10 Biggest Megaprojects That Went Horribly Wrong
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- 10 Biggest Megaprojects That Went Horribly Wrong
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From bridge collapses to catastrophic dam failures, here are our picks for some of the worst megaprojects failures!
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My old dad used to say "Son, never live in a house where water flows down to you". Wise words that helped guide me to never live downstream from a dam or near a river flood plain.
I was told something similar. Has never steered me wrong!
Gotta live somewhere your able to push water away like a lagoon
And equip a italian gentleman with a large paddle to clear away water constantly whilst singing italian opera
Maaaaama miia
When the moon hiits your eye
And the classic
Figaro figaro fiiiiigaro
i live in the netherlands oops
@@user-pm5qf7mh4w never say oops. You meant it
1 tip, don't live anywhere below a dam!
Or at the base of an unstable mountain. Just ask the Canadian town of Frank what can happen…
Dont live in china
China has the three gorges dam, should that thing break it would affect the lives of 400 million people. A humanitarian catastrophy beyond imagination. I said "would" but it's rather "will". Because, it's China after all, corruption took place and some materials were not as high quality as they should. Hundreds of cracks, up to 30m in length, were found in the concrete....BEFORE the area was flooded. It's a ticking timebomb.
@@saragrant9749 or, anything. just ask some ghost town in canada what couldve happen if they were build just a few kilomeres off
Don't tell me how to live
With so many occupational injuries and deaths, and so many issues with buildings being built with unsafe materials you'd think China would have an OSHA like organization that's three times stricter than OSHA, but idk.
Watching other things on China they do but at least a quarter of the cost of any construction is bribes
China only worries about further advancing the State. They don’t worry about people and all the Extra expense for Safety.
The government would have to care for that to occur.
How refreshing - a video that starts off with an explanation of the thumbnail! Wow!
@23:30 - "If burning cash were a useful form of clean energy, these people would win a Nobel prize"
There's a thing about all megaprojects in the world that go wrong, that schocks me: The absolute UNIMAGINABLE amouts of material that go to waste: Concrete, steel, glass, aluminum, etc. The amount of waste is beyond imagination. And THAT, disturbs me big time!!!😡😡
Kinzua Park is so beautiful to visit. They really made the most of the tragedy.
But it is in NW Pennsylvania, isn't it?
Ah, America. Where the rich don't have to be responsible for anything as long as the right people are in their pockets.
Spoken like a true communist!
Same all over the world, especially in India!
@@mahbriggs I don't know how this is a communist statement unless you would be cool paying for the mistakes of a corporation because politicians passed a law thinking it's a wise idea to make the tax payers suffer for the incompetence and irresponsibility of the corporation. I mean...there should be more than just communists pissed off at this. It should be anyone of any political background that is mad for paying for the mistakes of an irresponsible and incompetent corporation because the more this crap happens, the more likely others in other states and countries would be effected by this bone headedness. If we held corporations and rich people more responsible for their actions, then they would be deter from making dumb ass mistakes like they did in South Carolina and Mississippi.
Gee, that's funny. Most of the things mentioned in this video are in Asia.
That's absolutely RIGHT.
A couple points of correction and additional information on the Kinzua Bridge. First of all, it is pronounced Kin-zoo, not Kin-zoo-a. When it was rebuilt in 1900, the entire bridge was rebuilt using steel to replace the original wrought iron-except for one item. The concrete bases had wrought iron bolts sticking up and the footplates of the steel columns had holes to go on the bolts and nuts to fasten them together. The bolts were not replaced because it would have cost more time and money. Steel collar nuts were used to fasten the piers to the wrought iron bolts.
An inspection in 2002 showed problems that needed fixed. Repairs started February 2003, so the problem was being corrected when it was destroyed by a tornado on July 21, 2003. The story is detailed on an episode of Mysteries of the Abandoned, it is on UA-cam.
I have visited the bridge and it is well worth visiting, especially if you are interested in history. It has a very nice and informative visitor center and has over 7,000 Google reviews with a 4.9 star rating.
From Elk co PA . When they were working on it in 2003 they were working on 2 towers at the same time from what I heard and added to weaken it all the more I think it would be still standing if they wouldn't have messed with it.
I gotta say, though, the folks who designed and built the Viant Dam did one helluva job. The fact that it was already holding all of that water and was able to withstand so much more that it literally rushed over the top of it -- with the dam ultimately surviving that and still standing to this day -- is rather impressive.
a damn good dam!
Actually, the railroad bridge didn't go wrong, it served its purpose for over a century. Hopefully the bridge was empty when the tornado hit.
And Kinzua Park is in NW Pennsylvania coal country.
It was empty. No train had ran on it for years. It was being repurpsed as a tourist attraction.
I agree with you that it served it purpose, but I believe it was included because of the workers' decision to not replace the iron footing bolts with steel, which may have avoided the collapse.
Well it was also being retrofitted. THAT was the mega prodject, and they also put cheapness over Likely saving the bridge.
The title didn't match the about the bridge, so what's the point of finishing the video.
FOREST CITY
"Where happiness never ends"
Hahahaha
Because the happiness hasn't yet begun so therefore it wont and doesn't have an end
Forest City NC is where I live.. Kinda funny that's the first comment I saw.😎
Sounds Disney
What happened in South Carolina is what happens when you favor corporations over people.
which politicians do all the time
Incorrect! That is what happens when politics Trumps science!
Environmentalist law suits and change government regulations are what killed tge project!
They should ditch that stupid law that allowed passing the cost on to the state
GOP(republicans) are in it for the SCAM.
The government took money from the people and invested it poorly, yet they don't get the blame? The entire video is about government mismanagement and yet nobody takes a hint...
Asphalt is a weirdly flexible substance… when manmade. When naturally-made, it’s a bit more brittle.
HOW flexible is the manufactured stuff? Galloping Gerty! Look at how much she was twisting before stress caused her to break
There are long cracks in the asphalt that the narrator apparently overlooked.
17:02 We have Georgia W's cronyism to thank for the utility company making us pay for non-existent services. That happened to us in Western Washington outside Seattle. There is a company that had ancient, substandard equipment and they just asked the state legislature if WE could pay for it, and they said "of course! No problem!" We 'the people' got *no say in the matter.* then our bills went up more than 31%. Worse still, they stopped approving financial assistance for the underpaid, the elderly AND the disabled. No subsidy help was available from around 1990 to the present. I heard that they *only just* started an assistance program, but it has yet to help me, I'm a quad and can't work.
You sound surprised but that is what happens when you vote for and elect politicians paid and owned by billionaires. Those corrupt politicians (99% of them) make sure that their bosses (yes you guessed, the billionaires) get richer and richer and obviously you pay. But they tell you that the problem is communism / socialism, capitalism is the best, the only way to go. And you keep on believing them until thy kingdom comes.
Thank your locally elected Progressive Democrats!
@@mahbriggs This smells of republicant BS to me, thru and thru. I read the voting pamphlets, while Democrats want to help the elderly and reduce low-wealth tax burdens, the Republicans just spout random shit about lowering deficits, cutting that, limiting this. We need to even our budgets, but it's not thru getting rid of needed services, it's through more taxes, especially towards to wealthy and big the big businesses, of which there are plenty to pick from in the Seattle area.
Wait... your state legislature approved using taxpayer money for "ancient, substandard equipment" and somehow it's Bush's fault? How does that make any kind of sense? With what is going on in Washington state it seems like your state's government is the people's worst enemy. No wonder some easter counties are wanting to become part of Idaho.
@@mahbriggs Oh boo hoo. Cry me a river. George W was a Republi-can't who had too much fun giving his oil-baron pals *way* too many tax breaks; sort of like a big orange cheeto we all know and despise. You're just unhappy that the 'Orange One' isn't getting away with all the crimes perpetrated against the "tired, the poor and the huddled masses," like Lady Liberty told the world to expect from the 'great melting pot.' He's being criminally charged and isn't getting away with his bull$hit any more. Guess how sad that makes me. Go on, guess...
Nothing like corruption to keep a project on time and under budget.
I always like these videos, they're very informative
Thank you, Underworld. You have a very engaging voice. Thank you for your channel.
maybe you should also give height and lenght informations in meters so people from outside of the US can understand it
Those unfinished projects are such a waste of resources
If you think that's bad look at your politicians
Yea, with the exception of the first one they all Whent to waste.
I'm glad not to see a clickbait thumbnail today. This is a great channel and doesn't need to be ruined by cheap tricks.
Which thumbnails are clickbait? 95% of the time the thumbnail is a screenshot from a clip in the video
10 shocking beach moments caught on tape... Your last video has a jet about 15 feet off the ground above beachgoers going faster than the speed of sound. The jet was infact hundreds of feet above the beach.
That is 100% clickbait
@Norman-Bates that beach is renowned for being at the end of the runway, the planes really are about 40-50 feet max above the people.
Edit: my bad, I thought you were talking about St. Maarten airport. Yeah, F35 is kinda click-baity, but I ain't complaining
@@Norman-Bates Its illustrating what the video is about. Its exaggerated sure, but even MrBeasts thumbnails are exaggerated. We're probably one of the least, if not the least, clickbait channels youll find that post those types of videos!
@@Underworld5sLike I said in my original comment, this is a great channel. The reason I come back to Underworld is for the class of the production. I was complementing the channel and hoping it will never sellout to a gimmicky rhetoric.
Love your tune, man! Especially between topics. Don't you ever give that up, no matter what anyone says.
I love your snark in this vid, especially at 22:36. I do love it when you get a bit snarky in other vids like the recent dashvid vid you did too.
10:40 Well, the sign is accurate at least.
For the same reason, I can't quit smoking. For something to end (like happy times and bad habits) they have to start.
Someone said to me, "Eventually everyone quits smoking."
"I said, "Bullshit. I'll never quit smoking."
He said, "You don't smoke."
"Exactly. That's why I'll never quit."
Watching my grandmother die of emphysema convinced me to not start smoking. I was very fond of my grandmother, and I'm convinced that she would be very happy if she knew her suffering kept me from starting that habit. Her suffering was not in vain! If I started smoking, then her death would be made meaningless.
Wow such a lesson. May you reach more people
I never was man enough to start so I didn’t have to be man enough to quit.
@@dirtfarmer7472 sounds like a limbo
Better act like a half man to get half out
Then you can do the hokey pokey and turn around
There are a lot of unfinished Chinese projects. Most of them are labelled "tofu dreg", apparently.
No, tofu dreg buildings get finished but fail virtually straight away due to poor quality inferior building supplies & major corner cutting. Biggest problem is they do things like concrete pillars with no rebar in them, that's tofu dreg building. Basically finished long enough to get the paycheck & run, along with all the corrupt bribes to have things overlooked. Same things happening in most of Asia thanks to their corruption. India & Bangladesh come to mind first, they just pass the buck though
@@calzstevenson7017 your right about short cutting this is why nothing good comes out of china
The Chinese have a different term for those, which I believe the closest English translation would be "ghost building" or "hollow structure", tofu dreg is completely different i.e. you get a finished product, but one that is wholly sub par, due to poor material quality, corner cutting, unskilled labor, unsustainable/inferior design etc. resulting in a structure that fails almost immediately upon use.
01:25 "It was billed as the Eighth Wonder Of The World, right up there with King Kong & Niagara Falls!"
King Kong though... 🤣
I am offended on behalf of Godzilla! if Kong is a wonder, Godzilla must also be!
I got to ride a train across the Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania a few years before it collapsed from a tornado July 21, 2003. I was so sad the day the Kinzua Bridge came down.
Excellent video and information!
8:15-10:37 what an amazing looking place! The water in between the buildings, the setup, everything about this looks amazing! I would love to live there! Even though it’s 1% occupied, I would find something fun to do there/open up a restaurant or grocery store or something essential like that and start building my empire there! That would be so tight!!!
Part of me want to hate on China for the absolutely ridiculous money dumps on some of these projects, but if I'm being honest that stadium did look pretty awesome.
Does China ever finish its major construction projects? So much waste.
Country Garden Chinese Realty Company declared bankruptcy a month ago March 2024.
Same with the Chinese Ghost Cities. Same with the Evergrande Group.
Releasing the water would ruin the work of a small project. Not releasing the water ruined they work of a small group of people, work of many people, and it ruined the bodies of many people. In some cases the bodies were so badly damaged the owns had to abandon them.
Isn't luxury for the mega wealthy something that should not exist in a Communist system? What would Carl think?
KARL Marx would certainly be appalled! Not sure about "Carl," though?
Hypocracy rules in politics and religion ... Go figure!! 😂😅😂
Awesome video as always!
amazing..good job
Hes the best narrator 🎉
Takeaway from this, governments suck.
Not mine (here in North Europe), but YMMV.
@@charonstyxferryman Northern Europe is not a country.
some people working in governments suck (and sadly misuse the trust and power that was granted to them).
Going off of your tornado videos. We once had 8 tornados in MN all around my place in a matter of 30 minutes. My cousins neighbor got hit by an ef 5. My cousin got hit by an ef4 my house on 80 acres was one of few that wasn't hit. The fire department was hit but it had huge trees blocking all entrances and exits. I went straight there after they passed with a chainsaw and cut them up so they could respond to calls. It was a crazy mf day
in all fairness to not installing steel bolts who WHO could have foreseen a direct tornado impact, and for foot traffic alone it seemed not needed
Geez, 130 ft wall of water through towns and villages? Must have been surreal for the minds trying to make sense of what they were seeing.
That bridge collapse in Taiwan could generate some revenue from movie studios! Orrr, they could just use movie studio models, I guess.
Wonder how they sold burning pure carbon as carbon neutral? That’s like selling ice to an eskimo.
Went to the comments for that George Washington dollar bill clip.
LMAO
High stakes, higher fails! Definitely not a cheap thrill
Forest Gardens sounds like a dream place to live!
If you love being alone!
10/10
I was really happy to hear the pillars were destroyed. It’s just stupid that people would die and the people responsible don’t get life in prison
Man, nuclear power is so useful and powerful, its the best method for clean power, but its so scary to people who arent aware of how it works. Not to mention corruption and incompetence.
it used to be that you could ride a steam train across this bridge. you could also rent a caboose and camp at the siding just south of the bridge. i rented it once for a weekend. good memories. after that the owner of the knox kane railroad had an accident on the way to reading. he ran the boiler low on water and it blew up. he was killed and his son was badly injured.
Kinzua Bridge withstood for a long time before they started working on it. some information is missing from this. it had withstood many storms before this. one is they were working on two towers at the same time .. causing it to sway back and forth until like dominos it fall down. it was built right just have someone come along and mess it up. also if thinking on coming to see it there are plenty of camping areas surrounding the Kinzua Dam and many things to do !
6:41, where’s the rebar ?? 😮
1:33 King Kong wasn’t real. He wasn’t particularly tall either . Botulism 🤦♀️
is it posible to get contact to you? sry for bad english
Why are so many of these in China?
King Kong?
No Hong Kong 🇭🇰 the state have you ever heard of a state?!
Oh wait he did say King Kong
Not a single vehicle on or off that collapsed bridge thanks to early warning... They knew the bridge was unsafe?!
8.02 Yeah because allied bombings were never messy at all . Quite tidy in fact . .
Megaprojects? There is one there.
What about the CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED TRAIN ? The TRAIN BOARD went through ALL THE FEDERAL MONEY (billions) before any track was laid! After years of red tape, spending BILLIONS, the train is not even close to laying any track BUT moved many people out of their farms and homes.
It's an absolute travesty. The only people who 'want' the damn train are those who are pocketing cash.
Well dang.., I’m from and live in South Carolina and I never realized that happened… kind of bummed me out, but makes sense why in the last 15 years, we’ve gotten probably 4 or 5 refund checks or whatever they are called! I was wondering why they did that??!?
94 mph isn't even ef2 winds which is considered significant, imagine the horrors.
The wave was travelling at 43 mph? That's pretty specific...Who measured it?
Why the jumping between units? Just stick to metric.
I would say that McKean county /Kinzua bridge are in the north-WEST of Penns.
Awesome
Never live downstream from a dam.
Don't you just love rich corporations.
As a concerned gretizen: no
As a shareholder hell yeah
I already know the last story is about the Vajont Dam tsunami, but I swear I'm gonna lose it if I hear the narrator call it a "tidal wave"
EDIT - thank goodness he said "tsunami"
Wow 😮
2 identical Nuclear Reactors were being constructed in Georgia like the ones in South Carolina. They are finally going in service in 2024! The cost overruns are massive!
The first part is missed labeled as Mifflin County..
If the government in the US hadn't changed the laws, then the utility companies wouldn't have been able to fleece the public. Friends in high places certainly helps if you want to waste money because you don't have to face the consequences when it goes tits up. I very much doubt that any of these people, who left the public holding the bill, were held accountable or jailed. It's sickening. I wonder who was in whose pocket??
Money talks and that Brown Stuff walks
Everybody is in everyone's pocket, the fact of the matter is these companies and many others promise politicians cushy board seats or job titles with a lucrative paycheck once they leave office, so said politicians very often lay the foundation for either laws, regulations or government contracts that benefits those companies whom exploit them later on down the line.
And make no mistake both sides of the aisle are guilty of this without question, corruption greases the wheels of government and anybody who attempts to tell you otherwise and or virtue signals that they are "above it" is outright lying right to your face and very likely is shoulder deep in the corruption.
You also have to take into account the unelected bureaucrats, whom stay in their positions for decades at a time and are the primary facilitators of the corruption since they fly under the radar and have very little to lose and everything to gain from corruption, suffice to say the whole system is rotten to the core.
“The 8th wonder of the world. Up there with King Kong and Niagara Falls”
What about the damn that broke in Johnstown pa?
No video.
I've already seen too many of these videos. They don't seem to be ending anytime soon. People who are just trying to life are being burned by greed, selfishness, and arrogance. If these videos could stop being produced that would mean that the human race has truly advanced to a higher state of being. But, human greed, selfishness, arrogance never seem to be in short supply.
I'm going to guess that the South Carolina failed nuclear power plant's financial mess was due to Republican law changes and inside dealings.
And you would be wrong! Largely due to left-wing law suits and changing bureaucratic regulations.
That kind of corruption was bipartisan. I worked at the plant for about 30 years, held a SRO license at the operating plant and I used to go to the meetings where the company management explained how modular construction was going to get the plants on line in just a few years. I was very skeptical and I used to say to my level management types that SCE&G couldn't afford the two new AP-1000 plants and neither could the state of South Carolina.
It was towards the end of my working career there and I went to personnel and asked how many days did I have to work next year to get next years vacation and they told me. I took vacation (I timed it at the end of one year and the beginning of the next year), then came back one day to check out. Flash ahead a while later and I'm driving on Interstate 90 in the Pacific Northwest and on the radio is a news report that the company was done and eventually being taken over by a Virginia utility. It turns out one of the company types went to jail for covering up the financial mess. He was a financial type and had no business being put in charge of running a utility company. I had sold my company stock LONG BEFORE the stock market crash of SCG.
I timed my escape perfectly. It was obvious to any company employee like myself that the whole house of cards was going to come crashing down long before it actually happened. It was similar to the idiots we have in Washington DC right now making idiotic decisions that just can't work..
Let's change the name of our world from "Planet Earth" to "Planet Money".
Can somebody help me understand why the stadium in the last clip claimed bankruptcy through America? 🤔 Just doesn't make sense to me if it's in another country and the Chinese now have the full control of it why it was under America's duty to flip the bill 🤔
Evergrande probably took the loan out through American Banks
That one where the city is making the people pay for the power plant - Everyone in the city should leave and go live somewhere else, then who are they gonna make pay for it!
There is not a single nuclear reactor in the world that insured by a private company. Every watt of nuclear power generated is insured by one or another government program. This includes the US, which in the 1950s established a taxpayer-backed fund to backstop any company that took on a nuclear insurance risk. Without this government fund, not a single US civilian nuke would ever have been built.
ROFL this video has a hate on China 😅😂
I’m sad to see my current state of South Carolina on the list.
Woops 2 of reactor finance
There's a small mega project over we're I live and it will probably fail. Some company removed 200 ACERS of forest, they started construction and everything is going smooth except what their building is just a bunch of hopefully not expensive homes next to a busy airport commonly used by LOUD FIGHTER JETS and a big GARBAGE DUMP that people from 20 miles away can smell, this isn't a joke they building homes in an industrial area and left not a single tree as a barrier.
Proving my theory, " God hates bridges."
It should say Forestville were happiness never arrived
We need to build more power plants
And i am sure there was no insurance to cover the bridge...
It's sad that there are huge unoccupied buildings like that tower in China as well as complete ghost cities - I would have thought that given their large population, residents would have looked for affordable living in such ghost towns, and started their own businesses there or something. Maybe there is not much incentive? Infrastructure has decayed too much? What a waste of space and such destruction to farmland and natural habitats. I wonder if some Chinese billionaire will acquire the area and turn it into a tourist city or something, idk.
China's lucky they've had so few catastrophes considering they are trying so hard to make up for lost time. Experience: It is the one teacher that has its own time schedule and it does not forgive cutting corners.
They never care about human safety. Communist governments never do. Only The State is important. People are expendable.
I like how my mother said it. Experience is the best teacher, just make sure the tuition isn't too high.
Are you kidding? they have hundreds of big failures every year. That’s why they call it Tofu Dredge Construction.
@@juliemunoz2762 It is amazing how naive simple minded people like you fall for anti-China propaganda.
King Kong and Niagara Falls are wonders of the world?
Hi Guys,Wish you have fun watching the video, have a nice day
If you build it, they will come? Don't hold your breath!
Do you wanna know which countries still use imperial measurement? It's three, the USA, Myanmar und Liberia, nice countries to be on a list with.
My feet are 23cm long, I just checked that out. So my feet are only 0,853018 of a foot long. Which is shoe-size 42, another measurement where the USA (and UK this time) are proudly using another thing... in a globalized world!
Amazingggg
🤣 I was an SCE&G customer yall ❤ they sent me a $21 check 😬🙄
It’s now dominion energy fyi
North eastern? No, that town is left of centre, so north western
It's pronounced KIN-zoo
This video is full of ancient roman measurements so I have no idea what the size of anything is. At 5:06 it even says "Legally they couldn't add another inch". Yeah but its being built in the PRoC not Ancient Rome so nobody there has any idea what they are anyway. It's 2024 CE not 224 BCE. 🤔🤷♂
Oh Clean Coal! What Trump referred to as washed coal to make it clean.
Whistlin diesel like: burn it all
Hey, the Germans didn't bomb Italy in World War II - they were on the same side. The US and the UK bombed the crap out of it though.
"Your government should be more careful who it chooses as friends" :- Captain A. Mainwaring to Italian General POW, Dad's Army.
Hate to break it to you, but Italy switched sides in 1943
@@kennybevan11thank you!!!!!!!
@@kennybevan11 So Germany flew many heavy bombing missions over major Italian cities in WWII? I bow to your superior historical knowledge, sir!
@XXSkunkWorksXX well after the 1943 French-German armistice, Germany occupied Italy, and when the Allies put boots on the ground, Germany tried to respond. They didn't bomb the cities, but the Ally forces. I don't claim to know everything about ww2, but I know the basics