Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota breached, prompting flash flood warning 

When you have a significant portion of voters that believe ANY taxes are theft - hard to have enough revenue to keep everything maintained. Building a dam should lock in the maintenance cost as a future commitment - but that's not how government actually works in the USA.

It's been there for 114 years and there is no evidence it wasn't maintained.

@@jimbosc Nice conspiracy theory. Explain why Biden's infrastructure bill didn't fix this dam? Oh right, only 10% of that money went into infrastructure while the rest went to outside groups

Yea this is what happens when Republicans keep stopping infrastructure upkeep. Unfortunate

​@timmick6911 you can see the spill way was full of debris. It looks like water was on top of the dam before finding a route around. Maintenance would include ensuring the spillway is clear.

Get a hobby. You can't even take two seconds to care about the humans facing an atrocity before you start spewing your conspiracy nut nonsense.

at 1:33 the dam looks fine

Wow😂 👏👏👏

@@NiaLaLa_V Why do you only care for the humans? There are trees, animals, and insects dying too!

Nah, it's the dam. There was nothing TO shred.

Ukraine needed the money right away!

State leaders have been too busy trying to figure out the difference between a boy and a girl……..!!!!!

@@frankblangeard8865 That is what was going to say.

Next thing you know some tin foil hat nutter butter will be blaming the failure on Ukraine. Can't fix Stupid!

Because the local yahoo's like to gamble and would not fix it unless they got someone else to pay for it, facts are hard to swallow.

clown

Bingo!!!! DNR does not allow trees to be removed from the riverbed! This is what happens when that's allowed to build up and not cleaned!!

Yeah, the dam looks fine.

Somehow people don't see this logic for why people don't want nuclear power plants. It's super safe when it's working as intended, but when it fails it's really bad for everyone!

Bought my house 9 years ago and checked fema maps to make sure I'm out of any 100 yr flood zones

@@Crismodin i think if you are living by that logic you should apply it without convenience. A nuclear power plant has zero radiation at the area. They rarely fail but most importantly is how 5th and 6th nuclear facilities are designed. If they “fail” now they automatically shut down due to the inhibitors/reactants being sea water….they fail to “off” instead of being a runaway condition like older designs. And driving is more dangerous, should we go on? or you’re plugging the democrat’s ‘no nuclear because we have another agenda dependent on China” routine. It’s anti-American and everyone sees right through it.

@@viasevenvai there is always like over the top defense of nuclear power but the proponents always gloss right over the fact that if something does go wrong it could ruin the area forever and potentially poison people with radiation causing elevated rates of cancer, but no, that never gets mentioned, it's always "its so safe it generates so much safe power blah blah blah" spoonfed type logic. Yes, go on, against yourself, I will never change my opinion on this, just like OP with dams that are secure and safe.

Like living in New Orleans.

It probably did... it just couldn't keep up since the main part that drains was clogged up with logs. All they had to do was clear the debris

People just think "it can't happen here", until it does. Better to have it and not need it...

@@Pigtrapper It looks like it made its own emergency overflow

@@DementiaDon Minnesota also has over 1000 dams, many of them are fairly old. Some of the are going to inevitably fail, even if they're well build and designed.

HA!

Right now it is at its highest I have seen it since the flooding back in the 60s around the Minneapolis area.

What did Make America Great Again do about the situation??? Quit being gaslighting and obviously poor situation all ground.

Dose Pete Buttigieg have anything to do with this.

Aye Comrade

its a hydro damn clean energy for 3000 homes or you can put 10 giant bird chopper windmills in your backyard to replace it relax nemo

All that money from the Infrastructure Bill should have fixed that.

Good thing the infrastructure bill will help.

@@Armychick Can you tell me which part of the bill included maintenance for dams?

You mean Trump's tax cuts? Those things cost more than 2 trillion dollars to US, and if somehow made permanent, several hundred million more per year after 2027. Ahaha!

Hussein Obama.

Pretty much every administration for the past 30 years has promised to "FIX" infrastructure. Pick one..

Until Bidens infrastructure plan was funded and implemented there has been absolutely no major infrastructure funding at least back to the early 70s both parties ignored the problem for the past 50 years And now it's time to pay the piper there are hundreds of bridges on the verge of failing and many more dams in the same condition trump spent his entire presidency saying he has a infrastructure plan and not one cent was ever spent And now we are going to have to put up with major construction for the next 15 years just to catch up with the bare minimum that should have been paid for by federal and state fuel taxes collected and spent on other projects! There should be a law that states that all federal fuel taxes be put into a special fund that can only be used for roads and bridges and the same for the individual states these funds should include all toll charges collected

The regional and local officials neglected the issue for years, they wanted someone else to pay for it. Free loaders gambled and lost.

This has been an issue since the mid 90s. So, everyone in government since then…

Yes, because if you do one thing it means you can't do anything else. 🤡🤡🤡

No, giving our money to foreign countries and Big Pharm is where the $ went 😮

Thank you for the breakdown

I guess the dam had other ideas and couldn’t wait.

Thanks for info.

From what I gathered, it was still used to generate power, operated by North American Hydro, so how is it obsolete? Every dam has its limits.

People with lake front property probably put up a stink. Oh, well.

But at the same time insurance rates will go up across the country another 40% because of this.

This is a man made disaster .not an act of god

*entropy always win

With enough time and neglect.

Mother nature is plants and trees IMO. This is water and gravity. Water will always win, given enough time.

No question mark needed

@@markae0 So other natural forces are not part of nature in your opinion? Well thank god we have facts, because Marks opinion is garbage.

I don't think God cares. I mean, the locals put the dam in God's hands, and now look what he did with it.

@@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- what a stupid reply.. Men are suppose to upkeep all man made things!

@@KOOLBadger In this case, though, they left it up to hopes and prayers.

@@KOOLBadger The last sentence of your original comment was the epitome of stupid.

What god

Most people on here have absolutely no clue as to what you're talking about. But you're correct.

A lot of phones (most?) require that you orient to landscape before you start recording. If you reorient after starting, it looks like it's recording in landscape, but when watched on playback, it's the dreaded portrait mode.

To be fair that is what happens when the CEO of any corporation is accused of sexual harassment - the complainer gets fired and the CEO keeps making big $$$$

Does anyone remember the $Trillion dollar infrastructure package the president signed as soon as he took office? Has anyone seen any bridges or damns being repaired? Does anyone even know where the money went?

@@alphagt62 I know of several.

Indeed

Go figure.

For some reason that third word in your sentence sounds correct but looks odd lol

With what a butterfly net??? Debris.

unfortunately it wouldn't, this seems like the dam couldn't discharge fast enough. So like electricity, taking the fast route to ground, the water pretty much just went around as it was the fastest way to go down stream. This particular failure seems like its due to a design flaw, in that in cases of high water levels there isn't a plan or a spillway that would have released the excess water in an emergency rapidly in a control manner. Which in this case the water is carving out a mini canyon on land on the side of the dam, which fun fact that's not suppose to happen and could pose further risks to the structural integrity of the dam.

@@GroundByte my guess would be catastrophic to integrity of the dam and ability to stand. it's just going to get undermined until there is no foundation of support.

Clear the junk how?

If we weren't sending Ukraine money it still wouldn't be repaired!!!

Right?😢

Buttigieg is more concerned with racist bridges than actual infrastructure issues.

Give Ukraine over to Putin, Our Glorious Supreme Leader. SURELY that will fix America's infrastructure which is TOTALLY not suffering from budget shortfalls ... /s

From your videos you appear to be some sort of rhodes scholar ROFLMAO

Why didn’t Trump fix it when he was in office?

@@universalmonster4972 Why didnt Obama?

@@emperorlondomollari5511 I think think comments are left by Russian bots. They do their best to sow division.

@@universalmonster4972 Who said anything about Trump? You people are truly dusturbed. TDS(Trump Derrangement Syndrome) is a real disorder, and you apparently, suffer greatly from it. Seek help.

Snide remarks are uncalled for.

The dam is owned by Blue Earth County. The politicians have been contemplating what to do about the dam for 5 years. Nature decided for them.

Biden is Building Back Better! Just give him 4 more years and see how much more he does 😮

Generally, whoever owns the dam is responsible for maintaining it. Sometimes, that’s the federal, state, or local government. Sometimes it’s a power company or a factory. Sometimes, it’s a private individual. And sometimes, if it was built to power a mill or something that was later abandoned, it’s possible that nobody actually knows who owns the dam. And there probably wasn’t any federal money involved. The feds don’t often give grants for this. If they’re involved with a dam this size, it’s usually because the dam has a small hydroelectric generator. If the dam isn’t maintained, then FERC just stops them from generating any electricity, and responsibility for regulating the dam then falls to the state government. If you think this sounds like a great way to make sure that a dam that doesn’t make enough money to do all the maintenance suddenly doesn’t have money to do _any_ maintenance and so actually becomes _more_ likely to fail, congratulations on being smarter than Congress.

Already with the conspiracies. Sheesh

The Dam has held, the water is going to go over the top or around it. The question is did they release enough water when they had a chance to prevent the unknown.

Half of our country thought it was better to send it to more important causes, like Ukraine.

@@snoozeflu The infrastructure bill has nothing to do with Ukraine, nor does it allocate any money to maintenance of dams. You are both as brain-dead as can be.

@@snoozeflu”important “? 😂😂😂 DC money laundering 101 ! Foreign aid , so the democommunists get paid .

Would you drive a 40,000lbs excavator on there and remove it?

@@jeffb321 hell yeah I would. Get that damn excavator there and I'll show you.

@@jeffb321 what's your trade incase I need a mechanic or some welding done while I'm there?

Hey everybody, it's Captain Hindsight! Solving America's problems as leisurely as he can! Riding his majestic Lazy Boy and spreading pretentious nothings from his all powerful smartphone!

@codymoe4986 and you are accomplishing what while you are doing the exact same thing? You just like to pop off at the mouth.

The demographics of people who will be effected are not newsworthy. This part of Minnesota is not "diverse" enough for the media to consider this to be "news"...

you mean Imminent? Learn to spell. Even if you're just an average american.

Because the dam didn’t fail the water just went around it

They were probably labeled as "cheap fakes" by the other news agencies. lol

@@jamesborck5908 yes, other agencies are reporting a breach, not a failure.

We learned after the fire in Maui, and the chemical disaster at Palestine, Ohio, not to expect any help from the Biden administration

They don’t usually suck as much as they blow

Roads, railways, bridges, airports, sewage, drinking water, internet. You could have found this out with a 30 second google search.

Painting pride flag themed cross walks.

liberal dillholes do not understand how things work....

The government and everyone else should be listen to experts and scientists. You can print more money but the in the end it's getting even more expensive and the money system won't work anymore.

Ah, yeah, that god dam store!

What Dam Store?

@@moos5221 STOP USING GOD'S NAME LIKE THAT. . . MY GOSH. . . IT IS UNNECESSARY

@@jamedlock83 GOSH DIDDLY DAM IT!

Is that where you get the dam bait?

Why count on the dems if they don’t love this country? Trump should have fixed it when he was in office because he loves America

I sent all of mine to Donald. He will fix it.

​@@toddwilliams5905Lol! Good one:)

We have to make sure Zelensky is happy with his fifth mansion or else he will release the truth of Hunter's dealings. Think of Sniffy's children!

@@emperorlondomollari5511 Sounds like something a Russian bot would say.

@@DementiaDon Sounds like something a DNC bot would say.

Don't look good... does it????

Well that's a little ridiculous. It's just a dam, one out of 10's of thousands.

@@DementiaDon It's infrastructure all over your country, just falling apart. And no one has flood insurance or proper healthcare. I feel sorry for you

@@thetechnik Where are you from?

@@DementiaDon oh no, I'm not telling you my country so you can go on some racist diatribe. Focus on yourself

Don`t expect any help from the Biden administration

Yes, people live in flood plains and nothing will change their minds as long as everyone else has to pay for their poor decision making.

Waiting for some ID10T form type to blame this oon the Ukraine. Three fries short of a happy meal!

*IN THE MIDDLE OF 🏖️SUMMER???* ☀️

How to say House for Sale Californians wanted.

Yeah but you don’t expect the dam to fail. I’ve been through many floods in my lifetime, but never a dam failure. That’s why we pay billions of dollars each year to engineers to inspect them and make sure these things don’t happen.

Too bad trump lied continuously about passing one, which he never did.

@@patbrown53 Oh. So it's Trump's fault? Lol

Why didn’t Trump take care of it when he was in office? I thought he loved America.

@@NunYa953he could have prevented this from happening but he didn’t

Just because there was an infrastructure bill, doesn't mean it covers every single thing in the country, that would cost a lot more money. You know, the bill was targeted mainly for transportation. Roads, bridges, airports etc. I know, I know, this would mean would you have to think, and that's not something you are very good at.

You are correct about what the bill is for but clearly you don’t understand the timelines involved in repairing infrastructure.