I feel like people comparing her and the eel pit guy is a bit insulting to cowturtle. He obviously knows a ton about marine life and cares for his fish and his eels, seeing as he works with them a lot and that’s his job; this lady is literally digging just to dig with a makeshift mine cart, self-taught engineering and a dream.
additionally, eel pit guy just moved into a house that already had that cellar area right? he then filled it with cool animals and focuses on taking care of them. he didn’t try to create a sinkhole lol so he doesn’t deserve the flack
@@Yeehaw0588 it's not that finance is bad, it's just the stereotype is that people with finance degrees are ignorant and not the brightest bulbs in the shed (aka they're not very intelligent)
@@Yeehaw0588 knowing how to treat wounds and having a degree in medicine are two very distinct things. In this situation, finance and business majors are Like That because they have no souls after finishing their courses
I am more concern about her It company.... Is it even hers? How did she became a director? Maybe she is the sole employee and employer of her own business? She has about the common sense of a rock?
@@jasonchui111 whe sound like someone who has competence and intelligence of those people who are hired only because of their immutable characteristics to fill the quiota
Anyone who's an actual engineer would've been able to see those problems from a mile away. Which is probably why engineers don't dig tunnels underneath their houses
the rational side of me is like, "yeah, of course this wouldn't be a good idea. nothing could possibly be worth the damage, the time, or the money; hell, it's not even worth the problem solving this project would require." and yet... another part of me, the nostalgia, is very entertained at the thought of someone constructing whatever they want with absolutely no planning. as a kid, i used to be obsessed with hidden tunnels or secret hideouts. i'm not even sure where that obsession came from. maybe stephen king or possibly the spiderwick chronicles? i don't know, but either way, my childhood home did not have anything that exciting, so i used to create small models or draw ways i would add secret areas to my "future home." little did i know that i and the rest of my generation probably won't own homes, but hey, at least with people like this, i can watch them and feel that little childlike wonder we all occasionally indulge in, and if it fails, it's not my property destroyed.
@mr.bingusthecat it's that last line that is the problem though. She's not just destroying her land. She's a programming engineer and put 60k+ into a fun side hobby in one year. She owns a tesla. Her neighbors include a good population of migrants. The ones of them fortunate enough to own their house just had their property values destroyed. Most of them are in the same boat as you. If a sinkhole opened under your house, do you have the 3 months rent in your bank account to be able to go get a new apartment? I had a neighbor burn my apartment down. We were fortunate to have friends help us, but we lost our licenses. The extended stay accused us of being drug addicts and prostitutes because "you expect me to believe the temporary id from the dmv is real?" When we found a place we had to have 3 months rent to drop immediately. Tunnel girl makes 5 times what you do easily. She could have bought land and done this on there but didn't. Instead she lives in an area with people who make nothing and terrorizes them. That's not worth anyone's whimsy, and I say that as someone who's dream house is exclusively a complex network of grottos and secret rooms/tunnels.
My real issue with this is the possible effects on the neighbours' homes; sinkholes don't respect property boundaries, nor can she pollute only her own ground water.
that and apparently a not-insignificant number of her neighbors are unable to fiel any kind of protest, and she is clearly taking advantage of their inability to interface wiith the police. i'd be all-in on her little passion priject if she lived out in BFA somewhere but this whole suburban mining phenom is *_*just*_* so... 😬
As they have been shown to be I is impossible for a sinkhole to form from the tunnels, to make something with even the slightest chance of making a sinkhole she would either have to hollow out an ungodly amount of earth or get lucks and connect to a spring, in which case the tunnel itself is still not contributing to said sinkhole
@@Adara007 Why is it so popular to bitch and moan about this chick ? Her only mistake was uploading evidence publicly . Reddit pansies are so sour , nosey and weak humans it is shocking . Are they all just jealous or her attention ? Or the fact she is capable of being free while they are mind slaves ?
But... a tree is made of wood and it's INDUSTRIAL! What would you have used, duct tape? Me personally, I would have used PL-400 and a steel collar with lag bolts.
The moment she cut the damp proof membrane it was obvious she was winging it.. as soon as she decided to turn her house into a castle by mining under the neighbourhood for rock, it was obvious she’s mad as a box of frogs.. her working in full make up and pearls reinforced that.
@@mariamaldonado5079 i love how we are desperately trying to fight climate change and alter our behaviors to stop destroying everythong and there's people actively fighting against that. Its like they hear how most pollution and resource consumption is from corporations not private citizens and they go hold my beer 🤦♀️
What concerns me is that her property can’t be that big, which means she’s probably mining under other peoples houses… how does she not see a problem with that?
I’m NOT an engineer but I know being an engineer does not qualify you to design tunnels never mind constructing them. You need civil, structural, and geotechnical engineers just to DESIGN stuff like this.
Cowturtle is nothing like this lady and it is an insult to him to compare them. That cistern was already within the house and he didn’t construct it nor is he as reckless as her
Shoot, I needed a permit not only for a fire pit in my backyard, but to finish my basement (aka putting up drywall and flooring)-that one required someone from the town coming in midway to inspect and sign off that the drywall and flooring was being installed properly
@@MomeGnome Is "fire pit" going to turn into "giant sinkhole that swallows the neighbor's house", as it would with this lady? It might, so yes, I think the permit requirement is good and cool.
She's completely ruined the value of that home. You can pay professionals to install stormshelters in your basement, home, back yards...... no destroying or ruining the home required...
what really gets me too is that she clearly could have afforded to have professionals come do the work. she’s spending so much money just to do it wrong herself.
It’s pretty clear to me that it isn’t even the storm shelter/castle that she really wants, it’s the digging activity that has her doing all of this. She doesn’t want someone else to do it for her because that would take away all of the “fun” she is having and attention she is getting
@@Kimmie9553 100%. Head canon: as a female in IT she's faced a good amount of misogyny and dudes saying "no you can't" (as a dude in the field, I can tell you it exists.) As a result she's developed a very "ask forgiveness, not permission"/"I can do anything I put my mind to" attitude. In some cases (like clustering API's, which she's likely good at,.) this is a positive. In others (like digging a tunnel under your likely mortgaged property without the proper training, safety measures or permits,) it's going to absolutely bite her.
@@Kimmie9553once you said she’s doing it for attention you lost me. I know you’re going to claim otherwise but if a man her same age was doing this on TikTok you wouldn’t say it’s for attention
every single article i found when googling how much a storm shelter costs under your house had an average of $12k and a max of $30k…. she spent over $50k and seems like she isn’t even halfway done
Whelp, my dad got leukemia from welding in enclosed spaces on a cargo ship. 18 months between diagnosis and death. I hope she doesn't suffer the same fate.
i think a lot of people like kala don’t understand the difference between “my neighbors are kind to me because they don’t want to escalate things even though they may be scared of me” and “my neighbors and I get along well”
Gotta love the fact she slices through that water membrane at the very beginning and then is surprised when the whole shebang floods a few weeks later. Then after that doesn't address any new kinda water barriers. That's going to be one very moist dark "shelter" with damp slimy walls when she's finished.
She's not even an IT engineer! She's a project/program manager. She's a middle-woman for teams of ACTUAL engineers, financial experts, etc. She herself does not work as an engineer, she works WITH engineers and might pick up some technical knowledge but nothing close to qualifying her for anything. I'M a project manager for a large tech company, the concept of thinking that qualifies me to build a minecraft tunnel is insanity.
I've seen several news outlets refer to her as a software engineer and she admitted herself she only studied business and fiance in school. My partner is a software engineer and she laughed out loud when she saw that she is IT manager. I believe she's also "just" freelance for that?
she said something about being a "full stack software engineer" at some point, but i'm not sure if that was just more lying or maybe she learned to code as well? that could very well describe why she thinks she has a huge brain capable of formulaterizing solutionizers to ever problematic, i have noticed that is a thing that happens to people who have degrees in something unrelated to computers and then learn to code, sometimes. 🤨
@@elen5871 it's honestly pretty unlikely that someone with no real formal comp sci training can be a full stack engineer on their own. Then again she's learned how to do all this from books so who knows. Every thing I've read says a different thing thing about what her profession is
@@omgmo1962not to be that guy, but that's not as true anymore, especially with those self-paced programs that teach full-stack engineering without the need for a degree. some require you have a base level of engineering or some work with compsci, but (in my research), most don't. (ofc getting a job after can be a bit difficult, but that's mostly the workforce being the workforce tbh.) also, a lot of full stack engineers end up freelancing or doing like temp contract work. i just think there's a certain stigma that comes with engineers having to have a degree that a lot of the ones that built a career without one stay kind of quiet outside of like twitter and linkedin.
there's plenty of other engineering projects she could do to keep herself busy. 🙄 imagine if your house starts collapsing into the ground without warning because your neighbor wants to be quirky for tiktok
16:25 To answer this question, YES, she can screw up the well water of surrounding houses. Ground water tables are usually shared, so this is quite literally “poisoning the well”. Also, her draining of ground water could cause serious shortages, contamination, and sinkholes.
Yes! Finally someone said it. My gosh this woman has no regard for her neighbors. She’s messing with plumbing, electrical, sewage and more! Suburban communities have infrastructure built into them, they’re all connected. She’s messing with other peoples lives. Makes me so frustrated. Yes this is America but there are certain things that are restricted in certain areas for a reason. If she wanted to do this she should have bought a large piece of land with no one else around. But she’s in a suburban community so there are limits to what she can do. I really hope she is stopped soon!
Can you imagine her hitting a Septic Tank....Main Water Line...Sewer Line.....Old Gas Line Etc?????...Sometimes Natural Methane Gas can Seep through the ground....She could actually Blow the neighbor up??!!..Thats another reason that there are requirements...Permits...Notifications etc...One of her neighbors had felt the Earth actually move and didnt know why?...That is Not Normal...even during Constructions.....Sink Hole?...Avalanche?......Ground Shifts?!!!!...She should at least be Fined...Penalized for Sure.....Negligent
Yes though she is probably getting water from Fairfax Water ("city" water) since she lives somewhere in Herndon, VA. Still not a good idea to poison the water table....
@@alexdhallwhat she is doing is NO DIFFERENT theb what ANY home builder, back yard mechanic does lol. The only real threat is to herself being trapped & mabe causing her neighbors landlords slabs to crack. Thats why its not some arrestable offense lol
i was literally gonna say this whole thing reminds me of the titan disaster… hopefully it won’t end that badly for her, but she needs to face actual consequences for destroying the property value of her neighbors’ homes and subjecting them to noise, or even exposure to harmful materials…
it's genuinely hard for me to comprehend that she, as a person, *exists,* not through a mere character in a social experiment, but legitimately. she has or had parents. someone raised her, someone out there grew up as her bff, if only for a time. she has a favourite colour. she exists
I know, she is truly amazing in her drive and can-do attitude. More people need to stop watching TV for most of their lives. Wouldn't if be great if they started helping others, like through charities or something. It was be great.
@@happyzahn8031 i'm just too tired all the time. depression sucks ass, i wish i had her drive to do things but like not destroy my neighbourhood or anything
"The only thing seperating me from 5,000 pounds of concrete and being a pancake is my own engineering" is giving titan sub all over again. As a safety major this is terryifying. "I cut corners and my loading system broke" jesus christ
The only thing she could seemingly do safely, is construct a decauville line, cuz that's literally the easiest thing one could do that'd be considered engineering. For context, the Decauville rail system was a way of building internal railway systems in certain industrial areas, or just railways that were going through rough terrain, the rails, sleepers, etc, were placed onto the ground, and connected in a similar way to how lego rails are.
its so fascinating that she's smart enough to figure out how to do all that, most people couldn't wrap their heads around it, but she's not smart enough to realize why she shouldn't be doing any of it
There are many examples of failures of the " just because you can, doesn't mean you should " variety in modern cultural context.TT specializes in such content.
It’s so baffling to me that she clearly has the resources to pursue an actual education in engineering if that’s her real passion, but instead she insists on winging it and recklessly endangering her entire community for her projects.
Hearing that her neighbors have fears and worries but won’t express them to authorities because they’re afraid of being singled out by authorities is what pisses me off the most. I hope they do not let her continue this.
She's going to continue, regardless. She has absolutely no respect for others, no mindfulness of others whatsoever, never has a thought in her head for anyone except herself.
Can you imagine living next to her? Having to listen to rocks thumping down a metal slide into a dumpster day in and out for over a year, all because she thinks IRL Minecraft is quirky and fun? Can you imagine trying to sell your house? "Yeah, so it's got 3 bedrooms and a spacious 3 car--" This is why you don't typically put mines, landfills or industrial operations in residential areas. This is why you have zoning laws.
What happens to them now that the reporter has said they’re undocumented and the news is covering it..? I hope this being spread all over the internet & tv doesn’t get them deported 😢
I love how all the “new hazards” she’s learning about (silica, loose cords, etc) are things everyone who’s taken a basic OSHA 10 course knows to avoid…
Isn’t she releasing all of that dust into her house and yard and air outside next to her neighbor’s houses with the chunks she’s bringing out from underground?
@@Cashhhhew Yeah definitely. Less of an issue if it's outdoors (still not great) but that dust will blow in through windows and doors. Also silicosis is no joke, quite a few legal filings in the next few years from people who've been exposed to that stuff by working in factories that handle/cut stone.
With no permits, the fire department would have zero idea where she was if an accident happened under there. She is failing to see how many people she is putting in danger let alone herself.
I heard a story about a guy who hired someone to work on his own basement tunnel project (something about nickles and having two of them...), and when a fire started in the tunnel the guy died. IIRC, the man who hired him/owned the home/property got charged with negligent homicide because he didn't let the fire department know about his secret tunnel or the whole human being who was living and working down there.
@@ndawn90 yeah part of that issue was iirc the home owner lied to him about their location (and basically blindfolded him when taking him there) so he believed it was legal digging (it wasn't). and then when there was the fire, the guy complained about a burning smell in a text and was told it was just an electrical malfunction but everything was fine and didn't bother to evacuate the guy.
I'm astounded at Kala's sheer arrogance to say that she didn't think the way in which Bogado informed her neighbours was right. To her, what was "right" seems to have been to not tell them anything at all. After all, she had plenty of time to tell her neighbours _before_ she started and she continued to say nothing to them for the year she was digging, though she didn't have a problem telling strangers on social media all about it. Even when the inspectors came round, she acted dumb at first, presumably in hopes they didn't know exactly what she'd been doing.
Engineering and construction issues aside… I’m SHOCKED she hasn’t like hit a pipe or cut a line or something. You have to call Dig Safe when you do major digging FOR A REASON! There’s electrical lines, pipes, gas lines, sewage systems, I could go on.
Thing is, she's not even an IT engineer! She has no engineering degree or certification of any kind, so she's not only completely unqualified, but she's potentially endangering her neighbors. I hope they permanently shut down her disconcertingly obsessive tunneling project. I am looking forward to the inevitable Netflix documentary, though!
There are reasons we have zoning laws. Putting a mine next to a suburban home would not only annoy the homeowners with all the noise, but devalue the property.
Imagine being the neighbors wanting to sell their homes and trying to explain to prospective buyers or real estate agents that your crazy neighbor has been building a giant sinkhole underneath the property for the last 2 years.
I got pissed that my mom's neighbor made their house explode because they were making drugs. I couldn't imagine the nightmare of your neighbor being so destructive to everyone's lives like that. People way poorer than her too.
A relator that lives and works in the area commented on this. Apparently realtors in the area are only required to disclose issues with the property being sold. Anything to do with other properties in the neighborhood is on the buyer to do their own due diligence and check. Very much a 'buyer beware' situation since I sincerely doubt any relator is going to tell a potential buyer that tunnel lady is nextdoor.
Imagine trying to sell your home and realizing it might be unsellable because your neighbor’s unlicensed tunnel likely destabilized the slab of your home because the slab your home sits on is close enough to hers that the loss of bedrock, loss of ground water, and her “mining techniques” have fundamentally altered the integrity of the ground your slab is on.
@@freethegaysnot mention that she seemed so confident in her skills that she put herself in DANGER (being flattened like a pancake) when she admitted that she cut corners and had multiple avoidable problems
Chemist here whos work involvves groundwater. Theres a lot of places where chemicals leaking into groundwater gets them onto the superfund cleanup list. She absolutely put everyone around her in danger of poisoning
Yes! As someone studying environmental engineering I also wanted to point out that groundwater is one of the cleanest water sources out there and while it can be difficult to contaminate (esp depending on if it’s a DNAPL or LNAPL) it can also be incredibly difficult to clean up. If she is just spilling chemicals without oversight it is super easy for the water to be contaminated without knowledge and then poisoning her community. Even if ppl don’t get poisoned it’s still a huge environmental issue
@SabrinaMuellerAwesome101 yeah, I knew someone who went to u of m in michigan and I guess there just is a dioxane plume in the groundwater there from people dumping chemicals
This is exactly what I was thinking. I am an attorney that specializes in toxic tort allegations. If any of her roommates get any kind of breathing issues, I don’t know if she has any money, but they can sue her no problemo.
love how she said "there's no dust" when she literally filmed all the dust in her house when she was digging. did she think none of it would escape bc she has the doors and windows of her house closed or something she thinks it'll be fine because she's made it this far without being crushed under rubble, and i worry it's going to take exactly that for her to stop. if the authorities don't get to her first, she's going to kill someone
Sadly, that looks like my house. Too much dust. It does take about 6 months to accumulate but still... And yes, I do change my AC filters every month or so depending on the type.
remember when she said she benevolantly sheltered an "unregistered" friend ? and her neighbour said the noises were in the day ? i don't believe she do most of the work in there, probably just what she show us in the videos, how could she be at her 9 to 5 job and digging under her house at the same time ? especially in winter when the sun is up at 8am and down at 6pm, it leaves her 2h/day to dig and go to her job
"I'm building a storm shelter on the side of my basement" is like saying I'm building a car to drive around in my car.... A basement is already a storm shelter.
It's eerie to see someone so out of touch with reality documenting their single-handed destruction of an entire neighbourhood. I feel awful for her neighbours.
Why? In a different interview with a different reporter the neighbors said there is a little noise but it's not too bad. to me it seems like the first reporter was making crap up to sell a story.
@@lesterforney6200 seems to me like the news interviewed and showed a single person's opinion who lives in the neighborhood. Given that she works full time, she has to be doing all this afterwork, and noise ordinances start at 10 or sometimes 11pm, so if she's doing any of that work, which others have reported to the investigative reporter are loud enough to hear and strong enough to feel through the ground, she is at the very least being a complete nuisance, and at worst, a literal safety hazard to everyone in her immediate area. this just screams entitled autistic rich girl does whatever she wants to do and damn anyone who pushes back on her. I appreciate the spanish speaking reporter going to interview her spanish speaking neighbors, who respectfully disagree with that one dude who is only one dude and definitely not an engineer. Girl is smart enough to teach herself all these complex things, yet cant teach herself respect for the rules or appreciate that _computer_ and _civil_ engineering are NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO RELATED in any fucking way.
Lol if neighborhoods in the US are built to such a flimsy standard that some construction work on one property threatens the entire neighborhood's buildings to be destroyed, you guys need to learn how to construct buildings, not complain about a person doing something *on their own property*. Also, I thought you guys were the bastion of freedom in the US? I don't see much freedom being afforded to her here...
@tanithrosenbaum Nice try, but I'm not American. The point is that this concerns more than just her property. In normal circumstances, the surrounding terrain should hold. However, with all her digging, she runs the risk of destabilizing that terrain, putting her neighbours' homes and lives at risk. Moreover, she hasn't produced evidence that her project has been approved by the proper authorities, which could endanger her if she ever gets trapped down there, as rescue teams wouldn't know where she is and would be walking into a potential death trap trying to get her out.
As someone who grew up in Northern Virginia AND as someone with a master's degree in civil engineering, this horrifies me on many levels. When she was talking about making a storm shelter, I was thinking she was in the Midwest where you need tornado shelters. While we do get the occasional hurricane, wind storm, or tornado in Northern Virginia, it's not bad enough that a storm shelter is needed. Most houses there have basements, and that's usually enough. Also, before doing any project, you HAVE to do a bunch of studies. You CANNOT just wing it. Furthermore, yes, she totally contaminated that ground water. Anything that gets into the ground without proper containment can/will contaminate groundwater, and thus, someone's well water. On the bright side, most, if not all, NOVA is not on well water. Still, contaminants in groundwater is nit good. Also, her removing all that rock and soil possibly/probably not only destabilized her house, but also her neighbors' houses. It would definitely be worse if they were high rises, but it's still not good. You see, the loads of buildings get distributed into the earth, and it is in all sorts of directions. Foundations are designed to not only support the house above, but also press against the loads of the earth and water. If you remove enough of the earth pressure pressing up against that foundation, it can cause collapse. I have seen a video in class back in undergrad where a hole for a foundation for a new high rise was dug too close and deep to an existing high rise, and that existing building fell over. I don't know how big her tunnel is, but it's still dangerous without all the proper engineers and studies done. Of course, this isn't getting into the other issues mentioned in this video like the incorrect rebar for the reinforced concrete. This is an all around mess, and I wonder if her house will be condemned or saved.
She's said it went 10 feet down on a 30• grade .. And was a few feet wide and maybe 6 feet high at most. She's a complete nut-bar and should be forced to refill the entire space!
They served him with a notice that it needs to be filled in idk how he's gonna do that. They probably are going to condemn it because idk how you can fix this
That makes this extra terrifying, I did not know that about how load distribution works. You explained it excellently! It feels like "oh, of course that's obvious, why didn't I recognize that" but it took you studying to learn it.
dude, silica dust will literally kill you if you breathe it in, it's called "silicosis" for that reason. the deadliest industrial "disaster" (quotations because of course it was a disaster insofar that it was the result of corporate negligence) in the US was the Hawk's Nest Tunneling Disaster in WV, which killed hundreds of workers because they breathed in pure silica with no protection. I would not want that in my home!
In Toronto at the workers compensation building they have a retaining wall around a fountain and etched are the death stories of workers from 100 years ago. Things like mine mining cave-ins, pieces of equipment falling on people, silicosis, different long conditions. It's spooky to read and sad to know that so many people died in the past due to unsafe working conditions. This woman has no idea what she's doing and is disrespecting the people who've actually worked in mines and died in the past.
NEWS FLASH the ONLY person at risk is her IN A Confined area. Her neighbors are NO DIFFERENT then the entire West side of America having Dust storms, or the great depression Dust bowl.
She watched too many DIY girlies on TikTok and girlbossed too close to the sun. It's one thing to customize your own home by painting the walls and making organically shaped rugs. This kind of thing requires actual education, training, experience, teams, etc.
Go buy some land and build something if you are that intent on bringing your crazy ideas to life 😹 But instead she starts digging under a built up residential area, she is more concerned about her crazy project than the safety of her neighbours 🙈
Im laughing my ass off at this comment, because I got a false sense of confidence from these diy videos just before Christmas. I just tried to hang a simple curtain rail and because I didn’t use the correct fixings for the weight of the curtains and the heavy duty rail and the type of wall, the weight of the curtains pulled the entire rail off, took a chunk out of the wall that needed filled and the rail landed on my glass coffee table shattering it into a million little cubes. I had to call my dad to come and fix it all for me which I should’ve just done to begin with 😂
This is kinda my work field, especially in the direction of the engineering involved and this had me in cold sweat, while I understand that it's probably fun, this tunnel is gonna kill someone. And the amount of negligence is insane
"But anyone with a brain can dig a tunnel! People have been digging tunnels since the dawn of time and they only die frequently!" - typical "Muh Freedoms" person
@@kimberlymedrano5285 minecraft takes place in a world made of blocks and you can mine virtually all of these blocks. many people just dig into the earth at their home base in hopes of finding some of the rarer materials. it makes sense in the game bc again you can destroy any blocks you like, but of course thats unbelievable in real life... except to her apparently
I grew up in a burnt out mining town. The number of people who have fallen into old mine shafts and passed away before being found or not being found for years is way too many for such a tiny town. If you do a tour of the main tourist attraction part of the mine in our town you get all sorts of terrible stories about people passing away with all the safety regulations met from random things people just won’t think of. If you don’t care about unaliving yourself fine but if you out your neighbors and any rescuers in jeopardy like she is I think you deserve charges and prison time. I don’t like our prison industrial complex but I also lost too many people I knew growing up to have much room in my heart when it comes to this kind of dangerous activity.
It’s wild for Kala to say that if the reporter hadn’t rated her out to the neighbors it would be fine. As if the health risks would only affect them if they knew.
She doesn't care for her own safety or that of her neighbours. Imagine how little she thought about the danger her project presents to first responders. Her house is a death trap in an emergency!!
Wow, if she's doing that towards someone's house, which it seems like she is, she's literally damaging someone else's home. So not only could her house collapse but so could her neighbors.
A guy caving a tunnel to find gold, died last week here in Brazil. He made a hole with 200m and fell into the hole. He follows a "dream" of finding gold under the house, like a prediction or something like that.
i'm not an engineer but i did do 3 years of mechanical engineering at uni before changing my major and it's genuinely insane how much of an obviously bad idea everything this woman is doing is and honestly even for a software engineer you'd think she'd still have enough logic to piece together that what she's doing is actually very dangerous and requires more than just reading a textbook to accomplish?? there's a REASON that engineering takes is hard and takes years to study. i don't know much about tunneling but i do know you can compromise the structural integrity of land you aren't directly under as well. there are regulations for this stuff because of safety reasons and she has completely ignored them. all her "safety precautions" are terribly unsafe. if she was really only putting herself at risk on a huge area of land where it's just her and no neighbours i would care less but she's literally putting other people at risk too. even her tennants. tunnel fires aren't a joke and can get really dangerous really quickly but she just laughed it off when it happened to her. also like. just having an engineering degree doesn't qualify you to dig a fucking tunnel either. you need further specialization.
I got a diy home reno book and some of the projects in there I felt were above most people's ability. The hardest diy's I'd be comfortable doing are replacing flooring or putting in a fountain. I can't imagine cutting into my Fondation and being so smug about everything
Most building plans require a licensed PE to sign off on them, so not only would she need specialization, but she would need to go through that whole process. It's fairly intense, it involves passing an exam, doing qualified work under a licensed PE for a number of years, and then passing another big exam. Think of it like the engineering equivalent of medical residency/board certification, you can't have people's lives in your hands unless you got a license. Also, she's not even a software engineer, she just works in IT.
coming from someone whos just afraid of sinkholes,, she should just know not to do this. i have to womder if this is a prolonged manic episode bc she doesnt seem sane
I'm horrified by her inability to take the perspective and experience of other people into account. She's giving of major main character energy. "Society? Community? Whats that?"
Hella main character energy. Also pick-me-girl energy like “I’m so smart and quirky!!” Bro you’re doing shit to your property that could seriously hurt other people. Stop it get some help 🤦🏻♀️
@@jennstewart3003 Oh my god... so she already has a storm shelter, but she decided that it would be cooler if she built a second one but half-assed and dangerous.
@@andrewkoster6506 basically. I have lived in Oklahoma my whole life. The only thing safer than what she is in would be a reinforced safe room which has to have the house built around it more or less because it's cinder blocks, concrete, and rebar attached to the foundation and has a steel door. My grandparents have one. But a basement that is sufficiently waterproofed is perfectly acceptable and would withstand a tornado. Her's was well done with the waterproof lining and the extra concrete, but now she's ruined the barrier.
Here my father has been putting off making a shed for months because of permits, discovering the property line was misreported 20 years ago, and trying to ensure his mini 10x8 shed won't cause an eyesore to the developments near his house. This lady decides she has to make a property nightmare hazard tunnel. Christ almighty.
K, I've never heard of her before and I do think she is crazy, but her vibe: formal, dressed up, rather stilted cadence to her voice makes it seem like satire or something. Pearls, bright red lipstick, perfectly manicured hands. Quite unique
@@LilMissClementine my fiance is one too. 2 of our programmer friends are doing the much saner version of tunnel girl where they bought some land that has a dead forest on it and are working with the state forestry department to revitalize the land and make a cozy home in the middle of a massive local ecosystem.
Wouldn't the basement already double count as a storm shelter room in emergencies or? I'm in north Carolina so there ain't any basements to be heard of
There are no storms around the DC area that warrant a tunnel that deep and extensive. I promise this thing was never meant for protection against the weather.
@@ashb89 oh definitely. She just wanted an excuse to dig because halfway through each goal it went from storm shelter, to tunnel, to a tunnel AND a castle
My parents had our storm shelter built by the people who built our house. This is not a storm shelter. You don't need a big storm shelter. Our shelter has: outlets and a single light. The only main differences is that it is built from concrete/looks different from the rest of the basement and has a thicker, heavier door. It is thin and narrow. But it does the job and has space for necessities like food and water. You don't need to wire a bunch of stuff. Just electricity, mainly. If that.
Poor Eel pit guy! He didn't F with the structural safety of his house or the neighbors’ while Kala turned her residential neighborhood into a building sight!
Every time someone brought up an objection to her in the past, she discounted the objection, did exactly what she wanted anyway, then came back with sad face emojis when bad things happened. Over and over and over. PERHAPS her neighbors do know her well; well enough to know that bringing up any objection will get the same result. "The noise is bothering us." "There's no noise." Etc etc. She doesn't seem exactly pleasant to deal with, smile or not. And just saying as a neurodivergent person myself, with respect, lady, you still gotta learn to live in society with everyone else. I'm not diagnosing her. I'm just saying.
I should add that I remembered that she did seem to learn partway through that sometimes people who know things have good ideas. LOL She just seems slow to pick up that she is not the one who gets to decide whether others are truly inconvenienced by her actions or not.
@@GirlieCarolinasyou’ve done weird shit like having an illegal suburban mining operation when your adhd meds were off? coming from another person with sever adhd, girlie bffr this NOT just a teehee oopsie moment because you had too much ritalin, this is close to criminal negligence that still could cause severe damage to her and other people’s lives or properties!!!
the entitlement is what really gets me. she wants to do what she wants to do, when and how she wants to do it. uncaring for laws, regulations, safety, logic, her community and home, etc. she's convinced she's already correct on every topic before it's even brought up and can pick up every skill flawlessly just by doing it. she is being blatantly unsafe but thinks she gets to declare that she IS being safe and it will just be so. like she can just speak her will into existence. she had to know this was illegal with all her secrecy and avoidance, and decided she was above the law. she used the "i have a [minority] friend" excuse to combat allegations of benefitting from minority issues her neighbours might have been facing. the sheer level of privilege, willful ignorance, and entitlement on display is mind-boggling. if she wants so badly to build castles and bunkers she should get a big piece of land in the middle of nowhere like jim bishop.
Idk how to make this make sense but her journey and vibes seems like something your subconscious comes up in a dream “I had a creepy roommate with a monotone voice and she was digging a tunnel under this old house and there was mattresses everywhere and she made me hold a camera while she dug into the tunnel and welded steel in a flammable room and then there was a fire and I started burning so I woke up”
Her manner of speech, dogged determination, and method of interacting with her detractors reminds me a lot of Chris Chan. Are we going to find a Sonichu medallion somewhere in her tunnels?
this comment feels ableist. the manner of speech and method of interacting are traits of autism. to automatically associate that with chris chan feels... off. to me, as someone with autism)
Saying this as someone who has an engineering degree, this lady’s actions are extremely dangerous not only to herself but to her innocent neighbors as well. She could have purchased her own private land where she could have built her own house and do her unregulated tunnel project without putting anyone but herself at risk. But instead she’s doing this this in an area where her construction can have a massive effect on multiple houses and people within her community. It’s extremely selfish, ignorant, reckless and it’s lowkey giving ‘Barbarian’ movie vibes.
As a fellow woman whose dream is to build a castle, I don’t understand why she’s determined to do this under a pre-built house in a residential area which obviously wasn’t designed to sit atop an extensive double/triple basement system. My plan has always been to build a small castle with a large “dungeon” basement system on a piece of rural property, _starting_ by digging/blasting out the basement and building substantial support structures from the bottom up, and using stone veneer instead of stone block construction to reduce the enormous weight of a stone structure at ground level. Kala’s plot of land is tiny, and it’s simply impossible to do this safely, let alone without disturbing her neighbors and housemates. I really admire her determination and work ethic, but considering the cost of this project, I don’t understand why she chose to do it under a typical suburban house. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say.
I forget if it was an OSHA video or OHSA (Ontario Health and Safety; Canada), but I definitely remember extension cords being identified as a potential hazard to be mindful of on job sites. And I’m not on job sites often, so I don’t need as many levels of safety certification, so it was a pretty basic level video.
Honestly, her time and money could have been better spent remodeling her actual house! She even called the spare bedroom, "the hoarder bedroom". The only semi clean room was her work area that she made sure to stay far away from. She could have made a smaller "shelter area" but made the house beautiful with that spiral staircase!
Agreed, I was thinking the same thing after that "tour" through her cluttered and pretty dirty house, while seeing old school burgundy (if I remember correctly) checkered floors which certainly could have used an update. If you're going to be spending that much money and you own the home, most people would update the part they actually live in first; not build some creepy room which gives the distinct vibes of storing hostages or being used as a torture chamber. 🤦🏽♀🤷🏽♀🤷🏽♀
The USCSB pissing and shitting rn. Having watched AttorneyTom’s USCSB videos… oof. Hot work in a confined space? WITH COMBUSTIBLE THINGS ALL OVER?????? And you put water in the sawdust to keep it safe. Okay. 🥴 Chemical spill and you didn’t have any facial protection already… okay. Stuff splashing into your eye because no eye protection… GIRL. I’M not an engineer, but I am a computational biologist who’s worked in the lab. Get your PPE. Check all the safety protocols. HELLO??? There are limits on certain hazards allowed. And she hires workers too!
what really gets me is the confidence in the rock's structural integrity. the actual strength of sandstone is really really dependent on a lot of factors that i'm sure she has not accounted for. (she can't have accounted for them, unless we suddenly learn she also has access to geological lab equipment that can test the composition of the sandstone under her house).
I think the scariest thing other than what she’s doing is how many people are enabling her, saying she does nothing wrong and is just a “based mining queen”. It’s like they’re treating her as a lolcow
@@lozpoposhes a trump supporter, i can promise you whoever youre thinking of isnt gonna be blindly defending her. Also, didnt even know she was trans til you mentioned it. I think youre weirdly focused on an irrelevant detail.
tbf, that does give quite a bit of info on her, as well as context as to WHY she's making this thing the way she does. trans person AND trump supporter? girl why you hate yourself so much 😬@@thatrantinggirl7376
This is part of the reason why I’m apprehensive about the use of “engineer” in software development. We’re developers, not engineers. We absolutely do _not_ operate at the same level as an engineer, and many of us operate under a “move fast and break stuff” pace with a “ooh! cool stuff, I wanna try it!” curiosity. These are _absolutely_ not conducive to proper engineering.
move fast and break stuff seems to be very silicon valley/tech startups. have personally spent months looking at the past and docmentation and discussing with peers, before rolling things out, i don't call myself an engineer but it's not all move fast break things. that said misleading by saying enginner but not what of feels very, doctor of medicene vs atomic science or english
@@markallen8757 This sounds like the same level of rationale when people complain about someone with a doctorate who is not a physician being called doctor.
@@rouninpanda6318 yeah, i don't care about the kind of doctor unless im seeking medical care..they all got their doctorates otherwise, earned the title
as a computing student it makes perfect sense that of all people, an IT engineer would find it justifiable to do something like this. personal projects on your own machine usually don't require permits or so, there's an insanely low barrier to entry and once an idea is had it's quite easy to get started with an overall plan and then sort out the bugs and details and learn the necessary skills along the way. only difference is the enjoyment of working with your hands, the sheer personal risk and social inconsideration to surrounding neighbours, but yeah. funnily enough I can see exactly why she'd do what she did.
Tunnel girl is starting to sound like my grandad in his later stages of frontotemperal dementia. He started a crazy house renovation that basically destroyed their house
This whole thing screams some sort of mental illness or cognitive problems. She went from wanting to build a storm shelter to an air raid shelter to a castle. It's just so bizarre
Pretty sure the eel pit guy already had his pit... Like he moved in and it was already there and decided to turn it into a space for animals. Also his pit design look much easier to set up than her cutting a door into her house and tunneling from there. It was just a water resevoir and digging a pit and setting it up is pretty simple in comparison to whatever the heck she is doing.
My big thing is that even if she had the complete technical knowledge to dig this whole tunnel perfectly (which she doesn’t), it’s just so egotistical to think that you are the one person who doesn’t need to follow the rules and get the proper permits/inspections/etc done for your construction plans.
Well put. Even the most intelligent people are not going to be able to consider everything. Without following proper codes and guidelines you only increase the chance of not just failing to achieve your goals but the likelihood of infringing on the rights of others is unnecessarily increased as well.
Since she works for hours after her 9-5 I would be SO PISSED OFF to hear random loud noises and rumbling all through the night bc someone wants to play irl Minecraft. Like imagine trying to sleep with that fear of not knowing where this sound is coming from??
What gets me is the hyperfixation that her neighbors are immigrants, to the point where commenters almost go out of their way to call them “immigrant neighbors” and not just “neighbors”. Even if her neighbors weren’t immigrants this wouldn’t be okay.
It is relevant, because they may not have a strong grasp of English, or they could be afraid to get in touch with authorities for fear of getting harassed in return. You're right, its wrong no matter who her neighbors are, but who they are could very well impact how likely they are to advocate for their own safety.
@@Listening_Books12345 I agree! But I also feel we can still refer to them as just neighbors, because it feels like commenters are dehumanizing them just a smidge.
@@MissKilljoy I put immigrant because of the relevancy of their legal status. The reporter implied that some of them may not being fully immigrated and that is where some of the fear is coming from when it comes to reporting Kala. Like getting involved with the authorities puts their own residency at risk. Kala thought she could could do whatever she wanted in her neighborhood and no one could tell on her. Same thing for her roommates who are newly arrived from southern Asia. Shes already had at least one of them evicted from her home. She's also had them help her with parts of the tunnel construction. So this combined with her Trump following is creating a narrative that she's antagonistic towards immigrants or at least views them as less than.
I agree with this. But also, as someone who lives in the area, we have a lot of new migrants moving into northern Virginia. Yes they are her neighbors but the qualifying term of immigrant neighbors or first generation immigrants emphasizes the power imbalance. Kala saying they could have spoken up is really ignorant to this power imbalance
A suburban neighborhood probably isn't dependent on well water, but I can guarantee that any chemical spills occurring below the water table (which she might be, considering how terribly it floods down there), can spread through the whole local water system. Also, the local water bureau probably only tests for the top 10-20 contaminants and they depend on individuals to report other spills. We know she won't do that, so the whole town is at risk for water contamination if she so much as spills a can of paint down there. I can't imagine how rich you have to be to waste this much time and money on a pointless, dangerous project that a qualified team could do better, cheaper, and faster if it weren't for individual pride. This is going to end in lawsuits, death, or both.
Oh no, they exist it's just in random places. I live in an unincorporated suburb just outside Chicago where each house has their own well. They are a pain in the arse and I am looking forward to moving 😂
I also want to bring up that she’s stated a lot of her roommates are rehoused individuals who have major mental health issues and are transitioning out of MH institutions
@@hessen5498 she posted it on a video about a haunted room. She talked about her roommate with severe schizophrenia who just vanished. She made another comment not not sure what video anymore
I wonder what the hell the dumpster company thinks about the revolving, over a year-long order for dumpsters to a private residence. Don't they have questions? Is there a black market for rocks? Are they laundering money and decided this woman was a good support for that? Are they building some terrifying structure of their own with loose crazy woman rocks? So, so many questions here. Never mind the concrete guys - apparently asking questions is a never thing when being paid. Amazon is awesome. I'm waiting for them to start selling house kits and delivering them on trains like Sears used to do.
all of this couldve been avoided if Tunnel girl put the same amount of effort into learning the regulations and laws around excavation, as she did the "engineering aspect". It takes years of schooling, rigorous testing for certification, and loads of experience to even to do every individual task required to make a structure underground. The sheer fact that in the first article she only mentioned two sources for engineering education, also gives me the idea shes done (a fair amount) of base level research. Basically, she has maybe the education of a 3rd year structural engineering student, and my grandpas knowledge of utility hookups and "welding"
Somewhere out there there are other tunnel girls who had similar ideas but did as you said and then realized it was never going to work. So we never heard about them.
Omg. I totally had a feeling she’s a conspiracy theory sociopath. She’s got her trumped up credentials, total disregard for her neighbors and their property, and her willingness to go to extreme measures to possibly injure people, ruin her neighbors homes AND property value just because “I want to.” 🤦🏻♀️
i was also getting sociopath vibes. not much empathy on her part, and a total disregard for others. if she was as thoughtful as shes says she never would have done this project.
Y’all ever think think that she’s saying stuff just to stir up controversy thereby upping her viewership and $$$? There’s a real possibility y’all are being trolled and don’t even realize it. That’s what most of these you tubers do. CREATE content.
I think Kala is kind of what DND players talk about when they describe a character with high intelligence, but low wisdom
20 endurance, 20 willpower, 12 intelligence, and 2 wisdom.
Intelligent? She said she’s doing the project because it keeps her busy and “preoccupied.” She dumb.
This comment is so fucking good lol
+@@psi_rockin honestly lmao I'm gonna think about it for so long. I hope she gets her permit though, good on her for going out and doing the thing.
I feel like she would be fun to play as a dnd character
I feel like people comparing her and the eel pit guy is a bit insulting to cowturtle. He obviously knows a ton about marine life and cares for his fish and his eels, seeing as he works with them a lot and that’s his job; this lady is literally digging just to dig with a makeshift mine cart, self-taught engineering and a dream.
additionally, eel pit guy just moved into a house that already had that cellar area right? he then filled it with cool animals and focuses on taking care of them. he didn’t try to create a sinkhole lol so he doesn’t deserve the flack
@@goobergobbler yeah! It was a pre-existing cistern he decided to fill w freshwater fish, not like he tried making it himself
Yeah they are not comparable AT ALL. Cowturtle altered the purpose for an already existing feature of his house.
Lmao, a finance major and a trump supporter who doesn't give a damn about doing the actual work in becoming an engineer. I'm shocked.
I'm sorry... eel pit guy???
This woman baffled me until you mentioned she had a finance degree. Then it all began to make sense.
Wait is that bad? My parents are shitty at finances and I want to learn how to manage it better, I guess that's a thing though
@@Yeehaw0588 it's not that finance is bad, it's just the stereotype is that people with finance degrees are ignorant and not the brightest bulbs in the shed (aka they're not very intelligent)
@@Yeehaw0588 knowing how to treat wounds and having a degree in medicine are two very distinct things. In this situation, finance and business majors are Like That because they have no souls after finishing their courses
I am more concern about her It company.... Is it even hers? How did she became a director? Maybe she is the sole employee and employer of her own business?
She has about the common sense of a rock?
@@jasonchui111 whe sound like someone who has competence and intelligence of those people who are hired only because of their immutable characteristics to fill the quiota
Anyone who's an actual engineer would've been able to see those problems from a mile away. Which is probably why engineers don't dig tunnels underneath their houses
Yeah I haven't gotten into this yet but most anyone can tell you that digging a tunnel under your house is a bad idea
To be fair most people understand that digging under the infrastructure of a city is a HORRIBLE idea
Only Colin Furze should be tunneling under his home! (Great UA-cam series btw)
the rational side of me is like, "yeah, of course this wouldn't be a good idea. nothing could possibly be worth the damage, the time, or the money; hell, it's not even worth the problem solving this project would require." and yet... another part of me, the nostalgia, is very entertained at the thought of someone constructing whatever they want with absolutely no planning. as a kid, i used to be obsessed with hidden tunnels or secret hideouts. i'm not even sure where that obsession came from. maybe stephen king or possibly the spiderwick chronicles? i don't know, but either way, my childhood home did not have anything that exciting, so i used to create small models or draw ways i would add secret areas to my "future home." little did i know that i and the rest of my generation probably won't own homes, but hey, at least with people like this, i can watch them and feel that little childlike wonder we all occasionally indulge in, and if it fails, it's not my property destroyed.
@mr.bingusthecat it's that last line that is the problem though. She's not just destroying her land.
She's a programming engineer and put 60k+ into a fun side hobby in one year. She owns a tesla.
Her neighbors include a good population of migrants.
The ones of them fortunate enough to own their house just had their property values destroyed. Most of them are in the same boat as you. If a sinkhole opened under your house, do you have the 3 months rent in your bank account to be able to go get a new apartment?
I had a neighbor burn my apartment down. We were fortunate to have friends help us, but we lost our licenses. The extended stay accused us of being drug addicts and prostitutes because "you expect me to believe the temporary id from the dmv is real?"
When we found a place we had to have 3 months rent to drop immediately.
Tunnel girl makes 5 times what you do easily. She could have bought land and done this on there but didn't. Instead she lives in an area with people who make nothing and terrorizes them. That's not worth anyone's whimsy, and I say that as someone who's dream house is exclusively a complex network of grottos and secret rooms/tunnels.
She has a basement that's at least deep enough to be entirely under ground. What reason does she need a storm shelter??? SHE HAS ONE
This was what I wondering. A basement is a shelter 😂
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I think she just likes to dig and make things, and expanding underground gives her mole tendencies a chance to come out.
It's for fun.
she created the basement too :)
"My neighbors know what I'm doing.
But then some one told them what I'm doing, and now they are concerned."
Frankly it’s a miracle it wasn’t found out in the form of a massive fire or accidental creation of a sinkhole
My real issue with this is the possible effects on the neighbours' homes; sinkholes don't respect property boundaries, nor can she pollute only her own ground water.
that and apparently a not-insignificant number of her neighbors are unable to fiel any kind of protest, and she is clearly taking advantage of their inability to interface wiith the police. i'd be all-in on her little passion priject if she lived out in BFA somewhere but this whole suburban mining phenom is *_*just*_* so... 😬
As they have been shown to be I is impossible for a sinkhole to form from the tunnels, to make something with even the slightest chance of making a sinkhole she would either have to hollow out an ungodly amount of earth or get lucks and connect to a spring, in which case the tunnel itself is still not contributing to said sinkhole
the fact that she tried to heal a tree with a broken trunk with INDUSTRIAL WOOD GLUE tells me all i need to know about her.
Exactly! By the way, your comment made me laugh. Thanks
😂😂😂😂
The fact she said cutting into the wall made her feel "fairly apprehenshus" instead of apprehensive told me enough 😅
@@Adara007 Why is it so popular to bitch and moan about this chick ? Her only mistake was uploading evidence publicly . Reddit pansies are so sour , nosey and weak humans it is shocking . Are they all just jealous or her attention ? Or the fact she is capable of being free while they are mind slaves ?
But... a tree is made of wood and it's INDUSTRIAL! What would you have used, duct tape? Me personally, I would have used PL-400 and a steel collar with lag bolts.
The moment she cut the damp proof membrane it was obvious she was winging it.. as soon as she decided to turn her house into a castle by mining under the neighbourhood for rock, it was obvious she’s mad as a box of frogs.. her working in full make up and pearls reinforced that.
Yeah he's working in makeup and pearls because he thinks he's a woman.. mad as a box of frogs is accurate
This comment made me remember that one person that raised like a million frogs on their backyard and completely ruined the ecosystem of her city
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@@mariamaldonado5079 i love how we are desperately trying to fight climate change and alter our behaviors to stop destroying everythong and there's people actively fighting against that.
Its like they hear how most pollution and resource consumption is from corporations not private citizens and they go hold my beer 🤦♀️
@@kellylyons1038"coal rolling is for basics, I gotta think outside the box. Also outside the basement..."
What concerns me is that her property can’t be that big, which means she’s probably mining under other peoples houses… how does she not see a problem with that?
She’s gonna turn someone’s house into a sinkhole smh
it's less than half an acre. That's tiny.
Bc this generation doesn't care. It's all about "me, me, ME!"
The tunel isn't that big
@@hessen549830ft along is longer than a house in most directions, and I've grown up in a cottage.
I’m NOT an engineer but I know being an engineer does not qualify you to design tunnels never mind constructing them. You need civil, structural, and geotechnical engineers just to DESIGN stuff like this.
It's like a lawyer representing themselves in court - yeah, no.
@@salemcrow5078I think that needs boiling down a bit. It’s like a copywrite lawyer representing themselves in a murder case.
You’re so smart. That’s what you wanted to hear, right?
I AM an engineer and I agree with this comment
It's even more funny. She's a SOFTWARE engineer.
Cowturtle is nothing like this lady and it is an insult to him to compare them. That cistern was already within the house and he didn’t construct it nor is he as reckless as her
You need a permit to put a fence in your yard...of course you would need one to excavate a big ass tunnel under your house! 🧐😑
Or under other people’s houses
Shoot, I needed a permit not only for a fire pit in my backyard, but to finish my basement (aka putting up drywall and flooring)-that one required someone from the town coming in midway to inspect and sign off that the drywall and flooring was being installed properly
Permits are a pain to get sometimes but I’m so thankful for them, especially after seeing videos like this
@@MomeGnome Is "fire pit" going to turn into "giant sinkhole that swallows the neighbor's house", as it would with this lady? It might, so yes, I think the permit requirement is good and cool.
@@MomeGnome pretty sure the permit is so they can keep tabs on who has what. In case there's an accident. The local council may be legally liable.
She's completely ruined the value of that home. You can pay professionals to install stormshelters in your basement, home, back yards...... no destroying or ruining the home required...
what really gets me too is that she clearly could have afforded to have professionals come do the work. she’s spending so much money just to do it wrong herself.
It’s pretty clear to me that it isn’t even the storm shelter/castle that she really wants, it’s the digging activity that has her doing all of this. She doesn’t want someone else to do it for her because that would take away all of the “fun” she is having and attention she is getting
@@Kimmie9553 100%. Head canon: as a female in IT she's faced a good amount of misogyny and dudes saying "no you can't" (as a dude in the field, I can tell you it exists.) As a result she's developed a very "ask forgiveness, not permission"/"I can do anything I put my mind to" attitude.
In some cases (like clustering API's, which she's likely good at,.) this is a positive. In others (like digging a tunnel under your likely mortgaged property without the proper training, safety measures or permits,) it's going to absolutely bite her.
@@Kimmie9553once you said she’s doing it for attention you lost me. I know you’re going to claim otherwise but if a man her same age was doing this on TikTok you wouldn’t say it’s for attention
every single article i found when googling how much a storm shelter costs under your house had an average of $12k and a max of $30k…. she spent over $50k and seems like she isn’t even halfway done
The silica dust all around the house knowing she has roommates and is living there herself is terrifying
Whelp, my dad got leukemia from welding in enclosed spaces on a cargo ship. 18 months between diagnosis and death. I hope she doesn't suffer the same fate.
Don’t forget the silica dust! She literally showed everyone it covering every surface in her home. Have fun with silicosis girlie 😅
@@Kimmie9553asbestos too!
Lmfao lol I doubt the few times she’s recorded being there doing work that it will make her sick. It’s the ones she’s hired I’m worried for.
@@ambermartinez6587 high risk, low reward. She ain't saving puppies, and babies here
Oh she absolutely is. This girl is a goner even if that thing doesnt cave in on her.
i think a lot of people like kala don’t understand the difference between “my neighbors are kind to me because they don’t want to escalate things even though they may be scared of me” and “my neighbors and I get along well”
but she smiles at them, everyone knows you're immune to criticism and prosecution if you smile!
Especially when she says they haven't said anything, I have to wonder if she speaks enough spanish to hear what they have to say.
Yeah especially if they’re migrants. They probably don’t want to rock the boat with anyone.
No...They had no idea what she was doing....Who could even Fathom it?
She's been next to them for 13 years. And hasn't called ICE. I'd say she's a pretty nice person🤷🏽♂️
Gotta love the fact she slices through that water membrane at the very beginning and then is surprised when the whole shebang floods a few weeks later. Then after that doesn't address any new kinda water barriers. That's going to be one very moist dark "shelter" with damp slimy walls when she's finished.
Yeah, why is she surprised what behind it? Dirt it's going to be dirt. And since it's DC: wet dirt.
She's not even an IT engineer! She's a project/program manager. She's a middle-woman for teams of ACTUAL engineers, financial experts, etc. She herself does not work as an engineer, she works WITH engineers and might pick up some technical knowledge but nothing close to qualifying her for anything.
I'M a project manager for a large tech company, the concept of thinking that qualifies me to build a minecraft tunnel is insanity.
I've seen several news outlets refer to her as a software engineer and she admitted herself she only studied business and fiance in school. My partner is a software engineer and she laughed out loud when she saw that she is IT manager. I believe she's also "just" freelance for that?
she said something about being a "full stack software engineer" at some point, but i'm not sure if that was just more lying or maybe she learned to code as well? that could very well describe why she thinks she has a huge brain capable of formulaterizing solutionizers to ever problematic, i have noticed that is a thing that happens to people who have degrees in something unrelated to computers and then learn to code, sometimes. 🤨
@@elen5871 it's honestly pretty unlikely that someone with no real formal comp sci training can be a full stack engineer on their own. Then again she's learned how to do all this from books so who knows. Every thing I've read says a different thing thing about what her profession is
from her LinkedIn sourced in video 39:40
@@omgmo1962not to be that guy, but that's not as true anymore, especially with those self-paced programs that teach full-stack engineering without the need for a degree. some require you have a base level of engineering or some work with compsci, but (in my research), most don't. (ofc getting a job after can be a bit difficult, but that's mostly the workforce being the workforce tbh.) also, a lot of full stack engineers end up freelancing or doing like temp contract work. i just think there's a certain stigma that comes with engineers having to have a degree that a lot of the ones that built a career without one stay kind of quiet outside of like twitter and linkedin.
there's plenty of other engineering projects she could do to keep herself busy. 🙄 imagine if your house starts collapsing into the ground without warning because your neighbor wants to be quirky for tiktok
She could have dug a hidey hole in her backyard. Hell, put in a fountain.
Exactly it’s selfish and delusional. Learn to crochet, go to the gym, or go to THERAPY! That’s what her “hobby” needs to be, actually.
build a door hidden in a bookcase or something like a normal person
@@dismurrart6648I'm gonna do a secret room in my house. Cheap, legal, safe, won't hurt my neighbors, within my capabilities...
@@xletragedyx I think that sounds great! I intend to have a secret bookcase room too
As soon as she said, "building a storm shelter off of my basement," my first thought was, "doesn't a basement already work as a storm shelter?"
16:25 To answer this question, YES, she can screw up the well water of surrounding houses. Ground water tables are usually shared, so this is quite literally “poisoning the well”. Also, her draining of ground water could cause serious shortages, contamination, and sinkholes.
Yes! Finally someone said it. My gosh this woman has no regard for her neighbors. She’s messing with plumbing, electrical, sewage and more! Suburban communities have infrastructure built into them, they’re all connected. She’s messing with other peoples lives. Makes me so frustrated. Yes this is America but there are certain things that are restricted in certain areas for a reason. If she wanted to do this she should have bought a large piece of land with no one else around. But she’s in a suburban community so there are limits to what she can do. I really hope she is stopped soon!
Can you imagine her hitting a Septic Tank....Main Water Line...Sewer Line.....Old Gas Line Etc?????...Sometimes Natural Methane Gas can Seep through the ground....She could actually Blow the neighbor up??!!..Thats another reason that there are requirements...Permits...Notifications etc...One of her neighbors had felt the Earth actually move and didnt know why?...That is Not Normal...even during Constructions.....Sink Hole?...Avalanche?......Ground Shifts?!!!!...She should at least be Fined...Penalized for Sure.....Negligent
She has CITY UTILITIES.
Yes though she is probably getting water from Fairfax Water ("city" water) since she lives somewhere in Herndon, VA. Still not a good idea to poison the water table....
@@alexdhallwhat she is doing is NO DIFFERENT theb what ANY home builder, back yard mechanic does lol. The only real threat is to herself being trapped & mabe causing her neighbors landlords slabs to crack. Thats why its not some arrestable offense lol
I said this when the Titan imploded, but I will say it again. Engineering IS safety. That is what engineers do. This is insanity.
i was literally gonna say this whole thing reminds me of the titan disaster… hopefully it won’t end that badly for her, but she needs to face actual consequences for destroying the property value of her neighbors’ homes and subjecting them to noise, or even exposure to harmful materials…
Yeah for real. People have certainly built more impressive things than this tunnel with less machinery, but people also commonly died doing it.
it's genuinely hard for me to comprehend that she, as a person, *exists,* not through a mere character in a social experiment, but legitimately.
she has or had parents. someone raised her, someone out there grew up as her bff, if only for a time.
she has a favourite colour.
she exists
I know, she is truly amazing in her drive and can-do attitude. More people need to stop watching TV for most of their lives. Wouldn't if be great if they started helping others, like through charities or something. It was be great.
@@happyzahn8031 i'm just too tired all the time. depression sucks ass, i wish i had her drive to do things
but like
not destroy my neighbourhood or anything
Things like this keep me up at night sometimes and she's not even the worst of it. It really pushes me to believe there is no god.
Hopefully she won’t exist much longer
Shes also clearly mentally ill lmao, her rants about why she's making the tunnel sounds like schizophrenia tbh
"The only thing seperating me from 5,000 pounds of concrete and being a pancake is my own engineering" is giving titan sub all over again. As a safety major this is terryifying. "I cut corners and my loading system broke" jesus christ
CASUAL CHEMICAL LEAK good god I bet she didn't even clean it up like the safey data sheets tell you to. This is actually insane.
And the fire... this video is the entire reasons we need safety regulations and permits to conduct this work she's not even trained in this
Sounds like digging your own grave the hard way.
@@15oClock I just hope no one else gets hurt when this literally blows up in her face.
The only thing she could seemingly do safely, is construct a decauville line, cuz that's literally the easiest thing one could do that'd be considered engineering.
For context, the Decauville rail system was a way of building internal railway systems in certain industrial areas, or just railways that were going through rough terrain, the rails, sleepers, etc, were placed onto the ground, and connected in a similar way to how lego rails are.
its so fascinating that she's smart enough to figure out how to do all that, most people couldn't wrap their heads around it, but she's not smart enough to realize why she shouldn't be doing any of it
The dunning-Kruger effect rlly getting her ass
100%
She’s a case study in the Dunning-Kruger effect.
There are many examples of failures of the " just because you can, doesn't mean you should " variety in modern cultural context.TT specializes in such content.
This should absolutely be the top comment! Have a 👍
It’s so baffling to me that she clearly has the resources to pursue an actual education in engineering if that’s her real passion, but instead she insists on winging it and recklessly endangering her entire community for her projects.
Hearing that her neighbors have fears and worries but won’t express them to authorities because they’re afraid of being singled out by authorities is what pisses me off the most. I hope they do not let her continue this.
She's going to continue, regardless. She has absolutely no respect for others, no mindfulness of others whatsoever, never has a thought in her head for anyone except herself.
Can you imagine living next to her? Having to listen to rocks thumping down a metal slide into a dumpster day in and out for over a year, all because she thinks IRL Minecraft is quirky and fun? Can you imagine trying to sell your house? "Yeah, so it's got 3 bedrooms and a spacious 3 car--"
This is why you don't typically put mines, landfills or industrial operations in residential areas. This is why you have zoning laws.
The only neighbor to speak in this video said there wasn't any noise or other issues.
@@REAL-NANO I would assume that if they don’t feel safe going to the authorities about their concerns they would not feel safe going on the news.
What happens to them now that the reporter has said they’re undocumented and the news is covering it..? I hope this being spread all over the internet & tv doesn’t get them deported 😢
I love how all the “new hazards” she’s learning about (silica, loose cords, etc) are things everyone who’s taken a basic OSHA 10 course knows to avoid…
Hell, most people would stop at the "starting fires" part!
@@kaibaiarrio1299most people would have stopped as soon as the idea popped into their head
@@kaibaiarrio1299 MOST WLD ALSO STOP AT THE EXCAVATING UR HOMES STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY BG
Isn’t she releasing all of that dust into her house and yard and air outside next to her neighbor’s houses with the chunks she’s bringing out from underground?
@@Cashhhhew Yeah definitely. Less of an issue if it's outdoors (still not great) but that dust will blow in through windows and doors. Also silicosis is no joke, quite a few legal filings in the next few years from people who've been exposed to that stuff by working in factories that handle/cut stone.
She poisoned that poor tree to death 💀 my god how would you think thats a good idea its so hilarious
With no permits, the fire department would have zero idea where she was if an accident happened under there. She is failing to see how many people she is putting in danger let alone herself.
I heard a story about a guy who hired someone to work on his own basement tunnel project (something about nickles and having two of them...), and when a fire started in the tunnel the guy died. IIRC, the man who hired him/owned the home/property got charged with negligent homicide because he didn't let the fire department know about his secret tunnel or the whole human being who was living and working down there.
@@ndawn90 yeah part of that issue was iirc the home owner lied to him about their location (and basically blindfolded him when taking him there) so he believed it was legal digging (it wasn't). and then when there was the fire, the guy complained about a burning smell in a text and was told it was just an electrical malfunction but everything was fine and didn't bother to evacuate the guy.
Either way...the reporter lady was creepy. The world is extra weird
@@ndawn90 ofc you heard about it, it's literally talked about in the video you're commenting on lmfao
I'm astounded at Kala's sheer arrogance to say that she didn't think the way in which Bogado informed her neighbours was right. To her, what was "right" seems to have been to not tell them anything at all. After all, she had plenty of time to tell her neighbours _before_ she started and she continued to say nothing to them for the year she was digging, though she didn't have a problem telling strangers on social media all about it. Even when the inspectors came round, she acted dumb at first, presumably in hopes they didn't know exactly what she'd been doing.
Engineering and construction issues aside… I’m SHOCKED she hasn’t like hit a pipe or cut a line or something. You have to call Dig Safe when you do major digging FOR A REASON! There’s electrical lines, pipes, gas lines, sewage systems, I could go on.
I know you said you could go on, CAN you go on?(genuine) I want to know if there is more than just those few stated.
Hitting Gas and sewer lines can also cause explosions (including in neighbours houses)
@@JennyCThreeYeah we’d rather not have that happen. Thanks for the response and explanation!
Fiberoptic cable@@lizzykatieschindele6265
I'm surprised the water wasn't more of an issue, like she pumped it out and that just kind of worked ok. But yeah even tree roots mangle pipes
I feel so bad for her neighbors. This lady is insane. Shes an IT engineer. Does not qualify her for anything of this nature.
Imagine nosies and quakes you have no clues where they're coming from only to discover your neighbor is playing Minecraft in real life.
Thing is, she's not even an IT engineer! She has no engineering degree or certification of any kind, so she's not only completely unqualified, but she's potentially endangering her neighbors. I hope they permanently shut down her disconcertingly obsessive tunneling project.
I am looking forward to the inevitable Netflix documentary, though!
There are reasons we have zoning laws. Putting a mine next to a suburban home would not only annoy the homeowners with all the noise, but devalue the property.
@@bbureau12our city wouldn’t even let us turn the garage into an in law suite on our own property lol. This has to be deeply, deeply illegal.
all i can say is i recognize a manic episode when i see one, even a year-long one
Damn...
Imagine being the neighbors wanting to sell their homes and trying to explain to prospective buyers or real estate agents that your crazy neighbor has been building a giant sinkhole underneath the property for the last 2 years.
I got pissed that my mom's neighbor made their house explode because they were making drugs. I couldn't imagine the nightmare of your neighbor being so destructive to everyone's lives like that. People way poorer than her too.
Who cares? They aren’t even legal citizens and should be rounded up and deported
@dismurrart6648 Yup. They're too scared to call the cops for fear of deportation, and she KNOWS that. She's an utter POS and I hate her.
A relator that lives and works in the area commented on this. Apparently realtors in the area are only required to disclose issues with the property being sold. Anything to do with other properties in the neighborhood is on the buyer to do their own due diligence and check. Very much a 'buyer beware' situation since I sincerely doubt any relator is going to tell a potential buyer that tunnel lady is nextdoor.
Imagine trying to sell your home and realizing it might be unsellable because your neighbor’s unlicensed tunnel likely destabilized the slab of your home because the slab your home sits on is close enough to hers that the loss of bedrock, loss of ground water, and her “mining techniques” have fundamentally altered the integrity of the ground your slab is on.
She seems genuinely unstable, just like her house
Yeah her nonchalant attitude at every instance of her house literally being destroyed is... concerning.
@@freethegaysnot mention that she seemed so confident in her skills that she put herself in DANGER (being flattened like a pancake) when she admitted that she cut corners and had multiple avoidable problems
also lying about her being an engineer is so...like does she expect people to just believe her??
@megandowd1833 The moment I read your comment, I burst out laughing because it's so true. 😂😂😂
yes, "she" is--Kala is a white dude pretending to be 1) a female 2) Indian
I live a few hours from her. The only shelter-worthy storms we get are hurricanes, which would flood her "storm shelter."
her basement was already stormproofed and the first clip is literally her cutting through the water barrier 😭
Chemist here whos work involvves groundwater.
Theres a lot of places where chemicals leaking into groundwater gets them onto the superfund cleanup list. She absolutely put everyone around her in danger of poisoning
Yes! As someone studying environmental engineering I also wanted to point out that groundwater is one of the cleanest water sources out there and while it can be difficult to contaminate (esp depending on if it’s a DNAPL or LNAPL) it can also be incredibly difficult to clean up. If she is just spilling chemicals without oversight it is super easy for the water to be contaminated without knowledge and then poisoning her community. Even if ppl don’t get poisoned it’s still a huge environmental issue
Exactly! If she had to don a respirator to clean up a chemical spill you can only imagine the impact she had on the soil/groundwater
@SabrinaMuellerAwesome101 yeah, I knew someone who went to u of m in michigan and I guess there just is a dioxane plume in the groundwater there from people dumping chemicals
the amount of radon, asbestos, and silica dust she potentially unleashed on her own home is genuinely worrying
bruh her lungs boutta be pulverized by all that metal and concrete dust. epic COPD speedrun in 6 months moment!!!
Black lung speed run any%
Don’t forget the silicosis from all the silica dust she literally showed us coating every surface inside her home!
Her poor roommates 🙁
This is exactly what I was thinking. I am an attorney that specializes in toxic tort allegations. If any of her roommates get any kind of breathing issues, I don’t know if she has any money, but they can sue her no problemo.
I just don't, can't believe she's done all this entirely alone. She's clearly omitting the helpers from the footage.
love how she said "there's no dust" when she literally filmed all the dust in her house when she was digging. did she think none of it would escape bc she has the doors and windows of her house closed or something
she thinks it'll be fine because she's made it this far without being crushed under rubble, and i worry it's going to take exactly that for her to stop. if the authorities don't get to her first, she's going to kill someone
Sadly, that looks like my house. Too much dust. It does take about 6 months to accumulate but still... And yes, I do change my AC filters every month or so depending on the type.
@happyzahn8031 you better check up on your neighbors
The fact that she also works a 9 to 5 yet has the energy to do all this stuff after work is impressive to me.
Honestly, and here voice isnt screaming energy either so quite confusing :p
remember when she said she benevolantly sheltered an "unregistered" friend ? and her neighbour said the noises were in the day ? i don't believe she do most of the work in there, probably just what she show us in the videos, how could she be at her 9 to 5 job and digging under her house at the same time ? especially in winter when the sun is up at 8am and down at 6pm, it leaves her 2h/day to dig and go to her job
Where I live 9 to 5 is considered part-time.
@@oldbatwit5102 🤣
You have soft hands brother @@oldbatwit5102
"I'm building a storm shelter on the side of my basement" is like saying I'm building a car to drive around in my car.... A basement is already a storm shelter.
It's eerie to see someone so out of touch with reality documenting their single-handed destruction of an entire neighbourhood. I feel awful for her neighbours.
You the HOA kingpin?
Why? In a different interview with a different reporter the neighbors said there is a little noise but it's not too bad. to me it seems like the first reporter was making crap up to sell a story.
@@lesterforney6200 seems to me like the news interviewed and showed a single person's opinion who lives in the neighborhood. Given that she works full time, she has to be doing all this afterwork, and noise ordinances start at 10 or sometimes 11pm, so if she's doing any of that work, which others have reported to the investigative reporter are loud enough to hear and strong enough to feel through the ground, she is at the very least being a complete nuisance, and at worst, a literal safety hazard to everyone in her immediate area. this just screams entitled autistic rich girl does whatever she wants to do and damn anyone who pushes back on her. I appreciate the spanish speaking reporter going to interview her spanish speaking neighbors, who respectfully disagree with that one dude who is only one dude and definitely not an engineer. Girl is smart enough to teach herself all these complex things, yet cant teach herself respect for the rules or appreciate that _computer_ and _civil_ engineering are NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO RELATED in any fucking way.
Lol if neighborhoods in the US are built to such a flimsy standard that some construction work on one property threatens the entire neighborhood's buildings to be destroyed, you guys need to learn how to construct buildings, not complain about a person doing something *on their own property*. Also, I thought you guys were the bastion of freedom in the US? I don't see much freedom being afforded to her here...
@tanithrosenbaum Nice try, but I'm not American. The point is that this concerns more than just her property. In normal circumstances, the surrounding terrain should hold. However, with all her digging, she runs the risk of destabilizing that terrain, putting her neighbours' homes and lives at risk. Moreover, she hasn't produced evidence that her project has been approved by the proper authorities, which could endanger her if she ever gets trapped down there, as rescue teams wouldn't know where she is and would be walking into a potential death trap trying to get her out.
As someone who grew up in Northern Virginia AND as someone with a master's degree in civil engineering, this horrifies me on many levels. When she was talking about making a storm shelter, I was thinking she was in the Midwest where you need tornado shelters. While we do get the occasional hurricane, wind storm, or tornado in Northern Virginia, it's not bad enough that a storm shelter is needed. Most houses there have basements, and that's usually enough. Also, before doing any project, you HAVE to do a bunch of studies. You CANNOT just wing it.
Furthermore, yes, she totally contaminated that ground water. Anything that gets into the ground without proper containment can/will contaminate groundwater, and thus, someone's well water. On the bright side, most, if not all, NOVA is not on well water. Still, contaminants in groundwater is nit good.
Also, her removing all that rock and soil possibly/probably not only destabilized her house, but also her neighbors' houses. It would definitely be worse if they were high rises, but it's still not good. You see, the loads of buildings get distributed into the earth, and it is in all sorts of directions. Foundations are designed to not only support the house above, but also press against the loads of the earth and water. If you remove enough of the earth pressure pressing up against that foundation, it can cause collapse. I have seen a video in class back in undergrad where a hole for a foundation for a new high rise was dug too close and deep to an existing high rise, and that existing building fell over.
I don't know how big her tunnel is, but it's still dangerous without all the proper engineers and studies done.
Of course, this isn't getting into the other issues mentioned in this video like the incorrect rebar for the reinforced concrete. This is an all around mess, and I wonder if her house will be condemned or saved.
She's said it went 10 feet down on a 30• grade .. And was a few feet wide and maybe 6 feet high at most. She's a complete nut-bar and should be forced to refill the entire space!
They served him with a notice that it needs to be filled in idk how he's gonna do that. They probably are going to condemn it because idk how you can fix this
@@Barbieinawheelchairwho's "he"?
So you know her situation how???
That makes this extra terrifying, I did not know that about how load distribution works. You explained it excellently! It feels like "oh, of course that's obvious, why didn't I recognize that" but it took you studying to learn it.
"As an engineer" - even if she was a licensed engineer, her job would be to stick to what she knows!
dude, silica dust will literally kill you if you breathe it in, it's called "silicosis" for that reason. the deadliest industrial "disaster" (quotations because of course it was a disaster insofar that it was the result of corporate negligence) in the US was the Hawk's Nest Tunneling Disaster in WV, which killed hundreds of workers because they breathed in pure silica with no protection. I would not want that in my home!
In Toronto at the workers compensation building they have a retaining wall around a fountain and etched are the death stories of workers from 100 years ago. Things like mine mining cave-ins, pieces of equipment falling on people, silicosis, different long conditions. It's spooky to read and sad to know that so many people died in the past due to unsafe working conditions. This woman has no idea what she's doing and is disrespecting the people who've actually worked in mines and died in the past.
Nah... It's just a "true menace."
True
NEWS FLASH the ONLY person at risk is her IN A Confined area. Her neighbors are NO DIFFERENT then the entire West side of America having Dust storms, or the great depression Dust bowl.
I scrolled to the comments after hearing silica be mentioned lol
I can't believe silicosis wasn't a fear for her or mentioned in the video.
She watched too many DIY girlies on TikTok and girlbossed too close to the sun.
It's one thing to customize your own home by painting the walls and making organically shaped rugs. This kind of thing requires actual education, training, experience, teams, etc.
Permits and supervision!
"Girlbossed too close to the sun" 😂
Go buy some land and build something if you are that intent on bringing your crazy ideas to life 😹 But instead she starts digging under a built up residential area, she is more concerned about her crazy project than the safety of her neighbours 🙈
Im laughing my ass off at this comment, because I got a false sense of confidence from these diy videos just before Christmas.
I just tried to hang a simple curtain rail and because I didn’t use the correct fixings for the weight of the curtains and the heavy duty rail and the type of wall, the weight of the curtains pulled the entire rail off, took a chunk out of the wall that needed filled and the rail landed on my glass coffee table shattering it into a million little cubes.
I had to call my dad to come and fix it all for me which I should’ve just done to begin with 😂
This is not a male or female issue. This person is insane, plainly.
This is kinda my work field, especially in the direction of the engineering involved and this had me in cold sweat, while I understand that it's probably fun, this tunnel is gonna kill someone. And the amount of negligence is insane
"But anyone with a brain can dig a tunnel! People have been digging tunnels since the dawn of time and they only die frequently!" - typical "Muh Freedoms" person
building a mining tunnel in your basement is only allowed in minecraft. everyone knows that, kala
Seriously...am not familiar withe Minecraft but guess her embarkment is likening to a video game?....scary
She is w.y..t skinned voted trump abused her POC neighbors
@@kimberlymedrano5285 minecraft takes place in a world made of blocks and you can mine virtually all of these blocks. many people just dig into the earth at their home base in hopes of finding some of the rarer materials. it makes sense in the game bc again you can destroy any blocks you like, but of course thats unbelievable in real life... except to her apparently
No in my state as long as it doesn't go under a neighboring property you can legally get a storm / fallout shelter dug on your land.
@lesterforney6200 get a tunnel dug, not dig it yourself without permits.
I grew up in a burnt out mining town. The number of people who have fallen into old mine shafts and passed away before being found or not being found for years is way too many for such a tiny town. If you do a tour of the main tourist attraction part of the mine in our town you get all sorts of terrible stories about people passing away with all the safety regulations met from random things people just won’t think of. If you don’t care about unaliving yourself fine but if you out your neighbors and any rescuers in jeopardy like she is I think you deserve charges and prison time. I don’t like our prison industrial complex but I also lost too many people I knew growing up to have much room in my heart when it comes to this kind of dangerous activity.
They have tenants putting them at risk
It’s wild how many people loved her until people started calling her out. But this is a nightmare. She lives in a suburb!!!
It’s wild for Kala to say that if the reporter hadn’t rated her out to the neighbors it would be fine. As if the health risks would only affect them if they knew.
She doesn't care for her own safety or that of her neighbours. Imagine how little she thought about the danger her project presents to first responders. Her house is a death trap in an emergency!!
This whole thing is a nightmare. I pray that her neighbors and roommates are not permanently affected by her actions.
her deadpan voice narrating the most insane stuff is so crazy to me 😭
Wow, if she's doing that towards someone's house, which it seems like she is, she's literally damaging someone else's home. So not only could her house collapse but so could her neighbors.
A guy caving a tunnel to find gold, died last week here in Brazil. He made a hole with 200m and fell into the hole. He follows a "dream" of finding gold under the house, like a prediction or something like that.
i'm not an engineer but i did do 3 years of mechanical engineering at uni before changing my major and it's genuinely insane how much of an obviously bad idea everything this woman is doing is and honestly even for a software engineer you'd think she'd still have enough logic to piece together that what she's doing is actually very dangerous and requires more than just reading a textbook to accomplish?? there's a REASON that engineering takes is hard and takes years to study. i don't know much about tunneling but i do know you can compromise the structural integrity of land you aren't directly under as well. there are regulations for this stuff because of safety reasons and she has completely ignored them. all her "safety precautions" are terribly unsafe. if she was really only putting herself at risk on a huge area of land where it's just her and no neighbours i would care less but she's literally putting other people at risk too. even her tennants. tunnel fires aren't a joke and can get really dangerous really quickly but she just laughed it off when it happened to her. also like. just having an engineering degree doesn't qualify you to dig a fucking tunnel either. you need further specialization.
I got a diy home reno book and some of the projects in there I felt were above most people's ability. The hardest diy's I'd be comfortable doing are replacing flooring or putting in a fountain. I can't imagine cutting into my Fondation and being so smug about everything
Is she a software engineer? Bc IT directors don't nec have any IT experience. Mine sure doesn't.
Most building plans require a licensed PE to sign off on them, so not only would she need specialization, but she would need to go through that whole process. It's fairly intense, it involves passing an exam, doing qualified work under a licensed PE for a number of years, and then passing another big exam. Think of it like the engineering equivalent of medical residency/board certification, you can't have people's lives in your hands unless you got a license.
Also, she's not even a software engineer, she just works in IT.
Exactly, IT directors are people managers, not software engineers. @bobbert9353
coming from someone whos just afraid of sinkholes,, she should just know not to do this. i have to womder if this is a prolonged manic episode bc she doesnt seem sane
I'm horrified by her inability to take the perspective and experience of other people into account. She's giving of major main character energy. "Society? Community? Whats that?"
She's a Trump supporter, her selfishness and complete lack of regard for others is very on brand.
Hella main character energy. Also pick-me-girl energy like “I’m so smart and quirky!!” Bro you’re doing shit to your property that could seriously hurt other people. Stop it get some help 🤦🏻♀️
Have you heard of mental illness/personality disorders/autism?
Exactly, and she even got upset that "outsiders" were getting involved and got her destructive hobby under legal spotlight
Something screams this person loves making other people indulge their delusions.
Imagine being lucky enough to buy a house which is not the House of Leaves and then House of Leaves-ing it anyway
As a Geologist, I'm actually appalled that she tried to do all this for funsies without knowing what she's doing 😭
(I work with high risk areas assessment and she would be the first one I would shut down.)
Yeah she didn't need a Storm shelter. She's in a brick building with a basement. She's just about as safe as she can be!
She's lacking common sense. There was one point when rocks fell on her while she's digging, and that didn't make her stop 😭
@@jennstewart3003 Oh my god... so she already has a storm shelter, but she decided that it would be cooler if she built a second one but half-assed and dangerous.
@@andrewkoster6506 basically. I have lived in Oklahoma my whole life. The only thing safer than what she is in would be a reinforced safe room which has to have the house built around it more or less because it's cinder blocks, concrete, and rebar attached to the foundation and has a steel door. My grandparents have one. But a basement that is sufficiently waterproofed is perfectly acceptable and would withstand a tornado. Her's was well done with the waterproof lining and the extra concrete, but now she's ruined the barrier.
Here my father has been putting off making a shed for months because of permits, discovering the property line was misreported 20 years ago, and trying to ensure his mini 10x8 shed won't cause an eyesore to the developments near his house. This lady decides she has to make a property nightmare hazard tunnel. Christ almighty.
K, I've never heard of her before and I do think she is crazy, but her vibe: formal, dressed up, rather stilted cadence to her voice makes it seem like satire or something. Pearls, bright red lipstick, perfectly manicured hands. Quite unique
It does give a satire vibe, but she literally dug the tunnel, so I don't know how it could possibly be satire 😭
It's a man, cross-dressing. One with a laundry-list of psych issues (and possibly a drug habit)
It’s giving fallout stepford wife
Let's be honest... she's neurodivergent. Idk why everyone won't say it. She is hyperfixated and this is most likely why she's getting away with it.
Theres something about some programmers where they think they're smarter than everyone else at literally everything.
😂 I’m married to one and can confirm, the whole lot think very highly of themselves.
It's a thing for a lot of STEM people I think... social prestige + being genuinely smart = inflated ego and over confidence lol
This is true, I deal with this kind of hubris daily. They are also incredibly stubborn about it.
@@LilMissClementine my fiance is one too.
2 of our programmer friends are doing the much saner version of tunnel girl where they bought some land that has a dead forest on it and are working with the state forestry department to revitalize the land and make a cozy home in the middle of a massive local ecosystem.
@KC-ep5qr oh for sure. Programmers, especially programming managers, are really well paid too so they aren't mitigated by having a middle class salary
Why does she even need a storm shelter? What kind of storm can be scarier than her ungodly construction? 😱
Wouldn't the basement already double count as a storm shelter room in emergencies or? I'm in north Carolina so there ain't any basements to be heard of
There are no storms around the DC area that warrant a tunnel that deep and extensive. I promise this thing was never meant for protection against the weather.
@@ashb89 oh definitely. She just wanted an excuse to dig because halfway through each goal it went from storm shelter, to tunnel, to a tunnel AND a castle
My parents had our storm shelter built by the people who built our house. This is not a storm shelter. You don't need a big storm shelter.
Our shelter has: outlets and a single light. The only main differences is that it is built from concrete/looks different from the rest of the basement and has a thicker, heavier door. It is thin and narrow. But it does the job and has space for necessities like food and water.
You don't need to wire a bunch of stuff. Just electricity, mainly. If that.
I would be scared to be stuck in her shelter during a storm. I feel like it might flood or collapse
Her offkey singing 😂 i couldn't even place the song at first.
Poor Eel pit guy! He didn't F with the structural safety of his house or the neighbors’ while Kala turned her residential neighborhood into a building sight!
Every time someone brought up an objection to her in the past, she discounted the objection, did exactly what she wanted anyway, then came back with sad face emojis when bad things happened. Over and over and over. PERHAPS her neighbors do know her well; well enough to know that bringing up any objection will get the same result. "The noise is bothering us." "There's no noise." Etc etc. She doesn't seem exactly pleasant to deal with, smile or not. And just saying as a neurodivergent person myself, with respect, lady, you still gotta learn to live in society with everyone else. I'm not diagnosing her. I'm just saying.
I should add that I remembered that she did seem to learn partway through that sometimes people who know things have good ideas. LOL She just seems slow to pick up that she is not the one who gets to decide whether others are truly inconvenienced by her actions or not.
I spotted the same thing. I’m severely ADHD and I’ve done weird shit like this when my med doses were off.
@@GirlieCarolinasyou’ve done weird shit like having an illegal suburban mining operation when your adhd meds were off? coming from another person with sever adhd, girlie bffr this NOT just a teehee oopsie moment because you had too much ritalin, this is close to criminal negligence that still could cause severe damage to her and other people’s lives or properties!!!
@@gracephoenixgrace8632😂😂😂😂😂
@@GirlieCarolinasthis is not adhd
The names she made up for the city officials are hilarious “jack smith” “jimmy jones” just waiting for “bob builder” to show up
the entitlement is what really gets me. she wants to do what she wants to do, when and how she wants to do it. uncaring for laws, regulations, safety, logic, her community and home, etc. she's convinced she's already correct on every topic before it's even brought up and can pick up every skill flawlessly just by doing it. she is being blatantly unsafe but thinks she gets to declare that she IS being safe and it will just be so. like she can just speak her will into existence. she had to know this was illegal with all her secrecy and avoidance, and decided she was above the law. she used the "i have a [minority] friend" excuse to combat allegations of benefitting from minority issues her neighbours might have been facing. the sheer level of privilege, willful ignorance, and entitlement on display is mind-boggling. if she wants so badly to build castles and bunkers she should get a big piece of land in the middle of nowhere like jim bishop.
Idk how to make this make sense but her journey and vibes seems like something your subconscious comes up in a dream “I had a creepy roommate with a monotone voice and she was digging a tunnel under this old house and there was mattresses everywhere and she made me hold a camera while she dug into the tunnel and welded steel in a flammable room and then there was a fire and I started burning so I woke up”
Her manner of speech, dogged determination, and method of interacting with her detractors reminds me a lot of Chris Chan. Are we going to find a Sonichu medallion somewhere in her tunnels?
Those are just signs of neurodivergencies. Do not equate neurodivergence to doing reckless/immoral things
they both fall on the ASD spectrum, which gives them the speech and determination. i have it too, but i mask more
this comment feels ableist. the manner of speech and method of interacting are traits of autism. to automatically associate that with chris chan feels... off. to me, as someone with autism)
Saying this as someone who has an engineering degree, this lady’s actions are extremely dangerous not only to herself but to her innocent neighbors as well. She could have purchased her own private land where she could have built her own house and do her unregulated tunnel project without putting anyone but herself at risk. But instead she’s doing this this in an area where her construction can have a massive effect on multiple houses and people within her community. It’s extremely selfish, ignorant, reckless and it’s lowkey giving ‘Barbarian’ movie vibes.
I started screaming in horror when she cut through the waterproof membrane 😱
You would think she would wonder why it's there... lol, then all the water issues she's been having.
I think it's so ironic that her "storm shelter" kept flooding
As a fellow woman whose dream is to build a castle, I don’t understand why she’s determined to do this under a pre-built house in a residential area which obviously wasn’t designed to sit atop an extensive double/triple basement system.
My plan has always been to build a small castle with a large “dungeon” basement system on a piece of rural property, _starting_ by digging/blasting out the basement and building substantial support structures from the bottom up, and using stone veneer instead of stone block construction to reduce the enormous weight of a stone structure at ground level.
Kala’s plot of land is tiny, and it’s simply impossible to do this safely, let alone without disturbing her neighbors and housemates. I really admire her determination and work ethic, but considering the cost of this project, I don’t understand why she chose to do it under a typical suburban house. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say.
I feel like if you showed this to an OSHA official they would have a heartattack
These are going to be in future "don't do this" videos lmao
I forget if it was an OSHA video or OHSA (Ontario Health and Safety; Canada), but I definitely remember extension cords being identified as a potential hazard to be mindful of on job sites. And I’m not on job sites often, so I don’t need as many levels of safety certification, so it was a pretty basic level video.
Lol it's a good thing osha doesn't apply to her situation
i need an "OSHA react to tunnel girl" video asap
Honestly, her time and money could have been better spent remodeling her actual house! She even called the spare bedroom, "the hoarder bedroom". The only semi clean room was her work area that she made sure to stay far away from. She could have made a smaller "shelter area" but made the house beautiful with that spiral staircase!
Agreed, I was thinking the same thing after that "tour" through her cluttered and pretty dirty house, while seeing old school burgundy (if I remember correctly) checkered floors which certainly could have used an update. If you're going to be spending that much money and you own the home, most people would update the part they actually live in first; not build some creepy room which gives the distinct vibes of storing hostages or being used as a torture chamber. 🤦🏽♀🤷🏽♀🤷🏽♀
She’s got mental issues. You’re talking common sense. She doesn’t have that.
WHERE IS HER PPE???? She’s gonna get pulmonary silicosis and chemical-eye holy shit.
The USCSB pissing and shitting rn.
Having watched AttorneyTom’s USCSB videos… oof. Hot work in a confined space? WITH COMBUSTIBLE THINGS ALL OVER?????? And you put water in the sawdust to keep it safe. Okay. 🥴
Chemical spill and you didn’t have any facial protection already… okay.
Stuff splashing into your eye because no eye protection…
GIRL.
I’M not an engineer, but I am a computational biologist who’s worked in the lab. Get your PPE. Check all the safety protocols. HELLO??? There are limits on certain hazards allowed. And she hires workers too!
@@vl5008nah, she has rubber gloves and headphones, LET'S GET BLASTING!!
what really gets me is the confidence in the rock's structural integrity. the actual strength of sandstone is really really dependent on a lot of factors that i'm sure she has not accounted for. (she can't have accounted for them, unless we suddenly learn she also has access to geological lab equipment that can test the composition of the sandstone under her house).
so this is how i imagine serial killers build their workspace
I think the scariest thing other than what she’s doing is how many people are enabling her, saying she does nothing wrong and is just a “based mining queen”. It’s like they’re treating her as a lolcow
Hate to say it but her being trans affords her an army of people who will back her no matter what she does just because of it.
@@lozpoposhes a trump supporter, i can promise you whoever youre thinking of isnt gonna be blindly defending her.
Also, didnt even know she was trans til you mentioned it. I think youre weirdly focused on an irrelevant detail.
@@lozpopoweird thing to say, I haven’t seen a single other person even mention her being trans
Shes definitely being lolcowed....people in those communities want as much destruction for that person and those around them as possible.
tbf, that does give quite a bit of info on her, as well as context as to WHY she's making this thing the way she does.
trans person AND trump supporter? girl why you hate yourself so much 😬@@thatrantinggirl7376
This is part of the reason why I’m apprehensive about the use of “engineer” in software development. We’re developers, not engineers. We absolutely do _not_ operate at the same level as an engineer, and many of us operate under a “move fast and break stuff” pace with a “ooh! cool stuff, I wanna try it!” curiosity. These are _absolutely_ not conducive to proper engineering.
move fast and break stuff seems to be very silicon valley/tech startups.
have personally spent months looking at the past and docmentation and discussing with peers, before rolling things out, i don't call myself an engineer but it's not all move fast break things.
that said misleading by saying enginner but not what of feels very, doctor of medicene vs atomic science or english
People using engineer as a catch all term is blasphemy. Real engineers are highly specified.
@@markallen8757 This sounds like the same level of rationale when people complain about someone with a doctorate who is not a physician being called doctor.
As someone studying software development- this is my exact attitude in all aspects of life lol 😂
@@rouninpanda6318 yeah, i don't care about the kind of doctor unless im seeking medical care..they all got their doctorates otherwise, earned the title
as a computing student it makes perfect sense that of all people, an IT engineer would find it justifiable to do something like this. personal projects on your own machine usually don't require permits or so, there's an insanely low barrier to entry and once an idea is had it's quite easy to get started with an overall plan and then sort out the bugs and details and learn the necessary skills along the way. only difference is the enjoyment of working with your hands, the sheer personal risk and social inconsideration to surrounding neighbours, but yeah. funnily enough I can see exactly why she'd do what she did.
Tunnel girl is starting to sound like my grandad in his later stages of frontotemperal dementia. He started a crazy house renovation that basically destroyed their house
Agreed - none of this is normal behavior
@@GirlieCarolinas yeah my grandad was a shipwright who had a lot of construction experience but man when he went off the deep end…
This whole thing screams some sort of mental illness or cognitive problems. She went from wanting to build a storm shelter to an air raid shelter to a castle. It's just so bizarre
Reminds me of when I hired methheads (unintentionally) to renovate my home 😢
@@zainabzolita8436that’s hilarious. How’d the renovations turn out 😂
Pretty sure the eel pit guy already had his pit... Like he moved in and it was already there and decided to turn it into a space for animals. Also his pit design look much easier to set up than her cutting a door into her house and tunneling from there. It was just a water resevoir and digging a pit and setting it up is pretty simple in comparison to whatever the heck she is doing.
the workers upon entering her tunnel: “so you built all of this yourself?”
kala: “yes. help me.”
My big thing is that even if she had the complete technical knowledge to dig this whole tunnel perfectly (which she doesn’t), it’s just so egotistical to think that you are the one person who doesn’t need to follow the rules and get the proper permits/inspections/etc done for your construction plans.
Well put. Even the most intelligent people are not going to be able to consider everything. Without following proper codes and guidelines you only increase the chance of not just failing to achieve your goals but the likelihood of infringing on the rights of others is unnecessarily increased as well.
Since she works for hours after her 9-5 I would be SO PISSED OFF to hear random loud noises and rumbling all through the night bc someone wants to play irl Minecraft. Like imagine trying to sleep with that fear of not knowing where this sound is coming from??
The dude who checked out the excavation sounded like the fake movie character in home alone
She went about this the way a literal child would. Like if you asked a kid how to do build a storm shelter this is what they would tell you to do.
I think my nine year old nephew would be more careful.
What gets me is the hyperfixation that her neighbors are immigrants, to the point where commenters almost go out of their way to call them “immigrant neighbors” and not just “neighbors”. Even if her neighbors weren’t immigrants this wouldn’t be okay.
It is relevant, because they may not have a strong grasp of English, or they could be afraid to get in touch with authorities for fear of getting harassed in return. You're right, its wrong no matter who her neighbors are, but who they are could very well impact how likely they are to advocate for their own safety.
@@Listening_Books12345 I agree! But I also feel we can still refer to them as just neighbors, because it feels like commenters are dehumanizing them just a smidge.
she's a trump supporter, fyi, so it checks out that she's such shite.
@@MissKilljoy I put immigrant because of the relevancy of their legal status. The reporter implied that some of them may not being fully immigrated and that is where some of the fear is coming from when it comes to reporting Kala. Like getting involved with the authorities puts their own residency at risk. Kala thought she could could do whatever she wanted in her neighborhood and no one could tell on her. Same thing for her roommates who are newly arrived from southern Asia. Shes already had at least one of them evicted from her home. She's also had them help her with parts of the tunnel construction. So this combined with her Trump following is creating a narrative that she's antagonistic towards immigrants or at least views them as less than.
I agree with this. But also, as someone who lives in the area, we have a lot of new migrants moving into northern Virginia. Yes they are her neighbors but the qualifying term of immigrant neighbors or first generation immigrants emphasizes the power imbalance. Kala saying they could have spoken up is really ignorant to this power imbalance
"Airstrike resistant" confimed my suspicions, this is a fallout shelter, not a "storm tunnel" or a "castle"
A suburban neighborhood probably isn't dependent on well water, but I can guarantee that any chemical spills occurring below the water table (which she might be, considering how terribly it floods down there), can spread through the whole local water system. Also, the local water bureau probably only tests for the top 10-20 contaminants and they depend on individuals to report other spills. We know she won't do that, so the whole town is at risk for water contamination if she so much as spills a can of paint down there. I can't imagine how rich you have to be to waste this much time and money on a pointless, dangerous project that a qualified team could do better, cheaper, and faster if it weren't for individual pride. This is going to end in lawsuits, death, or both.
Oh no, they exist it's just in random places. I live in an unincorporated suburb just outside Chicago where each house has their own well. They are a pain in the arse and I am looking forward to moving 😂
I also want to bring up that she’s stated a lot of her roommates are rehoused individuals who have major mental health issues and are transitioning out of MH institutions
Nooooo 😮 Fucking hell bruv. The manipulation.
you're joking omfg
WHATTTTTT?,???? oh my god. it really just keeps getting worse.
When did she state that?
@@hessen5498 she posted it on a video about a haunted room. She talked about her roommate with severe schizophrenia who just vanished. She made another comment not not sure what video anymore
I wonder what the hell the dumpster company thinks about the revolving, over a year-long order for dumpsters to a private residence. Don't they have questions? Is there a black market for rocks? Are they laundering money and decided this woman was a good support for that? Are they building some terrifying structure of their own with loose crazy woman rocks?
So, so many questions here.
Never mind the concrete guys - apparently asking questions is a never thing when being paid.
Amazon is awesome. I'm waiting for them to start selling house kits and delivering them on trains like Sears used to do.
all of this couldve been avoided if Tunnel girl put the same amount of effort into learning the regulations and laws around excavation, as she did the "engineering aspect". It takes years of schooling, rigorous testing for certification, and loads of experience to even to do every individual task required to make a structure underground. The sheer fact that in the first article she only mentioned two sources for engineering education, also gives me the idea shes done (a fair amount) of base level research. Basically, she has maybe the education of a 3rd year structural engineering student, and my grandpas knowledge of utility hookups and "welding"
Somewhere out there there are other tunnel girls who had similar ideas but did as you said and then realized it was never going to work. So we never heard about them.
Omg. I totally had a feeling she’s a conspiracy theory sociopath. She’s got her trumped up credentials, total disregard for her neighbors and their property, and her willingness to go to extreme measures to possibly injure people, ruin her neighbors homes AND property value just because “I want to.” 🤦🏻♀️
i was also getting sociopath vibes. not much empathy on her part, and a total disregard for others. if she was as thoughtful as shes says she never would have done this project.
and doing all yhis to create a batshit survivalist "storm bunker"..
I just want to give her a slap. Tolerating the intolerable is not big or clever, and this sister is peak intolerable on speed.
Y’all ever think think that she’s saying stuff just to stir up controversy thereby upping her viewership and $$$?
There’s a real possibility y’all are being trolled and don’t even realize it. That’s what most of these you tubers do. CREATE content.
Like most trans “women”