@@KeaveMindThere are places like that all over the world. During the floods here in Australia there were many places that although their dams didn't fail, there was too much rain for the dams to hold, and so the towns near them got flooded.
your video's really educate people on importance of dam safety. You use less water volume and less fresh flowing volume per second then what happens in real life, yet that amount of water can cause all that and downstream. Dam collapses are terrifying in real life. Water finds a way, maintenance is key to keeping dams running safe. Everything needs maintenance in life. Nature of life is change, so we work to maintain things that are not already as constant as the sun the wind the rain the soil etc.
@@KingOfDams maybe next time have a dedicated causeway on the other side… I think I used the right word… Whatever, it’s basically a dedicated river that the emergency spillage uses to direct the water to where you want it to go rather than flooding through such a populated area.
Man changing the playback speeds on this one was a trip! I was thinking dang they had some time to run/drive away and hopefully get to safety. Then I realized it’s slowed down so I tried various faster speeds and realized they didn’t have as much time to escape as I thought!!
It's been 4 years watching you I been really in love with your channel without you how am I supposed to live my normal life like you changed my life 4 years ago I been watch the same vids for a while now and I really hope you can still make more videos.
If this happened in the middle of the night for example. No drainage failure. Just complete catastrophic dam failure; the people living in the town in the shadow of that dam wouldn't even know what hit em. That's the scariest part. Here in IA, we've actually ran exercises to find the best case and worst case scenario of this example above, as a township known as Polk City stands right in the line of fire of Saylorville Dam. Its estimated that it will totally annihilate Polk City and Camp Dodge and partially destroying the suburb of Johnston, IA as about 1/3 of it would be underwater. It will also affect Ankeny, Altoona, and the damages would be felt MILES downstream in Des Moines.
Bro for some reason these little videos are addictive as hell. I sometimes like to roleplay in my head that the mini figures are dying as the water flushes them and drowns them.
You know, the little car port at the lower tier was a perfectly safe place to hide until the total dam failure, would've given some time for anyone who hid there to escape. I only recently came across your vids and I love analyzing the survive-ability of the dam failure.
You should make an outflow backup canal to collect and divert the water. It would be cool to see that and what happens as the oncoming water overtakes the canal and floods the surrounding houses and infrastructure.
Very nice video but I have a Tipp for the future: just let the thing happen and switch to that camera where you see it the best or where the most happens and only repeat the same scene on another camera angle if there are two different things happening at the same time wich are so important that the viewer has to see both and there is no camera showing both at the same time (if there is one camera showing both situations but 2 cameras showing each situation the best and both are really important than show the situations saperate). So the viewer isn’t bored with seeing the same stuff again. We are living with TikTok nobody has attention span anymore. But I really enjoyed watching the video very satisfying and interesting!
You really need to start using something that sticks those bricks together Also, I like how you take the time and effort to set this up for us and then destroy it all
Just goes to show even when dams don't fully collapse an emergency discharge can always have bad consequences downstream. especially if they can't control it then its not just a little bit. Discharges increase erosion in the rivers they dump into while there is all the extra water flow
The model is very interesting, but in practice what really happens differs a lot, for example you used sand, but the soil substrate is more resistant than that, in addition you have to consider the concrete foundation under it with houses made of masonry . Your idea is very interesting. But I doubt that, in reality, a real disaster behaves the same way in a softer and more malleable material like sand, have you ever tried using clay and pebbles in your model? You will be surprised at the results. Hugs.
@@KingOfDams I could help you with truss design to make your structures more realistic. It would be pretty easy to replicate various building components.
I think the point of this is to be kinda unstable and fragile. Its supposed to break and flood cause that's the childhood sand and water game everyone used to do but the grown up version of it.
I love these videos because I just love watching things be Destroyed and this is kinda the same as Destruction and lots of times I can't find videos like this so I love your channel!
I've watched a few of your videos and they are neat. I like how you set your models up, and the creativity and time involved. Nice to be able to study the erosion produced by the dam failure...but oh I wonder what's going to happen with those 2 people standing at the dam...where nothing could possibly go wrong..ever. 😆
Love your video's! But I don't understand why these people just keep standing there when they see the water flooding. I would run for my life 🤨 Ps: if it's possible, do you know how or can you recreate a sinkhole?
I see one problem that could be easily improved on. I don't like seeing the same thing happening over and over so if you could make it so it only shows one clip once or twice in stead of 4 or 5 times that would be much appreciated.
BREAKING NEWS: In the Town of Brickville, the famous Diorama Dam had let loose. Tons and tons of water came through. About 20 were injured, and over 15 homes were destroyed or damaged. Here's a man who saw this live from his house about a mile from there:
Local to out-of-town visitor: "Why, I'd stay at The Below the Dam Motel if I were you. Great view of the dam and close to everything in town too." Dam employee to another employee: "Do you think we should call an engineer to look at this leak?" "Hey it's almost lunch time. Let's eat first, then we can call." Sounds of dread music begin to play............
How can you sleep at night, sir!? You have the petroleum of dozens of lil plastic people on your hands! So many communities and lives ruined at your hands!! - I hope you get the nerdy humor of this comment, excellent video, really liked seeing the dam fail "bit-by-bit", as it seems that way to me as I always watch your videos on super slo-mo (x.25). Thanks again for your cool videos, as well as sharing your unique (not in a backhanded compliment sort-of-way, but genuine) hobby.
Legos be like: you fullfilled us with pain and dyingness weve had enough!! We will seek revenge few weeks later lego man puts lego brick on stairs / him be like ; going down stairs MY LEG
I'd like to know what all you use so I could possibly do these myself just for the fun of it, I'm extremely intrigued with the physics of sand and water and how different dry sand acts with the wet sand, I'd like to set up my own experiments
@@KingOfDams awesome thank you for giving me some insight, can't wait to start trying some of my own experiments out and seeing where they go and maybe even how oddly satisfying they can be, and as always, keep up the awesome videos man, love watching them!
I like there are people standing around as the massive waves flood in and submerge them drifting them away to their demise. But not even water like this large or small would kill my profile pic character.
