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What does Practical Engineering have to say about the Synthetic Floods resulting from the failure of the 3 Gorges Dam? One would think that this travesty would be addressed specifically in a video of this nature. Was the data insufficient for engineers to calculate this probability? Was the risk and damaged incurred expected?
Hey Grady, the other day I saw a bunch of oval pipes laid out for a road construction project along I-75. Can you do a video on them? They looked similar to some of the "elliptical concrete pipes" I found on Google, but not exactly. And they weren't the ovoid ones either. I thought circles had the larger idk, mouth area? But another website says "Elliptical pipe has a slightly greater capacity than round pipe." But why? And why are some horizontal and others vertical? Does it have to do with the water level getting to the widest part quicker or something? Or does debris collect in the bottom better? I don't know, it's just a suggestion. Plus, you could cover the other shapes and the reasons for them as well (Arch, rectangular, ovoid, etc.)
Grady is a rare case of a UA-cam creator who's use of stock footage isn't lazy and actually provides context, rather than fill in the gaps. Great work, as always!
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Reminds me of my favourite engineering joke: Pessimist: Glass is half-empty Optimist: Glass is half-full Engineer: Glass is twice as big as it needs to be
I'm a simple engineer: I see dams, I press Like 👍 I think that a video on how dams manage their release during a flood could also be interesting, most people don't know all the different implications. Nice work as always!!!
One element that is very important in this "invented storm" is how that rainfall is distributed over time. Here in the desert it doesn't rain much, but when it rains, it pours. All that water can come down in 10 minutes or so. As you can imagine, that can cause a lot of problems.
The way you speak your script is incredibly encouraging. We want to listen to you, learn and it's not boring at all. Wish I had teachers like you when I was younger. Great video!
7:23 shout out to Minneapolis, Minnesota's downtown. That was St. Anthony Falls which has been modified with an concrete skirt to protect the falls from erosion. In the background, was the milling district where all the west bank flour mills used to operate. You can actually see the ruins of a mill that burned down and was re-purposed as Mill City Museum. St Anthony Falls has a fascinating engineering history for those interested. Thanks for showing a cameo of my home!
You are brilliant at explaining engineering concepts, please do a video on spanning. I can't get my head around the videos which currently exist on UA-cam.
I think that's a wise choice to put the advertisement at the end of the video. Cuz when it's right in the middle it pisses you off. But if it's at the end I'm more willing to watch it.
I absolutely love the way you talk about all these everyday things (good example being pavement) in such an interesting and professional way. Your Videos are always super high quality and easy to follow, without being overly simple. Definitely one of my favorite channels!
I grew up in a town in Washington State that had regular seasonal flooding. It always boggled my mind that so many people built their homes in the lowlands. They flooded every year, but nothing was built on stilts or mounds. Our house happened to be up on a hill at the edge of the valley, so we never had to worry. But so many people I know lost homes after repeated flooding.
Oh! At 8:44 you used footage of "Les Neuf Ecluses" ("The Nine Locks") from the town where I grew up in Béziers in the south of France, an amazing piece of 17th century civil engineering! I've been enjoying your videos for a while, and it makes me happy to recognise a little bit of home in one of them!
The most "cost effective" local waterway in my town was a culvert we rebuilt every 1-2 years roughly 20 times until we finally built a bridge. Whole thing would just wash a quarter roadway away into the sea every summer
That is when "cost effective" is really not, i.e. the Bureaucrat says we can only spend so much on non-voting objects so there is more left for voting objects and hey, if we have to repair it, we have 'grateful friends' to do it at government rates. Oh Well.
Fascinating videos. I'm in school for mechanical engineering and I absolutely love relaxing and watching these videos. Thank you for putting in all the hard work! Stay safe and healthy!
Hi Grady, I know you may never see this but I wanted to let you know how much I love your videos - they make civil engineering so accessible and show just how interesting it can be. I'm 17 and discovered your channel about a year ago. I can wholeheartedly say they inspired me to pursue a degree in civil engineering and I'm so glad I found them! Thank you for inspiring the next generation of civil engineers!
Thank you for your videos Grady. Im a mechanical engineer and dont realy need to learn these things but i still really enjoy watching youre relaxed and easily digested videos on my free time. You have a soothing and enjoyable composure/presentation and you deliver videos that are easy and intuitive to understand.
I swear this channels upload schedule is bound to my university's curriculum. Just started our semester about water management and here Grady is already explaining everything for me!
I want to thank you. I am currently, after not being in school for 10 years, going to school on track to become a (likely mechanical) engineer. Your channel makes the idea of going into this field I so often hear talked about as being ridiculously difficult less intimidating.
Upvote for baby and family time! It is good to see a dad being portrayed in a positive light. I have always loved your content, but this representation mattered more to me than all of the knowledge you've given me over the last year or so since I first found your channel. Wishing you all the best in the new year; those littlest years are the best in many ways
I love your videos a lot, not because I am so much into waste water management, but because they open up a new perspective into these world that surrounds me. And I love your videos because you present your knowledge in a very friendly way, and your presentation is always designed so that I as a non-professional can easily understand them. Your choice of pictures, models and animations helps a lot with this, alongside with your explanations which are understandable. Great videos!
My grandfather was a CivE for the Army Corp of Engineer, and helped build the levees, locks, and dams along the Mississippi around St Louis, Mo. Im a CompE, and I find your videos on Hydrological Engineering fascinating.
This episode made me such a big surprise. At 5:39 you used a photo of castle in my town. I'm more surprised because it's on the other side of the globe - Poland. So, picture shows castle in town Oświęcim (which is famous by German death camp during Word war II in Oświęcim or also known as Auschwitz) and river Soła. This picture perfectly fits in topic undersizing the infrastructure, because every time there is rain for two or three days it flooding a little bit area on the picture. That's because there are no little river dams on this river few kilometers earlier in Beskidy mountains, so the water flows just like in upsidedown umbrella down to the river. As always great video, Cheers mate.
I appreciate your intent of putting the promotions at the end of the video, unlike most other channels where it occurs in between disturbing the concentration on the topic. It really helps. Thank you. And a nice informative video as usual. Keep up!
Great video, once upon a time I worked in the Texas Dam Safety Program. Wish I had your video to watch during my training period. You even talked about PMP, PMF and indirectly H&H. Plus you did it in articulate and entertaining manner. Bravo.
10:07 Grady: "... especially with how distractable we are these days" Me: "That's quite the social commentary they put in there" Grady: Dances with baby while cooking Me: "Oh, nevermind"
7:00 You're talking about how flood modelling tells us how tall to make our bridges, but it's clear that this bridge (and Stari Most, the beautiful old bridge in Mostar, Bosnia, which you showed near the start of the video) didn't have its height determined by considerations of flooding. The bridge is the height it is because it's connecting two areas of land at about that height, and because of the desire to have a single span across the river. Making the bridge lower would require a lot of excavation to lower the road at either side, and would require an alternative design: either a flatter, heavier arch, something like a cable-stayed bridge, or a pier in the middle of the river. Thanks for the awesome videos, though. Nitpicks aside, the content is excellent and you explain things really well, so they're fun to watch and informative, too. Also, family cooking time is cute -- possibly the best ads on the internet. :)
I’d love to see a video on the engineering of canals and lock systems. They played a crucial role in the early development of trade, especially in the UK and US.
Great Video as always. Your videos help me understand the greater aspects of Civil Engineering. Seeing St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis at 7:23 was a nice touch
Another quality simplification of a complex subject. Good stuff . You and your team provide a wonderful service here my friend :) My wife is from PA and she grew up in the Johnstown area. We are there quite a bit in non-pandemic times.
Great video as usual. The problem with looking at the past is that it actually tells us little about the future, especially with changing climate. Looking at past records will tend to support underbuilding infrastructure, which fits with the bias of senior decision makers to reduce cost as much as possible. There is a reason that much of our recent infrastructure struggles to get to its planned life where as we are surrounded by Victorian infrastructure that has vastly exceeded its design life and is much more cost effective as a result. We have had a fundamental shift in how we make decisions on major infrastructure designs to a much more short term view.
I have to mention how entertaining the advert in the end was. I am seriously allergic to ads, and I think this was one of the very few times I've enjoyed one.
I love practical engineering! Great channel! I’m also a big fan of the electronic background music, I just hear it and it triggers my mind to get ready to learn about cool things. Infrastructure is cool stuff
When I lived in Panama with my dad, who is a civil engineer, he would try to explain to me how impressed he was with the building of the Canal given the technology of the time. One thing he said that has always stuck with me is all calculations were done without calculators, software and without reference to projects of comparable scale. Maybe you could do a video on the technology used in civil now vs in 1914. Just a thought.
I love your content. Its always interesting and explaining something we see on everyday life. I just wish that the videos where uploaded in 4K, to get a higher bitrate.
I'm from Johnstown PA, and there's stuff all over the place, memorials and whatnot, that talk about the floods. The 1889 flood, the 1936 flood, the 1977 flood. Johnstown just really likes to flood. They were expecting another big one a couple years ago, but it just barely didn't flood that time.
That was very interesting. A lot of us run around every day and never think of the infrastructure beneath and around us...unless it fails, of course. Thanks for always putting out these interesting educational videos. Also, if you can manage to make kale taste good, then you have become a very good cook after all.
Coincidence that YT recommends this video shortly after a huge flood hit parts of Germany and neighbouring countries? A low pressure zone got "trapped" and circled over central Europe for days, dropping massive amounts of rain. Streams and rivers grew massive, in some areas whole districts got swept away. Emergency services and the military are hard at work rescuing people from flooded areas, so far >100 deaths were confirmed, many people are still considered missing.
In the Netherlands we have a 10 square km fully designed area just for this cause. It's called the Waterloopbos...we used it for decades to investigate every single aspect of water flow.
you summarized my job in a good way. thanks for explaining it. I do enjoy sizing bridges and culverts its a very rewarding and important job. Also, you have a cute kitty cat! :D
This video hits close to warm. We had a 500 year storm here In Sandford Michigan and 4 dams on a river broke destroying the town. Fortunately no deaths do to early emergency evacuations
Great Job Grady. I'd love to see more about how stream gauges are designed. Obviously, if you have a perfectly designed channel to measure the volume it should be simple as long as you know the velocity. As a river runner I'm frequently checking stream gauge data to see what river flows are.
I would love to learn so much more on this topic. As you mentioned, and moreso than just about any other video you've done, it feels like you've just scratched the surface of this topic. I want to hear about how civil engineers make the choices they make in these circumstances; how they reach their conclusions.
Have you heard about the deadly flooding event a few weeks ago in waverly Tennessee? Over 20 people died and 19.99 inches of rain fell in a town upstream
I’m a EE student and was just talking about how annoying it would be to deal with the unpredictable weather that civil engineers do. How naive I was to assume you didn’t have it down to a science. Good stuff!
This channel is just perfect. This videos will make the people of tomorrow!. I rather have UA-cam flooded with this videos than " youtubers showing us their top 10 favorite pillows "
Holy. I presented my course conclusion work earlier today about LIDs (sustainable drainage) and this video is a perfect example of how to approach hidrology for people that don't know nothing about it. I wish I had seen it before so I could make my paper more accessible for everyone.
0:24 is the E.B. Eddy Dam in between Ottawa and Gatineau in Canada. That video was likely taken during the 2017 spring floods that was the worst flooding in a century in the area...until spring 2019 when it one upped 2017.
1:28 Wow, that was unexpected, thank you for using an image from Mostar, a truly beutifll city. THat bridge was torn down during the war, and my father was involved in getting it restaurated/ rebuilt. The cities name translates to "Bridge town"
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What does Practical Engineering have to say about the Synthetic Floods resulting from the failure of the 3 Gorges Dam? One would think that this travesty would be addressed specifically in a video of this nature. Was the data insufficient for engineers to calculate this probability? Was the risk and damaged incurred expected?
Hey Grady, the other day I saw a bunch of oval pipes laid out for a road construction project along I-75. Can you do a video on them? They looked similar to some of the "elliptical concrete pipes" I found on Google, but not exactly. And they weren't the ovoid ones either. I thought circles had the larger idk, mouth area? But another website says "Elliptical pipe has a slightly greater capacity than round pipe." But why? And why are some horizontal and others vertical? Does it have to do with the water level getting to the widest part quicker or something? Or does debris collect in the bottom better? I don't know, it's just a suggestion. Plus, you could cover the other shapes and the reasons for them as well (Arch, rectangular, ovoid, etc.)
Practical Engineering Maybe the floods are to drown people who fake ram pump videos.
Well, they shouldn't have made fun of us in high-school.
My Geoscience professor gave a whole lecture on this topic this semester! Plus this ties in well with Economics. Thanks for the great content!
Grady is a rare case of a UA-cam creator who's use of stock footage isn't lazy and actually provides context, rather than fill in the gaps. Great work, as always!
Another quality upload. I know you don't earn as much as other youtubers, but quality over quantity always brings me back
Same here. I prefer quality over quantity. (And googly eyes are always fun)
More hands-on demonstration from Grady would be perfect
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@@ashj_2088 wtf?
Reminds me of my favourite engineering joke:
Pessimist: Glass is half-empty
Optimist: Glass is half-full
Engineer: Glass is twice as big as it needs to be
PERFECTLY BALANCE as all things should be
Commerce: glass is twice as expensive as it meet to be
As a retired EE I always get a laugh out of that joke.
Actually this is a nice joke and relatable for an engineer.
Glass has a safety factor of two
No clickbait titles, no o-face thumbnails, pure class. Thanks and keep it real Grady!
"Hi, I'm Grady and this is Practical Engineering. On today's episode, you won't BELIEVE how much it rains! And find out what engineers did next!"
I'm a simple engineer: I see dams, I press Like 👍 I think that a video on how dams manage their release during a flood could also be interesting, most people don't know all the different implications. Nice work as always!!!
One element that is very important in this "invented storm" is how that rainfall is distributed over time. Here in the desert it doesn't rain much, but when it rains, it pours. All that water can come down in 10 minutes or so. As you can imagine, that can cause a lot of problems.
You're right. The intensity of the design storm is a key component in determining peak flow.
The other thing about those environments is that the extremely dry soil is hard and doesn't start absorbing water right away.
1:30 Mostar bridge in Bosnia! Such a wonderful place, I'm pleasantly surprised to see a beatuiful picture from eastern Europe in this video :)
And I was surprised when I saw it!
The way you speak your script is incredibly encouraging. We want to listen to you, learn and it's not boring at all. Wish I had teachers like you when I was younger. Great video!
7:23 shout out to Minneapolis, Minnesota's downtown. That was St. Anthony Falls which has been modified with an concrete skirt to protect the falls from erosion. In the background, was the milling district where all the west bank flour mills used to operate. You can actually see the ruins of a mill that burned down and was re-purposed as Mill City Museum. St Anthony Falls has a fascinating engineering history for those interested.
Thanks for showing a cameo of my home!
Came to the comments hoping to find out more about that magnificent beast and I am not disappointed.
I am so disappointed in myself for not even recognizing the city I grew up in :(
As a fellow dam engineer, I always get excited when you post an H&H video! You knocked it out of the park yet again. Keep it up Grady!
You are brilliant at explaining engineering concepts, please do a video on spanning. I can't get my head around the videos which currently exist on UA-cam.
I think that's a wise choice to put the advertisement at the end of the video. Cuz when it's right in the middle it pisses you off. But if it's at the end I'm more willing to watch it.
True, and especially here, the sponsor coverage is actually fun to watch
It serves as a nice way to wind down the mental focus, too
I would be unironically excited for a Grady and Fam cooking show
We are longtime Hello Fresh customers, good ad and good product. That’s practical engineering!
1:30 Mostar bridge in Bosnia! Such a wonderful place, I'm pleasantly surprised to see a beatuiful picture from eastern Europe in this video :)
I absolutely love the way you talk about all these everyday things (good example being pavement) in such an interesting and professional way. Your Videos are always super high quality and easy to follow, without being overly simple.
Definitely one of my favorite channels!
I love how you've been discussing primarily drainage in the built environment for 6 months now :D. This piece by piece nuance is good.
I grew up in a town in Washington State that had regular seasonal flooding. It always boggled my mind that so many people built their homes in the lowlands. They flooded every year, but nothing was built on stilts or mounds. Our house happened to be up on a hill at the edge of the valley, so we never had to worry. But so many people I know lost homes after repeated flooding.
nothing like going online and seeing a Practical Engineering video :).
Oh! At 8:44 you used footage of "Les Neuf Ecluses" ("The Nine Locks") from the town where I grew up in Béziers in the south of France, an amazing piece of 17th century civil engineering!
I've been enjoying your videos for a while, and it makes me happy to recognise a little bit of home in one of them!
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@@webchimp Yes, I've been following Tim Traveller's channel for a while, I was stoked when he took the time to visit these!
Great visual showing the continuum of risk. Love the transition.
Congratulations on the baby! Glad you're still finding time to make these vids; I really like and appreciate them.
Come for the engineering, stay for the wholesome family cooking advert
literally dude no one cares what you're saying. Stop commenting.
Right? It's an advertisement that made me smile. 10/10 cute family
The most "cost effective" local waterway in my town was a culvert we rebuilt every 1-2 years roughly 20 times until we finally built a bridge. Whole thing would just wash a quarter roadway away into the sea every summer
That is when "cost effective" is really not, i.e. the Bureaucrat says we can only spend so much on non-voting objects so there is more left for voting objects and hey, if we have to repair it, we have 'grateful friends' to do it at government rates. Oh Well.
Fascinating videos. I'm in school for mechanical engineering and I absolutely love relaxing and watching these videos. Thank you for putting in all the hard work! Stay safe and healthy!
Hi Grady,
I know you may never see this but I wanted to let you know how much I love your videos - they make civil engineering so accessible and show just how interesting it can be. I'm 17 and discovered your channel about a year ago. I can wholeheartedly say they inspired me to pursue a degree in civil engineering and I'm so glad I found them!
Thank you for inspiring the next generation of civil engineers!
Thank you for your videos Grady. Im a mechanical engineer and dont realy need to learn these things but i still really enjoy watching youre relaxed and easily digested videos on my free time. You have a soothing and enjoyable composure/presentation and you deliver videos that are easy and intuitive to understand.
I swear this channels upload schedule is bound to my university's curriculum. Just started our semester about water management and here Grady is already explaining everything for me!
I want to thank you. I am currently, after not being in school for 10 years, going to school on track to become a (likely mechanical) engineer. Your channel makes the idea of going into this field I so often hear talked about as being ridiculously difficult less intimidating.
Upvote for baby and family time! It is good to see a dad being portrayed in a positive light. I have always loved your content, but this representation mattered more to me than all of the knowledge you've given me over the last year or so since I first found your channel.
Wishing you all the best in the new year; those littlest years are the best in many ways
Grady,
I am stoked every time I see you post a new video.
Please keep up the excellent work.
Awesome video, as usual! Whenever I get Grady's notification I know it's gonna be a good day. Thank you for the amazing content!
I love your videos a lot, not because I am so much into waste water management, but because they open up a new perspective into these world that surrounds me. And I love your videos because you present your knowledge in a very friendly way, and your presentation is always designed so that I as a non-professional can easily understand them. Your choice of pictures, models and animations helps a lot with this, alongside with your explanations which are understandable. Great videos!
My grandfather was a CivE for the Army Corp of Engineer, and helped build the levees, locks, and dams along the Mississippi around St Louis, Mo. Im a CompE, and I find your videos on Hydrological Engineering fascinating.
This episode made me such a big surprise. At 5:39 you used a photo of castle in my town. I'm more surprised because it's on the other side of the globe - Poland. So, picture shows castle in town Oświęcim (which is famous by German death camp during Word war II in Oświęcim or also known as Auschwitz) and river Soła. This picture perfectly fits in topic undersizing the infrastructure, because every time there is rain for two or three days it flooding a little bit area on the picture. That's because there are no little river dams on this river few kilometers earlier in Beskidy mountains, so the water flows just like in upsidedown umbrella down to the river.
As always great video,
Cheers mate.
I appreciate your intent of putting the promotions at the end of the video, unlike most other channels where it occurs in between disturbing the concentration on the topic. It really helps. Thank you. And a nice informative video as usual. Keep up!
Great video, once upon a time I worked in the Texas Dam Safety Program. Wish I had your video to watch during my training period. You even talked about PMP, PMF and indirectly H&H. Plus you did it in articulate and entertaining manner. Bravo.
The last two uploads have been fabulous compliments to the Urban and Industrial Water Infrastructure course I'm taking. Thank you!
Great video, always love the content. Perhaps it would have been beneficial to discuss the effects of pervious and impervious area on a watershed!
10:07
Grady: "... especially with how distractable we are these days"
Me: "That's quite the social commentary they put in there"
Grady: Dances with baby while cooking
Me: "Oh, nevermind"
I just realized how well the name Grady works for a civil engineer..
I plan on majoring in civil engineering so thank you for all the amazing information!! This will surely be helpful for me in the future!
Great video, and loved the bit at the end with your family. You guys look so happy, it gives me hope. :)
7:00 You're talking about how flood modelling tells us how tall to make our bridges, but it's clear that this bridge (and Stari Most, the beautiful old bridge in Mostar, Bosnia, which you showed near the start of the video) didn't have its height determined by considerations of flooding. The bridge is the height it is because it's connecting two areas of land at about that height, and because of the desire to have a single span across the river. Making the bridge lower would require a lot of excavation to lower the road at either side, and would require an alternative design: either a flatter, heavier arch, something like a cable-stayed bridge, or a pier in the middle of the river.
Thanks for the awesome videos, though. Nitpicks aside, the content is excellent and you explain things really well, so they're fun to watch and informative, too. Also, family cooking time is cute -- possibly the best ads on the internet. :)
I’d love to see a video on the engineering of canals and lock systems. They played a crucial role in the early development of trade, especially in the UK and US.
Great Video as always. Your videos help me understand the greater aspects of Civil Engineering. Seeing St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis at 7:23 was a nice touch
The image at 8:19 is amazing. It shows just how massive some infrastructure is. The spillway dwarfs the building and the parking lot.
Another quality simplification of a complex subject. Good stuff . You and your team provide a wonderful service here my friend :) My wife is from PA and she grew up in the Johnstown area. We are there quite a bit in non-pandemic times.
Great video, as always. Shout out to the Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver, BC at 1:31
Great video as usual. The problem with looking at the past is that it actually tells us little about the future, especially with changing climate. Looking at past records will tend to support underbuilding infrastructure, which fits with the bias of senior decision makers to reduce cost as much as possible. There is a reason that much of our recent infrastructure struggles to get to its planned life where as we are surrounded by Victorian infrastructure that has vastly exceeded its design life and is much more cost effective as a result. We have had a fundamental shift in how we make decisions on major infrastructure designs to a much more short term view.
I have to mention how entertaining the advert in the end was. I am seriously allergic to ads, and I think this was one of the very few times I've enjoyed one.
I love practical engineering! Great channel! I’m also a big fan of the electronic background music, I just hear it and it triggers my mind to get ready to learn about cool things. Infrastructure is cool stuff
Dutch people: Yes, I might know a thing or two about water management.
The Dutch know two things and they know them well; being tall and water management.
@@Maddolis what if they're tall so they can stand in higher floods
@@timothygooding9544 How did you think the Dutch got so tall? Natural selection, the talles people are tge most likely to survive a flood.
We need a talented European engineer to rival this channel and offer another perspective to the same issues!
The Dutch: NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR ME
When I lived in Panama with my dad, who is a civil engineer, he would try to explain to me how impressed he was with the building of the Canal given the technology of the time. One thing he said that has always stuck with me is all calculations were done without calculators, software and without reference to projects of comparable scale. Maybe you could do a video on the technology used in civil now vs in 1914. Just a thought.
I just got my first internship offer ever, doing hydrology! Grady, you're an inspiration!
I love your content. Its always interesting and explaining something we see on everyday life.
I just wish that the videos where uploaded in 4K, to get a higher bitrate.
I'm from Johnstown PA, and there's stuff all over the place, memorials and whatnot, that talk about the floods. The 1889 flood, the 1936 flood, the 1977 flood. Johnstown just really likes to flood. They were expecting another big one a couple years ago, but it just barely didn't flood that time.
This is my job, and I know it well. But you've summarized the process better than I'd ever be able to. Thanks!
I just wanted to say that I really like this channel, it always makes me learn something new. Thank you for your amazing work!
Greetings from Spain!
That was very interesting. A lot of us run around every day and never think of the infrastructure beneath and around us...unless it fails, of course. Thanks for always putting out these interesting educational videos. Also, if you can manage to make kale taste good, then you have become a very good cook after all.
Coincidence that YT recommends this video shortly after a huge flood hit parts of Germany and neighbouring countries?
A low pressure zone got "trapped" and circled over central Europe for days, dropping massive amounts of rain. Streams and rivers grew massive, in some areas whole districts got swept away. Emergency services and the military are hard at work rescuing people from flooded areas, so far >100 deaths were confirmed, many people are still considered missing.
This channel makes me wish I went into Civil engineering more. I think you would make a great teacher.
In the Netherlands we have a 10 square km fully designed area just for this cause.
It's called the Waterloopbos...we used it for decades to investigate every single aspect of water flow.
Fantastic video, love this playlist!
Your videos are really informative. Keep up the good work. 👍
That was awesome. Really nice presentation and makes me more interested in the topic. Well done man.
Watching this as a dutchman does give me some pride, i'd say we handle our flood risk of the sea pretty damn well
Always great content and your delivery is easy to understand. Thanks. Any chance of doing some more vids on seismic planning for infrastructure?
Great quality as always!
It’s soo sweet to watch you with your family!
you summarized my job in a good way. thanks for explaining it. I do enjoy sizing bridges and culverts its a very rewarding and important job. Also, you have a cute kitty cat! :D
This is the first time I ever watched the full video through and actually watched the ad. That soup turned out pretty good there Grady
2:47 fun fact, the name of the castle is Corvin Castle from Romania.
Your videos are such a treat.
I finally got a job for when i graduate and i'm really happy this channel gave me a lot of engineering background. Thanks for making this interesting.
That little family clip makes me want to buy the hello fresh kit. You made it look amazing
Just did this kind of analysis for a proposed dam in my class. It was super cool and fun, and I have a 150 page report to show for it.
This video hits close to warm. We had a 500 year storm here In Sandford Michigan and 4 dams on a river broke destroying the town. Fortunately no deaths do to early emergency evacuations
Fun fact! That ring dam in the intro has more water flowing through it than the Mississippi, second worst floods ever recorded here in Ottawa.
I thought it looked familiar!
Super interesting, you do a fantastic job of explaining your videos.
That was probably the most wholesome ad I've ever seen on youtube
Thanks for the upload!!
Great Job Grady. I'd love to see more about how stream gauges are designed. Obviously, if you have a perfectly designed channel to measure the volume it should be simple as long as you know the velocity. As a river runner I'm frequently checking stream gauge data to see what river flows are.
I would love to learn so much more on this topic. As you mentioned, and moreso than just about any other video you've done, it feels like you've just scratched the surface of this topic. I want to hear about how civil engineers make the choices they make in these circumstances; how they reach their conclusions.
We love you, Grady! Keep it up.
As a former civil engineer, this is a really great channel. Your videos provide great explanations.
I love your videos. This is another really good one, keep it up! Thank you!
Have you heard about the deadly flooding event a few weeks ago in waverly Tennessee? Over 20 people died and 19.99 inches of rain fell in a town upstream
I’m a EE student and was just talking about how annoying it would be to deal with the unpredictable weather that civil engineers do. How naive I was to assume you didn’t have it down to a science. Good stuff!
Excellent video, as always, thank you
I love your channel man. If I lived in the US I would have bought hallo fresh foods for sponsorship of such easy and quality content.
This channel is just perfect. This videos will make the people of tomorrow!. I rather have UA-cam flooded with this videos than " youtubers showing us their top 10 favorite pillows "
Holy. I presented my course conclusion work earlier today about LIDs (sustainable drainage) and this video is a perfect example of how to approach hidrology for people that don't know nothing about it. I wish I had seen it before so I could make my paper more accessible for everyone.
Your content should be thought in civil engineering classes ,very thorough and well explained ,good work
Another great video! Thank you!
Love your work mate
Why did engineers invent floods?
Because they don't like to get their pants cuffs snagged in the top of their shoes.
ArchEnema 67 fuckin what?!?
Is that why Capri (highwaters) pants were created? 😉
Is that a joke? try again
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n Why try again? They nailed it in one go.
Everything's coming up Millhouse!
I haven't got a mind for maths at all, but you certainly have me interested in infrastructure. Thanks for the content!
There’s maths and there’s simple probabilities. Storms are just simple probabilities.
0:24 is the E.B. Eddy Dam in between Ottawa and Gatineau in Canada. That video was likely taken during the 2017 spring floods that was the worst flooding in a century in the area...until spring 2019 when it one upped 2017.
That jump at the bottom of the spillway at 2:02 , dang.
1:28 Wow, that was unexpected, thank you for using an image from Mostar, a truly beutifll city. THat bridge was torn down during the war, and my father was involved in getting it restaurated/ rebuilt. The cities name translates to "Bridge town"
Truly love this video! Make me appreciate why my city has never had flooding damage