10 Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera

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  • 10 Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera
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  • @mglenn7092
    @mglenn7092 Рік тому +4171

    Edenville Dam: 100 years. I don’t think the problem was caused by the original builders. Seems more like it’s the fault of people thinking it was just going to last forever without adequate maintenance.

    • @marylafrance9547
      @marylafrance9547 Рік тому +185

      Yep, dam owners negligence. So terrible, so sad what happened to those Michiganders. They're rebuilding the dams now but it will be 2 years before the lake comes back.

    • @lifeisshort99
      @lifeisshort99 Рік тому +74

      Looks like water was way too high at Edenville. They should have released water.

    • @ralph1881
      @ralph1881 Рік тому +17

      @@marylafrance9547 likely much longer...5 years probably

    • @TheSecretOfNem
      @TheSecretOfNem Рік тому +136

      I agree. Short cuts don't last for 100 years if short cuts were taken as claimed by the forensics team claims.

    • @sadasfdasfdasfdasfdasf
      @sadasfdasfdasfdasfdasf Рік тому +1

      can i have one plzz

  • @sandysmith9869
    @sandysmith9869 9 місяців тому +124

    Damn those damn dams.

    • @rideshareog
      @rideshareog 2 місяці тому +14

      The evidence is damning.

    • @camimera9195
      @camimera9195 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@rideshareog lmao what's a dam, tho? Sorry, English isn't my first language and i have never seen that word been used as something else than "mother" 😩

    • @Sarah24871
      @Sarah24871 2 місяці тому +1

      Ha, love it! 😄

    • @nishantgilatar
      @nishantgilatar 2 місяці тому +2

      Dam those damn dams

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 24 дні тому

      Where are those builders from the 1920s when they're needed. Get them back to repair their shoddy work. That'll teach them to take "shortcuts" that only last for 100 years.

  • @eily_b
    @eily_b Рік тому +41

    I would NEVER live downstream of a dam. Never. My town suffered an embankment break of a big canal for shipping during construction that was only half full at this time. The destruction was massive and several people died. It was in the 70s and my Dad worked at the port authority for that shipping canal that was already built and was partly in use on the other side of a lock. - And it always amazes me that people try running from water away instead of uphill... And thank you for showing actual dam breaks instead of just water release from dams.

  • @marks1638
    @marks1638 Рік тому +967

    A childhood friend talked about his grandparents living downstream from a dam in West Virginia back in the 50's, while working as a geologist at a nearby coal company. His grandma kept complaining about that dam made her nervous and eventually his granddad got another job in Pittsburgh. About a few years later, the dam collapsed due to heavy rains and failure by the coal company to maintain the spillways properly. Their house was wiped out and several neighbors died from the collapse and subsequent flooding. Turns out grandma had legitimate concerns and a family history of disaster. Grandma's family had been running a farm downstream of the Saint Francis dam in the San Francisquito valley (moved there after WWI as part of the Westward migration of Vets after the war). They had gone to another family's home for a big get together and came back to no farm, no buildings, and no workers. At least a dozen of their Mexican migrant workers died or disappeared that night after the collapse of the dam. They sold off the land to the state water commission (who was frantically trying to cover up the disaster losses). Later when a family member went back (during WWII) they found that state had never counted the dozen migrant workers that his family listed (by name and place of birth) as missing and only one dead (the only migrant from their farm found downstream and identified by her father). Estimates are that over 1,000 people actually died that night and California undercounted the losses (mainly the migrant workers) due the outcry against Los Angeles Water Works and Supply and William Mulholland (a self-taught engineer who designed and built the dam). Most of these disasters were preventable, but due to money and politics many dams were built even though local people (and even competent engineers) thought it was a bad idea.

    • @thecomplexpatient185
      @thecomplexpatient185 Рік тому +10

      Cool

    • @aaronsmith5433
      @aaronsmith5433 Рік тому +22

      "Most disasters are preventable if we hold our inferior supergenius superiors feet to the fire day one!
      Almost all " company " dams fail.
      No one rocks the boat until it sinks."
      Prof. I. Ver Mectin

    • @ratslayer6064
      @ratslayer6064 Рік тому +6

      WV is a bad place for flooding...

    • @kellwood1404
      @kellwood1404 Рік тому +27

      Would you send this info to Forgotten History channel or another similar one? It’s good to pass on this information.

    • @1wesleydb
      @1wesleydb Рік тому +8

      That sounds like the Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia.

  • @paultrigger3798
    @paultrigger3798 Рік тому +46

    I am most disturbed by the person who captured a dam failing in real-time and kept his phone vertical

  • @suneethbabum2207
    @suneethbabum2207 23 дні тому +7

    മുല്ലപെരിയാർ പൊട്ടിയാൽ അപ്പൊ എന്താവും സ്ഥിതി....🙄🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @ralphralpherson9441
    @ralphralpherson9441 Рік тому +34

    I actually saw an ice damn give way on the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh in the 90s. I was with my friend and his uncle helping them retrieve a tow truck that had broken down earlier. We heard a weird creaking and loud booms, we looked back at the river (which is a fairly massive river, its easily 150 yards across down by the city) and saw HUGE truck sized chunks of ice playing leap frog and tumbling down river at a scary fast pace. A few barges had come loose of their moorings and slammed into a RR bridge pylon (the booms). We watched it for a while and then took off to get away from the banks just in case it got worse. The next day the news said flooding damage down in the city had occured. Nature can be scary.

    • @mjleger4555
      @mjleger4555 Рік тому +1

      Indeed! Very scary. Mother Nature does not like her rules disobeyed, and gravity will ALWAYS prevail -- if not today, then tomorrow or in the near or distant future, but nature ALWAYS wins in the long run!

    • @jeffbrooks8024
      @jeffbrooks8024 Рік тому

      Check out the Lake Misoula and Lake Bonneville multiple ice dam floods from 12000 years ago in the Pacific northwest

    • @DrQuagmire1
      @DrQuagmire1 Місяць тому

      @@jeffbrooks8024 let's not forget about the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889 either, where 2208 people sadly lost their lives

  • @DylanSchmidt-gu2sx
    @DylanSchmidt-gu2sx 10 місяців тому +14

    Nature always wins. Nature always finds a way,

    • @ouiroc
      @ouiroc 2 місяці тому +3

      Mother nature always wins stop screwing with her she knows what she's doing

    • @indridcold8433
      @indridcold8433 2 місяці тому

      When someone believes they know what nature is doing is when catastrophes occur. Humans are setting things up for a big catastrophe.

    • @Lovesthecrazystories
      @Lovesthecrazystories Місяць тому +1

      True.

  • @mysteriumxarxes3990
    @mysteriumxarxes3990 Рік тому +97

    im brazilian and the brumadinho dam disaster was widely covered by media. It turns out it was very negligenciated by the VALE corporation, who chose profit over security, and all warnings by specialists were dismissed. It resulted in lots of deaths and the firefighters spent months crawling in the mud to recover the missing bodies. The body recovery operation ended two years later with a handful of bodies still missing. It was a great environmental catastrophe too, doing irreparable damage to the fauna and flora where it passed through, and destroying a couple of rivers. "Fun" fact, 4 years ago a similar dam collapsed from the same corporation, doing the same environmental damage and with lots of human losses, it was the mariana dam incident. Watching the brumadinho dam collapse and its effects felt like I was rewatching the same episode

    • @bobsaget3841
      @bobsaget3841 Рік тому

      No surprise that they chose profit over everything else. The higher ups know all they have to do is pay some bribes and the politicians will leave them alone. There is a special place in hell for the people who allow the negligence to happen and continue to choose profit over the lives of their workers and people.

    • @akiraraiku
      @akiraraiku 10 місяців тому +6

      And your politicians and judges did nothing to punish the company and its executives for their wrongdoings i bet ?

    • @renatacuriosa
      @renatacuriosa 9 місяців тому

      @@akiraraikuof course, they did, but part of the company belongs to Soros. Who fights him?

    • @rabonssons
      @rabonssons 5 місяців тому +5

      A slap on the wrist. They were charged to pay reparations and help the people they wronged. Needless to say, they have missed deadlines and are taking their sweet long time to pay the fine, while rewarding generous bonus to their executives.

    • @mysteriumxarxes3990
      @mysteriumxarxes3990 5 місяців тому +2

      @@rabonssons nothing have happened to them despite the charges. Today their stocks have quadrupled and they are becoming even richier

  • @deanosborn3464
    @deanosborn3464 Рік тому +202

    #10 What the narrator failed to mention is that when the Edenville dam failed, all the water from Wixom Lake went downstream to the Sanford Lake dam in Sanford and caused that one to fail as well.

    • @JenkemJohannes69
      @JenkemJohannes69 Рік тому +2

      then why don't you say it instead?? yeah exactly! you didnt think of it first

    • @precepts6097
      @precepts6097 Рік тому

      @@JenkemJohannes69 What type of stupid ass comment is that

    • @stargate937
      @stargate937 Рік тому +3

      The narrator also states that the footage shown was the initial breach but if one looks deeper in the frame. You can see the initial breach. This breach was only a secondary or tertiary breach as evidenced by the lack of water immediately following the breach

    • @edsnotgod
      @edsnotgod Рік тому +1

      @@stargate937 the water evaporated due to global warming

    • @christycullen2355
      @christycullen2355 Рік тому

      @@JenkemJohannes69 wtf you on about? You off your medication?

  • @RiyazSheikh-zs2wq
    @RiyazSheikh-zs2wq 4 години тому

    Camera man never dies

  • @bryanelam7431
    @bryanelam7431 Рік тому +29

    I don't know about anyone else but for me watching huge pieces of grass sliding down a bank looks crazy & I can't stop watching it.

  • @jessicabuckman9675
    @jessicabuckman9675 Рік тому +50

    I lived in Edenville at one time, I used to wonder what things would look like if the dam in question failed. I used to commute past that area at one time.

    • @yaboypeanutpen8991
      @yaboypeanutpen8991 3 місяці тому

      we lost a lot of good fishing spots that just got reduced to small streams

  • @Astraeus..
    @Astraeus.. Рік тому +5

    As you're watching this here's an extra bit of fun fact just to make you feel extra safe; in the United States there are upwards of 2200 dams which are classified as "high risk" and are in unsafe condition. The average dam inspector in the US has 200 to examine each year, but that average (like average income) is incredibly misleading. Oklahoma has 3 inspectors for 4600 dams. Iowa has 3 for 3900 dams. Long story short, the states don't really seem to give a shit till one actually fails.

    • @dmiche3
      @dmiche3 9 днів тому

      Thanks for quoting those statistics, appreciate the truth being spread... God bless

  • @lynneedwards4538
    @lynneedwards4538 Рік тому +56

    Here in England we had a very near dam failure in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire in about 2019. The dam was on high ground and it would have been catastrophic if it failed. Water was seen leaking from the embankment and towns were on high alert. They managed to drain nearly the entire reservoir into the nearby river, which saved the day. Poor maintenance was blamed on this occasion. The dam is now safe and refilled but I imagine those living nearby will be on high alert for quite some time to come.

    • @churnetvalleyrunner3635
      @churnetvalleyrunner3635 Рік тому +1

      I remember that. I’ve always been interested in Dams and was amazed by the Toddsbrook Dam incident in 2019 with it being so close to home. (I’m from Leek, Staffordshire)

    • @wolfinthewheatfields3224
      @wolfinthewheatfields3224 Рік тому +3

      i hate how they use "poor maintenance" as if people aren't paying huge taxes and property rates to make sure this isn't a thing -_- it should be "failure by local government to provide adequate resource to ensure appropriate upkeep"

    • @gz3zbz
      @gz3zbz Рік тому +1

      Since 2012, the ToddBrook Dam has been owned and operated by the Canal & River Trust, a charitable trust which is only partly government funded. The trust is responsbile for 2000+ miles of canal and river infrastructure including locks, bridges, reservoirs and dams. There are frequent failures, e.g. the Dutton breach, the Middlewich breach, and the Toddbrook Dam failure. Each of these cost many millions of pounds to rectify, further stretching the trust's already depleted resources. Inflation and supply chain difficulties are only making things worse, and government funding looks set to be cut in 2027. If the UK wants to maintain its unique and historic canal system something needs to be done soon.

    • @Menlover42
      @Menlover42 7 місяців тому

      As a Derbyshire citizen I can confirm this scared the shit out of ALL of us.

  • @cydkriletich6538
    @cydkriletich6538 Рік тому +39

    I’ve seen many of the videos in this, but there has never been any info given as to where and why the disaster happened. Thank you for the info you provided along with the visuals.

  • @lennybristol7845
    @lennybristol7845 Рік тому +2

    One thing my 8th grade science teacher would say. Water is the most destructive force. But can never compete against man we destroy everything we touch.

  • @shannonjennings7829
    @shannonjennings7829 Рік тому +7

    The earthen Teton dam collapse in eastern Idaho in 1976 caused alot of damage as well

  • @adriennegormley9358
    @adriennegormley9358 Рік тому +80

    After the 1959 Hebgen quake in southwest Montana, there were fears that the earth fill dam at Hebgen Lake might fail, esp. With the aftershocks. So there were extensive checks on the solidity of the dam after. Since it was also hydroelectric, the examinations were supercritical. Fortunately it didn't fail, but several of the towns downstream were evacuated until the safety checks were done.

    • @bendonaldson9026
      @bendonaldson9026 Рік тому +1

      Hello Adrienne

    • @AlanTClark
      @AlanTClark 11 місяців тому +1

      Yes! And that is the way it should be! Better, safe than sorry, it's better to evacuate and may irritate some people. But it's for their own good!

    • @JesusChristWon
      @JesusChristWon 10 місяців тому +1

      Jesus loves u!!

    • @MeanBeanComedy
      @MeanBeanComedy 9 місяців тому +1

      Hey, that's actually awesome! Thanks for sharing a positive story! 😁👍🏻

    • @tjs200
      @tjs200 9 місяців тому

      is that the same earthquake that created quake lake and the giant mountain landslide?

  • @calebcaron4566
    @calebcaron4566 Рік тому +9

    11:11 the dude running is a lot smarter then the camera man 😂😂😂

  • @metatechhd
    @metatechhd Рік тому +8

    👍🤔💭
    it's unlikely that the original builders could have foreseen the issues that caused the Edenville Dam failure. It's unfortunate that the necessary maintenance and updates were not prioritized, leading to such a devastating event. It's important to remember that infrastructure requires ongoing attention and care in order to remain functional and safe. This is especially true for dams, which can have catastrophic consequences if they fail.

  • @reenactorrob7901
    @reenactorrob7901 Рік тому +4

    Hurricane Agnes in the 1970's broke dams along the entire east coast. My town lost its reservoir dam, a downstream hydroelectric dam, a 100 year old steel girder bridge, Rt. 1 Bridge and one of two spans on I-95. The railroad bridge survived. There was 10 feet of water over the hydro dam before it burst. No water or school for a week. Electricity out for days too.
    Nothing like the Johnstown floods(two) from broken dams in Pennsylvania. The one in the 1880's killed 2000+.

  • @bigshotcj1966
    @bigshotcj1966 Рік тому +51

    The first one is near my home, the flooding was terrible lots of farms were devastated, it could have been avoided if our governor wouldn't have refused funding to redo the 100 year old dam.

    • @kevinmcconnell3641
      @kevinmcconnell3641 Рік тому

      Dollar to a donut he’s a member of the Party of Liars Cheats and Thieves!

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Рік тому +1

      I see the point abd I wouldn't disagree, but I was always very confused at the idea of setting up anything of value under a dam. Jmo.

  • @arkadikharovscabinetofcuri3465
    @arkadikharovscabinetofcuri3465 Рік тому +10

    “There it goes, there it goes… there we go, there’s the rush”. Most Michigan comment ever

  • @Prolegomena1781
    @Prolegomena1781 Рік тому +8

    Tom’s vertical filming truly deserved 1# most catastrophic dam failures.

  • @leticiarodriguez7349
    @leticiarodriguez7349 Рік тому +12

    ESTO QUE MIRO PASO MUCHOS AÑOS ATRAS,PERO ROMPE EL CORAZON 💔 😢 😔 😪

    • @peglegpowell
      @peglegpowell Рік тому +1

      SIMILAR POR MI
      ESTA LOCO NO SAVE NADA

  • @TomGiraffe
    @TomGiraffe Рік тому +74

    In 2018 my grandparents sold their property on wixom lake. We were upset cause it was a great vacation spot. But my grandparents old cottage on the lake could be seen from the overhead view of the failed dam. Crazy how lucky we got with not being stuck with that property.

    • @milan.2412
      @milan.2412 Рік тому +13

      Crazy how unlucky the next owners got.

    • @ArchMonHoK
      @ArchMonHoK Рік тому +2

      You missed the $$Millions but hey atleast you are safe!

    • @zawlee70
      @zawlee70 Рік тому

      az nem véletlen baleset volt, vannak fent képek (google earth), hogy az északi fal közepénél van egy robbanásból eredő kráter és kifröccsenés és ebből eredeztethető a sarok kiszakadása

  • @skatetwopurt
    @skatetwopurt Рік тому +3

    10:00 beautiful cinematography

  • @odilaristow3147
    @odilaristow3147 Рік тому +5

    Lembro como se fosse hoje com tristeza..😢

  • @rylan.s
    @rylan.s Рік тому +26

    Next you should make most terrifying things in space

  • @treethegreat52890
    @treethegreat52890 Рік тому +47

    Living in Northern California just south of Auburn (#7). We can go months with no rain, then all of a sudden get hit with several inches of rain. Mix that with steep mountains and narrow gorges and you can get really bad flash floods.

    • @nerblebun
      @nerblebun Рік тому

      @Treethegreat: I base jumped off the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge (730ft.) before it was open to vehicle traffic on Labor Day 1973. 🏴‍☠
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresthill_Bridge

    • @ratslayer6064
      @ratslayer6064 Рік тому

      Sounds like WV except it rains all the time

    • @Seasidecc95437
      @Seasidecc95437 Рік тому +3

      That, and it was planned on an earthquake fault.

    • @bigrigJim
      @bigrigJim Рік тому +1

      when they get a warm rain and it melts the snowpack it really floods bad. That's what happened in 1986.

    • @ranjapi693
      @ranjapi693 Рік тому

      I can relate. We got mudslides last year -heavy summer storms with pouring rain just at a few places combined with steep mountains- that brought down half the mountain. Despite having nets and iron bars built into the exposed flanks, that mudslide/stoneslide went right over it. Streets, houses, villages gone, rocks as big as a wheel loader lying around. Just a few kilometers farther, nothing happened.

  • @thebassinprogressive9399
    @thebassinprogressive9399 Рік тому +35

    Ice dam guy: "Holy smokes!" and "Oh my gosh!" Nice family friendly exclamations there. I think I would have sounded more like Richard Pryor.

  • @5MURF1NAT0R
    @5MURF1NAT0R 10 місяців тому +2

    I lived a little ways (fortunately upstream) away from Edenville and it was absolutely poir maintenance and neglect that caused it. The owner was warned so many times that it was in very poor condition and needed immediate action but he refused to do anything.

  • @defconone1498
    @defconone1498 7 днів тому

    "When building the dam in the 1920's, they took a shortcut... CLASSIC!". Still doing that today!

  • @valitino2704
    @valitino2704 Рік тому +15

    One of the most disastrous failure of a dam was the Vajont dam failure in Italy in 1963. About 2000 people lost their lives.

    • @pennypay1
      @pennypay1 Місяць тому

      I saw seconds-from-disaster type of programs about the Vajont dam failure and also the one at Stava dam. The episodes featured accounts from survivors who lost family members. Absolutely grim and terrifying to get caught in a disaster like that.

  • @francoisdvanderwesthuizen6772
    @francoisdvanderwesthuizen6772 Рік тому +4

    9.59 I love it how someone finds some fun among a harsh situation...

  • @valuedhumanoid6574
    @valuedhumanoid6574 7 місяців тому +1

    I grew up on the Mississinawa reservoir/river in Indiana. My grandparents had a cottage downstream from the spillway. I believe the spillway tunnel is 40 feet in diameter and can remember some years of heavy rains the reservoir would back up all the way to Marion and they would open it up as far as they could. It used to scare the bejesus out of me. Our dock being submerged and that water rushing by. It's a powerful sight when they crack it open. The sirens, the roar of the water, the spray...especially at night.

  • @miker0103
    @miker0103 Рік тому +4

    These were all pretty terrifying and destructive, except #1…

  • @stanley13579
    @stanley13579 Рік тому +32

    I wish I had a dollar for every video someone filmed in portrait.

    • @applebee9060
      @applebee9060 Рік тому +4

      It really annoying. 😄

    • @Jay57T
      @Jay57T Рік тому +2

      You're a complainer! Me too. It bothers me that it's billed as Dam Failures Caught On Camera, but most of the failures were NOT caught on camera.

    • @rollinmark8952
      @rollinmark8952 Рік тому

      Must be cell phones, eh?

    • @applebee9060
      @applebee9060 Рік тому

      @@rollinmark8952 most likely.

  • @user-jm8sy5ox2j
    @user-jm8sy5ox2j Рік тому +22

    The edenville dam has a bit more complicated of a story than just poor management.
    It used to be operated and maintained by the state government but a couple decades ago it was sold to a private operator who didn't want to spend the money to maintain the dam

  • @datsuntoyy
    @datsuntoyy 10 місяців тому +9

    I'm thinking that a damn that lasted 100 was built correctly. Sounds like it held up pretty good to me.
    This has been a pretty dam good video.

    • @yaboypeanutpen8991
      @yaboypeanutpen8991 3 місяці тому +3

      7 months later but i lived downstream of the dam when it failed. it was built correctly the owner just failed multiple inspections before hand and chose to pay the fine instead of fix it. got sued by most of the people in the city

    • @bullgravy6906
      @bullgravy6906 15 днів тому

      @@yaboypeanutpen8991it’s stuff like this that leave me conflicted on fines over flatout jail time. If an owner makes $10M off a thing, but needs to spend $15M to repair it or pay a $1M fine it’s pretty obvious what choice they’re making

  • @akiraraiku
    @akiraraiku 10 місяців тому +2

    Frejus dam broke in France almost 60 years ago.
    A wall of water tens of meters high was sent hurling downstream a the speed of a car.
    Many people died.

  • @rihamy2nd
    @rihamy2nd Рік тому +5

    @1:15 imagine being present for an event such as that and choosing to shoot in portrait mode.

  • @mjleger4555
    @mjleger4555 Рік тому +88

    Dams can be very scary things -- I would NEVER live right below one or even a number of miles down from one! Good narration, thanks for posting these interesting situations!
    We have been in a warming trend for two decades, and moisture that normally held soil together, is waning and we are seeing the effects of that now. With lack of moisture to hold soil together, the soil is breaking loose and causing landslides in many places today! Gravity always rules! If the trees are the kind that have taproots, they may hold, but those trees whose roots spread out under the soil instead of growing straight down, will lose their hold in floods.

    • @kevindonahue2251
      @kevindonahue2251 Рік тому +3

      Most damn failures and landslides are actually caused by too much moisture in the soil, which lubricates things and allows the failure to occur. Or at least that's typically the case here in the western US.

    • @timbroski4487
      @timbroski4487 Рік тому +3

      I live in the Netherlands, around 4 meters below sea level. The only thing that keeps us from flooding is a series of dikes. It's not that scary when you know the building and maintenance is done by competent people who studied years for this exact job

    • @mjleger4555
      @mjleger4555 Рік тому

      ​@@kevindonahue2251 Liquefaction has a different set of rules! I would NEVER live at an elevation below any dam. But I think the Netherlands is very aware of dams and dikes and should the sea level rise more, they'll just heighten and brace their dikes! Here's some dams that could have probably had better construction:
      The St. Francis Dam in California in 1928, Death Toll: 600
      The Buffalo Creek Flood - United States (1972) Death Toll: 125
      Mill River Dam Collapse - United States (1874) Death Toll: 139
      Gleno Dam Failure - Italy (1923) Death Toll: 356
      Malpasset Dam Disaster - France (1959) Death Toll: 423
      Pantano De Puentes Dam Failure - Spain (1802) Death Toll: 608
      Vajont Dam Failure - Italy (1963) Death Toll: 2000
      South Fork Dam Disaster - United States (1889) Death Toll: 2209
      Machchhu II Dam Collapse - India (1979) Death Toll: 1800-15000
      Banqiao Dam and Shimantan Reservoir Dam Disaster - China (1975) Death Toll: 171000.
      Those were ALL tragedies that probably could have been avoided with better planning and more precaution. But it's "water under the bridge" now; VERY in apropos adage now, considering the above-named catastrophes!
      Still, other countries could take a lesson from your called Hans Brinker, the Dutch boy who saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike Netherlands!

    • @everythingsalright1121
      @everythingsalright1121 10 місяців тому

      Id live below one if i had any faith in the companies that build and own them to do their jobs right

  • @nickllama5296
    @nickllama5296 Рік тому

    That dude filming #8 has absolutely NO FEAR whatsoever. Brrr....

  • @wesongachrispinus1064
    @wesongachrispinus1064 10 місяців тому +8

    I once resided in Edenville, and I often pondered the potential aftermath if the dam in question were to fail. There was a period when I would commute past that very area

    • @TheFunkIsThis
      @TheFunkIsThis 8 місяців тому +2

      Woah dude this is why I get high yall got crazy stories.

    • @TheColtLockwoodRealm
      @TheColtLockwoodRealm 7 місяців тому

      LOL MICHIGAN REC BABY@@TheFunkIsThis

  • @levrivera
    @levrivera Рік тому +5

    Thanks for posting an actually good natural disaster video

  • @24934637
    @24934637 Рік тому +68

    Almost had a dam collapse here in the UK, caused by a poor design over 100 years ago, and no effective remedial work being carried out. Although it IS a relatively tiny dam, the damage it would have caused would have been immense. NEVER underestimate the power of water!

    • @joeKisonue
      @joeKisonue Рік тому +1

      Potential energy stored in massive perportians. Indeed. Crafting a disaster battery should be done by professionals alone

    • @24934637
      @24934637 Рік тому +1

      @@joeKisonue LOL, love that phrase 'disaster battery'!

    • @marnixkamminga8083
      @marnixkamminga8083 Рік тому +11

      Always wonder how much you can blame century old design. Often people are just playing captain hignsight. It was a century ago they just had sliderulers,really limited testing options and rule of thumb. I mean come on

    • @jmobbinfoo4838
      @jmobbinfoo4838 Рік тому +7

      @@marnixkamminga8083 Boy am I glad I didn't have to scroll too far to find This Comment. You're exactly right, I'm sure these were state-of-the-art top notch damns for the time period they were built. Everyone's commenting like some farmers got together and shoveled a bunch of dirt into a mound and called it a damn. Lol The dams were Engineered and built to the best of their abilities for that time period.

    • @alexandervlaescu9901
      @alexandervlaescu9901 Рік тому +4

      @@jmobbinfoo4838 Yeah at the time they probably were state of the art. The problem comes when even after 100 years you do nothing to keep them up to date.

  • @davidbailey9464
    @davidbailey9464 10 місяців тому

    Holly crap. That was some scary stuff for sure. I can't believe all of that has happened within the last 3 years.

  • @pmangano
    @pmangano Рік тому +3

    The brumadinho dam failure was far from "without warnings", a lot of the vale do rio doce dam's have poor maintenance and have been neglected by the company, having mariana then brumadinho happen so close to each other is no coincidence. That's no chance, that's criminal neglect.

  • @allangibson8494
    @allangibson8494 Рік тому +16

    Red mud is primarily a mixture of concentrated caustic soda and iron oxide. Caustic soda does really nasty things to skin. It is what you get when you wash the stuff that isn’t aluminium oxide out of bauxite ore.

    • @robertschafer287
      @robertschafer287 Рік тому

      How do yk this

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Рік тому +3

      @@robertschafer287 Working in the industry. Red mud is EXTREMELY caustic with a pH of 10 to 13. Anything organic that lands in it dissolves into soaps.
      The caustic sodium oxide component can be washed out and recovered for reuse and a lot of modern plants do do that.
      The iron content is on par with low grade iron ores (which is where the colour comes from).

    • @drophammer776
      @drophammer776 Рік тому

      Similar with cement burn or worse? Thanks for the info 👍🏻

    • @dianawarner2654
      @dianawarner2654 Рік тому

      I live in bauxite Arkansas an there is a lot of red mud here

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Рік тому +2

      @@drophammer776 Much much worse.
      Sodium forms a soluble material with organics. Calcium not so much. So the corroded skin surface simply washes off with red mud exposing the tissues below.

  • @timmcgrath8742
    @timmcgrath8742 Рік тому +13

    Time 13:00 "A backhoe tries to reverse away from danger..." Errr, no, that's a grader. A backhoe is something completely different...

    • @ordinarydevin
      @ordinarydevin Рік тому +2

      I just made this same comment. Damn city slickers.

  • @ouiroc
    @ouiroc 2 місяці тому +1

    Mother nature always wins

  • @sorbethyena3828
    @sorbethyena3828 Рік тому +1

    amazing video nice footage and crazy stories, 2:21 is wild

  • @digitalmedia4962
    @digitalmedia4962 Рік тому +70

    thumbs up to Tom who risked his life so we could see the horrible icy water rushing towards him and stand there filming it bravely.

    • @Phil-Sands
      @Phil-Sands Рік тому +17

      Thumbs down for filming in portrait mode 😂😂😂😂

    • @redsox656
      @redsox656 Рік тому +4

      love that lil ol Vermont is the number 1 hahaha we see that shit every spring, Tom just caught a good one at the perfect time. Still certainly very dangerous

    • @Prov3xx
      @Prov3xx Рік тому +5

      I love the sarcasm

    • @jdsheleg8332
      @jdsheleg8332 Рік тому +3

      It was actually really stupid, risking your life just to get some video. Pretty lame to be number 1.

    • @jimbobbiocarumba1770
      @jimbobbiocarumba1770 Рік тому +15

      250 people in Brazil died while eating lunch, but Tom got his shoes wet, for #1!!

  • @katiekane5247
    @katiekane5247 Рік тому +129

    Small dams can be dangerous too. In the 80s, my mom was the property manager & a resident of the first PUD (planned unit development) in Georgia. This mixed subdivision was clustered around a lake with a small dam. There was a piece of land between them & the Chattahoochee river. The city of Roswell allowed building of high priced townhomes there. The State came & drained Martin Lake leaving homeowners a muddy centerpiece instead of a lake. The board sued the City, county & State to recover the cost to upgrade to a class 1 dam & won! It always astounds me how dam failures get to the point of destruction, at least in the US.

    • @JohnRiversOfficial
      @JohnRiversOfficial Рік тому

      Katie that is a made-up story and you know it.

    • @BLACKOMAMBO
      @BLACKOMAMBO Рік тому +5

      Why tho? Because they list their little lake that wasnt theirs to begin with? I always hate people that build home around stuff that are not part of the land, like building houses/appartement near a racetrack...

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann Рік тому

      Well one side of the govt has a habit of refusing to address infrastructure and voting against it when the Dems do

    • @chad2522
      @chad2522 10 місяців тому

      @@norml.hugh-mann Dont even. Dems pack full of BS Into those bills and you know it. Trojan horse bills.

    • @driventoaccount3276
      @driventoaccount3276 6 місяців тому

      Old Atlantan here. Cool dam story. You know where chattahooche nature center is? Or was?

  • @serena-yu
    @serena-yu Рік тому +6

    Ice dam floods are regular on the Yellow River of China, since the river has a section that runs north by 760km and then south by 800km. The massive difference in latitudes caused a difference in ice forming and melting at difference sections of the river.

  • @Sulffur2
    @Sulffur2 2 місяці тому

    I worked at Samarco in Mariana until 2021 and in the month of that Mariana disaster I was sent to North Africa for a rolling machine maintenance workshop. I was saved by chance but lost 31 close friends who worked with me and their families to almost 100. I was empty and devastated to this day. I eventually retired at age 31 due to mental issues i couldn't handle. I and the rest of my friends' families are still waiting for compensation for the irreversible damage even when the court has already determined the action in our favor.

  • @godfreypoon5148
    @godfreypoon5148 Рік тому +5

    Wow, those were some massive damn failures.

  • @ecchstore2939
    @ecchstore2939 Рік тому +22

    Living in Hungary. I was totally shocked when heard what happend near Ajka. That red mud was highly alkaline water from aluminium factory's reservoir. It flooded across 40 square-kilometer...

    • @Nemozoli
      @Nemozoli Рік тому

      When I saw the title I was sure that the Kolontár dam failure is in the video...

  • @Driven2Beers
    @Driven2Beers 4 місяці тому +1

    These remind me of my first marriage. Now, _that_ was a dam failure!

  • @DrCrabfingers
    @DrCrabfingers Рік тому

    Well this video didn't disappoint! Some massive structural failures...the brazilian ones seemed the worst....200+ people killed....truly horrendous.

  • @j.thomas7128
    @j.thomas7128 Рік тому +8

    Guys like Tom is why so many people drown in flash floods.

  • @lightningmouse11
    @lightningmouse11 Рік тому +5

    That St. Johnsbury video wasn't a dam failure, it was just an ice plug breaking up in the spring thaw. Rivers in the northeast can be dangerous in spring.

  • @SunAndMirror
    @SunAndMirror Рік тому +1

    weird i was expecting to find myself on this list, my parents tell me im the biggest massive dam failure on earth

  • @markroberts5203
    @markroberts5203 Рік тому

    These dam failures were not all ''caught on camera" which I was hoping to see. But I still enjoyed most of it.

  • @evilelf5967
    @evilelf5967 Рік тому +5

    sometimes mother nature reminds us who is actually in charge.

  • @georgenongrum2390
    @georgenongrum2390 Рік тому +129

    Imagine those people living in those area of what they had to suffer 😢

    • @nate_bombd3011
      @nate_bombd3011 Рік тому +3

      I live near the auburn dam

    • @junesorenson279
      @junesorenson279 Рік тому +4

      My daughter lives on the Street from the dam, and YES it changed that little town forever.

    • @garykoukal8682
      @garykoukal8682 Рік тому +1

      Hoooo-ley Smokes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @tictoc7059
      @tictoc7059 Рік тому

      I am number B. the messenger. do not kill the messenger, if you hate the message. why do you hate the message? brainwashed & programmed? or have you been told to hate the message? i hate satanist doG with big g. i hate satanist dogs with small g. i hate satanist doG = i hate satanist God. i hate satanist dogs = i hate satanist gods(people who want to be a god). who was the original satanist (j c)? those rich satanist assholes who run this world, have brainwashed & programmed every man & woman from a young age. satanist prayer is for us to forgive those satanist assholes but our prayer is for us to punish those satanist assholes. why? for all the pain they have given us. i have too tell people about God & how people have been brainwashed in believing about their satanist doG = God. forgive= NO.. punish= YES.
      history = his story = rich satanist can write their own history.

    • @tictoc7059
      @tictoc7059 Рік тому

      I am number B. the messenger. do not kill the messenger, if you hate the message. why do you hate the message? brainwashed & programmed? or have you been told to hate the message? i hate satanist doG with big g. i hate satanist dogs with small g. i hate satanist doG = i hate satanist God. i hate satanist dogs = i hate satanist gods(people who want to be a god). who was the original satanist (j c)? those rich satanist assholes who run this world, have brainwashed & programmed every man & woman from a young age. satanist prayer is for us to forgive those satanist assholes but our prayer is for us to punish those satanist assholes. why? for all the pain they have given us. i have too tell people about God & how people have been brainwashed in believing about their satanist doG = God. forgive= NO.. punish= YES.
      history = his story = rich satanist can write their own history.

  • @jk-xe5em
    @jk-xe5em Місяць тому

    Scary knowing that many of these disasters only happened in recent years.. it’s only 2024

  • @MemesnShet
    @MemesnShet Рік тому

    Would be cool if gir these kinds of videos of disasters channels would put links to charities that help those affected directly

  • @robert99687
    @robert99687 Рік тому +5

    The furst dam in the video was manually triggerd. That's why the camera was on the right spot. I have seen a video where they explain why and how.

  • @64TommyG
    @64TommyG Рік тому +14

    I myself have seen several ice breaks and actually started two!
    It must have been close to the cross-country world record as I felt and heard the sound of the start of the ice break 50m from the safety of land! Then it wasn't about small pieces of ice like in the last video, but ice floes of around 20 square meters and half a meter thick that piled on top of each other and cleared absolutely everything in their path! Probably the most exciting thing I've been a part of...

  • @lenny108
    @lenny108 Рік тому +9

    1:22 amazing how the engineers could not see this coming?

  • @darkworldusa
    @darkworldusa 4 місяці тому

    These natural disasters are a force to be reckoned with. It's humbling to see how small we are in the grand scheme of things.

  • @198sambrrs
    @198sambrrs Рік тому +6

    This is kind of off topic, but for anyone interested in the history of the Hmong people in Laos and what happened to them, you should look into it. It's a relatively little known tragedy and fairly recent. I live in an area in TN that caught a lot of the Hmong refugees so I was fortunate enough to meet a few of them. Very messed up hand they got dealt, there aren't very man of them left, sadly.

    • @marjieestivill
      @marjieestivill 6 місяців тому

      Are you referring to “yellow rain?”

    • @198sambrrs
      @198sambrrs 6 місяців тому

      @@marjieestivill I can't remember if I heard it referred to as such, but they basically had their land taken and were told to leave or die.

    • @marjieestivill
      @marjieestivill 6 місяців тому

      @@198sambrrs Yes, the consequence for cooperating with the CIA, I’m told (and have read).

  • @tritonmole
    @tritonmole Рік тому +4

    I assume the last video didnt show any damage to property and noone was hurt. That makes it a cool specticle of nature to witness not a dam failure or a disaster. Anyways, great video!

  • @dharunkm5617
    @dharunkm5617 Рік тому +5

    Kallanai(Grand Anaicut),Tamil Nadu,India
    The dam was built by The great karikala chola.It is more than 2000 years old and still functioning.

  • @brianpinion5844
    @brianpinion5844 Рік тому

    I used to love to fish downstream from any dam , always did my best catfishing in them but since UA-cam came out and I get to see all these videos . I NO LONGER FISH DOWN STREAM FROM ANY DAM !! as far as I know none of them have broke but just the thought gets the best of me , if I cant to enjoy fishing no need to go there.

  • @jimmyhughes5392
    @jimmyhughes5392 10 місяців тому +1

    i love how when something happens in 2020 it gets blamed on someone from over a 100 years prior

  • @junesorenson279
    @junesorenson279 Рік тому +31

    just a side note, my daughter lives on the Street from the dam in Sanford, it changed that little town, it wiped out just about everything there. Their mail delivery is just recently started to get to them on time. Water can do a lot of damage and in this case it could have been avoided if right people in charge would have taken care of business.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Рік тому +1

      How can you tell (the mail's on time)?
      *joke*
      Because nobody really uses snail much now. It's just 90% junk. Lol

    • @junesorenson279
      @junesorenson279 Рік тому

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 you are just one person's opinion

    • @justaskin8523
      @justaskin8523 Рік тому

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I wish I could opt-out of junk mail, or anything unsolicited for that matter. Or, better yet, I should be paid $100 from anybody sending me unwanted mail, unless they are trying to contact me for legal purposes.

    • @justaskin8523
      @justaskin8523 Рік тому

      @@junesorenson279 He's not necessarily wrong. The US Postal Service is inefficient, costly, and is NOT customer oriented.

  • @dopetv104
    @dopetv104 Рік тому +4

    Out here in Kerala we have a mullaperiyar dam which is aged at 127 years when the monsoon arrives we become coutious about it and make predictions that it will burst today or tomorrow and when the rain goes all the predictions and assumptions goes with it is a seasonal trend in Kerala

  • @clairerain
    @clairerain Рік тому

    '10 Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera'
    Edenville Dam:
    'I'll take that as a compliment..?'

  • @jakeg3126
    @jakeg3126 3 місяці тому +2

    Coming soon: The 3 Gorges Dam

  • @Landfill-703
    @Landfill-703 Рік тому +5

    I’m thinking the same thing. A 100 year old dam has proved itself and its construction. It’s the classic, 'no adequate maintenance' and the powers that be, 'inventing reasons' to hide their own failings by blaming the original construction🙄

  • @lazystalker1
    @lazystalker1 Рік тому +56

    Good compilation, ... and good presentation and narration too. .. I hate ones that treat the viewer as a moron, this is straight forward, fact based, (with maps) ... cheers for the upload

    • @wespaul9345
      @wespaul9345 Рік тому

      You think. I'd prefer he shut up. Full of disinformation. Climate change and "unprecedented rain"

    • @loschwahn723
      @loschwahn723 9 місяців тому +1

      most of them looks like " how to build a massacre on lands with loose sands "

  • @manfigs
    @manfigs 8 місяців тому

    Wild hearing my hometown on a video like this. Small world.

  • @jeffwiseman3840
    @jeffwiseman3840 Рік тому +2

    A small correction… The company mentioned twice in this video is spelled VALE, but it is actually pronounced VAL-lay, not Vail.

  • @stryker825
    @stryker825 Рік тому +8

    Vale is pronounced "Val-eh" in English. The company cut corners in Brazil and their loose safety standards in Canada has cost them a lot of money and left a lot of blood on their hands.

  • @kmarch6630
    @kmarch6630 Рік тому +18

    I don't understand why the companies involved in these catastrophes weren't punished.

    • @johntucker2826
      @johntucker2826 Рік тому +2

      Why do you assume they weren't? Maybe you would like to contribute too, since you benefitted from those company products?

    • @annwilliams6438
      @annwilliams6438 Рік тому

      In the next ten years there will be many dams that fail in the USA… because the US government has not been maintaining dams for decades…. But you won’t see any punishment meted out for that.

    • @mamabajahanna9260
      @mamabajahanna9260 Рік тому

      maybe bcs they were responsible for everything after that...maybe...

  • @CriticoolHit
    @CriticoolHit Рік тому

    RE: Himalayan Dam: Forget the water... Where the hell was this guy STANDING?!

  • @TheoSGReal
    @TheoSGReal Місяць тому

    I am from Brazil, this ocorred on Brumadinho in Minas Gerais. This colapse it was so much huge

  • @andyowens5494
    @andyowens5494 Рік тому +36

    Many of those, you probably wouldn't know it was coming before it reached you; the last one, he had no idea how big that was going to get - I'd have got out of there a lot quicker!

    • @stevekelly5166
      @stevekelly5166 Рік тому +1

      Holy Smokes! 🙂

    • @TheJhtlag
      @TheJhtlag Рік тому +2

      He made me a little nervous, I sure would have been backing up well before water starts hitting my feet, I don't think his instincts were very good. Got lucky I guess.

  • @jimvandemoter6961
    @jimvandemoter6961 Рік тому +51

    When the Edenville dam broke The water flooded much of Midland MI which is down stream. It drained the entire lake. It caused millions of dollars in the entire downtown and wiped out entire neighborhoods. Midland is the hometown of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. They both have massive chemical plants there. Fortunately the flood missed those plants. I know Midland very well, my family owned a business there for years. It was called Dawn Donut. The dam broke because of years of neglect. In fact no one was even sure who owned the dam.

    • @brianvillage5
      @brianvillage5 Рік тому +2

      I installed the chiller at the Midland Brewery, that’s a cool town.

    • @ValidNameNick
      @ValidNameNick Рік тому +4

      I’m a freshmen at Northwood University in Midland, they are still repairing form the flood, parking lots were completely covered with cars being submerged, basements of buildings are still closed and being repaired. Shits Wild
      Edit) If you are curious, look up Northwood University Flood, there are some crazy pictures, and then look up images of campus with out the water.

    • @johnkelly2431
      @johnkelly2431 Рік тому +1

      There’s no such thing as Dow Corning anymore

    • @jimvandemoter6961
      @jimvandemoter6961 Рік тому +2

      @@johnkelly2431 My parents retired in 1978. Since then I haven't kept track of Dow. I do still have friends who live in Midland though.

    • @sadasfdasfdasfdasfdasf
      @sadasfdasfdasfdasfdasf Рік тому

      yes jim

  • @LivingGrey
    @LivingGrey 9 місяців тому +2

    A dam doesn't last 100 years if the ones that built it took shortcuts...

  • @jaxonboys3366
    @jaxonboys3366 9 місяців тому

    That motor grader holding up the vans trying to escape the work zone was unassed by the driver earlier. He left it running in gear, and it blocked the road. Heroes are everywhere.

  • @scarlet7043
    @scarlet7043 Рік тому +3

    11:11 I died laughing at the runner.

  • @chrisparker7256
    @chrisparker7256 Рік тому

    They need to add this new lyric to one of the world's greatest songs, "We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, and neither do their dams"

  • @jessicam5712
    @jessicam5712 6 місяців тому

    My grandparents home was flooded in the 86 flood in Northern California and I was exhausted from my home when the Oroville Dam almost failed after a huge hole opened up in the spillway causing it to quickly erode, water began spilling over the emergency spillway which was just a hillside, luckily the dam held and has been repaired

  • @ivanblakely903
    @ivanblakely903 Рік тому +7

    amazing how folks out enjoying the landscape don't film stuff in ... landscape.

  • @jeffniderost8730
    @jeffniderost8730 Рік тому +3

    13:10 "a backhoe tries to reverse....." That is a road grader and just before the operator jumped and ran!