if people aren't paying huge taxes and property rates to make sure this isn't a thing -_- it should be "failure by local government to provide adequate resource to ensure appropriate upkeep"
Since 2012, the ToddBrook Dam has been owned and operated by the Canal & River Trust, a charitable trust which is only partly government funded. The trust is responsbile for 2000+ miles of canal and river infrastructure including locks, bridges, reservoirs and dams. There are frequent failures, e.g. the Dutton breach, the Middlewich breach, and the Toddbrook Dam failure. Each of these cost many millions of pounds to rectify, further stretching the trust's already depleted resources. Inflation and supply chain difficulties are only making things worse, and government funding looks set to be cut in 2027. If the UK wants to maintain its unique and historic canal system something needs to be done soon.
As a Derbyshire citizen I can confirm this scared the shit out of ALL of us.
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it's unlikely that the original builders could have foreseen the issues that caused the Edenville Dam failure. It's unfortunate that the necessary maintenance and updates were not prioritized, leading to such a devastating event. It's important to remember that infrastructure requires ongoing attention and care in order to remain functional and safe. This is especially true for dams, which can have catastrophic consequences if they fail.
One of the most disastrous failure of a dam was the Vajont dam failure in Italy in 1963. About 2000 people lost their lives.
I saw seconds-from-disaster type of programs about the Vajont dam failure and also the one at Stava dam. The episodes featured accounts from survivors who lost family members. Absolutely grim and terrifying to get caught in a disaster like that.
The first one is near my home, the flooding was terrible lots of farms were devastated, it could have been avoided if our governor wouldn't have refused funding to redo the 100 year old dam.
Dollar to a donut he’s a member of the Party of Liars Cheats and Thieves!
I see the point abd I wouldn't disagree, but I was always very confused at the idea of setting up anything of value under a dam. Jmo.
Frejus dam broke in France almost 60 years ago.
A wall of water tens of meters high was sent hurling downstream a the speed of a car.
Many people died.
The earthen Teton dam collapse in eastern Idaho in 1976 caused alot of damage as well
Next you should make most terrifying things in space
100% x2
Numbers 1-10, black holes
I would LOVE to see a video on that
Killer Space whales!
Not a lot of video material to make a video with though
Almost had a dam collapse here in the UK, caused by a poor design over 100 years ago, and no effective remedial work being carried out. Although it IS a relatively tiny dam, the damage it would have caused would have been immense. NEVER underestimate the power of water!
Potential energy stored in massive perportians. Indeed. Crafting a disaster battery should be done by professionals alone
@@joeKisonue LOL, love that phrase 'disaster battery'!
Always wonder how much you can blame century old design. Often people are just playing captain hignsight. It was a century ago they just had sliderulers,really limited testing options and rule of thumb. I mean come on
@@marnixkamminga8083 Boy am I glad I didn't have to scroll too far to find This Comment. You're exactly right, I'm sure these were state-of-the-art top notch damns for the time period they were built. Everyone's commenting like some farmers got together and shoveled a bunch of dirt into a mound and called it a damn. Lol The dams were Engineered and built to the best of their abilities for that time period.
@@jmobbinfoo4838 Yeah at the time they probably were state of the art. The problem comes when even after 100 years you do nothing to keep them up to date.
Hurricane Agnes in the 1970's broke dams along the entire east coast. My town lost its reservoir dam, a downstream hydroelectric dam, a 100 year old steel girder bridge, Rt. 1 Bridge and one of two spans on I-95. The railroad bridge survived. There was 10 feet of water over the hydro dam before it burst. No water or school for a week. Electricity out for days too.
Nothing like the Johnstown floods(two) from broken dams in Pennsylvania. The one in the 1880's killed 2000+.
Tom’s vertical filming truly deserved 1# most catastrophic dam failures.
Dams can be very scary things -- I would NEVER live right below one or even a number of miles down from one! Good narration, thanks for posting these interesting situations!
We have been in a warming trend for two decades, and moisture that normally held soil together, is waning and we are seeing the effects of that now. With lack of moisture to hold soil together, the soil is breaking loose and causing landslides in many places today! Gravity always rules! If the trees are the kind that have taproots, they may hold, but those trees whose roots spread out under the soil instead of growing straight down, will lose their hold in floods.
Most damn failures and landslides are actually caused by too much moisture in the soil, which lubricates things and allows the failure to occur. Or at least that's typically the case here in the western US.
I live in the Netherlands, around 4 meters below sea level. The only thing that keeps us from flooding is a series of dikes. It's not that scary when you know the building and maintenance is done by competent people who studied years for this exact job
@@kevindonahue2251 Liquefaction has a different set of rules! I would NEVER live at an elevation below any dam. But I think the Netherlands is very aware of dams and dikes and should the sea level rise more, they'll just heighten and brace their dikes! Here's some dams that could have probably had better construction:
The St. Francis Dam in California in 1928, Death Toll: 600
The Buffalo Creek Flood - United States (1972) Death Toll: 125
Mill River Dam Collapse - United States (1874) Death Toll: 139
Gleno Dam Failure - Italy (1923) Death Toll: 356
Malpasset Dam Disaster - France (1959) Death Toll: 423
Pantano De Puentes Dam Failure - Spain (1802) Death Toll: 608
Vajont Dam Failure - Italy (1963) Death Toll: 2000
South Fork Dam Disaster - United States (1889) Death Toll: 2209
Machchhu II Dam Collapse - India (1979) Death Toll: 1800-15000
Banqiao Dam and Shimantan Reservoir Dam Disaster - China (1975) Death Toll: 171000.
Those were ALL tragedies that probably could have been avoided with better planning and more precaution. But it's "water under the bridge" now; VERY in apropos adage now, considering the above-named catastrophes!
Still, other countries could take a lesson from your called Hans Brinker, the Dutch boy who saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike Netherlands!
Id live below one if i had any faith in the companies that build and own them to do their jobs right
Living in Northern California just south of Auburn (#7). We can go months with no rain, then all of a sudden get hit with several inches of rain. Mix that with steep mountains and narrow gorges and you can get really bad flash floods.
@Treethegreat: I base jumped off the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge (730ft.) before it was open to vehicle traffic on Labor Day 1973. 🏴☠
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresthill_Bridge
Sounds like WV except it rains all the time
That, and it was planned on an earthquake fault.
when they get a warm rain and it melts the snowpack it really floods bad. That's what happened in 1986.
I can relate. We got mudslides last year -heavy summer storms with pouring rain just at a few places combined with steep mountains- that brought down half the mountain. Despite having nets and iron bars built into the exposed flanks, that mudslide/stoneslide went right over it. Streets, houses, villages gone, rocks as big as a wheel loader lying around. Just a few kilometers farther, nothing happened.
I grew up on the Mississinawa reservoir/river in Indiana. My grandparents had a cottage downstream from the spillway. I believe the spillway tunnel is 40 feet in diameter and can remember some years of heavy rains the reservoir would back up all the way to Marion and they would open it up as far as they could. It used to scare the bejesus out of me. Our dock being submerged and that water rushing by. It's a powerful sight when they crack it open. The sirens, the roar of the water, the spray...especially at night.
Holly crap. That was some scary stuff for sure. I can't believe all of that has happened within the last 3 years.
The edenville dam has a bit more complicated of a story than just poor management.
It used to be operated and maintained by the state government but a couple decades ago it was sold to a private operator who didn't want to spend the money to maintain the dam
Incredible what happens when millionaires just spend their money for kicks
Only in America this bs
Red mud is primarily a mixture of concentrated caustic soda and iron oxide. Caustic soda does really nasty things to skin. It is what you get when you wash the stuff that isn’t aluminium oxide out of bauxite ore.
How do yk this
@@robertschafer287 Working in the industry. Red mud is EXTREMELY caustic with a pH of 10 to 13. Anything organic that lands in it dissolves into soaps.
The caustic sodium oxide component can be washed out and recovered for reuse and a lot of modern plants do do that.
The iron content is on par with low grade iron ores (which is where the colour comes from).
Similar with cement burn or worse? Thanks for the info 👍🏻
I live in bauxite Arkansas an there is a lot of red mud here
@@drophammer776 Much much worse.
Sodium forms a soluble material with organics. Calcium not so much. So the corroded skin surface simply washes off with red mud exposing the tissues below.
When I seen the small ones break, I was like “dam”. When I seen the big ones break, I was like “DAM”
The "Auburn Coffer Dam" section used stock footage of the Folsom Dam and the Nimbus Dam just below it. I've spent many hours at or near both.
9.59 I love it how someone finds some fun among a harsh situation...
I wish I had a dollar for every video someone filmed in portrait.
It really annoying. 😄
You're a complainer! Me too. It bothers me that it's billed as Dam Failures Caught On Camera, but most of the failures were NOT caught on camera.
Must be cell phones, eh?
@@rollinmark8952 most likely.
Great clickbait thumbnail
Edenville Dam: A hundred years in the making. The issue probably didn't stem from its original builders. It's more a result of assuming it could withstand time without consistent maintenance
Small dams can be dangerous too. In the 80s, my mom was the property manager & a resident of the first PUD (planned unit development) in Georgia. This mixed subdivision was clustered around a lake with a small dam. There was a piece of land between them & the Chattahoochee river. The city of Roswell allowed building of high priced townhomes there. The State came & drained Martin Lake leaving homeowners a muddy centerpiece instead of a lake. The board sued the City, county & State to recover the cost to upgrade to a class 1 dam & won! It always astounds me how dam failures get to the point of destruction, at least in the US.
Katie that is a made-up story and you know it.
Why tho? Because they list their little lake that wasnt theirs to begin with? I always hate people that build home around stuff that are not part of the land, like building houses/appartement near a racetrack...
Well one side of the govt has a habit of refusing to address infrastructure and voting against it when the Dems do
@@norml.hugh-mann Dont even. Dems pack full of BS Into those bills and you know it. Trojan horse bills.
Old Atlantan here. Cool dam story. You know where chattahooche nature center is? Or was?
“There it goes, there it goes… there we go, there’s the rush”. Most Michigan comment ever
10:00 beautiful cinematography
i love how when something happens in 2020 it gets blamed on someone from over a 100 years prior
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11:11 I died laughing at the runner.
Next will be Mullaperiyar Dam, Kerala - India... Packs your camera get here, So you can get a Live view in a few months
That last one was P A T H E T I C
thumbs up to Tom who risked his life so we could see the horrible icy water rushing towards him and stand there filming it bravely.
Thumbs down for filming in portrait mode 😂😂😂😂
love that lil ol Vermont is the number 1 hahaha we see that shit every spring, Tom just caught a good one at the perfect time. Still certainly very dangerous
I love the sarcasm
It was actually really stupid, risking your life just to get some video. Pretty lame to be number 1.
250 people in Brazil died while eating lunch, but Tom got his shoes wet, for #1!!
Living in Hungary. I was totally shocked when heard what happend near Ajka. That red mud was highly alkaline water from aluminium factory's reservoir. It flooded across 40 square-kilometer...
When I saw the title I was sure that the Kolontár dam failure is in the video...
Small dams can indeed pose risks. In the 1980s, my mom served as the property manager and lived in Georgia's first Planned Unit Development (PUD). This community was situated around a lake with a small dam, separated from the Chattahoochee River by a piece of land. The city of Roswell permitted the construction of high-priced townhomes in that area. Subsequently, the State drained Martin Lake, leaving homeowners with a muddy area instead of a lake. The board filed a lawsuit against the City, county, and State to cover the costs of upgrading to a Class 1 dam, and they won! It always surprises me how dam failures escalate to the point of destruction, at least in the United States
I've noticed something about the US and it's dams(and cemeteries). Many of them were built and managed by private companies. If the company closes down or goes broke, the dam can be left behind with no one to continue maintenance. I've noticed with cemeteries in the US.
In some other countries, dams are commissioned by government and maintained by the governments water authority(even if that authority was privatised).
Why did you copy and paste this comment but edit it? Fucking weird.
A dam doesn't last 100 years if the ones that built it took shortcuts...
I assume the last video didnt show any damage to property and noone was hurt. That makes it a cool specticle of nature to witness not a dam failure or a disaster. Anyways, great video!
@1:15 imagine being present for an event such as that and choosing to shoot in portrait mode.
Not the first time I've seen a damn failure, not the last 😂
These dam failures were not all ''caught on camera" which I was hoping to see. But I still enjoyed most of it.
That St. Johnsbury video wasn't a dam failure, it was just an ice plug breaking up in the spring thaw. Rivers in the northeast can be dangerous in spring.
Time 13:00 "A backhoe tries to reverse away from danger..." Errr, no, that's a grader. A backhoe is something completely different...
I just made this same comment. Damn city slickers.
These were all pretty terrifying and destructive, except #1…
We better start improving all our dams
Thanks for posting an actually good natural disaster video
Imagine those people living in those area of what they had to suffer 😢
I live near the auburn dam
My daughter lives on the Street from the dam, and YES it changed that little town forever.
Hoooo-ley Smokes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am number B. the messenger. do not kill the messenger, if you hate the message. why do you hate the message? brainwashed & programmed? or have you been told to hate the message? i hate satanist doG with big g. i hate satanist dogs with small g. i hate satanist doG = i hate satanist God. i hate satanist dogs = i hate satanist gods(people who want to be a god). who was the original satanist (j c)? those rich satanist assholes who run this world, have brainwashed & programmed every man & woman from a young age. satanist prayer is for us to forgive those satanist assholes but our prayer is for us to punish those satanist assholes. why? for all the pain they have given us. i have too tell people about God & how people have been brainwashed in believing about their satanist doG = God. forgive= NO.. punish= YES.
history = his story = rich satanist can write their own history.
I am number B. the messenger. do not kill the messenger, if you hate the message. why do you hate the message? brainwashed & programmed? or have you been told to hate the message? i hate satanist doG with big g. i hate satanist dogs with small g. i hate satanist doG = i hate satanist God. i hate satanist dogs = i hate satanist gods(people who want to be a god). who was the original satanist (j c)? those rich satanist assholes who run this world, have brainwashed & programmed every man & woman from a young age. satanist prayer is for us to forgive those satanist assholes but our prayer is for us to punish those satanist assholes. why? for all the pain they have given us. i have too tell people about God & how people have been brainwashed in believing about their satanist doG = God. forgive= NO.. punish= YES.
history = his story = rich satanist can write their own history.
My grandparents home was flooded in the 86 flood in Northern California and I was exhausted from my home when the Oroville Dam almost failed after a huge hole opened up in the spillway causing it to quickly erode, water began spilling over the emergency spillway which was just a hillside, luckily the dam held and has been repaired
“Short cuts” that lasted 100 years without issues aren’t necessarily failures lol
Out here in Kerala we have a mullaperiyar dam which is aged at 127 years when the monsoon arrives we become coutious about it and make predictions that it will burst today or tomorrow and when the rain goes all the predictions and assumptions goes with it is a seasonal trend in Kerala
Kallanai(Grand Anaicut),Tamil Nadu,India
The dam was built by The great karikala chola.It is more than 2000 years old and still functioning.
The brumadinho dam failure was far from "without warnings", a lot of the vale do rio doce dam's have poor maintenance and have been neglected by the company, having mariana then brumadinho happen so close to each other is no coincidence. That's no chance, that's criminal neglect.
Would be cool if gir these kinds of videos of disasters channels would put links to charities that help those affected directly
just a side note, my daughter lives on the Street from the dam in Sanford, it changed that little town, it wiped out just about everything there. Their mail delivery is just recently started to get to them on time. Water can do a lot of damage and in this case it could have been avoided if right people in charge would have taken care of business.
How can you tell (the mail's on time)?
*joke*
Because nobody really uses snail much now. It's just 90% junk. Lol
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 you are just one person's opinion
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I wish I could opt-out of junk mail, or anything unsolicited for that matter. Or, better yet, I should be paid $100 from anybody sending me unwanted mail, unless they are trying to contact me for legal purposes.
@@junesorenson279 He's not necessarily wrong. The US Postal Service is inefficient, costly, and is NOT customer oriented.
Guys like Tom is why so many people drown in flash floods.
Lembro como se fosse hoje com tristeza..😢
Good compilation, ... and good presentation and narration too. .. I hate ones that treat the viewer as a moron, this is straight forward, fact based, (with maps) ... cheers for the upload
You think. I'd prefer he shut up. Full of disinformation. Climate change and "unprecedented rain"
most of them looks like " how to build a massacre on lands with loose sands "
The furst dam in the video was manually triggerd. That's why the camera was on the right spot. I have seen a video where they explain why and how.
*Spoiler Alert* the #9 dam break claims 270 lives, in the #1 dam break the camera man had to "take a couple steps back" to avoid getting his shoes wet
Ice dam floods are regular on the Yellow River of China, since the river has a section that runs north by 760km and then south by 800km. The massive difference in latitudes caused a difference in ice forming and melting at difference sections of the river.
Wow, those were some massive damn failures.
That was a "Dam" good video.
മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാർ പൊട്ടി ചാവാൻആയി കാത്ത്ഇരിക്കുന്ന ആലപ്പുഴക്കാരൻആയ ഞൻ.... 🥰🤩💪
This is kind of off topic, but for anyone interested in the history of the Hmong people in Laos and what happened to them, you should look into it. It's a relatively little known tragedy and fairly recent. I live in an area in TN that caught a lot of the Hmong refugees so I was fortunate enough to meet a few of them. Very messed up hand they got dealt, there aren't very man of them left, sadly.
Are you referring to “yellow rain?”
@@marjieestivill I can't remember if I heard it referred to as such, but they basically had their land taken and were told to leave or die.
@@198sambrrs Yes, the consequence for cooperating with the CIA, I’m told (and have read).
I’m thinking the same thing. A 100 year old dam has proved itself and its construction. It’s the classic, 'no adequate maintenance' and the powers that be, 'inventing reasons' to hide their own failings by blaming the original construction🙄
1:22 amazing how the engineers could not see this coming?
They did and ignored it.
Mr. Nowicki must have one of those fancy new vertical-only cameras.
LOOOOOL the number one worst of them all. “ he had to take a few steps back to avoid wet shoes”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’ve never been let down this much
Many of those, you probably wouldn't know it was coming before it reached you; the last one, he had no idea how big that was going to get - I'd have got out of there a lot quicker!
Holy Smokes! 🙂
He made me a little nervous, I sure would have been backing up well before water starts hitting my feet, I don't think his instincts were very good. Got lucky I guess.
The Himalayan dam for real just wiped out the friendly dinosaurs dad😂
"When nature unleashes its wrath, it's a force to be reckoned with, thank you for showing us the raw power of these natural disasters."
I myself have seen several ice breaks and actually started two!
It must have been close to the cross-country world record as I felt and heard the sound of the start of the ice break 50m from the safety of land! Then it wasn't about small pieces of ice like in the last video, but ice floes of around 20 square meters and half a meter thick that piled on top of each other and cleared absolutely everything in their path! Probably the most exciting thing I've been a part of...
Shout out to Tom who risked his life so we could see monstrous ice-cold water gushing toward him and stood there videoing it with courage.
He’s the cameraman. He doesn’t need courage. Cameramen never die
Holy smokes!
Puhleeze. Wow, big risk taker and courage as the edge of the river grew by 5 feet.
Courage is often very similar to sheer stupidity.
@@someguy7629 those who survive are said to be courageous, those who don’t were dumb
When the Edenville dam broke The water flooded much of Midland MI which is down stream. It drained the entire lake. It caused millions of dollars in the entire downtown and wiped out entire neighborhoods. Midland is the hometown of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. They both have massive chemical plants there. Fortunately the flood missed those plants. I know Midland very well, my family owned a business there for years. It was called Dawn Donut. The dam broke because of years of neglect. In fact no one was even sure who owned the dam.
I installed the chiller at the Midland Brewery, that’s a cool town.
I’m a freshmen at Northwood University in Midland, they are still repairing form the flood, parking lots were completely covered with cars being submerged, basements of buildings are still closed and being repaired. Shits Wild
Edit) If you are curious, look up Northwood University Flood, there are some crazy pictures, and then look up images of campus with out the water.
There’s no such thing as Dow Corning anymore
@@johnkelly2431 My parents retired in 1978. Since then I haven't kept track of Dow. I do still have friends who live in Midland though.
yes jim
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beautifully natural earth landslides / mudslides / big heavy rainy
I used to love to fish downstream from any dam , always did my best catfishing in them but since TH-cam came out and I get to see all these videos . I NO LONGER FISH DOWN STREAM FROM ANY DAM !! as far as I know none of them have broke but just the thought gets the best of me , if I cant to enjoy fishing no need to go there.
Back in the 1960s in wales, U.K. there was a village named abervan. Behind the school there, did have a coal tip. Apparently they built this tip which was a size of a mountain, on top of the underground spring. On this fatal day, the tip moved and engulfed the whole school, killing all most all of the children and teachers. It basically wiped out a whole generation in that little village.
storis like this is why im never going to school or work in my life !!
@@JenkemJohannes69 as long as there isn’t a big tip of any kind behind the school. I wouldn’t worry 😂
@@taffythegreat1986 im not gonna risk it 😬
@@JenkemJohannes69 you probably get better eduction at home anyway 😂. All they’ll teach you in school is transgenderism anyway 😂
And the Queen was truly upset from this as well
I don't understand why the companies involved in these catastrophes weren't punished.
Why do you assume they weren't? Maybe you would like to contribute too, since you benefitted from those company products?
In the next ten years there will be many dams that fail in the USA… because the US government has not been maintaining dams for decades…. But you won’t see any punishment meted out for that.
maybe bcs they were responsible for everything after that...maybe...
Man, what a massive, total dam failure.
I worked at Samarco in Mariana until 2021 and in the month of that Mariana disaster I was sent to North Africa for a rolling machine maintenance workshop. I was saved by chance but lost 31 close friends who worked with me and their families to almost 100. I was empty and devastated to this day. I eventually retired at age 31 due to mental issues i couldn't handle. I and the rest of my friends' families are still waiting for compensation for the irreversible damage even when the court has already determined the action in our favor.
sometimes mother nature reminds us who is actually in charge.
Vale is pronounced "Val-eh" in English. The company cut corners in Brazil and their loose safety standards in Canada has cost them a lot of money and left a lot of blood on their hands.