When you see a dam starting to break its VERY important that you stand next to it watching until the very last second. Only then should you run for your life.
It's beautifully classic, only an idiot would just stand there and videotape his own remaining seconds of life. Sad to be clueless, then you die. 😒 😪 💩
Overwhelmed lol, yeah but sometimes you get transfixed on the catastrophe by watching it to see if maybe it isn't your day to die. The inevitabilities are sometimes swayed in your favor, and then, well not..
I learned from this video that you should always run down hill and straight away from a dam failure. Also, if you are right next to the rushing water you are completely safe, there is no chance the ground will erode underneath you.
@@predatorfe Ah I didn't see that thanks for the correction. I kept seeing puffs of smoke out of the exhaust so I thought someone was on it trying to make reverse go faster lol.
@@TheCaesarion Obviously, but I want to see some kind of diagram of where the diversion tunnels were, what the angle on them must have been, et cetera.
Actually it was a purely pneumatic phenomena called cavitation. It was taking place in the car tunnel that reaches the turbine room and it was safe to drive within that tunnel for some time. The situation is under control apparently. It was caused by some auxiliar water tunnels getting blocked by some material and a bad decision not to excave an additional set of tunnels in another location. ua-cam.com/video/BC7RixnTpoA/v-deo.html
Without a doubt both of the Brazillian accidents were by far the worst ones. Specially because they weren't just normal dams, but dams used for mining, all of that water was heavily contaminated, so all that soil and groundwater below was also (and still is) filled with all kinds of toxic waste and heavy metals.
Took a tour of the Hoover dam located between Arizona and Nevada. They took us to the bottom of the dam where we were 726 feet below the water and millions of tons of concrete and earth above our heads! Sobering thought! The forces exerted on the dam structure are incomprehensible but you know they are there and rhey are above you! Very intriguing!
The worst possible power that can impact dam is water pressure applied from... Bottom of the dam. That was the thing that probably capsized the first one
I don't know, we don't have the elements to know if it was relevant or dumb. I see an emergency moment with people staying on foot to open a barrier that cars could break... Did they get away with the cars after or it was easy to go by foot on a safe spot near? We don't know...
@@remygrandemange8460 So what? Atleast he helped them.. we can't deny these times people are not as helpful, kind & courageous as the generations before us. Even I'd have hesitated to do what he's done
@@ShaahzaadKaleem yes, nice behavior from the two persons with the barrier. It could have result with 4 deads instead of two. Or taking the cars was a good idea and they all leaved with it. Anyway, they could break the barrier with the cars. As I said, we have not enough information to statue there. But you are also right, they helped and it could be saluted.
I love how polite they are to wait for the guard to lift the barrier as the water rises and rushes past them... Instead of you know... Just breaking the barrier and driving through.
im like 90% sure that this is a reinforced barrier of some kind. maybe trying to break through would've destroyed their car and then everyone would be stuck on foot
I was living in Yuba City at the time of the Oroville Dam incident. Everyone was freaking out about the dam being in danger of breaking. There was a huge mandatory evacuation of most cities immediately south of Oroville. Packed some things and started driving south, ended up stuck in traffic for a few hours. I ended up turning around and driving back to Yuba City. Figured if I'm going to die, I may as well be comfortable doing it (and not stuck in my car). Thankfully nothing happened.
It was close though! I was in paradise, but about 18 family members were in Oroville. They all came to paradise. The next year we evacuated to Oroville to escape the fire. Ironic.
@@jacobsmith8350 hey, that's what neighbors are for. Bake a casserole for them, and they bake brownies for you in your pan. I was in Magalia during the spillway event, then got out early during the morning commute to Chico for the fire, and evacuated to SoCal for the subsequent fire. Red skies are terrifying. The house still exists though.
I remember being a kid and being told "be careful. The water can look smooth but has a strong current. " up to now I always thought it was overstated. Watching that damn break the water is like glass even though it's rushing by.
the mother of my neighbours family died in such a current of a river where poeple bath everyday. she got sucked in and was never be seen again. one of her childs watched this :( i always knew this river was dangerous, as i almost got sucked in as a child years before that incident... i always refused to swim in any river since then. and yeah, leave ur car, go uphill if you can, every metre counts. dont stop when u think u are save, the first wave is the smallest.
I worked on a underground hydro electric power plant and tunnel system. The possibility of this sort of thing happening was in the back of our minds. After seeing this glad that it didn’t.
Makes me think of the claim that the Hoover damn was over-engineered and looking at this stuff, I'd say it was engineered about as well as it should've been ;)
@@sinephase yeah, our austrian dams are also on the expensive side... but we power 60% of our country with them since decades and nothing serious happened
@@justthinkthink5682 it could be a range of failures. Ground stability, compaction, materials used. Engineering failures. Construction taking short cuts or lack of quality control. When we were tunnelling they came across an underground river that wasn’t known about. Had to divert the tunnel and a lot of water management systems. Engineering failed to find that in test holes and pre drill.
The Brumadinho Tragedy was one of the largest ecological disasters in the history of Brazil, with inestimable damages for the region. Hundreds of people died and many more lost their homes, ecosystems were destroyed and a vibrant town that received many tourists every year (me included) was reduced to a pond of mud. It is still one of the most disgusting and revolting examples of total disregard for human life by a company. Perhaps the most revolting part is that Vale (the company responsible for the Dam) was able to settle to only pay around 7B$ over a few years, when the damage was obviously much larger (Please understand that this disaster basically destroyed a whole city); and the same company payed around 15B$ in dividend to its shareholders only in 2021. Absolutely no justice at all for the people or the city. Having visited the city before the tragedy, it almost makes me cry every time I talk about it, given the injustice that these people suffered under this cursed company.
Wow, I am so fucking sorry. Was legit horrified when I noticed there were people in the fields in this footage running away... it's pretty clear they didn't make it
The Edenville dam at 3:15 is just north of Midland Michigan. My parents owned a business in Midland for years. I grew up in Saginaw, just 25 miles away form Midland. When that dam broke it almost completely flooded out downtown Midland and just missed Dow Chemical world headquarters. I still know people in Midland, some who escaped damage to their homes and others who lost everything. It happened because the company who owned the dam didn't maintain it at all. Pure neglect. Luckily there were no fatalities.
@@jstravelers4094 Republicans don't have anything to do with it. The dam was owned by a private company who didn't do the upkeep on it for years. Democrats or Republicans didn't have anything to do with it at all. Try growing a brain. Ps, I spent my entire life in the Saginaw, Midland and BayCity area until fifteen years ago. My family owned a business in Midland for years. I know the area very well.
Practical Engineering did a video about this failure: sKeQe7oc2gk The comment section over there is really insightful for once. To summarize what is said: The hydro power dams were not profitable and in need of maintenance. Upon inspection the government order the ten owning company to do something. They started a reconstruction project to reinforce the dams which involved driving steel plates into the ground. The neighbors filed complaints about the excessive noise this created. The construction stopped. The company decides to lower the water levels to a save level. Other neighbors owning a nice lake side residence file complaints that their house is worth less without being lake side. By court order the company is forced to raise the water levels again. Then the rain falls and the rest of the story we know.
It's important to realize both Mariana and Brumadinho were TAILINGS DAMS. A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potentially radioactive. Solid tailings are often used as part of the structure itself. Tailings dams rank among the largest engineered structures on earth. The Syncrude Mildred Lake Tailings Dyke in Alberta, Canada, is an embankment dam about 18 kilometres (11 mi) long and from 40 to 88 metres (131 to 289 ft) high. It is the largest dam structure on earth by volume, and as of 2001 it was believed to be the largest earth structure in the world by volume of fill.[1] There are key differences between tailings dams and the more familiar hydroelectric dams. Tailings dams are designed for permanent containment, meaning they are intended to "remain there forever".[2] Copper, gold, uranium and other mining operations produce varied kinds of waste, much of it toxic, which pose varied challenges for long-term containment.[3] Unlike water retention dams, the height of a tailings dam is typically increased (raised) throughout the life of the particular mine. Typically, a base or starter dam is constructed, and as it fills with a mixture of tailings and water, it is raised. Material used to raise the dam can include the tailings (if their properties are suitable), earthfill, or rockfill.[7] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings_dam
Lived in Paradise when the Dam broke in Oroville. It was insane the amount of water that ripped through there. 1000’s of residents evac’d and the destruction took years to fix.
Engineering Disasters on the History Channel is one of my favorite shows. I will never forget the oil drilling crew that was drilling for oil in a lake in Louisiana and accidentally punched a hole through the bottom of the lake into a salt mine below and the entire lake turned into a giant vortex. It was so powerful that just a 1” auger created a hole that would ultimately suck down the entire lake and it’s contents, including large fishing vessels. I bought the whole series because of the stuff I saw on that show.
@@dustinwashburn1283 So amazingly, there was 55 miners inside the salt mine at the time of the accident but thanks to one of the miners spotting the water early on and supposed “heroics” by some other miners, all of them got out alive. Look up Lake Pigneur and the first thing you will see is all about the accident.
The drill bit was actually a 14” not a 1”. I don’t believe it would have made a huge difference because after a few minutes of water gushing through it at ten times the speed of water coming out of a fire hydrant it would have been a huge hole in a matter of minutes.
Plow at 4:57 single handedly dis not only endanger himself but took at least the two drivers with him that couldn't get pass. Makes me more angry than sad... 😖
I can’t believe how unprepared these places were. No exit strategy in place in case this happens? Or just never reviewed regularly so people remember. Insane how lots of them just stayed close and didn’t run at the first signs of failure.
It turns to mud runs so it slows down some, just elevation is the key, I like watching desert floods, eventually these mud slides rake up all the trees and brush and clean out the gullies
@@francismendiola5057 There is none. Holding back a billion ton of water is one thing, holding back a billion ton of water while it's gaining speed is another. Modern engineering is just barely at the point where we can slow down flooding, much less stop it. The only thing you can do is stay out of its way and wait for it to pass.
I'm from Oroville, the Oroville Dam incident wasn't technically a Dam failure, though there was a failure to deduce that the rock underneath the Emergency Spillway was the same soft red rock that permeates the area for miles around. It was terrifying for those in my family who lived down river of the Lake, and for good reason. The weakening of the left embankment was setting up for an incident similar to the St Francis Dam. Watching these though, it's kind of scary how water turns solid ground into an unstable mess, and then just kind of slide under it. It always disturbs me to see any bit of ground moving like a liquid.
It almost looked like nature said to the slipway- "wtf do you do? I got this" and proceeded to divert it naturally. Seemed like a total lack of support under it( Between cement and rock). Water is so terrifying.
Also like liquefaction during earthquakes. Where i live, some made a map showing our liquefaction danger zones. “Well, there goes the neighbourhood”, as the saying goes. “And that neighbourhood, and that one, and that one......”
@@janicamoore9583 Not that I'm aware of. What was eroded was a soft red rock that is extensive in the area, and Gold isn't typically found in it. Some might have been in the Harder rock underneath, but I'm pretty sure it would have taken more time to accumulate enough for any profit. Plus, there aren't many good spots to Pan nearby, even once the River level dropped. Most of the banks are too steep going through town.
Oof do you know what actually caused the events to happen? Is it just the infrastructure. Also, since these happened in the past you should say "a lot of people died" it's the correct grammar.
@@agentsarcas6891 My corrector is in Portuguese, it made me spell it wrong. But in relation to dams, here in Btasil there are several dams at risk of collapsing and mining companies do not take action...
I remember reading about it, and the fact that the landslide was so intense, the only manmade thing which could have generated a similar blast of energy was a nuclear explosion. Utterly insane.
What amazes me is the dam breaking up water is rising and instead of hauling it to a high spot and people are just standing around talking until the dam thing finally collapses.
People don't expect the worst to happen. When you work in an industrial environment, you fall prey to the mindset of "I've been working around this thing for years and nothing has ever gone wrong so it'll probably be fine". It's not a stupidity thing, it's natural human conditioning.
@@rocksfire4390 I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. On the off chance that you seriously believe that it's just people being stupid, all I have to say is that it shows you've been sheltered your entire life and have never had any kind of traumatic experience. But I'm pretty sure you're just joking so I guess I got trolled.
@@xXFluffers i know this might be hard for you to do, but try to look up what stupid means. if you had any schooling at all and even if you didn't....you should know what simple words mean by now. you got trolled by yourself. i have had my fair share of traumatic experiences but every time i had one, i didn't do dumb shit. it's called critical thinking, i would call it common sense but clearly it's not that common. i don't know why you are trying to read me over my tiny comment, if you had more information i could understand but you had pretty much nothing to go on. at least try to probe some info next time before you jump to a conclusion. you need to get better at critically thinking, as does most of the human population. it doesn't have to be now but at least work on it.
If I'm not mistaken the dam in Brazil was a mining dumping ground that held super toxic waste. The government was warned for like 10 years like "hey bud, that dam is not safe and could go anytime" governments response "it'll buff out"
Two of three broken dam appears on video. The third one will be in reality yet in a near future, unfortunately. People don't care when it is not polemic to talk about something.
@@mscir reconstruction of the service and emergency spillways cost $1.1 billion. This doesn't include downstream flood damage, which I can't find any solid numbers on outside of "hundreds of millions of dollars"
Ouch. Was the spillway put above soft ground? The bedrock looks solid, as if there wasn't enough strength for the thin concrete to bear the weight of all that water.
I think one thing we can all take away from this is that if you live or work downstream from a dam, have an escape plan and implement it as quickly as possible
It might be possible but its impossible for us.Where we are fearing 2 dams.When rainy seasons come we pray that these dams wont fill up.In 2 of the dams,one is so aged and so drastically poor in technological build up that was made in the 80's.If it breakes the water will get into the second dam and it will also break which is the biggest dam and electricity produce in our state.Still no concern by the government. And if it happens the water would flood half of our state were we live,leaving it like seperated islands taking lakhs or millions of lives.Cruel.
We live 20-30 minutes north of the Oroville dam. Crazy to think that this last year the lake was so low that the hydro plant shut down (first time in history) Went from overflowing and breaking the spillway, potentially collapsing, to being practically empty in a few short years
I'm not trying to be smart but, a dam that breaks, spills the water out. Leaving that lake that was high, needing many decades if even possible to rise to what it once was.
@@puvlea83 The Dam didnt break. The Emergency spillway crumbled which threatened the Dam of potentially breaking and flooding most of the central valley of California. The Fortunately though, the Dam held. The lake remained full the remainder of that year, it was just a major set of storms that pushed the water over the spillway. The lake is empty now due to the California drought the last few years.
@@chitlitlah See my previous comment, the dam didnt break, the emergency spillway crumbled which threatened the dam, but in the end the waters slowed and nothing came of it. The spillway has sense been repaired.
It's amazing and dismaying to me how when a dam is failing, people just stand around, or walk or drive slowly, as if they want to stay and watch it. The same thing happens with tsunamis. It's almost as if there are no warning bells going off in their minds, which makes me wonder about their minds in general. Isn't this a type of cognitive dissonance?
@@zzzzzzz8493 The “flight or fight” is the basic instinct of man. I feel it’s more like “curiosity kills the cat”.. and also, these days, people put themselves at risk thoughtlessly, in the hope of catching some viral video.. they are studies that show that people are becoming more and more reckless, just to capture some stunt or perform some dangerous stunt to impress..
I was in Pangasinan, Philippines when the mountain dams broke during a typhon, and I'd never seen so much flooding in my life. It was devastatingly awesome.
@@abuyousefali We had a house there, the flood was up to the roof. But i believe you were lied to, the dam didn’t really break, the management decided to open the floodgates to drain out water before the San Roque dam risked damage, the flood was caused by the excessive draining. They should have drained out water long before but they got greedy and used the heavy rain to fill up the dam. It was a gamble, it didnt pay off but in Philippines the dam operators dont have to pay for damages and deaths they cause so why take precautions?
@@pflaffik Yeah, that water was intense. I rode a motorbike through the countryside after everything cleared up, and it was devastating. I Googled what you said about the dam. That is sad, but I can believe it. Corruption is the major reason why I decided that I could not settle in the Philippines. Beautiful country and relaxed life in the province, but the police and officials were corrupt. I got asked for money by immigration and harassed by cops a couple of times. If the country ever got its act together, it would definitely be on my radar for a place to settle.
Could be, that dam was a waste reservoir of an iron mine, so i don't know how much water there was on the mixture. All i know is it was really heavy, hundreds of people died and the ones responsible got off easy.
I remember when I first saw that clip of the Brumadinho disaster, that is some of the most terrifying stuff I’ve ever seen. That huge embankment literally liquefying and unleashing a surging wall of hideous toxic waste that takes everything in front of it.
I thought that too however the mud and water blocked the road anyway…they were doomed for not running straight up the hill. Driving on a road parallel to the flooding wasn’t a good plan.
@@johnkruton9708 atleast one car could have gotten threw if they didn't try to back the grader up the hill. I get trying to save big equipment but that's selfish. When you see those other cars trying to move don't be a tool. Poor choice.
@@johnkruton9708 hell, he could have pulled over the grader, gotten out of it and get in the first vehicle. The second driver hops out and into the first car they would have made it, atleast off screen which to the left looks like it's slopes kinda up. When a flash flood hits you need to move quick. Not clog up the only road with a vehicle that doesn't go over 10mph. Let alone in reverse lol
@@johnkruton9708 imagine if the owner of the company is the driver of one of those 2 vehicles. Wow that person I don't think would be given a chance to explain. Fired immediately. Alot of bad choices were made in a few seconds.
In none of these projects do I see escape routs for the folks at the bottom. Plenty of long, flat roads that follow the river. Nothing that goes uphill and away from danger. Just rocky gorges. Deathtraps.
I don't know what these "folks" are, but people at the bottom should follow either emergency procedures (which they evidently didn't) or in worst case, seek stable ground at the higher elevation
The damn break at the one minute mark is absolutely terrifying. I don’t know if that’s a house or something near the bottom right hand side of the screen, but the force that thing gets hit with is unfathomable. If you look closely it looks like maybe there is a vehicle pulling around the back of it 😳
Yeah there were vehicles, around the top right of the video. 😭😭😭 1:27 you can see a sedan trying to decide which way to go. I don't know what to expect except the worst.
@@Libz at 1:00 the car on the dirt road starts going right on the screen and you can see in the following seconds movement on the road its a group of people that start running to the left.
0:36 On the morning of May 14, 2019, at 8:05 am local, the dam's 90-year-old middle spillway unexpectedly collapsed, nearly draining the lake by day's end. The lower, concrete portion of the dam remains in place. The collapse was due to ageing structural steel. Primary inflows: Guadalupe River Location: Guadalupe County, Texas Water volume: 5,900 acre⋅ft (0.0073 km3)
11:30 imagine being a tourist at a dam, hearing a loud bang, then seeing all the dam employees running at/past you and jumping the turnstiles. a real buttclinching "if you see me running, try to keep up" moment.
0:11 lake Dunlap - that looks like the design has a vertical wall keeping the water in? Why would that not be triangular in profile to give the dam a wider base?
Water coming down the tunnel & pushing the air ahead of it. Same as the rush of air you get ahead of a tube/subway/underground train coming into a station. A dead cert sign that the water is coming & going over to watch is a bad idea.
@@chrisharris4740 ahh i see. thank you. well that makes that part a whole lot scarier but 100mph? winds shooting out of a hole in the mountain/dam can't be good. wouldnt be filming from where that guy did
@@utpharmboy2006 Well the water was going at a hell of speed when it came out, so the rush of air ahead of it would be moving pretty quick. There seems to be a theme on flood/landslide/avalanche etc videos on youtube where people appear to be attracted towards the danger.
The scariest thing about this video? The dates. These are all relatively recent, shocking to think this sort of thing still happens, it’s terrifying to think what this does to the environment in addition to the cost of life, both human and animals
I live on what used to be Sanford lake, it's gone, washed down river into Saginaw Bay then Lake Huron. 3 dams actually failed that night! Thank goodness the warning system was up to par. They knew this was a real possibility for over 15yrs us locals have been screaming for repairs to be made but once again politicians did nothing. Arguing over who was to pay. Very lucky so few were hurt. But our town was wiped out, still the dams haven't even been touched. Our super smart government officials raised the lake level 3" for some dam mussel that was found in Wixom lake. The collapse happened days after but nobody's talking about that either. God help our country because our politicians sure aren't!
My condolences. The two Chicago trust fund babies who owned those dams, the Boyce brothers, should never have been permitted to own such a thing. They were utterly unqualified either professionally or financially to own them and bought them as a tax dodge to shelter the proceeds of the sale of an office building in Chicago. Too many similar structures in this country are in the hands of people or entities unqualified to operate them.
what an intriguing video! it’s fascinating to see these dam failures up close, but i can’t help but wonder if the media tends to overemphasize these events. isn’t it possible that we could focus more on preventive measures rather than sensationalizing the failures?
You know what's crazy. Being from Oroville I drove over the spillway plenty of times. Seeing the water release from the top looks so miniscule. To imagine that amount of water totally wrecking the spillway is insane. Water is truly underestimated
@No Name I might have a hard time explaining this. The outflow at the spillway I've seen for 20+ years is no higher than half a foot of flowing water maybe less. Pressurized water is indeed powerful though. Even the general publicly sold pressure washers can cut your skin badly.
as a kid i always thought water-type pokemon were weak af, they just threw water, a liquid i drink, the fire pokemon were the strong ones, because you know, fire burns! my opinion has since changed, water can be truly terrifying!
0:51 Notice in the dam wall, half to right, there was engeneers measuring possible movement on the wall, running for their lives. From where I remember none of them made it. It was a 272 deaths and an immeasurable nature damage, because that water was from mining and highly toxic. Entire rivers were killed, all the life in it, cities had their water suply destroyed. Thousands suffered this disaster. The whole country had stop to what it in TV. We had weeks of coverage.
The worst engineering disaster in history was a dam in Europe in the early 1960s. Many people were killed and injured. Whole villages,towns swept away.
Our town lost its lake in 1986 after excessive rains. The damage broke & everything was swept out to the local river, which led to a Great Lake. Dead fish & deer were found in trees. Thankfully, it was fall, the off season. No one was killed. The damage was repaired & we got our lake back. It was never the same though.
The events that happened in Brazil at least were all over the national news for several months. They were horrible catastrophes with hundreds of deaths, the water/sludge completely destroyed the town(s) nearby. Thankfully because of this the government and the company responsible for the dams are now ensuring that the infrastructure is properly maintained 😁
All other things aside, most people (including myself) forget that water has *WEIGHT.* I can only imagine how much it weighs when it's being confined to one spot in a dam. Even the most well-constructed dams wear down after several years and are prone to fail.
You're projecting. Most people don't forget water has weight, I've never met anyone before who has forgotten that obvious fact. You should say "i forget that water has weight" and not say "most people". Don't put your thoughts on others/us
I learned so much from this video. Particularly how urgent sounding drum beats can be heard whenever a dam collapses.
Yeah it’s annoying. I don’t understand why couldn’t the uploader do this without distracting music.
@@bsblleon01 Thanks for the laugh.
don't forget the dinner bell chime.
Lmao you can hear the audio jungle thing as well, it makes it way better
@@porkchopsammies79 hahhaha yah I fucking hated that XDDDDDD
When you see a dam starting to break its VERY important that you stand next to it watching until the very last second. Only then should you run for your life.
Lol
Lies
What are you new. Its just water. People can swim
Hell, the car in the second one was driving toward it, has a decisive moment and high tails it 180°!
They were wearing hard hats though?!?!
The fact it happens so often that you are able to make a 15 minute compilation is mesmerizing to me
Like those videos of trucks slamming into overhead bridges, how does it happen so often
@@rossrobertson674 The drivers are usually drunk
@@achyuththouta6957 or just stupid. I have very little respect for most truck drivers.
@@achyuththouta6957 Lack of sleep is a common thing in this job so it's probably that.
Earth is big... good job.
Makes perfect sense to casually stand around and watch the failure starting then be surprised when you can’t outrun the water.
especially while running downhill.
As long as you have a camera, it doesn't matter. Cameras protect life.
The people were vaccinated so they were fine
Big thanks to engineers for making this video possible.
Edit: People have found some many other people to give big thanks also!
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omg. comment of the year
im willing to bet all of these were actually made possible by accountants.
those dam engineers....
Civil Engineers. 😘
That wind gusting out of the tunnel may be one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen
It's the air being forced ahead by the water, air pressure driving it through.
8:05 btw
@@VileCAESARB No shit Sherlock.
@@Skull-Beneath-The-Skin so why are you replying? Says more about you.
@@VileCAESARB Your comment was obvious.. mine needed to be said
I can't believe those guys just sat there and watched the Mariana dam fail and weren't running for their lives. It looked like it overwhelmed them.
to be fair, it looks so beautiful.
It's beautifully classic, only an idiot would just stand there and videotape his own remaining seconds of life. Sad to be clueless, then you die. 😒 😪 💩
Trying to be cool, died instead
@Shinigami 2:19
Overwhelmed lol, yeah but sometimes you get transfixed on the catastrophe by watching it to see if maybe it isn't your day to die. The inevitabilities are sometimes swayed in your favor, and then, well not..
I learned from this video that you should always run down hill and straight away from a dam failure. Also, if you are right next to the rushing water you are completely safe, there is no chance the ground will erode underneath you.
10-4
LOL
Noted
The guy in the motor grader blocking the road was just a huge fail.
Staying in your car and not ditching that shit and running up hill was a huge fail too. People made a lot of real fucking stupid decisions there.
... they should have climbed on the roof of the white house instead of trying to drive away.
@@clopez4280 naw. That building would have been swept away. They should have tried to go up the hill that was beside them
There was no one driving it, he got off at around 4:47. As J WM said forget about cars and just get to high ground.
@@predatorfe Ah I didn't see that thanks for the correction. I kept seeing puffs of smoke out of the exhaust so I thought someone was on it trying to make reverse go faster lol.
The speed of the air being forced out of that tunnel in Columbia was insane! I wouldn't be surprised if it was pushing 250 km/h
Terrifying
Yeah, that one was crazy. I'm going to look more into it, because I NEED to know what caused that.
@@pygmybugs the water rushing through
@@TheCaesarion Obviously, but I want to see some kind of diagram of where the diversion tunnels were, what the angle on them must have been, et cetera.
Actually it was a purely pneumatic phenomena called cavitation. It was taking place in the car tunnel that reaches the turbine room and it was safe to drive within that tunnel for some time. The situation is under control apparently. It was caused by some auxiliar water tunnels getting blocked by some material and a bad decision not to excave an additional set of tunnels in another location.
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Without a doubt both of the Brazillian accidents were by far the worst ones. Specially because they weren't just normal dams, but dams used for mining, all of that water was heavily contaminated, so all that soil and groundwater below was also (and still is) filled with all kinds of toxic waste and heavy metals.
fuck yea bro
dam.
Will it perform a sick riff?
Average day in Brazil
@@tedundercarriage8183 😅
Took a tour of the Hoover dam located between Arizona and Nevada.
They took us to the bottom of the dam where we were 726 feet below the water and millions of tons of concrete and earth above our heads! Sobering thought!
The forces exerted on the dam structure are incomprehensible but you know they are there and rhey are above you!
Very intriguing!
The worst possible power that can impact dam is water pressure applied from... Bottom of the dam. That was the thing that probably capsized the first one
Hoover dam must have been really well constructed 👍🏼
@@lindaj5492yeah it's still standing even in the year 2281.
*HUGE HUGE HUGE Respect to the security personnel at **11:59** attempting to hold that post up for cars to leave risking his own life* Bravest Man
I don't know, we don't have the elements to know if it was relevant or dumb.
I see an emergency moment with people staying on foot to open a barrier that cars could break...
Did they get away with the cars after or it was easy to go by foot on a safe spot near? We don't know...
@@remygrandemange8460 So what? Atleast he helped them.. we can't deny these times people are not as helpful, kind & courageous as the generations before us. Even I'd have hesitated to do what he's done
@@ShaahzaadKaleem yes, nice behavior from the two persons with the barrier. It could have result with 4 deads instead of two. Or taking the cars was a good idea and they all leaved with it.
Anyway, they could break the barrier with the cars.
As I said, we have not enough information to statue there. But you are also right, they helped and it could be saluted.
MORONS!!....The dam is collapsing and you're worried about scratching the paint on your subaru? Run the stupid gate dummy LOL
Seriously yes!!!... I hope he hopped into the last car that was making away
I love how polite they are to wait for the guard to lift the barrier as the water rises and rushes past them... Instead of you know... Just breaking the barrier and driving through.
im like 90% sure that this is a reinforced barrier of some kind. maybe trying to break through would've destroyed their car and then everyone would be stuck on foot
Russian barriers are extra thicc. None of that PVC or plastic stuff there.
@@TwinTonyz that's why it was so lite he could lift the barrier. Just saying 😌
Cause they didn't want to scratch their cars. Nothing polite, totally selfish. Hopefully the guard made it safe.
I was living in Yuba City at the time of the Oroville Dam incident. Everyone was freaking out about the dam being in danger of breaking. There was a huge mandatory evacuation of most cities immediately south of Oroville. Packed some things and started driving south, ended up stuck in traffic for a few hours. I ended up turning around and driving back to Yuba City. Figured if I'm going to die, I may as well be comfortable doing it (and not stuck in my car). Thankfully nothing happened.
It was close though! I was in paradise, but about 18 family members were in Oroville. They all came to paradise. The next year we evacuated to Oroville to escape the fire. Ironic.
@@jacobsmith8350 hey, that's what neighbors are for. Bake a casserole for them, and they bake brownies for you in your pan. I was in Magalia during the spillway event, then got out early during the morning commute to Chico for the fire, and evacuated to SoCal for the subsequent fire. Red skies are terrifying. The house still exists though.
@@jacobsmith8350 is Paradise downhill from Oroville? could you bust the dam to put out the fires? (that was a terrible joke, sorry)
We paid two times to have that dam fix look up the voting for the dam.
The Oroville Dam Crisis doesn't belong on a list of "Dam failures". The dam never failed, the spillway failed.
All those people rushing out of that building must have been terrifying, and that wind coming from that tunnel was nuts! 😳🤯
my grandfather used to say that "fire always leaves behind stones but water when it comes down, in the form of liquid water or snow, takes everything"
fire takes everything as well
I love that saying
@@anayarey it leaves stone, didnt you hear the man?
Doesn’t really roll off the tongue lol
Fire is powerfull than water.
I remember being a kid and being told "be careful. The water can look smooth but has a strong current. " up to now I always thought it was overstated. Watching that damn break the water is like glass even though it's rushing by.
Yep, and get the heck out of a car and run for high ground. Sad to see people running for cars as there's hillside in many of these to climb up.
the mother of my neighbours family died in such a current of a river where poeple bath everyday. she got sucked in and was never be seen again. one of her childs watched this :(
i always knew this river was dangerous, as i almost got sucked in as a child years before that incident... i always refused to swim in any river since then.
and yeah, leave ur car, go uphill if you can, every metre counts. dont stop when u think u are save, the first wave is the smallest.
@@volvo09 why not drive to the hill?
My granma used to say: "Fire can be stopped by water, but water can't be stopped by anything, if it decides to burst out..."
I worked on a underground hydro electric power plant and tunnel system. The possibility of this sort of thing happening was in the back of our minds. After seeing this glad that it didn’t.
Makes me think of the claim that the Hoover damn was over-engineered and looking at this stuff, I'd say it was engineered about as well as it should've been ;)
Just listen out for the music, as soon as the music starts you have until the bell sound.
@@sinephase yeah, our austrian dams are also on the expensive side... but we power 60% of our country with them since decades and nothing serious happened
This is very interesting to me and I’m curious to how would something like this happen?
@@justthinkthink5682 it could be a range of failures. Ground stability, compaction, materials used. Engineering failures. Construction taking short cuts or lack of quality control.
When we were tunnelling they came across an underground river that wasn’t known about. Had to divert the tunnel and a lot of water management systems. Engineering failed to find that in test holes and pre drill.
My heart goes out to all those affected by these dam incidents. Great dam footage but such a dam shame. That’s a lot of dam water.
Dam it
The Brumadinho Tragedy was one of the largest ecological disasters in the history of Brazil, with inestimable damages for the region. Hundreds of people died and many more lost their homes, ecosystems were destroyed and a vibrant town that received many tourists every year (me included) was reduced to a pond of mud. It is still one of the most disgusting and revolting examples of total disregard for human life by a company. Perhaps the most revolting part is that Vale (the company responsible for the Dam) was able to settle to only pay around 7B$ over a few years, when the damage was obviously much larger (Please understand that this disaster basically destroyed a whole city); and the same company payed around 15B$ in dividend to its shareholders only in 2021. Absolutely no justice at all for the people or the city. Having visited the city before the tragedy, it almost makes me cry every time I talk about it, given the injustice that these people suffered under this cursed company.
Wow, I am so fucking sorry. Was legit horrified when I noticed there were people in the fields in this footage running away... it's pretty clear they didn't make it
0:52 if you look closely in the fields on the bottom right of the video, you can actually see people trying to flee. 😢😓
And it's a mining dam so all that water was heavily contaminated
The Edenville dam at 3:15 is just north of Midland Michigan. My parents owned a business in Midland for years. I grew up in Saginaw, just 25 miles away form Midland. When that dam broke it almost completely flooded out downtown Midland and just missed Dow Chemical world headquarters. I still know people in Midland, some who escaped damage to their homes and others who lost everything. It happened because the company who owned the dam didn't maintain it at all. Pure neglect. Luckily there were no fatalities.
That's terrible 😔
Republicans
@@jstravelers4094 Republicans don't have anything to do with it. The dam was owned by a private company who didn't do the upkeep on it for years. Democrats or Republicans didn't have anything to do with it at all. Try growing a brain. Ps, I spent my entire life in the Saginaw, Midland and BayCity area until fifteen years ago. My family owned a business in Midland for years. I know the area very well.
@@jstravelers4094 Democrats and RINOs have run the State of Michigan for at least the last thirty years.
Practical Engineering did a video about this failure: sKeQe7oc2gk
The comment section over there is really insightful for once. To summarize what is said:
The hydro power dams were not profitable and in need of maintenance. Upon inspection the government order the ten owning company to do something.
They started a reconstruction project to reinforce the dams which involved driving steel plates into the ground. The neighbors filed complaints about the excessive noise this created. The construction stopped.
The company decides to lower the water levels to a save level. Other neighbors owning a nice lake side residence file complaints that their house is worth less without being lake side. By court order the company is forced to raise the water levels again. Then the rain falls and the rest of the story we know.
It's important to realize both Mariana and Brumadinho were TAILINGS DAMS.
A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potentially radioactive. Solid tailings are often used as part of the structure itself.
Tailings dams rank among the largest engineered structures on earth. The Syncrude Mildred Lake Tailings Dyke in Alberta, Canada, is an embankment dam about 18 kilometres (11 mi) long and from 40 to 88 metres (131 to 289 ft) high. It is the largest dam structure on earth by volume, and as of 2001 it was believed to be the largest earth structure in the world by volume of fill.[1]
There are key differences between tailings dams and the more familiar hydroelectric dams. Tailings dams are designed for permanent containment, meaning they are intended to "remain there forever".[2] Copper, gold, uranium and other mining operations produce varied kinds of waste, much of it toxic, which pose varied challenges for long-term containment.[3]
Unlike water retention dams, the height of a tailings dam is typically increased (raised) throughout the life of the particular mine. Typically, a base or starter dam is constructed, and as it fills with a mixture of tailings and water, it is raised. Material used to raise the dam can include the tailings (if their properties are suitable), earthfill, or rockfill.[7]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings_dam
ok boomer
@@mpokoraa WTF BRO? You need a psychologist… you comment makes no sense
@@maathse OK boomer
Good comment! Thanks for the info!
@@utgardkraft1412 you are indeed more than welcome
Lived in Paradise when the Dam broke in Oroville. It was insane the amount of water that ripped through there. 1000’s of residents evac’d and the destruction took years to fix.
So it was the service spillway that broke open? Not the dam proper? Still a breach either way, just a different kind.
Engineering Disasters on the History Channel is one of my favorite shows. I will never forget the oil drilling crew that was drilling for oil in a lake in Louisiana and accidentally punched a hole through the bottom of the lake into a salt mine below and the entire lake turned into a giant vortex. It was so powerful that just a 1” auger created a hole that would ultimately suck down the entire lake and it’s contents, including large fishing vessels. I bought the whole series because of the stuff I saw on that show.
I hate my morbid curiosity, but was the Salt Mine occupied?
@@dustinwashburn1283 no it was an old abandoned mine
@@bowler1106 Good to hear.
@@dustinwashburn1283 So amazingly, there was 55 miners inside the salt mine at the time of the accident but thanks to one of the miners spotting the water early on and supposed “heroics” by some other miners, all of them got out alive. Look up Lake Pigneur and the first thing you will see is all about the accident.
The drill bit was actually a 14” not a 1”. I don’t believe it would have made a huge difference because after a few minutes of water gushing through it at ten times the speed of water coming out of a fire hydrant it would have been a huge hole in a matter of minutes.
The music was absolutely terrible
Audiojungle
The ominous "ding" at the end of the drum noise did it for me 😂
Plow at 4:57 single handedly dis not only endanger himself but took at least the two drivers with him that couldn't get pass. Makes me more angry than sad... 😖
there was no one in it, the driver had already ditched
@@rogerwilco1777 4:33
@@rogerwilco1777 yo thats true, he was beeping at no one, thats tragic
Supervisor: And you checked BOTH bolts?
Me: yes
11:17
Who me???
5:25 those 2 trucks had time to leave if it wasn’t for that idiot blocking the way. Insane how out of their minds those guys must have been
4:47 the driver ditch, noone is driving it
I know. He just jumped out and left it blocking the way
i wonder why noone went to the right
They should have beat feet to higher ground where the camera was. Instead, they tried to drive to LOWER ground: Down stream?! Man, oh man.
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 it probably was the only exit
I can’t believe how unprepared these places were. No exit strategy in place in case this happens? Or just never reviewed regularly so people remember. Insane how lots of them just stayed close and didn’t run at the first signs of failure.
I don't know how much they get paid, but hell it better be a handsome amount for madness like this.
Any suggestions on how to stop if a dam wall breaks??
It turns to mud runs so it slows down some, just elevation is the key, I like watching desert floods, eventually these mud slides rake up all the trees and brush and clean out the gullies
@@francismendiola5057 There is none. Holding back a billion ton of water is one thing, holding back a billion ton of water while it's gaining speed is another. Modern engineering is just barely at the point where we can slow down flooding, much less stop it. The only thing you can do is stay out of its way and wait for it to pass.
@@The_Phoenix_Saga they get paid peanuts
I think this is a very compelling selection. Thank you so much.
How to survive a dam collapse 101:
Step 1: Be the cameraman
@@notr.e Yes, the one with the telephoto lens on a tall hill
I'm from Oroville, the Oroville Dam incident wasn't technically a Dam failure, though there was a failure to deduce that the rock underneath the Emergency Spillway was the same soft red rock that permeates the area for miles around. It was terrifying for those in my family who lived down river of the Lake, and for good reason. The weakening of the left embankment was setting up for an incident similar to the St Francis Dam.
Watching these though, it's kind of scary how water turns solid ground into an unstable mess, and then just kind of slide under it. It always disturbs me to see any bit of ground moving like a liquid.
That's big damn failure
It almost looked like nature said to the slipway- "wtf do you do? I got this" and proceeded to divert it naturally. Seemed like a total lack of support under it( Between cement and rock).
Water is so terrifying.
Also like liquefaction during earthquakes. Where i live, some made a map showing our liquefaction danger zones. “Well, there goes the neighbourhood”, as the saying goes. “And that neighbourhood, and that one, and that one......”
We're people able to pan for gold after the Oroville incident? I can't imagine the amount of gold stirred up
@@janicamoore9583 Not that I'm aware of. What was eroded was a soft red rock that is extensive in the area, and Gold isn't typically found in it. Some might have been in the Harder rock underneath, but I'm pretty sure it would have taken more time to accumulate enough for any profit.
Plus, there aren't many good spots to Pan nearby, even once the River level dropped. Most of the banks are too steep going through town.
I'm from Brazil, i remember the Brumadinho and Mariana Dam disasters... They used military helicopters to rescue victims and a lot of people's died...
Oof do you know what actually caused the events to happen? Is it just the infrastructure. Also, since these happened in the past you should say "a lot of people died" it's the correct grammar.
@@agentsarcas6891
My corrector is in Portuguese, it made me spell it wrong. But in relation to dams, here in Btasil there are several dams at risk of collapsing and mining companies do not take action...
@@agentsarcas6891 what did happen? Corruption. As usual.
ATENÇÃO!!!
Em 2:19 a informação "Mariana Dam Disaster" está incorreta.
A barragem da imagem não corresponde a "Mariana"; por favor, faça a correção.
No one cares unless you Write in english
The last one is not a dam failure, but was caused by a landslide and Glacial lake collapse. The dam was well downstream and still under construction.
You mean the Uttarakhand dam?
A failure is a failure..dam failed to finish completion.
I remember reading about it, and the fact that the landslide was so intense, the only manmade thing which could have generated a similar blast of energy was a nuclear explosion. Utterly insane.
@@jay75rv under development is a thing
@@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356 wow! Amazing energy!
What amazes me is the dam breaking up water is rising and instead of hauling it to a high spot and people are just standing around talking until the dam thing finally collapses.
People don't expect the worst to happen. When you work in an industrial environment, you fall prey to the mindset of "I've been working around this thing for years and nothing has ever gone wrong so it'll probably be fine". It's not a stupidity thing, it's natural human conditioning.
Seems like a lot of that going around these days with people waiting until it's to late to try to do something. It's just a dam shame.
@@xXFluffers
no i'm pretty sure stupid sums up what they did or rather didn't do perfectly.
@@rocksfire4390 I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. On the off chance that you seriously believe that it's just people being stupid, all I have to say is that it shows you've been sheltered your entire life and have never had any kind of traumatic experience.
But I'm pretty sure you're just joking so I guess I got trolled.
@@xXFluffers
i know this might be hard for you to do, but try to look up what stupid means. if you had any schooling at all and even if you didn't....you should know what simple words mean by now.
you got trolled by yourself. i have had my fair share of traumatic experiences but every time i had one, i didn't do dumb shit. it's called critical thinking, i would call it common sense but clearly it's not that common.
i don't know why you are trying to read me over my tiny comment, if you had more information i could understand but you had pretty much nothing to go on. at least try to probe some info next time before you jump to a conclusion. you need to get better at critically thinking, as does most of the human population. it doesn't have to be now but at least work on it.
If I'm not mistaken the dam in Brazil was a mining dumping ground that held super toxic waste. The government was warned for like 10 years like "hey bud, that dam is not safe and could go anytime" governments response "it'll buff out"
Você está certo, era rejeito de minério, alguns rios atingido pelo rejeito ainda apresenta sinais de contaminação até hoje
Two of three broken dam appears on video. The third one will be in reality yet in a near future, unfortunately. People don't care when it is not polemic to talk about something.
I thought they said "it'll melt in"
9:00 was insane!! Looked like something out of an action movie. Can't believe that guy made that run!
I remember the Oroville Spillway one. I ended up getting sent to work as onsite admin for 8 months of the reconstruction efforts.
Interesting. How much did the repairs cost?
That Dam was the perfect representation of California......one giant bureaucratic mess enabled by the Democrats.
Well then of course you remember it.
@@mscir reconstruction of the service and emergency spillways cost $1.1 billion. This doesn't include downstream flood damage, which I can't find any solid numbers on outside of "hundreds of millions of dollars"
Ouch. Was the spillway put above soft ground? The bedrock looks solid, as if there wasn't enough strength for the thin concrete to bear the weight of all that water.
I think one thing we can all take away from this is that if you live or work downstream from a dam, have an escape plan and implement it as quickly as possible
It might be possible but its impossible for us.Where we are fearing 2 dams.When rainy seasons come we pray that these dams wont fill up.In 2 of the dams,one is so aged and so drastically poor in technological build up that was made in the 80's.If it breakes the water will get into the second dam and it will also break which is the biggest dam and electricity produce in our state.Still no concern by the government. And if it happens the water would flood half of our state were we live,leaving it like seperated islands taking lakhs or millions of lives.Cruel.
One thing we can all take away from this is that you should never live next to dams
Or move.
No stupid commentary...no lengthy explanations...just the incident and a title....this is just perfect🍻
Thank you times a million for focising on the footage and not having annoying narrations
The amount of power water holds, is beyond anything I’ve ever seen
the amount of power water holds when humans try to obstruct it, dont play god with nature
@@goddamnit9440 do beavers play god?
@@mgn567 beavers are part of nature numb nuts
Have u ever seen the sun?
@@goddamnit9440 Nobody's playing god by building a dam lmao.
The lack of self preservation in some of these videos is astonishing.
Like how sad can I be about loss of life when people see a wall of water 20 feet high coming at them and they think "better save my car."
@You need a medic OK bud you go back to your lego while the adults are talking
The devastation downstream for everyone and everything is almost unfathomable for some of these. water always wins!
Yes, water always finds a way.xx
But not always against the fire nation
All them dudes standig chill af next to catastrophe... This is the confidence level I need
i am familiar with all of these events from the videos of others, but this is by far the best set of videos i have seen. Good job.
Agreed
@Praise Jesus, Repent or Likewise Perish no, god doesn't exist
Am expirienced with events like these
People always make mistake by running paralel with downstrim
You cannot outpace it run upstream instead
I don't know how I landed on these videos but now I can't stop watching
We live 20-30 minutes north of the Oroville dam. Crazy to think that this last year the lake was so low that the hydro plant shut down (first time in history) Went from overflowing and breaking the spillway, potentially collapsing, to being practically empty in a few short years
I'm not trying to be smart but, a dam that breaks, spills the water out. Leaving that lake that was high, needing many decades if even possible to rise to what it once was.
@@puvlea83 The Dam didnt break. The Emergency spillway crumbled which threatened the Dam of potentially breaking and flooding most of the central valley of California. The Fortunately though, the Dam held. The lake remained full the remainder of that year, it was just a major set of storms that pushed the water over the spillway. The lake is empty now due to the California drought the last few years.
I would expect it to go from breaking the dam to practically empty in a matter of minutes, not years.
@@chitlitlah See my previous comment, the dam didnt break, the emergency spillway crumbled which threatened the dam, but in the end the waters slowed and nothing came of it. The spillway has sense been repaired.
The guys in the pickup trucks owed him money and he saw an opportunity for really fast payment.
We just drove along the Eddyville and Sanford dams area on Friday...
It appears that they are working on replacing the upper dam currently
Edenville? Whatever
It's amazing and dismaying to me how when a dam is failing, people just stand around, or walk or drive slowly, as if they want to stay and watch it. The same thing happens with tsunamis. It's almost as if there are no warning bells going off in their minds, which makes me wonder about their minds in general.
Isn't this a type of cognitive dissonance?
I agree.
Just unbelievable
That's exactly what I thought I would be running
Maybe our consciousness would be telling us there is no way out. So we just stand there in shock accepting what's coming.
Yes!!.. The land on which they are standing could give away any moment!.. they are just dumb!
@@zzzzzzz8493 The “flight or fight” is the basic instinct of man. I feel it’s more like “curiosity kills the cat”.. and also, these days, people put themselves at risk thoughtlessly, in the hope of catching some viral video.. they are studies that show that people are becoming more and more reckless, just to capture some stunt or perform some dangerous stunt to impress..
I was in Pangasinan, Philippines when the mountain dams broke during a typhon, and I'd never seen so much flooding in my life. It was devastatingly awesome.
@Flick Gaming I looked for it but didn't see it in the video. The video made me remember that year Pangasinan was devastated by that massive flood.
@@abuyousefali We had a house there, the flood was up to the roof. But i believe you were lied to, the dam didn’t really break, the management decided to open the floodgates to drain out water before the San Roque dam risked damage, the flood was caused by the excessive draining. They should have drained out water long before but they got greedy and used the heavy rain to fill up the dam. It was a gamble, it didnt pay off but in Philippines the dam operators dont have to pay for damages and deaths they cause so why take precautions?
@@pflaffik Yeah, that water was intense. I rode a motorbike through the countryside after everything cleared up, and it was devastating.
I Googled what you said about the dam. That is sad, but I can believe it. Corruption is the major reason why I decided that I could not settle in the Philippines. Beautiful country and relaxed life in the province, but the police and officials were corrupt. I got asked for money by immigration and harassed by cops a couple of times.
If the country ever got its act together, it would definitely be on my radar for a place to settle.
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9:00 this whole situation is so intense. They warned him in the nik of time and the fear in the dudes voice sounded so sad
Wow, you're not joking. That was definitely the "move your ass or you're going to die" tone!
@@apancher exactly what it was lol well put
I love the content you create! Keep it up!
0:52 notice how it’s really green at the bottom that means the grass is getting water from the dam, it’s seeping
Could be, that dam was a waste reservoir of an iron mine, so i don't know how much water there was on the mixture. All i know is it was really heavy, hundreds of people died and the ones responsible got off easy.
And then they were caught sleeping..
Illegal tailings dam with copper sulphate or unwanted copper ore. Oxidised copper turns green.
@@paultrappiel9943 actually, until that point, they were legal.
These are all so freaking infuriating.
People just casually strolling around... Like, get the hell out of there.
I remember when I first saw that clip of the Brumadinho disaster, that is some of the most terrifying stuff I’ve ever seen.
That huge embankment literally liquefying and unleashing a surging wall of hideous toxic waste that takes everything in front of it.
Brazilians are only good at building chaos.
Brazil is like: find the cheapest way of doing it, and then somehow build it for half the amount.
Roads, houses, dams, etc.
@@marcusbrsp that's the government of all countries. Every engineering project goes to the lowest bidder.
@@matthewclark6239 They were talking about corruption.
time stamp?
5:23 the guy driving road grader I'm sure got spoken to about his decision to block the road and make sure those other 2 vehicles got stuck.🤦
I thought that too however the mud and water blocked the road anyway…they were doomed for not running straight up the hill. Driving on a road parallel to the flooding wasn’t a good plan.
@@johnkruton9708 atleast one car could have gotten threw if they didn't try to back the grader up the hill. I get trying to save big equipment but that's selfish. When you see those other cars trying to move don't be a tool. Poor choice.
@@johnkruton9708 hell, he could have pulled over the grader, gotten out of it and get in the first vehicle. The second driver hops out and into the first car they would have made it, atleast off screen which to the left looks like it's slopes kinda up. When a flash flood hits you need to move quick. Not clog up the only road with a vehicle that doesn't go over 10mph. Let alone in reverse lol
@@johnkruton9708 imagine if the owner of the company is the driver of one of those 2 vehicles. Wow that person I don't think would be given a chance to explain. Fired immediately. Alot of bad choices were made in a few seconds.
With that amount of water and mud I wouldn't be surprised if some of the folks in those vehicles perished as a result
In none of these projects do I see escape routs for the folks at the bottom. Plenty of long, flat roads that follow the river. Nothing that goes uphill and away from danger. Just rocky gorges. Deathtraps.
I don't know what these "folks" are, but people at the bottom should follow either emergency procedures (which they evidently didn't) or in worst case, seek stable ground at the higher elevation
The damn break at the one minute mark is absolutely terrifying. I don’t know if that’s a house or something near the bottom right hand side of the screen, but the force that thing gets hit with is unfathomable. If you look closely it looks like maybe there is a vehicle pulling around the back of it 😳
Yeah there were vehicles, around the top right of the video. 😭😭😭 1:27 you can see a sedan trying to decide which way to go. I don't know what to expect except the worst.
Lots of people died in that one
You can see people running too towards the building, on the dirt road... Like lots of them pretty sure they all died instantly.
@@creeperFIN123 where did you see that?!
@@Libz at 1:00 the car on the dirt road starts going right on the screen and you can see in the following seconds movement on the road its a group of people that start running to the left.
A powerful reminder of the need for precision and caution in every task.
This is one of the best, if not the best dam failure compilation videos on the internet! Nice job!
That guy who held the barrier up and let the cars out is a hero
'Just drive through the sucker!
Unlike the operator of the grader. Backing up at a snails pace while dude in the truck and the other vehicle get f Ed. Jack ass
That’s exactly what I would’ve done. Screw that damn thing 😂
0:36 On the morning of May 14, 2019, at 8:05 am local, the dam's 90-year-old middle spillway unexpectedly collapsed, nearly draining the lake by day's end. The lower, concrete portion of the dam remains in place. The collapse was due to ageing structural steel.
Primary inflows: Guadalupe River
Location: Guadalupe County, Texas
Water volume: 5,900 acre⋅ft (0.0073 km3)
Sounds about Texas
@@kbanghart Yup that's it.
11:30 imagine being a tourist at a dam, hearing a loud bang, then seeing all the dam employees running at/past you and jumping the turnstiles. a real buttclinching "if you see me running, try to keep up" moment.
0:11 lake Dunlap - that looks like the design has a vertical wall keeping the water in? Why would that not be triangular in profile to give the dam a wider base?
can someone explain to me what was happening at the colombia location where it looked like there were 100+mph winds shooting out of the tunnel?
Water coming down the tunnel & pushing the air ahead of it. Same as the rush of air you get ahead of a tube/subway/underground train coming into a station. A dead cert sign that the water is coming & going over to watch is a bad idea.
@@chrisharris4740 ahh i see. thank you. well that makes that part a whole lot scarier but 100mph? winds shooting out of a hole in the mountain/dam can't be good. wouldnt be filming from where that guy did
@@utpharmboy2006 Well the water was going at a hell of speed when it came out, so the rush of air ahead of it would be moving pretty quick. There seems to be a theme on flood/landslide/avalanche etc videos on youtube where people appear to be attracted towards the danger.
@@chrisharris4740 deer in headlights effect, i guess
People getting into vehicles when this happens. SMH! Just get to higher ground!
At least the ones at 11:30 had the sense to run for it.
The scariest thing about this video? The dates. These are all relatively recent, shocking to think this sort of thing still happens, it’s terrifying to think what this does to the environment in addition to the cost of life, both human and animals
I live on what used to be Sanford lake, it's gone, washed down river into Saginaw Bay then Lake Huron.
3 dams actually failed that night! Thank goodness the warning system was up to par. They knew this was a real possibility for over 15yrs us locals have been screaming for repairs to be made but once again politicians did nothing. Arguing over who was to pay. Very lucky so few were hurt. But our town was wiped out, still the dams haven't even been touched.
Our super smart government officials raised the lake level 3" for some dam mussel that was found in Wixom lake. The collapse happened days after but nobody's talking about that either. God help our country because our politicians sure aren't!
My condolences. The two Chicago trust fund babies who owned those dams, the Boyce brothers, should never have been permitted to own such a thing. They were utterly unqualified either professionally or financially to own them and bought them as a tax dodge to shelter the proceeds of the sale of an office building in Chicago. Too many similar structures in this country are in the hands of people or entities unqualified to operate them.
Easily the best dam video on UA-cam
Tapovan Dam failure footage is well captured and looks truly horriffic.
It’s very important to have a Beaver as a consultant when building any dam.
Well I'll be dam ! You gotta love those dam failures ! Dam water every where ! Thank you for the video🤔😳
what an intriguing video! it’s fascinating to see these dam failures up close, but i can’t help but wonder if the media tends to overemphasize these events. isn’t it possible that we could focus more on preventive measures rather than sensationalizing the failures?
You know what's crazy. Being from Oroville I drove over the spillway plenty of times. Seeing the water release from the top looks so miniscule. To imagine that amount of water totally wrecking the spillway is insane. Water is truly underestimated
@No Name I might have a hard time explaining this. The outflow at the spillway I've seen for 20+ years is no higher than half a foot of flowing water maybe less. Pressurized water is indeed powerful though. Even the general publicly sold pressure washers can cut your skin badly.
as a kid i always thought water-type pokemon were weak af, they just threw water, a liquid i drink, the fire pokemon were the strong ones, because you know, fire burns! my opinion has since changed, water can be truly terrifying!
The power of water has always fascinated me.
Youre 80% it
its heavy
I'm more impressed with the power of the God that created water!
The air coming out that tunnel was terrifying
Where’s the dragon?
To think just a few loose bolts is enough to make an entire dam explode
That's actually terrifying
12:15 not the hero we deserve, but the hero we needed.
Excellent footage, great job!
I live 45 miles northwest of Orroville. It was intense watching it on the news.
Big thanks to engineers who make this video possible.. without engineer helps we cant able to see this great video.
Again thanks a lot to engineers
0:51 Notice in the dam wall, half to right, there was engeneers measuring possible movement on the wall, running for their lives. From where I remember none of them made it.
It was a 272 deaths and an immeasurable nature damage, because that water was from mining and highly toxic. Entire rivers were killed, all the life in it, cities had their water suply destroyed. Thousands suffered this disaster. The whole country had stop to what it in TV. We had weeks of coverage.
That's horrible. RIP
Amazing footage thx for uploading 👍😊
Those turbines must be under an incredible amount of pressure.
Yes. Huge amount of pressure from society to do its job well. 🥲
What were those random blasts of wind/air in the Hidroituango Dam Failure?
"You flood everything"
"Why?"
"Because you are a damn failure"
Good one, Prince!
I really appreciate this video!!
In Loas, that one guy in the tractor really screwed those two guys over behind him.
Dams are by far one of the scariest things I know, it feels unsettling just being near one, imagine one collapsing
My Knee-jerk reaction to every collapse was to just say "damn" 😂
The worst engineering disaster in history was a dam in Europe in the early 1960s. Many people were killed and injured. Whole villages,towns swept away.
Vajont ( italy) 1963
gg :/
However, Vajont as dam did not burst at all.
Not actually, China had it worse. The worst ever dam disaster was in China, 1975. We're talking about 170.000 to 240.000 deaths.
@@EnoD1 China is a overcrowded shithole so those 200.000 deaths didnt hurt anyone
Our town lost its lake in 1986 after excessive rains. The damage broke & everything was swept out to the local river, which led to a Great Lake. Dead fish & deer were found in trees. Thankfully, it was fall, the off season. No one was killed. The damage was repaired & we got our lake back. It was never the same though.
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Can't imagine mullapperiyar and Idukki dams collapse together 😨
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I can’t believe that these events don’t make the news. Seems like a good lesson to learn from our mistakes. But nope.
The events that happened in Brazil at least were all over the national news for several months. They were horrible catastrophes with hundreds of deaths, the water/sludge completely destroyed the town(s) nearby. Thankfully because of this the government and the company responsible for the dams are now ensuring that the infrastructure is properly maintained 😁
Lol....”news.”
the news is a joke. they only report about stuff they wanna report about, its very biased.
This video has a great quality of content! Contratulations and thanks for sharing
All other things aside, most people (including myself) forget that water has *WEIGHT.* I can only imagine how much it weighs when it's being confined to one spot in a dam. Even the most well-constructed dams wear down after several years and are prone to fail.
How do you “forget” this!?
You’re one of the guys standing next to the dam when it breaks aren’t you?
You're projecting. Most people don't forget water has weight, I've never met anyone before who has forgotten that obvious fact. You should say "i forget that water has weight" and not say "most people". Don't put your thoughts on others/us
@@SoulDelSol calm down u basement dwelling freak
uhh, I’ve never forgotten about water having weight.
I don't think "prone" means what you think it means.