Look at the green spot of grass on the right at 3:00 and compare it to 4:45 Water rises in a matter of minutes, seconds really. That's why the horn was blowing for so long, to warn people down the stream to clear out! Engineering and nature are a beautiful combination.
@jasonharper67423 жыл бұрын
My pappa was in the army Corp of engineers he helped build this dam
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
It's a cool dam
@bhimazemaitis33613 жыл бұрын
For sure he did lmao
@yop1ayzz1023 жыл бұрын
Noice
@mc_capo37853 жыл бұрын
U lying
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
@@mc_capo3785 no way of knowing
@amarghosh42113 жыл бұрын
The real show starts at 2:46. Thank me later. Enjoy.
@michaeljohnson16162 жыл бұрын
Doing a service to the community. Thanks.
@TheRealJohnH32 жыл бұрын
thank you so much
@yahyaali.410 Жыл бұрын
Legend
@Teresa19781000 Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@dxvideos37517 күн бұрын
Thank u brother ❤
@sarahbartonlane5422 жыл бұрын
I always enjoyed watching the BAGNELL DAM open, at Lake of the Ozarks when they opened all the gates, such an exciting moment to watch. Everyone stands and says WOW look at that, a beautiful site. My grand father & several great uncles, cousins helped build the Bagnell Dam.
@MattX280254 жыл бұрын
The man in the blue checkered shirt and white hat looks just like a friend of mine who has since passed away. A man I miss dearly. Today I saw an angel in a video on KZbin. Thank you for posting this video.
@AmericanExplorer4 жыл бұрын
I live near the Allatoona Dam which is very similar in design. I've seen the overflow gates open a few times, but have never been there when they were opening them. I used to live in Athens when I was a kid and my parents would take me to Lake Hartwell and the dam. It's always been beautiful there! Thanks for sharing this! This was interesting to watch them open and great to see it again after many years.
@SRPDunn2 жыл бұрын
My granddaddy took me on a tour of this dam in the late 1970s, can still remember those massive turbines spinning inside.
@dragondancer18144 жыл бұрын
My grandmother and aunt live near there-Lake Hartwell is about halfway between Pickens and Clemson, so I have lots of memories of driving by it when we went to visit my maternal grandmother over in Clemson (she died when I was 15). Never saw the dam in action until now-WAY cool!
@billybobbrubaker29074 жыл бұрын
Horn blasts are mandatory for those downstream, especially those that are fishing
@toddhunter31373 жыл бұрын
Yeah but that long for down stream? Would the local authority have warned them that the dam was going to be released?
@Str8robert3 жыл бұрын
Screw the fishing and worry about any homes, business and lives.
@kenziyt39123 жыл бұрын
Yea i dont think people realize how fast the water rises.
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
@Mike Smith tragedy like that are the worst as they are easily prevented
@RANDOMVIDEOS-pq2yw3 жыл бұрын
that's the key of F#
@TheOccasionalNomad4 жыл бұрын
Came here to watch a dam release a heap of water, ended up on the toilet after listening to the brown note for too long.
@lindaseel86334 жыл бұрын
😅😅😅😅😅😅
@AZ-744 жыл бұрын
God that horn is amazing
@jonboogy4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the standard horn on a 18-wheeler, but like....a lot of them, LOL
@captaintraction40244 жыл бұрын
So amazing, that its annoying! So annoying, that you want to put a bullet in it!
@alyssawilliams69594 жыл бұрын
At first I couldn’t hear it since parents are alsleep but yes it’s amazing
@togglefire35374 жыл бұрын
@@captaintraction4024 yeah it's quite annoying but the fact is I've been saved by one of these horns before being down river below a dam. They let them off for a few minutes on purpose to let people know and give them time. Plus believe it or not that one's not even that annoying.
@captaintraction40244 жыл бұрын
@@togglefire3537 I can't really argue with that.
@johnroberts95604 жыл бұрын
Wow , that's really cool , I've never seen this before , take all the dam pictures you want is a famous line from National Lampoons Vacation when they was at the Hoover Dam , thanks for showing us this !!!! 👍😃🌊
@lesliegauthier99004 жыл бұрын
You know where I can get some dam bait lmao gotta love Eddie
@johnroberts95604 жыл бұрын
@@lesliegauthier9900 Hahaha , yeah I love that movie , it's a classic !!! 😂😂😂
@JoseGonzales-ct2sc4 жыл бұрын
Your awesome for posting this video. Loved it!
@TG-Maverick229 ай бұрын
Thank you for this footage!
@trainman0715 жыл бұрын
ill be"damned" i just love this damn it lol
@guskuratlejr92284 жыл бұрын
Lmao that was cool, never thought I would laugh so much at the damn thing
@jackmehoffe96624 жыл бұрын
Are you proud of yourself? So stupid.
@LogicDoesStuff2 жыл бұрын
@@jackmehoffe9662 How??? People can always be proud of themselves dumbass. lol. why you judging him for it??
@toddhunter31374 жыл бұрын
How many came on here to see it all go at once.... Especially after longest dramatic horn ever?! Lol
@fegerle753 жыл бұрын
todd hunter 😀
@jeffbruhn41643 жыл бұрын
The long horn was to warn people down stream.
@flaminmongrel69553 жыл бұрын
You would be surprised to see what happens to people who are in the stream.
@kenziyt39123 жыл бұрын
@@flaminmongrel6955 agreed. Ive been fishing and witness the water rise 8-10ft in minutes. Thats why they dont do it all at once. It would be catastrophic
@LanceLust1980HugeTheWarningFan3 жыл бұрын
@@kenziyt3912 Indeed. The dam would probably crumble if every tainter/flood gate were to open all at once.
@user-fm2ib8wz8b3 жыл бұрын
That is AWESOME!!!! The nearest dan closest to me is at turtle creek reservoir.
@alowatsakima8950 Жыл бұрын
Before the dam, we use to make log rafts to go down the keowee river. Spent the summer swimming in the river and going to lake issaqueena. Camped there all the time.
@gachastuffy15494 жыл бұрын
My fear of dams will never disappear
@lzandman4 жыл бұрын
Read “The Chill” by Scott Carson. You’ll be even more afraid 😆
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
Now I'm scared of dams and I can't stop thinking about getting sucked into the spillway or forced underwater by the current, just remembered that these beasts are nothing compared to low headed dams aka drowning machines
@max.har163 жыл бұрын
MrRexyChomp m
@GolfDad2 жыл бұрын
@@mrrexychomp9829 And the low headed dams look friendly.
@possibleproblem4792 жыл бұрын
@@mrrexychomp9829 idk itd hurt pretty bad to get sucked into one of those gates and then chucked onto the rocks below
@JSpiffy3 жыл бұрын
When you think you have a great view , there’s always that one guy
@mrstamikeathley-byers62584 жыл бұрын
Not sure Why or How I got this video in my recommend, watched it was Actually Really Kool
@rustyshacklesford45764 жыл бұрын
Cause it’s a cool piece of technology for a cool individual such as yourself!
@grimaldispa71394 жыл бұрын
Same..
@brandonbosire2114 жыл бұрын
The siren set such a high pace, that was one hell of an anticlimax though
@ashleighnelson5124 жыл бұрын
This was pretty dam cool!
@craigradix16204 жыл бұрын
Same here
@possibleproblem4792 жыл бұрын
i live in fairly close proximity to the columbia gourge here in oregon/washington and there are at least 3 MASSIVE hydro electric dams that stretch across that river just from here to bend oregon. i guarantee theres more down the river towards seattle.
@realoldgeekster4 жыл бұрын
I did not know there was a Hartwell dam and have lived in Greenville for 36 years.
@GingerSnape463 жыл бұрын
Why I find this soothing, I don't know, but thanks for posting this.
@alanstrong32954 жыл бұрын
That is quite a horn. Takes so much work and expense to build just one dam.
@RANDOMVIDEOS-pq2yw3 жыл бұрын
in the key of F# :D
@crescentmoonchild40314 жыл бұрын
Must be just one guy running to open them!
@jermed20014 жыл бұрын
Like Plankton in Band Geeks
@sethfieldhouse68763 жыл бұрын
They actually do it so that the water level rises a little slower. Staggering the release is alot easier on the land than if they did it all at once.
@amandahudson4313 жыл бұрын
Now i have that image in my head!😹
@alan301894 жыл бұрын
That alarm at the beginning, means, “Get the hell out of the pool!” LOL! Or, “paddle like hell!”
@mujtabaqamar17123 жыл бұрын
Well said
@sethfieldhouse68763 жыл бұрын
Imo anyone who is in the water downstream within 1000 yards of a dam is nuts. The amount of water those things can release freaks me out.
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
Imagine being under the spillway know that at any moment an impossible amount of water could come pouring down at any second
@alan301893 жыл бұрын
@@mrrexychomp9829 Alarms go off well before any water release and I’m sure there are warning signs everywhere along the river.
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
@@alan30189 yes but there is always a possibility, what if the siren fails to go off or a kayaker ignores the warnings or the dam fails or ruptures or has an emergency release
@geoffreylee519928 күн бұрын
Are these events announced prior to water releases?
@Howard007 Жыл бұрын
Spillway’s are the coolest things i swear
@quantumzerelth91404 жыл бұрын
Someone saw a tik tok n wondered here
@phoebenorris52734 жыл бұрын
Quantum Zerelth the one where they jumped yes
@debbimcauley20724 жыл бұрын
Yess😂😂
@ghostexile15934 жыл бұрын
@@phoebenorris5273 me😂
@milliea23514 жыл бұрын
Omg ye ahahah
@laurablaney71774 жыл бұрын
HAHAHHA ME
@tracynation2394 жыл бұрын
A great dam video. ♡ T.E.N.
@TheRibsRibs_Ай бұрын
what kinda goofy siren do they use to sound it before it opens?
@kevinnelson43483 жыл бұрын
I've never seen 12 opened before, 5 at the most, pretty cool
@db0a13 жыл бұрын
What do you mean
@donnieholloway32533 жыл бұрын
@@db0a1 there's 12 gates in the dam
@AS-yf4jr4 жыл бұрын
Dam ...that horn ...
@ph11p35404 жыл бұрын
All this, built by puny little humans.
@baconninja59954 жыл бұрын
Phillip Mulligan yes sir
@davidtheobald47254 жыл бұрын
Yes. Back when men built structures right. Unlike soft ass Liberals today.
@johndorazio24004 жыл бұрын
peter d slave labor makes your mansion bigger
@znsaidi4 жыл бұрын
@@davidtheobald4725 omg! Let me guess, Trump fake fan
@jasonharper67423 жыл бұрын
My grandpa a ww11 vet helped build this dam asshole
@cpcattin2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the comments. I was confused. I thought they were just going to clean the spillways.
@GenericWhiteMan005 жыл бұрын
Wow, they went Full Monty with those gates huh.......
@gaganpassi88643 жыл бұрын
0.06 Microseconds .... thats about two and a half decade .... Amazing
@schs1977 Жыл бұрын
DAMN! That is awesome.
@LadyJ55694 жыл бұрын
I hope when they rebuild the 2 dams that just breached in mid-Michigan 2 weeks ago, that people can see this kind of thing and not whole lakes gone and the destruction that never needed to happen because they were not maintained. This was awesome to watch and that horn was amazing. How often does this occur and where is this? Thank you for sharing.
@stevewallace11174 жыл бұрын
The Democratic Party of Death would not allow the owner to lower the lake levels to protect thousands of freshwater mussles. They took him to Court to make him stop lowering the water. Three days later the dam failed by Democrat Court order.
@kariendiergaardt97022 жыл бұрын
@@stevewallace1117 8
@theonewhoknows2 Жыл бұрын
@@stevewallace1117 source?
@jasonk5979 Жыл бұрын
@@theonewhoknows2 He doesn't have a clue lol. Environmentalist had nothing to do with the dams failure. Shoddy construction. Epic 100 year flood and a spillway that couldn't be opened far enough caused the failure.
@Pilot-delta-victor6 ай бұрын
This was on my birthday
@SouthernRailfan4 жыл бұрын
What a long horn blow. I bet it got annoying for that long. Lol but that view of the dam is awesome. Neat how they open each water way one by one.
@gracefullyme83854 жыл бұрын
Southern Railfan They have to sound the alarm long enough for any swimmers or boaters to get out
@johnellings88232 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@kevinelrod323Ай бұрын
We have a place on the Cumberland River in Kentucky. The house is 6 miles downstream of the dam & it takes 8 hours for the water to drop after they've stopped generating electricity. The water can rise in seconds though.
@arlowavesYT Жыл бұрын
where is the siren located? or horns?
@jacobrivasjr4 жыл бұрын
how did it not like overflow at the bottom or how did the water not rise up it looks un affected at the bottom ya know ?
@PurpleObscuration3 жыл бұрын
It's flowing into a river the water is flowing down stream.
@coxc54yt2 ай бұрын
Hey Jason you Grampa is a vet and he help build the dam now that’s sick my grandpa worked for Decatur county sheriff in Georgia
@merlinjust47534 жыл бұрын
Flood protection??
@robinm35244 жыл бұрын
Great trout fishing!!
@randelroberts61128 ай бұрын
Just tremendous power and an awesome spectacul to watch
@JP-st2mk3 ай бұрын
Nice camera work.
@bsrathore79235 жыл бұрын
Jio
@IrishDrunkGaming4 жыл бұрын
2:28 You’ll thank me later
@reachingbeyondskies69084 жыл бұрын
Thank you.....later
@atribecalledcookies44 жыл бұрын
Dam that's cool
@shyamaprasad65063 жыл бұрын
So beautiful
@sarthakswain19493 жыл бұрын
Kou dam
@GetFidW_GdPengon_leader54 жыл бұрын
I 20 mins away from Hartwell
@robertmailhos81594 жыл бұрын
Where's this dam located 🙄🙄??
@illuminatedcrosshairs78654 жыл бұрын
On lake Hartwell in upstate SC
@tranquility93254 жыл бұрын
Exactly, hello
@robertmailhos81594 жыл бұрын
@@tranquility9325 in up state south Carolina
@tranquility93254 жыл бұрын
@@robertmailhos8159 ty
@420fan33 жыл бұрын
All the incredible things humanity can do it makes u wonder why the world is such a cruel and unfair place
@armyguy8720084 жыл бұрын
Is that Bigee Smalls in the white hat?
@uhAverage3 жыл бұрын
What’s the loud horn
@bradschuh46183 жыл бұрын
That’s exactly the kind of horn I want on my car!
@mrrexychomp98293 жыл бұрын
You can definitely win the rush hour traffic horn blaring contest in movies
@josh928king4 жыл бұрын
Where can I get some damn bait?
@matthewbryson92803 жыл бұрын
How awesome!!!!!
@chucks_884 жыл бұрын
2.30 of wasted video of a damn horn blowing. You could have really left that out lmao
@PurpleObscuration3 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean, I fast forwarded it.
@Green-qq2kw3 жыл бұрын
That’s what I came for
@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHell3 жыл бұрын
Yeah cause you could injure your finger skipping the video ahead.
@seanerblaineritz15224 жыл бұрын
Sound like a like a big Choo choo twain!
@bern5853 жыл бұрын
dam that's alot of water!
@Arjuna860044 жыл бұрын
Are there any dam questions?
@oshi89944 жыл бұрын
Yeah, where can I get some dam bait?
@videobro53311 күн бұрын
i have a theory, i keep looking at dams these days im starting to think beavers arent the ones building these.
@aaronserrano59214 жыл бұрын
Video starts @ 2:45
@jclay66804 жыл бұрын
I always like to learn about some dam information ! LoL
@ryantettenburn9404 жыл бұрын
That dam sure did have a lot of beans last night. Geez!!
@tradgunter63422 жыл бұрын
This is in my hometown of Anderson, South Carolina.
@lovelyy-babyy4 жыл бұрын
It starts at 2:47
@cosmosabinodossantos39772 жыл бұрын
Maravilhoso
@devinl62653 жыл бұрын
Imagine swimming and u hear the siring for it’s about to open
@elainelytle97044 жыл бұрын
Cool !!!
@mariomay47414 жыл бұрын
Had to skip that horn lmao
@rebeccaaxelsson4885 Жыл бұрын
This in long exposure photography 😍
@dakotabever37724 жыл бұрын
That's what everyone is afraid of? My Lincoln can survive that
@jamanwithdakush96174 жыл бұрын
Sir. That is thousands of gallons of water coming at you at about 60+ mph. Your car would be swept away faster than you can say "holy fuck my Lincoln can't survive this"
@Jon-Ivy4 жыл бұрын
@@jamanwithdakush9617 with all due respect, I'm pretty sure his statement was dripping with sarcasm. :)
@jamanwithdakush96174 жыл бұрын
@Mysterious Stranger From Arizona what Lincoln is that. Cuz the biggest one I've seen is about the size of a speedboat. The older ones
@mikem38752 жыл бұрын
It would be cool af to be standing on one of those gate towers when they open those gates.
@nomanasfin63713 жыл бұрын
নাইচ
@intuitive72743 жыл бұрын
Point of interest. Right here is where the Savanah River begins
@nautiboiscuba4 жыл бұрын
You can take all the dam pictures
@pinga8582 жыл бұрын
When she said "doesn't seem like that much does it" I was just like "By the end I think she might change her mind" lol
@enbrat58593 жыл бұрын
I live close to this dam
@jalynhosea22622 жыл бұрын
The bounce of the horns……..
@harunrosid99alrosyid744 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@joethornell11264 жыл бұрын
DAMN!!!
@davidavery51143 жыл бұрын
Cool!🙂
@tommystearns30734 жыл бұрын
Is this a dam starting up or the beginning of a techno song?
@kaptain14774 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know people gather up to watch water move.
@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHell3 жыл бұрын
whats even worse is that people watch youtube videos of it and then feel the need to comment.
@kaptain14773 жыл бұрын
Drinkwhiskwyraisehell You perfectly described yourself. I was making a joke. I am glad that we both agree though 😂😂
@MissingAshes2 жыл бұрын
Hartwell Dam Release June 19 2018
@DanH-nk1my2 жыл бұрын
To this day the horn is still going.....
@katrinmcdonough24144 жыл бұрын
How much is that going to raise the river level?
@devontaenash14094 жыл бұрын
That's a good question.
@mrDmastr192 жыл бұрын
At least the siren is long enough to where if you were down there you had time to get out
@marianhoban90862 жыл бұрын
Rain! IS! LIFE!
@jenpusa3 жыл бұрын
I like that horn. To aware those people on water
@juanluis19963 жыл бұрын
The mini Niágara Falls in ????? place. Jajajajajajaja
@kylem26934 жыл бұрын
So why was this dam released? I didn't scroll through the comments lol
@PurpleObscuration3 жыл бұрын
There are probably many tributaries feeding the lake when snow melts , plus rivers draining behind the dam.
@missmymountain3 жыл бұрын
This was for periodic readiness testing only and not to control water levels.