Erosion worsens at Rapidan Dam

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New aerial video shows the increased erosion of soil near the Rapidan Dam after a partial failure this week.
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@c-qc-q2021 2 дня назад

When there's no more water going over the dam and it's all going around it, it's no longer a dam, it's a diversion.

@kimjongun8731 2 дня назад

Damit

@PowderMill 2 дня назад

They could not afford the maintenance and repairs required to keep it safe. No funds are allowed to be spent on United States infrastructure under the “Pederast-in-Chief’s administration. All tax dollars must be diverted straight to the Ukraine Warmongering bunch.

@ThomasD66 2 дня назад

Spectator at best

@anthonys7534 2 дня назад

Dam!

@wallyman292 2 дня назад

Yep! When the dam is no longer a factor in the situation, then you're pretty safe in saying it failed!

@arkwill14 2 дня назад

I think they can stop saying partial failure. When the width of the channel flowing _around_ your dam is nearly the same width of the dam itself - there is nothing "partial" about it. It's failed.

@jgchalmers 2 дня назад

that's not how English works

@JFlower7 2 дня назад

The ONLY reason they can say partially failed is because the river made it's own path. So in fact the dam, that was suppose to hold the river did indeed fail.

@freedomrings1420 2 дня назад

The dam didn't fail , it's still there. The ground on one side failed. Big difference.

@eTraxx 2 дня назад

Reading the comments makes me think politicians entered the fray

@RedKnight-fn6jr 2 дня назад

The dam wall may look structurally intact, but it's completely irrelevant at this stage - the dam is no longer on the river!

@kevlowe 2 дня назад

The power of water is absolutely insane!

@Novastar.SaberCombat 2 дня назад

Always underestimated, too.

@j.p.4199 2 дня назад

God created water. Never doubt the power of God

@feeblereptilian 2 дня назад

@@j.p.4199go back to school.

@lutomson3496 2 дня назад

the power of fire is insane, those of us that have lost homes and lives to wildfires know at least there is warnings here

@mplsmark222 2 дня назад

@@lutomson3496any loss is tragic and life altering, but to lose your house and the very land it was built on over 100 years ago is on another level.

@frankblangeard8865 2 дня назад

The only thing that the dam is holding back now is 114 years of built up sediment.

@nicotti 2 дня назад

As black as that water looks, I'm not sure it's even doing that any more.

@notalenthere 2 дня назад

Yeah as the river is cutting down around the dam it will continue to lower lake level until almost no lake is left. In process it is releasing all the silt as well. It seems the dam gates do not extend deep enough to continue allowing water to flow through damn which means there hasn’t been silt removal previously (or there are lower gates but not able to lift).

@terranbyte2619 2 дня назад

@@notalenthere doesn't seem like there are spillways on the lower portions of this dam, and considering its fairly old one too. I'd imagine the builders didn't think lower gates were needed, which is likely why it had also been considered for removal. Plus likely why they were struggling to keep water levels down before, and the log jam that occur shortly before the partial failure started was likely the nail in the coffin for this dam.

@jonb9178 2 дня назад

It's all long washed away. The Media is missing this. It's a big mess

@paccarcrap День назад

The old girl still stands or what the thing identifies as 😂😂😂

@allanvietmeier228 2 дня назад

removal of that dam is the only way to stop this erosion. The right angle force of the river is much greater then a straight flow and will continue to chew at the unprotected bank until the water flow diminishes or the flow is straightened out again.

@chrisfoxwell4128 2 дня назад

Kind of a tough time to try to demolish a dam.

@pampoovey3281 2 дня назад

@@chrisfoxwell4128 Bouncing Bettys

@UtubeH8tr 2 дня назад

Thermite and semtex.

@jonathanlanglois2742 2 дня назад

There's no stopping erosion. When you say "make the river channel straight", that's actually a mistake that we've been making for the last few centuries. By straightening rivers, we accelerate the flow, which increases the speed of flow, and its destructive potential. A natural river meanders which slows down the flow and allows sediments to be deposited. Even the very best erosion control structure that we humans can build eventually suffer the wrath of nature.

@allanvietmeier228 2 дня назад

@@pampoovey3281 I understand that is difficult and I am not saying that they should do it but was simply adding this as context for the people that don't understand what is happening. As the water drops and picks up the sentiment in the front of the dam as it is starting to now it could become even more abrasive and chewing action could get worse. People assume as the flows diminish that the destruction should diminish as well but that will only be the case when the bottom of the river is the same on either side of the dam. that is 80 plus vertical feet the water has to chew through to reach that equilibrium.

@vincentrockel1149 2 дня назад

It would appear that the dam is no longer serving as a restraint on the river.

@005string005 2 дня назад

It never was a restraint for water but for sediment.

@choppermike3329 2 дня назад

What makes you say that?

@Novastar.SaberCombat 2 дня назад

What gave it away

@kornofulgur 2 дня назад

Lools like the side fell off.

@Point_Particle 2 дня назад

Note to self: never build a home a couple hundred feet away from a dam...

@g3user1usa 2 дня назад

Or that close to any river, in general. But people always want to get a good view of the river even if it ends up in their house. No thanks. I also don't think it's a good idea to buy a house in a flood plain area. Floodwater up to your rooftop can't be much fun. I'm happy to see some of those flood victims take the flooding so well. I'd be freaking out after losing everything I owned.

@milwaukeeroadjim9253 2 дня назад

Or below one

@phantomthiefjoker939 2 дня назад

Looks super dangerous being near to it.

@bl8388 16 часов назад

@@g3user1usa Possibly family owned the land before the dam. And this is not a typical occurrence.

@ReallyMaxPayload 2 дня назад

Oh, the house has gone. Those poor people. I hope they're being supported.

@sprengron 2 дня назад

They are, and will continue to be.

@ReallyMaxPayload 2 дня назад

@@sprengron Good to hear. Thank you.

@SirNic4180 2 дня назад

Or don't build a house near the water 😅

@bruanlokisson8615 2 дня назад

Bad choices are oft rewarded.

@K-Anne_ 2 дня назад

@@sprengronFeel for them and the family, community of that store.

@shirleybalinski4535 2 дня назад

River is carving a new channel.

@karlschuneman7960 2 дня назад

Rivers seems to do this every day, it appears to be their job.

@fswatyahoocom 2 дня назад

water always finds its way!

@troyrager1352 2 дня назад

Saved the dam at least but I think a failure of a section of the dam might have released less water, that sucker is taking no time to create a new channel.

@paulbade3566 2 дня назад

@@troyrager1352 Remember those grade school science lessons that said it takes "millions of years" to carve a river down to what we see today? LOL. Look how fast the river cut through the bedrock on the west side of the dam.

@troyrager1352 2 дня назад

@@paulbade3566yessss! I was going to say something similar, catastrophic events, besides glaciation, carve out most land in short periods then gradualism flows through it's aftermath. Mainstream science is a cesspool of gate keeping of the old ideas sometimes and flat out wrong theories being propped up as facts. Too much ego and lust for funding and power won't let them change which is why a lot of science advances leaps and bounds after prominent scientists age and pass away or step aside. School could be so fun done right.

@drewmurray2583 2 дня назад

awww that house is gone......

@connieellerbe-maycock7115 2 дня назад

Yeah it fell in last night.

@suehowie152 2 дня назад

😢

@tuvelat7302 2 дня назад

I hope they had a chance to get some things.

@doodle8 2 дня назад

And the property the house was on is gone too.

@larrygaal4808 2 дня назад

@@connieellerbe-maycock7115 ANY VIDEO OF IT FALLING IN?

@shenmisheshou7002 2 дня назад

The owners of the house also own the little building near the bank, and the name of it is the "The Dam Cafe." They knew they were going to loose the house, but they were almost in tears over the prospect of losing the little cafe. I felt really bad for them.

@marvindebot3264 2 дня назад

What do you do? You can't rebuild, there's nothing to rebuild on. So very sad for them.

@shenmisheshou7002 2 дня назад

@@marvindebot3264 No, there is nothing they can do. The cliff is now very close to the cafe, which is the small building you see right next to edge now. At this point they will likely not loose the cafe, but I have no idea of what happens when your land is washed away. I am guessing insurance will build them a new home, but it won't pay for the land they will need.

@tstahler5420 2 дня назад

We're going to need a bigger dam!

@Heal_Hound 2 дня назад

How about you find a different way to generate hydro power. In the 6000 year history of China, Dams always fail and reap the destruction of Empire.

@starguy2718 2 дня назад

Chief Brody to Captain Quint.

@richardpisarski3151 2 дня назад

They need to vote in competent politicians who hire competent engineers who both do THEIR JOB. Unfortunately the public never learns and votes in the same 🤡 all the time. Michigan has gone through the same BS and then the people get stuck with the bill as usual. Penny wise and dollar foolish as they say.

@MrSTINGRAYJ2008 2 дня назад

@@richardpisarski3151I think you are right

@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 2 дня назад

Damn. The dam store is on the menu. Tragic loss for the local community.

@theboringchannel2027 2 дня назад

with no dam or road, that store is done because of the reduced traffic.

@reeceharrison9986 2 дня назад

@@theboringchannel2027 There's a good chance the store will join the house in the river.

@theboringchannel2027 2 дня назад

@@reeceharrison9986 yes, probably correct, which might be their best case scenario if they have insurance, because the business has already died going into the future.

@sprengron 2 дня назад

@@theboringchannel2027 The road over the bridge will remain. The store has been there for fifty years and will continue to be successful -- if the building can survive. Local support for the dam store will be enormous once this crisis passes.

@gordonanderson3111 2 дня назад

The Riverside Store formerly known as Dam.

@roberthoffhines5419 2 дня назад

After over a century of annoyance, ol' Blue Earth River just said: "eff that, I'll go over here"

@mybirds2525 2 дня назад

It is a fact that nobody seems to realize. You can put a dam in a river and in 500 years the river will be as if no dam ever existed.

@allanvietmeier228 2 дня назад

@@mybirds2525 As someone that lives on the Missouri river I can attest to the fact that managing the Mighty Mo is an impossibility. If the river wants it the river will have it. Removal of dams in a controlled manner should be the plan of the day since mother nature isn't as forgiving when she does it for them.

@mybirds2525 День назад

@@allanvietmeier228 I don't know that removal is in order but definitely the lakes must have silt removed. That is a massive chore

@bl8388 16 часов назад

@@mybirds2525 I understood this before my 475th birthday.

@daveh4832 2 дня назад

couldn't imagine working your life away to pay for a house that gets washed away

@kc8639 2 дня назад

Insurance will probably dodge this one too. "You were not covered under the raging river clause."

@Novastar.SaberCombat 2 дня назад

Luck is everything during terrestrial existence. Literally everything. On average, the majority of individuals will claim that their hard work led to X, Y, or Z, but all of them are deceived. Self-deceived. Fortune--good or bad--rules all. No exceptions.

@teamidris 2 дня назад

All the decorating, upgrades, plumbing. You at least have your land normally to rebuild. That isn’t getting filled back in, it’s like a million tons.

@bevmacdonald9008 2 дня назад

It's so heartbreaking. I hope they have good insurance. Unless you are 'squatting', have paid off your mortgage, or you are homeless, you are paying a mortgage: yours or someone else's.

@Wee162 2 дня назад

And it looks like the homeowners have also lost their business, the restaurant.

@florencedahl3617 2 дня назад

What a view from the air 😮

@JohnDoesItAll 2 дня назад

Sad to see the house gone but hopefully nature will spare the family store. So tragic 😢

@josephpearlman4010 2 дня назад

If it does, their property value just went up, now that it's riverfront.

@TimJBucci 2 дня назад

There's only going to be more weather anomalies with greenhouse gasses added to the gasses already tossed into the air naturally. Plus all of the chemtrails they spew into the skies for weather modification isn't helping.

@timb7775 2 дня назад

There's no way that store is safe to go in ever again. It will be demolished.

@deanoimo 2 дня назад

Store? That whole bridge will be gone within a week!

@darlenegillmore6116 2 дня назад

Looks like if this keeps up not much hope for the family restaurant. So sad. I live close to the Lake Of The Ozark in Mo and have always wonder what would happen if that damn breached. The corp of engineers run the turbines when it gets close to the 660 ft and it floods all the way to the Missouri and then flows into the Mississippi and it floods too. Pray to God that damn never breaches.

@patrickrabion9473 2 дня назад

Dam, what dam?? The dam is pretty much useless now.

@seseLsan 2 дня назад

Unacceptable, even though this is reality

@2DSTORMS 2 дня назад

Lake Delhi Dam failure in Iowa, took YEARS to fix

@jerryolson3408 2 дня назад

The Dam built in 1905 Has survived intact even including the power house. The failure is due to a lack of attention to the downstream left embankment. This structure can be repaired an last another 120 years.

@HEAVENBOUND267 2 дня назад

@@jerryolson3408agreed 👍

@toddwilliams5905 2 дня назад

It has been water in water out since 2019. Full of silt. That is the black you see now.

@jamesalias595 2 дня назад

If the erosion eats back upstream to straighten out the bend, the bridge could be in danger, so far it seems to have resisted doing so, but if another big storm hits and the dam is still standing it could happen.

@plmn93 2 дня назад

The bridge is probably already a goner. It was built on the sediment that had accumulated behind the dam. That sediment is now eroding away and washing downriver. In some pictures it looks like one of the pier's foundation is already starting to get exposed.

@SirNic4180 2 дня назад

Oh well. This is what happens when you do not invest in infrastructure. The better question is who is the dam person who is in charge of monitoring the dam😮

@plmn93 2 дня назад

@@SirNic4180 They did invest in it. It was damaged by flooding 5 years ago. Proposals were made for repair or removal but a decision had not been made yet, and even if it had been, the work would not have been done by now. Though there were significant long term issues that needed to be addressed, just last month the feds declared its condition "satisfactory".

@paca_bill4863 2 дня назад

Interesting to see the different layers of rock and dirt at 0:30. Amazing to see they installed the posts for the mail box stand 3-4' in the ground - the installation crew didn't cut corners there. And I'm surprised to see how extensive the root systems are from all of the trees.

@Tomcat71 2 дня назад

millions of years of deposits washed down the river and the samples are seeing sunlight for the first time in millions of years . earth is crazy .

@plmn93 2 дня назад

Frost line is at 3.5', gotta dig below that.

@crabbyhayes1076 2 дня назад

@@plmn93 Cold winters in Minnesota!

@choppermike3329 2 дня назад

@@plmn93 For a mailbox post? Uh...No.

@plmn93 2 дня назад

@@choppermike3329 Uh, yes. Mailbox posts, fence posts, basketball poles, foundations, basically anything you don't want to have heave in the clay soil in that area.

@bradley-eblesisor 2 дня назад

Those poor, poor people. My heart goes out to everyone affected. 🙏🏻

@Teabahgeue 2 дня назад

This is a dam tragedy..

@StaceyNelsonTVNetwork 2 дня назад

😅💯

@annabellelee4535 2 дня назад

Dam right!

@Rebirth602 2 дня назад

Thats the dam truth of it..

@StaceyNelsonTVNetwork 2 дня назад

@@Rebirth602 😂

@galewinds7696 День назад

Dam it.......knock it off >>>dam

@totalbullion5882 2 дня назад

You can imagine what's happening to the ground underneath that point where it really drops off.

@bl8388 16 часов назад

I imagine splashy water making super splashy noises. Even when all the people and animals are asleep at night, just splashing away.

@nicotti 2 дня назад

Engineer said in the press conference tuesday that they were worried about the silt stuck behind the dam moving downstream. As black as that water is and how far upstream those standing waves go (1:57), I'd say they have every reason to be worried.

@queenofspadz 2 дня назад

What's the signifigance of silt buildup behind the concrete structure that was the dam? Not sure how fast or feasible but could they not start dismangting the dam structure in efforts to save the store?

@amyself6678 2 дня назад

MN lowlands are mostly ignored, it's the higher flat farmland that makes the money. I'd guess some more sand banks will appear below Mankato but overall this dam failure won't affect much. I lived in New Ulm and you'd not notice it had a river nearby. I wonder if St Paul channel might silt up, but that's 100 miles away so not likely..

@nicotti 2 дня назад

@@queenofspadz Ecological disaster downstream from the silt burying stuff and possibly undermining the support pillars for the highway bridge, are the two things the county engineer mentioned. If the erosion continues at the same rate as yesterday, the store'll fall in some time today/tonight. Can't dismantle the dam that quick.

@BradHouser 2 дня назад

@@queenofspadz The silt clogs up the downstream parts of the river impacting the environment, killing off plants and fish. The faster the release of silt, the worse the impact. The store is expendable. Nothing they can do will help the store except to pray. They cannot attempt to do anything about repairing until the water flow drops way down and they can remove the debris from the dam. Only then can they think about filling in the eroded area.

@BradHouser 2 дня назад

@@nicotti No way they would dismantle the dam to save the store.

@trmentry 2 дня назад

might as well remove the damn completely at this point.

@Summerbreeze537 2 дня назад

@simpinainteasyRHEC 2 дня назад

Soooo... keep it as a water monument? Lol

@thehillbillyhilton3557 2 дня назад

@@Summerbreeze537why? What purpose is serving? What purpose did it serve besides creating a lake?

@aphextwin5712 2 дня назад

@@thehillbillyhilton3557Wouldn’t your logic apply to any and all dams?

@thehillbillyhilton3557 2 дня назад

@@aphextwin5712 for the most part but that dam is fubared

@bonafide2410 2 дня назад

I wonder if that water flow, will carve out those bridge supports on that side and collapse it????

@mrabrasive51 2 дня назад

Eventually it will.

@james_robnett 2 дня назад

Dam isn't going to fail so much as it will be completely ignored. It's no longer in the channel.

@elliottsmith3632 2 дня назад

A river can be enjoyed but when it wants to move, there is nothing you can do to stop it. you may be able to control for a time, but it will do what it wants. Looking at Google maps, looks like the river has chewed up about 200 feet of dry land.

@BryanLebel-gm4jd 2 дня назад

Watch out downstream. The entire lake bed is about to drain and very rapidly. The foundation of the bridge is also at risk. Look at the current around the bridge posts or support's. The whole bridge could collapse

@sprengron 2 дня назад

If the dam had totally failed it would have resulted in a two foot surge in nearby Mankato, not a dramatic increase. The river has been flowing like this for days. Most of the "reservoir" behind the dam is actually silt.

@nicotti 2 дня назад

@@sprengron Agreed. Unfortunately the massive downstream release of that captured silt, that the engineers hoped wouldn't happen, is currently happening. :(

@7phyton 2 дня назад

Perfect! Saves on demolition costs, which would be inevitable otherwise.

@tthappyrock368 2 дня назад

I hope the community will rally around the man whose house and now probably, store, have been destroyed! How heartbreaking!

@Jason-vn5xj 2 дня назад

Real-time geology is bananas. Earth sciences class: "These canyons formed over millions of years of erosion." Blue Earth River: "Hold my beer."

@midwestmatthew9752 2 дня назад

Little bit of water and a whole lot of time, or a little bit of time and a whole lot of water.

@stevewilson4718 19 часов назад

Polluted Earth River

@jasonasselin 2 дня назад

Never mind THIS dam, what about down river?

@JoeBLOWFHB 2 дня назад

The lake was full of sediment so it was pretty shallow. I heard a 2' water rise within the first few miles but within 10 miles it had dropped to a few inches.

@Ryan5oh7 2 дня назад

Mankato has a levee system specifically for this reason so they'll be fine

@senoje 2 дня назад

Wow, look at all that beautiful green land and trees... If all of us could be so fortunate to live like this without the floods, it would be good.

@tracydean3678 2 дня назад

I agree. It is beautiful country though.

@seriejohnson698 2 дня назад

Gorgeous.

@au_barb 2 дня назад

It's really a beautiful area.

@scottjarriel6761 2 дня назад

I'm surprised they haven't gone ahead and blown the damn open. The damn is destroyed already. But allowing it to redirect the water is only going to continue the erosion, and it's likely to take out the roadway bridge supports upstream, as well as the cafe.

@twotone3471 2 дня назад

The release of the reservoir is occurring gradually. Once the level behind the dam reaches the level in front of it, I imagine they will do just that, if they even bother, seeing the river has a new channel already.

@DJFPhantomPhan 2 дня назад

But the dam isn’t destroyed, only partially failed. The biggest concern isn’t from erosion or the water, but from the massive amount of silt in the reservoir.

@jerryolson3408 2 дня назад

@jamesclark9347 2 дня назад

American infrastructure is weak in a lot of areas and a lot of locations! Except where the wealth is.

@OrionsKelt 2 дня назад

Absolutely magnificent topsoil

@vashlotus1891 2 дня назад

The trees are literally holding on for life which is helping save the building from collapsing sooner. This dam is fubar.

@theboringchannel2027 2 дня назад

dam is standing fine, the embankment is fubar.

@localbod 2 дня назад

Fubar must be a technical term now. 😅

@Fusion_4000 2 дня назад

Truly a well built dam. Its like an unstoppable force have to go around an immovable object

@chrismoua6079 2 дня назад

That's insane, hope the community recovers safely and quickly.

@ronnie32567 2 дня назад

Damn that whole house is gone!!!! It was hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit, I thought it would make it !!!!!!

@ronnie32567 2 дня назад

Well for your information, just upriver from the house the bank jutted out a little bit and that was turning the water back into the stream bed somewhat protecting the bank under the house. Might want to sharpen your powers of observation just a tad before you run off at the mouth

@ronnie32567 2 дня назад

@@elizabethchase6528well no S, but it had lasted for a couple days and the officials said the river had peaked so I was hopeful the the projection would hold out. But apparently I was wrong,. Anyone can be wrong every now and then, heck I was wrong one time a number of years ago

@ronnie32567 2 дня назад

@@elizabethchase6528now it would be kind of you to admit that my reasoning for being hopeful for the house to hold had merit

@cameracamera1319 2 дня назад

Mailbox. Store. Garden. Holy smokes getting even worse. So sad.

@queenofspadz 2 дня назад

RIP tomato plants

@y0nd3r 2 дня назад

@@queenofspadz those are white balls of some kind that fell down the cliff at 1:26. Idk what they are, but I didn't see tomatoes.

@user-qi1js9zc1f 2 дня назад

I was so sad to see that house go and my hopes are for the dam store

@MrJoker- 2 дня назад

Water doesn't play no games.

@jimmyjack7083 2 дня назад

What about water polo? Water balloon fights?

@Oi-Oi-Oi-420 2 дня назад

No, I lost my house when I was 15. They say ''have compassion, they lost our store'' I say ''thank god for being alive, forget about the store and GET THE F--- OFF'' if youre down the river. Now. Forget the prayers and get off. The dam WILL go, it's a matter of hours.

@Oi-Oi-Oi-420 2 дня назад

@@jimmyjack7083 hey I didnt think abt that!

@MrJoker- 2 дня назад

@@jimmyjack7083 that games played in water.

@Critical-Thinker895 2 дня назад

Water carved out this country. If it wants to go somewhere, there is nothing to stop it.

@dentatusdentatus1592 2 дня назад

When I saw that erosion, I was like...."dam."

@Shawn_RHVAC 2 дня назад

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! THE POWER OF WATER!!!!

@gordonanderson3111 2 дня назад

The reason this dam was built with two wood covered spillways on the right side was that they could be blasted open to prevent this from happening on the left side. But those were covered over with cement long ago, and it would have still been possible but no one thought of grabbing some dynamite and opening them up - would have prevented this.

@aphextwin5712 2 дня назад

All the tree trunks piled up at the dam are part of the problem. There are examples of structures to filter out large pieces of wood further upstream of choke points like dams. But with a lake, that would likely need to happen upstream from the lake itself.

@giclat1098 2 дня назад

I don't know much about this sort of thing but from the start I've been wondering if either using fire of explosives to break the logjam would help. Such a lovely area and sorry to see the house gone! It held on valiantly!

@gordonanderson3111 2 дня назад

It does sound strange by today's standards yet many construction sites, miners, loggers and even famers used to have a few cases of dynamite in their sheds (store detonators seperatly at all times folks) and blowing out the log jam and one or two of the gates would have saved the shoreline and buildings: While this dam will have to be taken out now anyway.

@simonbyrd6518 2 дня назад

That's wild, seeing pieces of the wall falling off..

@cerberus1166 2 дня назад

my heart is broken for the family who im guessings childhood home has been washed away by now. i couldnt imagine how id feel.

@anthonytimpson4975 2 дня назад

Holy shit the sediment load in that river is enormous.

@barneyrubble4293 2 дня назад

Probably all the sediment from behind the dam.

@anthonytimpson4975 2 дня назад

@@barneyrubble4293 no doubt, I just wasn't expecting that level of blackness

@zetsumeinaito 2 дня назад

1:16 - 1:26 "My Cabbages!"

@anitamitchell3452 2 дня назад

Excellent drone work!! Thank you for your efforts. Well done.

@loragunning5394 День назад

It's not a drone, it's a helicopter.

@CMDROldDuck 2 дня назад

Video is fascinating from a geological and even ecological perspective.

@rstats2127 2 дня назад

The non-stop rain in the Midwest isn’t not giving them a break

@starshine3588 2 дня назад

Rain is natural….dams are not. Dams slow the natural water flow and that’s what caused this situation. Don’t blame the rain. All the land ahead of that dam hasn’t eroded….but because the dam is there the water was being blocked so it had no choice but to carve a new path around the dam. Man caused this….not the weather….the weather naturally happens all the time and if that dam wasn’t there this new path wouldn’t have had to carve out a new path. Dams also cause water upstream to build up more which then also contributes to more flooding upstream….flooding that could have been prevented or minimal if the dam wasn’t there.

@choppermike3329 2 дня назад

@@starshine3588 😂😂🤣🤣

@EricCarlson-bz2pt 2 дня назад

Cloud seeders.

@rstats2127 2 дня назад

@@starshine3588 are you serious our do you have reading comprehension issues? Rain is natural? thanks for that tidbit of information. Man I hope certain people don’t breed as we are doomed and the movie “Idiocracy” is coming true!

@rstats2127 2 дня назад

@@EricCarlson-bz2pt where do you get your tinfoil hats?

@MrMojo271 2 дня назад

It’s a mostly peaceful flood, though

@starguy2718 2 дня назад

😄😄😄😄

@cgeorge6591 2 дня назад

Looking at the strata, you can see how water can make a canyon in a relatively short period of time.

@HomesteadDNA 2 дня назад

Water giveth, and water taketh away.

@georgiabobcat8695 2 дня назад

Looks like its fully blown out now... Wow

@Gfysimpletons 2 дня назад

I didn’t see michelle obama bending over there?

@TBATG 2 дня назад

This place CANNOT be rebuilt, that's a whole road and land swallowed up by rushing waters.

@CaptainRon1913 2 дня назад

Yes it can, but they need to get rid of that dam first, and restore the river to it's natural flow

@TBATG 2 дня назад

@@CaptainRon1913 what about the land though?

@josephpearlman4010 2 дня назад

@@CaptainRon1913 Do you really think any insurance would pay for a half million truckloads of fill and then get it certified to build a house on?

@choppermike3329 2 дня назад

Well yes it can. It was built in the early 1900s. So you think it can't be rebuilt?

@josephpearlman4010 2 дня назад

@@choppermike3329 It was built on stable land. They would have to bring in fill, pack it and probably some sort of wall. It can be done but I doubt you will ever see it done. No one would be willing to pay for that.

@ExploringAI42 2 дня назад

I really thought the erosion was slowing down yesterday and was hoping that house was going to make it.... Hopefully the store makes it.

@GWAYGWAY1 2 дня назад

They have lost the house I hope the caffe doesn’t get it as well😢.

@DrHarryT 2 дня назад

Nature finds a way.

@F-zi2ui 2 дня назад

And other times: Nature makes the way

@RJ4O4 2 дня назад

SO SAD. the loss of that house and now it's getting too close for comfort to the store ! WHY aren't they working on unplugging that dam some?

@CountryAndProud 2 дня назад

You think property is worth people's lives? If you have a safe way of doing it. Go do it, don't expect others to risk their own lives over property..

@daveanderson177 2 дня назад

the new conference given yesterday stated that the companies contacted to remove the log jams were concerned about the crew safety and not chomping at the bit to put heavy equipment on the dam structure. Plus the dam was NOT holding back a HUGE amount of water. Not sure what the proper terminology is but the amount of water flowing through the dam was equal to the river flow.

@rchuyck 2 дня назад

Its too late, the flow is around the dam now.

@Twillen113 2 дня назад

At this point the water level is lower than the dam outlets. For the dam to be used again, they have to fill in the new channel...

@theboringchannel2027 2 дня назад

unpugging the dam would do nothing to stop the water going around the dam.

@nvs4u2 2 дня назад

The dam DIDN’T fail. It HELD!! The river merely went around it and created a new course.

@OPCentraSpike 2 дня назад

Was supposed to be replaced in 1972, here we are in 2024 "OMuhGURR"

@phillipzx3754 2 дня назад

Same as our power grid, which needed to be upgraded at least 50 years ago.

@faithhupy4983 2 дня назад

Actually the dam is doing quite well

@MerrimanDevonshire 2 дня назад

It's just a few twigs in the chute, what can it do? 😢

@marknicolich5789 2 дня назад

If you go look at pictures and see what the normal flow is for this river it's amazing how much more water is currently moving through it

@bengaltiger96 2 дня назад

The water is like “forget this, I’m going around.”

@cajuncrackerranch7990 2 дня назад

Mother Nature always wins. We humans are but mere fleas. When she has had enough… she will go around!

@helenjones568 2 дня назад

Awesome drone footage! I hope it stops before that store. Maybe the forces at that point is further down.

@wayneisanamerican 2 дня назад

actually, the dam didn't fail, the surrounding bank did, amazing they didn't plan for some auxiliary spillway and or rain storms.

@gitchfitness6591 2 дня назад

For those new, that white store was about 2 houses and a small electrical plant back. That erosion is massive.

@DJFPhantomPhan 2 дня назад

Amazing how everyone in the comments is an engineer. What are the chances? 🙄

@busslayer4790 2 дня назад

Luckily for us there has been a lul and they can help out after they provided their analysis on homemade sub and container ship propulsion operation failures.

@joek511 2 дня назад

So how fast did the Grand Canyon form?

@james_robnett 2 дня назад

10s of millions of years, go out side with a shovel, let me know which is harder to dig through, top soil or bedrock. I'll wait.

@glennterry5476 2 дня назад

Man I hope nobody got hurt. Sorry to see that happening.

@januarysdaughter6664 2 дня назад

THE GARDEN! These folks have been through too much. First their house and now the garden and possibly the store! My heart goes out to you. I've had losses like this. You will be ok as long as you still have each other! ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤

@johneken2056 2 дня назад

Amazing that a state government seems helpless.

@frostyhkd 2 дня назад

…what did you want them to do?

@mikeprice4103 2 дня назад

If you have some info on how to control nature call a state government

@Rebirth602 2 дня назад

Lol, just get here or what?

@stevemiller6923 2 дня назад

Yes. If the state government had only taken some action to prevent so much rain, this never would have happened.

@transmitterguy478 2 дня назад

The house is gone!

@deanoimo 2 дня назад

The whole bridge is next. just watch!

@thomasmiller5057 2 дня назад

Prayers for the survival of The Dam Store I’m so sorry to see the house is gone

@beverlyaustin924 2 дня назад

Dispite mankinds attemps to block waterways and distupt natures natural course, in the end, Mother Nature ALWAYS wins.

@charliewaters5289 2 дня назад

Why are you calling it a dam failure? The dam is the only thing still there!

@jasonfrancis1736 2 дня назад

?.........

@markusgorelli5278 2 дня назад

Comments say that since the river appears to have cut its own channel completely, that the dam isn't doing anything as far as its purpose is concerned which is to hold back the water.

@HappyHarryHardon 2 дня назад

This is a spillway failure not a dam failure. The dam and its abutments are still there. This is a classic overtopping, not a dam failure.

@jonathanbuyno9461 2 дня назад

Ok bro

@BradHouser 2 дня назад

What Spillway? I don't see one in the "before" pictures. It appears the designers thought it would be OK to let it overtop the concrete part. The ground didn't agree.

@HappyHarryHardon 2 дня назад

@@BradHouser the spill was was a tiny opening outside of the west abutment and the concrete that is seen in the before photos is “the spillway” that was poured over the bedrock channeling the overspill back into the river. Once the concrete on the bedrock washed away the water took the path of least resistance which was not the bedrock. The soil began to wash away farther west taking pressure off the dam.

@stevemiller6923 2 дня назад

@@HappyHarryHardon Good luck on trying to bring reality into a youtube discussion.

@exploreraa983 2 дня назад

I hope those poor people that own that neat little coffee shop had business insurance. they seem like wonderful people.

@RealCult День назад

I’m thankful for the time I spent smoking blunts on this bridge. It’s a true Mankato Gem everyone loves. ❤ proud of the dam holding up under this amount of pressure. One of the greatest dams ever built. First hydroelectric dam built actually. This is historical.

@MR-xc3sw 2 дня назад

The dam didn't fail the operators failed the dam . Removing debris is top priority at every dam on the planet. If all dam operators were this incompetent there wouldn't be a dam standing anywhere.

@Xdonald331 2 дня назад

Probably DEI hires....

@EricCarlson-bz2pt 2 дня назад

The builders of the dam didn't account for the increase in cloud seeding.

@mikeprice4103 2 дня назад

@@Xdonald331 trumptard alert!

@choppermike3329 2 дня назад

@@Xdonald331 😂😂

@mikeprice4103 2 дня назад

@@EricCarlson-bz2pt You one those flat earth chemtrail lizard people types? Cool!

@maopticallabtech 2 дня назад

Better get your stufff out the Damm store eating that bank away fast...If going to save anything better do it now.

@lindaadelwerth8042 2 дня назад

@maopticallabtech They had family and friends help get everything out of the store already

@jerryolson3408 2 дня назад

@CPcamaro 2 дня назад

Quite a bummer for the folks whose home no longer exists.

@WayneMacLean-lj8lb 2 дня назад

Looks like it is down to the bedrock which is a good thing as long as the water does not rise above it. Which hopefully it won't do the people who lost the home will not lose the business store also. As bad as it is compared to what the people were used to living around there. Once the dam is fixed it will be a very nice looking area even before the dam let go.

@KAzik10001 2 дня назад

Build back better update.

@barneyrubble4293 2 дня назад

The river has decided that it doesn't need a dam there.

@nnonotnow 2 дня назад

That shows the amazing amount of rain 🌧️ ☔ that fell upstream.

@denise8242 2 дня назад

First it was the I 35 bridge, now a dam. Our infrastructure is failing while we send all our money to Ukraine!

@user-uv7up4vg6i 2 дня назад

Not true. The situation is not a case of either or. Americans do not like paying taxes and are apparently quite happy with failing roads, broken down bridges etc etc. The money sent to Ukraine is a fraction of the money that could and should be spent on America's roads,rail, bridges etc etc.

@TheGiggleMasterP 2 дня назад

Looks like the water doesnt even care about the dam anymore. River will be drained in another two days.

@rona4960 2 дня назад

It's a river. It has water all the time

@crysgamb2818 2 дня назад

This is absolutely unreal. I've never seen anything like it!!WOW!

@adammurdoch1708 2 дня назад

this should make decommissioning the dam structure easier as getting rid of sediment buildup is a headache the failure has done it for them

@starshine3588 2 дня назад

If this river had never been dammed then this wouldn’t have happened. If you look at the land before the dam it is not eroding the land because the river was allowed to flow naturally….but once the river reached the dam it had to carve a new path out around the dam because the dam wouldn’t let the river flow naturally. Rivers are also more prone to flooding when they can’t flow naturally….the dam causes the water to build up and rise higher and higher if it doesn’t let it through faster.

@stardust949 2 дня назад

What's happening down river from this?! Thank God that bridge is still standing!

@Revenant_Knight 2 дня назад

This was a small dam with a silted reservoir. There won’t be much flooding down stream, but the silt will dirty the waters for a while. Ultimately, this dam was probably approaching the end I of it’s life anyway.

@sprengron 2 дня назад

the loss of the dam has not had a dramatic impact downriver

@rodfreess6019 2 дня назад

They said a sudden collapse would only be 3-4" difference at Mankato, so this cutting through the bedrock overnight probably didn't make a 1/2" difference in Mankato. Obviously bigger closer to the dam.

@hansmuller3604 2 дня назад

not much, the water found a bypass so there is no water held back and no risk of a flushflood

@J3scribe 2 дня назад

Tragedy and personal consequences aside, the natural process of evasion and erosion of the water stream is absolutely fascinating. A lot will be learned here, and future engineering and infrastructure will benefit from it.