What they need first of all is comprehensive physical surveys to establish lake water levels, nature and size of dams, dimensions and flow of glacier water source, etc.
Thank you for this comment. I love these kind of videos, but it seems like everyone who makes a video thinks they have to do what the ones before did (put music in), instead of going with what is correct (make the most understandable video).
When I was much younger, music seemed a necessary addition to anything & everything. Age affects my hearing a bit now and the music / blasting noise that accompanies ads & most videos is an obstacle to content & a total deal breaker. Do a survey of the sound engineers who produce this stuff and I bet they average 22 years of age. BOOM KLAKA LACKA, BOOM KLAKA LACKA is as far as they get before I hit STOP.
@@Bitterrootbackroads I suspect that this background music thing is being taught in some schoosl to "jazz up" the video. It's ruins too many videos that would otherwise be very good. It's a just horrible idea.
I live 12 miles from this. My prediction is, with climate change and the rate the Mendenhall Glacier is melting, soon, the Mendenhall will be so small that it will no longer dam the meltwater from that basin. The meltwater will just flow through or over the glacier and drain into Mendenhall Lake gradually and this annual event will be no more. As for how it 'lifts' the glacier, someone explained it to me like this: Imagine filling up your bathtub halfway full. Then freezing that water. Next, you drill a dozen holes in that ice from the top to the bottom of the tub. Next, turn on your show to trickle. Sooner or later, that shower water (resembling rain and snow melt) will find its way to the holes, to the bottom of the tub. And as the ice melts in the tub and the trickle water makes its way down to the bottom, that big piece of ice (resembling the glacier) is gonna float, even in a little water.
No. You need at least one university degree to figure it out. Research funding is big business. There are actually laws that require this kind of committee decision making before anything gets done.
It IS beautiful. Catching trout from your porch is cool! But when the river rises 10 feet in ten minutes, you might not like the rising damp in your basement...
Absolutely fascinating.
What they need first of all is comprehensive physical surveys to establish lake water levels, nature and size of dams, dimensions and flow of glacier water source, etc.
Keep an eye out for drumlin formation at the base of the glacier.
Interesting video, but get rid of that background music. It makes it more difficult to understand the speaker
Thank you for this comment. I love these kind of videos, but it seems like everyone who makes a video thinks they have to do what the ones before did (put music in), instead of going with what is correct (make the most understandable video).
Your comment has the highest number of "thumbs up." I'm number 8.
When I was much younger, music seemed a necessary addition to anything & everything. Age affects my hearing a bit now and the music / blasting noise that accompanies ads & most videos is an obstacle to content & a total deal breaker. Do a survey of the sound engineers who produce this stuff and I bet they average 22 years of age. BOOM KLAKA LACKA, BOOM KLAKA LACKA is as far as they get before I hit STOP.
@@Bitterrootbackroads I suspect that this background music thing is being taught in some schoosl to "jazz up" the video. It's ruins too many videos that would otherwise be very good. It's a just horrible idea.
You can tell the owner of this channel, doesn't read the comments and doesn't care. Arrogance.
It lifted the glacier... whoooa.
The river was running because of gravity and aqua mechanics. There was water above the water table was making it way down to lower elevation
Just another day here in Alaska!😂😉
Very interesting, this is really great too know! :)
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Dude..it was a typo, haters gonna hate “Karen”
You think there would be monitoring there
0:42 when you are editing the narration audio and 10 just isn't enough bass.
Luckily we're using Spinal Tap's new audio editing software.
I live 12 miles from this. My prediction is, with climate change and the rate the Mendenhall Glacier is melting, soon, the Mendenhall will be so small that it will no longer dam the meltwater from that basin. The meltwater will just flow through or over the glacier and drain into Mendenhall Lake gradually and this annual event will be no more.
As for how it 'lifts' the glacier, someone explained it to me like this: Imagine filling up your bathtub halfway full. Then freezing that water. Next, you drill a dozen holes in that ice from the top to the bottom of the tub. Next, turn on your show to trickle. Sooner or later, that shower water (resembling rain and snow melt) will find its way to the holes, to the bottom of the tub. And as the ice melts in the tub and the trickle water makes its way down to the bottom, that big piece of ice (resembling the glacier) is gonna float, even in a little water.
Quite interesting, but I quit watching because of the music
Like Forest Gump said, shit happens!
Wouldn't common sense tell a person it was meltwater.
No. You need at least one university degree to figure it out. Research funding is big business. There are actually laws that require this kind of committee decision making before anything gets done.
Floods are inevitable. But so are idiots moving to those areas cause they find it beautiful...
It IS beautiful. Catching trout from your porch is cool! But when the river rises 10 feet in ten minutes, you might not like the rising damp in your basement...
@@geraldfrost4710 nor would you want to necessarily fish in your basement either.
They aren't idiots. This annual event didn't start happening until 2011 -- a product of climate change.
We do not have much buildable land in Juneau. Most of the houses that flooded this year were not on the river. It’s a tough situation.
Build a diversion system
It's too mountainous in that area for that.
lol...
Wow! The real Captain Obvious!
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Got some dynamite?
nukes!
Lovely name for a place....NOT.