Family watches house fall into Blue Earth River after dam failure

The Hruska family watched their home fall into the Blue Earth River Tuesday night and that might not be the last of their losses.
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[@IAmSuzyQ]

"Oh my." That's the understatement of the century! If it was my house falling into the water, y'all'd be hearing more "beeps" than words in that recording.

[@atomatman3104]

WONT DO ANYGOOD THIS IS MOTHERS NATURE TAKEN BACK WHAT YOU STOLE.

[@dapperdingo]

@@atomatman3104 Weird, oh. I suppose you live outside by a tree and drink rainwater, but only if it rains.

[@IAmSuzyQ]

@@atomatman3104 Mother Nature ALWAYS gets the last word! (and if humans had any sense, we'd start listening to what she has to say, and find ways to work with her, not against her.😉)

[@dizziechef9502]

Ohh I’m so sorry 😢 I do hope your business survives ❤

[@timb7775]

No way is that land safe now with the water so close.

[@selenalorenzi]

Prayers going up for this family! Amen 🙏

[@dragonweed3452]

So sad.

[@oldgloryhillfarmturtlewoma9132]

Sad thing is, even if it hadn’t fallen in, it would be too dangerous to ever be lived in again. I always have felt fire would be the most destructive thing to happen, but this is definitely equal. Praying for this family in such a heartbreaking position.

[@KB-ke3fi]

Floods are worse....fire taking everything....so it's done. Floods, you think you can save something and fix it. And you can't. I know this because I lost my house in 17 feet of water...in a non flood zone.

[@PeterGriswald]

Asa former beachfront property owner in the Outer banks of NC. I can assure you that having ANY property on or near water, will one day be reclaimed by that water. I sold before that happened. I'll bet these people do too.

[@moe9196]

lesson: always rent, buy or build a home on the highest ground you can find

[@VOAN]

Yeah but if a thunder storm happened, the bolt are likely to hit it. Your best option is to live in a cave.

[@michaeljoncour4903]

UMM, WHAT ABOUT HILLSIDE LANDSLIDES .

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

@@VOAN ....which is what lightning rods are for.

[@BIMMERBOYTIM1981]

Oh no! The whole house!!! 🙀🙀🙀

[@KB-ke3fi]

Mine went under 17 feet of water in one night. Not in a flood plain or a river either.

[@timb7775]

Wonder if the town or epa will send them a bill for dumping there house in the river.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

Trump 2024

[@VOAN]

Only if it's intentional. I don't think I had ever seen a person dump his home into a raging river before.

[@PeterGriswald]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Under Obidens watch?? Probably!

[@johnmarino2583]

Lead reporter says house was lost in the flood. Excellent reporting there sir.

[@dianneys4887]

Oh my! What a polite comment. Refreshing.

[@brusselsprout5851]

I hope they are insured.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

It would be flood insurance I suppose, and it's a throw of the dice that they had it.

[@timothybrown5741]

It seems they were not. As the report said they started a go fund me page to rebuild the house and to move the store or they using go fund me page as a scam to make money.

[@twillison8824]

Such a shame. You can tell it was a sturdy old house too.

[@PeterGriswald]

Not that sturdy huh?

[@lilzabug]

@@PeterGriswald Stupid comment. That house was over 100 years old, as is mine. Think your "modern" house will still be standing in 100 years? Catastrophe or not?

[@leftfinned]

they lost their beautiful home and their business is at risk because of ineptitude of those that should have prevented this… so sorry to this sweet family and I hope the business stay high and dry

[@gwencoco7687]

Who the heck builds a house on a river bank. Much less next to a dam.

[@deeremeyer1749]

That and it was built in a FLOOD PLAIN!

[@jeffreysokal7264]

The ineptitude you speak of lies with the American people who were made aware of climate change and did nothing to stop it.

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@gwencoco7687 Millions of houses are on a river banks. Who the heck would live in a city with looting and high prices and fires?

[@PeterGriswald]

@@KB-ke3fi Millions of other places to build my dude besides a damned riverbank! I mean HELLO!

[@michaelmashburn6068]

I hope they were able to get most of their important stuff out. Sucks to lose everything like this

[@conniebrister7229]

That made me sad.

[@californianorma876]

when you build on the edge of a river, you have to expect some water 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@lilzabug]

Your name says it all. There's nothing "normal" about California. Too bad a heavy rain doesn't wash your entire deviant state into the ocean. The house wasn't on the edge of the river. Maybe you don't understand what 18" of rain in a short period of time does. Go piss on all your forest fires. 🤡

[@shelahogletree7711]

@californianorna876 Yes, hope you remember that when you build a house on a fault line in California you have to expect to drop into a miles deep chasm.

[@traceyjorichards3998]

I'm so sorry for you

[@richardshirley2786]

Condolences, best wishes and prayers for this family.

[@scruffyscrubs5468]

Hope they got everything out of their house.

[@Hannelore7]

So much for the goverment taking care of our country !

[@KB-ke3fi]

Yeah that's Biden for ya

[@andyd5038]

100+ year old dam in bumfuck mn is not going to be a top national priority

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Very unfortunate. They probably don't have flood insurance either. Couldn't the remainder of the dam been blown up to redirect the water away from the house and back toward it's original course?

[@MichaelDeHaven]

There are towns downstream. They were worried it might fail, earlier in the week.

[@dominysynclair]

Thank god we're sending all our money overseas instead of maintaining infrastructure. Can't wash money fixing stuff.

[@margaritoamargo6347]

Keep up the ridiculous statements please. As if us sending billions in weapons to help a country being invaded by one of the worlds most corrupt countries caused this to happen. All you republican nuts are so transparent. Would us sending those billions in weapons to this family prevent them from losing their home?

[@0onpoint]

g@ rii lli@n damn damned.

[@dizziechef9502]

Where do they go. How do they start over. 😢

[@timb7775]

They own that part of the river now. Exciting.

[@barbaravyse660]

Their homeowners insurance , FEMA

[@FAKEGSF]

its called insurance.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

Government handouts.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

@@FAKEGSF How much do they have?

[@mjventura4420]

😢

[@johnklein233]

This is so sad. What I do not understand is why nothing was done in the last couple days to clear the debris from behind the dam, or drop some large holders in front of the house.

[@PeterGriswald]

You clearly know nothing about hydrodynamics or erosion? And to think in this day and age, that's impossible to find answers to anything at anytime or place. Whatever will we do????

[@DriftyAlison0]

When a river is high like that trying to get a boat through to clear debris could be extremely dangerous because of the current.

[@jameso1447]

I always imagined that if I lived on a flood plain I'd build up the land 20 feet to be safe from floods. This shows a case of how even that could be useless.

[@PeterGriswald]

Not cost effective. Google it if you know how to?

[@sprague49]

The home is not the only thing. A big chunk of their land got washed away from under it as well.

[@PeterGriswald]

Then no need for them to complain then huh? Once all settles down, they can reopen as a boat ramp.

[@lilzabug]

@@PeterGriswald You think you're funny? You're such a sad individual. You'll get your payback someday and then you can laugh about that!

[@F-zi2ui]

Not their land..as seen.

[@Shelly72042]

So Sad. Best Wishes

[@janetsplace778]

So sad!

[@H4me7215]

Sure hope no one was inside or any animal!😢

[@PeterGriswald]

WOW!!! REALLY? Did you honestly just make that comment? Unreal.

[@jameso1447]

They've been completely out of the house for days. There's no surprise here at all. Everyone saw it coming.

[@PJ-yp3vb]

Its in a better place now.

[@Steve-fx2fb]

Still no attempt to remove the debris eh? Smfh...the incompetence is insane nowadays.

[@widowprepper4292]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Heyhi-vr5eh]

It looks good

[@joycebruce4206]

🙏🙏🙏

[@timmckenna210]

Why were all the windows boarded up?

[@beehive9851]

Very sad, prayers for all!!

[@deeremeyer1749]

A day and a half I know house movers that could have moved it.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

How much does that cost?

[@DriftyAlison0]

@@AlbertHess-xy7ky Thousands of dollars

[@PeterGriswald]

@@AlbertHess-xy7ky More than Mr. Deer will ever see! lol

[@johnklein233]

Not realistic with part of it already hanging over an erosion ledge, but they should have brought in a pile of large boulders and dropped them on the water side.

[@jameso1447]

@@johnklein233 Big boulders... yeah, but only theoretically. If this was in Denver there are a lot of boulders just up the road a little ways. There aren't any mountains in Minnesota. Look at the scale of this situation, though. You'd need boulders totaling twice the mass of the dam to stop this one. Can't bring in boulders bigger than cars, either. Ultimately, why spend like $80 million dollars protecting a $120,000 home?

[@blackcherry6877]

Very poorly built house. Thank goodness they got out before it fell.

[@lindy4609]

Does any of this bring to mind the fact that New Orleans is built BELOW sea level? Man just has to keep thinking they can out smart nature. But eventually someone always pays. That said, the family who owns this property is one of the nicest we’ve ever met on our camping vacations. We wish them well and our sympathy for the loss they now deal with. God bless them all.

[@jimmyjack7083]

Hope they got most of their favorite stuff out of there in time.

[@jackpinesavagerepair1918]

Was totally preventable. To bad local gov doesn't care. No money in letting people have wood for free

[@gowest5145]

What can't they get something in place to take care of this? A lot of businesses were closed today in Las Vegas.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

Build back better.

[@RB-er6gu]

Well all Maga did in 4 years in office is ad 8 trillion to the deficit!

[@RB-er6gu]

Well all Maga did in 4 years was ad 8 trillion to the deficit! No help for the middle class! 🤨🤷‍♂️

[@vicO1323]

The dam was built in 1910. It was damaged by flooding and no longer generated power in 1965. In 1970 it was acquired by Blue Earth County and two years later it was proposed to either be rebuilt or torn down. In 2002 it was found that the buttresses needed extensive repairs. In 2019 the dam was damaged by flooding and stopped producing electricity. In 2021 an engineering study was done to study the repair or removal of the dam. 2022 the county sought feedback from the community to either repair or remove the dam and 18% approved removal while 69% approved repairing the dam. 2023 the "National Inventory of Dams" rated the dam in poor condition and it's hazard potential significant. The county should be held liable for the loss of the Hruska's home, business and land. Why isn't this information included in the news?

[@whitecompany18]

This happened 16 hours ago yet the live stream the house is still there🤔

[@maopticallabtech]

Lot of these streams saving there live are not..Very annoying.

[@mattmarrin8457]

Many LIVE' streams online are days old. Situational.

[@plynwow]

I don't get why the state just allowed the house to fall into the river and pollute it instead of taking it down real quick with a dozer and helping keep the river clean.

[@PeterGriswald]

😳😳😳🙄 Seriously?

[@jameso1447]

Risk people's lives to keep a few tons of lumber out of a river while hundreds of thousands of tons of naturally downed lumber are washing downstream? Why 'the state' as you say? You expect government to be competent about something? Anything? You got a lot to learn. Big government is bad because all governments are generally incompetent - corrupt and drunkenly spending other people's money. I would be genuinely angry if a government wasted money as you lament.

[@bugbaby66]

😂😂 wtf? Are you really that removed from reality? This is real life. Not a cartoon or sitcom.

[@DriftyAlison0]

Its time to turn off the tv. It would have been dangerous for the equipment to demo to get to the the house. The erosion would have taken those equipment costing everyone even more money. It was safer in the long run to just let the house go.

[@wilbur1884]

PRAY EVERYDAY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES LOSS. 🙏

[@HsingSun]

Would insurance pay for such lost of a house?

[@americanpatriot2.06]

Most likely not. They will find a way to weasel out of their responsibility to keep their pockets fat. And good luck on a lawsuit. 10 years and they might get a few pennies. Everyone will blame mother nature and never take responsibility for their part in this failure.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

@@americanpatriot2.06 Is all insurance bad?

[@joewoodchuck3824]

This would likely be a flood insurance claim. It's anyone's guess that they had it.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

​@@AlbertHess-xy7kyMost people have a negative view of insurance companies.

[@gen_z_hippichikk]

@@joewoodchuck3824 most people also have a negative view of banks, finance companies, investment firms, oil companies, tobacco companies, stock markets…. pretty much the entire core of capitalism, when you really think about it. 🤔

[@tp-mh2ji]

¾ of the county I live in would be flooded before the water would reach my land.

[@1969CampEvans]

MOTHER NATURE RULES ....THE DAM IS THE PROBLEM.....ALLOW THE RIVER TO FLOW NATURALLY

[@MalignTheTumor]

Was the family a special color?

[@timothybrown5741]

Wait, they do not have any insurance or using go fund page to scam people

[@RB-er6gu]

When are the billionaires going to help out the community! 🤷‍♂️ C'mon you can't take all that money to the grave! 🤨

[@PeterGriswald]

Nope. they spend it! Just like I would if I had it! And guess what?? You would too!

[@jameso1447]

What money? Billionaires don't have billions of dollars. Billionaires control companies worth billions of dollars. The companies are worth billions because they provide services in large volume. If Microsoft or Tesla shut their doors and closed down their services tomorrow they would be nearly worthless instantly! VALUE is NOT money!

[@gen_z_hippichikk]

I heard there’s big money in having a home in a flood zone. Some sort of sweet insurance deal means you just get to rebuild every few years.

[@KB-ke3fi]

Nope

[@lilzabug]

Oh God. Not another comment from the most uninformed "hippiechikk". You're too young to know what a real hippie is. You're a joke.

[@davidzachmeyer1957]

You're listening to idiots.

[@MichaelDeHaven]

Only the Feds do flood insurance anymore. It's too expensive and loses money. Granted this is an unusual case. But flood insurance costs a lot of money.

[@YossefSalmos]

I don't read no comment regarding as of "why if the freaking world the dam broke"?????No guilties, meaning this family is on their own? Nah...The authorities are liable for this mess. I am sure.

[@PeterGriswald]

Wrong. go read some Insurance underwriters code for EXACTLY this type of scenario. You'll be surprised.

[@PatriciaLucious-ll2vm]

The 400 yrs r up

[@CHEECHMUN]

Terrible

[@g-mas8735]

let this be a lesson to humans- DO NOT build permanent buildings on rivers, flood plains, coastlines that get hurricanes all the time.. m'Kay?

[@PeterGriswald]

AMEN! lol

[@jameso1447]

You hear that everybody? All major cities from this point forward shall build nothing more than grass huts. Yes, it will result in mass death but no more wasting energy on building things that only help 99.999% of the time!

[@lapsehc]

Darwin saying hi.

[@timz.4000]

So the river flows from south to north? You’d think a reporter would mention that

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

Why is it important?

[@cordless3599]

When God Wants then nothing is impossible

[@Bongani-ft2nj]

Bye bye

[@AmericanFarmerHVAC2024]

These poor people :( As if they haven't struggled enough the last 4 years in this communist DFL trifecta state. 💔

[@Peachee1111]

Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the LORD Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.Malachi 1:4

[@timothy9596]

Go Fund Me? They had to have home and flood insurance. Even a basic policy will cover living expenses for a while. Yes, they would have to pay their deductible, but with all the video and eyewitnesses there's no way the insurance company could turn down the claim.

[@PeterGriswald]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes they can. And more than likely will. they'll have some loophole that will exempt them from liability of coverage. happens all the time. Better read your policy VERY closely!

[@timothy9596]

@@PeterGriswald I am an insurance agent and can tell you with all the publicity on this one, the carrier will do the math and just pay the claim. That math being how much the payout on the claim is vs. the amount of business they will lose if they try and fight it. All this family has to do is go to the local news, do an interview letting them know about the denied claim and which carrier it is. The insurance company knows this, I assure you.

[@alrent2992]

Did they have insurance??

[@MAGABeard]

Building a structure or purchasing when climate change will raise sea and river levels is assasine 😂 Evacuate to higher ground!!

[@lilzabug]

So you suggest buying a plot on the moon then? 🤣

[@PeterGriswald]

OMG! Seriously? Better call your buddy Greta and see what she tells you to believe!

[@MAGABeard]

@@PeterGriswald I was being facetious

[@MAGABeard]

@@lilzabug Yang suggested everyone but politicians move to higher ground. Climate changes in minutes. Years have passed since dire predictions made lots of scammers filthy rich. See al gore.

[@atomatman3104]

lolol now the store is next

[@lilzabug]

How sick to you have to be to laugh at something that was loved by many people. You're evil!

[@MDNQ-ud1ty]

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[@ibpsupplyman]

SICK TROLLING BY A VERY DISTURBED INDIVIDUAL

[@PeterGriswald]

😅🤣😂

[@MDNQ-ud1ty]

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[@Whitewolf33344]

🤣 that's what happens when you BUILD YOUR HOME NEXT AND NEAR RIVERS, LAKES, DAMS, AND THE OCEAN. POOR SWEET INNOCENT ANIMALS THAT GOT LEFT BEHIND ANS CHAINED TO PORCHES AND IN YARDS. WHO'VE DIED.

[@hj8272]

Cute. Only idiots build their homes on the edge of river banks or coastlines.

[@jameso1447]

Every city is built on riverbanks. There's this thing called water that humans seem to enjoy.

[@flowerforsyte5671]

Allah's judgement on (White) America.

[@BogieGreenstreet]

What is that supposed to mean? God doesn’t punish white people. God punishes evil people what ever skin shade they may be & he punishes Satan worshippers. People make thier own choices what ever skin shade they are. This lands them where they are in life. Who is your God?

[@PeterGriswald]

We got something for you buddy. Wait and see.

[@Peachee1111]

@@PeterGriswald And The Most High God has so much in store for you! Stay tuned 😊

[@john172867]

Interestingly enough, the dam was damaged by floods in 1965. Read about it here on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidan_Dam

[@CathyCampbell-Mosley-uy1ee]

I hope they were safe. Bidenomic

[@stickybandit2346]

Go fund me? No insurance? Why should they get a business funded? How about the billions of other people who would start a business if you funded them?

[@user-kf3qz3hj5f]

...Holy "Fu.." !!!!!!! 😲....... 🫢🫢🫢🫢