Rapidan Dam: Home falls into Blue Earth River 

Another 24 hours of erosion and the Glacier road bridge could become compromised.

It's just sandstone.

Strongest force in nature.

@@mikepalmer2219 ice is stronger but it is a type of water also cheers

Another channel has it falling in.

So sad..😢

Some kid caught the picture while taking video footage of the flood from the east side of the dam. Talk about being in the right place at the right time with a video camera on their phone running.

It’s blink and you’ll miss it but it’s there @ 1:24

@@thelukesternater Actually, all their footage is after the bulk of the house has already fallen in. They literally have not footage of it falling in. Other YT posts show it.

The dam itself is the concrete structure you still see standing. What failed is the abutment, where the dam is connected to the surrounding terrain. The only part that failed is one of the abutments, hence it is a partial failure because 2/3 components are intact. The dam structure itself does not need to fail for an uncontrolled release of water to occur, though it usually does, particularly in catastrophic failures such as the St. Francis Dam. Another example of a partial failure vs a full failure is the Oroville dam in California, where it was concern that the emergency spillway would collapse that prompted evacuation warnings and the continued use of a heavily damaged main chute. The dam did not fail, but an uncontrolled release of water resulting in structural damage to parts of the dam occurred. Hence, a partial failure of the dam vs a full failure.

Right, the damage has failed totally even though part of it is still showing.

Some believe that the Grand Canyon was created just like this. Not over millions of years, but in one enormous flood. Not in the Biblical term, but a massive lake that burst from the northern ice sheet during the last ice age.

@@Do-UR-Research2749 Not being rude but do you have any articles about that, that'd have insane implications for both geology and potential archaeology

Dams and infrastructure have to be kept up and monitored. So much for Biden's infrastructure policy. More of our Country has been destroyed because no one is watching out for the Country or any part of it. It is being ruined right before our eyes. Bridges falling down, the roads are horrors now, the cities are s holes, and we are grasping at straws to stay alive.

@MrDibbin I actually watch an hour long video of a geologist explaining his theory. I don't recall the title. Let me see if I can find it.

That’s true. Never build a house along a river bank is wise. Cool to live along one, but it’ll flood or worse eventually.

The community voted against removing the dam even though it was virtually condemned. This was after numerous flooding incidents.

I heard a report yesterday saying typically dams are only expected to last around 40 years

It's more pointing it out because its impressive it lasted this long and technically the dam it still holding. The earth around the dam gave way.

@@CountryAndProud yes - I find it a bit irritating the various news programmes keep saying “the dam was breached” when the dam actually held.

Yes.

Your question should preface your statement, but nonetheless. Since about that period of time, the turn of the century, pretty much any infrastructure - including skyscrapers and railroads - is designed with a "design life" in mind. And, in that is a roadmap for how long the structure or tool is meant to be maintained for, and an agreement/contract is written up for the holders to enforce to ensure that the design life of the object is met. You would be surprised to learn that these early industrial engineers did very well considering their constraints and budgets (often surpassing intended design lifes). Unlike the opposite which is lamented about today. Sorry to rattle on, but I believe the number is over 200, for the amount of dams that have passed their 40,60,80,100 etc life cycles and we have not replaced, maintained or created any equivalent infrastructure. Last thing in mind, we have entire counties and states relying on decades old records of these structures with internal maintenance records often managed by 3rd party companies. Really, I could go on all day, you'd be surprised how this country is even running and not falling to parts. Makes you appreciate the govt more although the social aspects give us headaches.

because the water is going around

OP, if you're marveling at how far down, even thru sandstone "bedrock" the water has cut in two days, then I agree.

@@EattheApple666 Yup for sure.

@@nicotti I am.

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Are there any engineers in the U.S. anymore or did Biden fire all of them so the Country could fall apart quicker?

Thanks for your civil engineering insight. Much appreciated. As an actual fact, dams have a design life as do all structures. But you already knew that right?

@@RichardWagenknecht The county's civil engineer said during tuesday's press conference, that the debris clogging the spillways and stream flow being the second highest in recorded history for the dam were the deciding factors.

Other way round. The house was first.

Hear that 12 million residents of Florida?!? 🤔 Yet, they still moving there.

Yes, anything along a river will flood eventually. They build them here in Texas, and people buy them. A few years later, you see them on TV getting saved by boats. People have choices, and so be it. Just don’t complain when you lose your chit.

No shit, They show about 10 seconds of shaky Blurry zoomed in shots of the Bank, Then the rest this jaggoff

The owner was interviewed on another station and her brother and husband along with neighbors got all the valuables out of their home and everything out of their Dam Store business several days ago.

@@jimw1615 Oh good. Thanks for that update. Still sucks, but at least they had that opportunity.

@@jimw1615 well that is some good news people in my state would have just watched happened last year search leominster floods 2023

How much does Pride month cost? Are you not proud? What's your fixation on that about? Did your son or daughter switch sides? You can tell us...we understand.

We tried but the Republicans blocked our bill.

@@garyspence2128 I mean states should spend money on priorities that protect communities from catastrophes like this. Stop spending money on WOKENESS. If you like pride month, spend you own money .

@@garyspence2128 The industry around "pride", including merchandising, mass media, advertising and pharmaceuticals (since nowadays homosexuality and non-conformity to sex-role stereotypes are pathologized and many are encouraged to take hormones to "be their true selves") is worth over two billion dollars per year the last time I checked, which was about two or three years ago, so thanks to inflation it's likely even more than that now. It's a waste of money, considering before mass marketing, corporate "pride" and pharmaceutical companies became involved, it was well under a billion per year (still over-spent on frivolous made-in-China crap, but it was more reasonable than it is now). I always hear infrastructure in the US is failing all over the place and overdue for replacement, upgrading, etc. and the last big wave of infrastructure construction in the US was post WWII, wasn't it? Seems like a good idea to stop spending money on brain rot stuff or poisoning children with chemical castration and maybe build some bridges that need replacing, for example. Who would be against that?

spend money removing dams and freeing river so this does not have to occur again is a better option support dam removal

It's only $175 billion. And it has only cost 600,000 Ukrainians their lives. But think of all the campaign donations I will get from the arms manufacturers who will hire me after I'm out of office.

Because that is not their true purpose. They exist to enrich executives and shareholders at customers expense.

This wasn't caused by anything humans did. I think this counts as an act of God.

Biden gave all of our money away. Iran, Ukraine, China , Russia trillions. He put us in a hole we will never dig our way out of.

Ship running into the bridge is not an act of God.

If talking about the dam its design failure not act of God but designed by humans which is failure by design not God. Act of God is something like lightning hit something.

Yep. He will say it with a beer in one hand, and a joint in the other.

Geology… obviously not your strongest subject. Lol American education 😳

There's no need to swear ! And you spelled damn wrong ...oh wait !

correct cheers i happy some else understands

Somebody dropped the ball

The Mighty One of Jacob

thr dam is public property they would be sueing themselves but go for it

NO

Oh shut up Gram Hancock. lol

You need to study up on ice age floods a little! Do you confuse Grand Coulee with Grand Canyon?

trump built the grand canyon in a weekend, its in the bible.

@@Bitterrootbackroads no.. but the north west shows huge canyons and the ground wiped clean, so much water.. the canyons are actually made when the water starts to subside it was huge walls of water 1,500 feet high

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Good one!

It is working in Israel

trump would have nuked that storm and this would have never happened.

Yes, Trump 2024

Funny, I’m seeing the direct results of climate change deniers.

its owned by the county not feds

*Power of the LIVING God! Fixed it for you! 😊 🙌🏾

Are you an engineer ?

@@jayf8308 hi no im not,ive done some const.work in the past.the extreme seriousness of the situ.is heartbreaking and sad for the losses,in all states,a little cheerup to ease the extreme pain.if i was to give an idea of hope,a larger dam if posible,alot of people are suffering from the 5 state area,esp in nebr.

its owned by the county biden had nothing to do with this, biden and trump should copulate with eachother

Ok You just pay all the taxes to stop the climate change crisis and everything will be okay! Love & God Bless.

Sure. There has never in the history of mankind been a flood before.

@@barbaraemanuel1379 We won’t pay it, it’s going on the credit card for the people who will wish we would’ve done something.

@@barbaraemanuel1379 instead we pay the taxes to clean up the mess, which is far more expensive to do. brilliant.

@@theboringchannel2027 yep taxes taxes taxes it's the cure worst than the illness.

The Uniparty! Just keep paying more taxes.That'll fix all the climate change.Buy more batteriesthat'll fix it

Climate change is a joke😆

@@barbaraemanuel1379 The problem could be fixed if billionaires, millionaires and businessmen, paid the same tax rate as I currently pay.

@@user-kj5td9hd3s exactly 💯

climate change is a cop out to distract from environmental destruction and plans to mine the ocean get a grip and fight the real environmental battles like deforestation and dams like this. this is an ecologist telling you this

bIBLE bABBLE bULLSHIT