Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera

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[@BeAmazed]

Believe it or not the thumbnail is a real life depiction of me after taco bell

[@phoenixking9319]

You don't say

[@justassmailys3507]

Fair

[@God_of_Buckets]

Wow

[@skeletononcrystals5608]

Me urinating in the morning

[@astrufer28]

@BE AMAZED Where'd you find the thumbnail?

[@YouggleItifnyacantfixit-BR549]

the narrator sounds like we are on a game show, just saying. what did they win, Bob?

[@Digitalhunny]

😂🤣😭

[@rayhan4693]

I'm kinda starting to like the voice

[@weirdrts3250]

E

[@talena1592]

Lol

[@aaronm8143]

They won.....A BROKEN DAM!

[@darkoflight4938]

My mom always called me a damn failure but this is on another level...

[@mohdmarwanmarzuqibinmarfai5054]

Get it?A DAM failure?!Huh?Huuuuuuh?

[@pensharer69]

@@mohdmarwanmarzuqibinmarfai5054 its a parental joke, not a dumbass pun

[@mohdmarwanmarzuqibinmarfai5054]

@@pensharer69 aPARENTly

[@airber78]

I just like the fact that he never clickbait’s us

[@Tal_Spotting]

A dam opening its emergency valve is like a man peeing after a traffic jam "ahhh" 😌

[@etonbachs4226]

More like ''ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh''. Lol

[@hollyperret]

As a woman, I can’t relate to this comment.

[@theannihilator7989]

Yes

[@jacobspaulding1979]

Your mind is odd lol.. but true.

[@owenwilson3750]

@@etonbachs4226 And the dams in this video are like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH xd

[@samuelbarreto6752]

"Miraculously no lives were lost in the catastrophic event" Source: Laos State Media

[@hellfire8883]

Hehe yea exactly

[@robloxgamer-fp6od]

This is Untrustable

[@Tony-eu2dj]

I dont get it

[@samuelbarreto6752]

@@Tony-eu2dj c'mon dude, in authoritarian countries like Laos, China, N. Korea, the media is censored and news are distorted, much like back when the soviets tried their best to hide the chernobyl accident and the nunber of victims.

[@eviehammond9509]

Coming from the same country who used soil instead of cement.

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

So the Chinese dam bursting was _"one thousand times worse, to be exact"_ - I wonder how they calculated such a vague thing with such precision. Not 99 times worse, not 101 times worse, but exactly a thousand times worse. That's hella impressive.

[@feraltaco4783]

Or 99.73?

[@cooldude1092]

The Edenville/Sanford dam broke almost a year ago and most of the town was destroyed. The sanford lake was the place me and my buddy would go to all the time and now all those memories were swept away. You can still drive by there and see the empty lake and all the destruction the break left. Glad to see this disaster got recognized.

[@ffieditor]

It would have been nice if they had they facts right. it wasn't 2 dam but 3 dams. All the dams have been taken over by the 4 lake task force.

[@perplexion760]

@@ffieditor Forever ago, but no? It was Edenville and Sanford. I'm gonna assume you live here since you like to talk like you do. Otherwise, shush.

[@BEASTboy0831]

I live in bay city looking at the lake beds was just horrific no water and boats just sitting there on the lake bed

[@BEASTboy0831]

@@ffieditor no I live near it in bay city and it was only two they had it right

[@MatthewtheBowgart]

1:47 "This became all too clear on September 11th, 2017" *Pft, they had it easy.*

[@darkconstruction3120]

I judt started looking through the comment to see if anyone else noticed it happened on 9/11 ur the only one ive seen

[@khyati2474]

Its in real a very bad and sad date considering Marybeth Roe Tinning was also born on September 11th

[@Dekuhehuggeu]

9 11 water edition

[@nolongerdeceased5046]

it all comes back to September 11th

[@alisonindvik6391]

Yeah I noticed that too

[@scbzgaming8336]

I know how to solve those problems, just use flex tape, your welcome:)

[@Mr.Robert1]

According to that company Flex tape that man can fix anything he could make a boat out of that stuff he can make a rocket ship to go to Mars so why not

[@OneTwoFive0]

Ngl it’ll probably work

[@victoriavaughan3964]

Mmm

[@ballsuckervr]

Yes

[@momplus6716]

Tape won’t work cuz when you get tape wet it gets unsticky

[@spacemanduke3404]

When I lived in Rexburg, Idaho I heard stories from people living though the Teton Dam break in 1976. A local museum has a map of the extent of the flood and my home would have been right at the very edge of the flood.

[@chris10amanda]

I lived in Estes Park, CO. for 10 years, which has been flooded not once, but twice by the Lawn Lake Damn in the Rocky Mountain National Park. The first time in 1981 (I believe), and the second time in 2013 which made National news. Both dam ruptures were bad enough, but the water traveled over 60 miles in 2 different directions. One path was towards Boulder, CO, which devastated Estes Park, Boulder, and all other towns in its path. The other flow was towards Loveland, Longmont and Ft. Collins. The worst part is, in both dam breaks, the water took the same paths, claiming lives in both breaks.

[@michaelterrencefernandezli6688]

*their dams are "laosy"* plz don't kill me

[@husnajalil2665]

Nice one

[@con.d.humanoidlizard]

Noice

[@bigchungusdriplord2301]

Im gonna kill you... but first We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you No, I'm never gonna give you up No, I'm never gonna let you down No, I'll never run around and hurt you Never, ever desert you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you No, I'm never gonna give you up No, I'm never gonna let you down No, I'll never run around and hurt you I'll never, ever desert you

[@AR3Kids]

Plz no kill!

[@michaelterrencefernandezli6688]

@@bigchungusdriplord2301 ahhh damn

[@dand1486]

the guy who owns vale should be doing a life sentence, thats whos responsible

[@Ezekiel903]

I think the US is one with the worst infrastructure in the world, as a developed country it suffered more damage as China, because of infrastructure failure

[@carlcarl5306]

Not only the owner should be accountable. Anybody who had the information on the danger of the dams should be accountable.

[@Ezekiel903]

@@carlcarl5306 agree

[@commanderrogerroger6210]

@@Ezekiel903 half life 3

[@zachtavaris5378]

He is serving a life sentence. Coke, bitches, and cash to burn as midnight oil.

[@thejaymartino]

I remember the Nebraska one it was on the news for literally months every time I went to check the weather before work

[@whatyes7783]

You know the water is insanely powerful when it looks like its moving in slowmo

[@BreezyGamer92]

I live in Michigan and our state is going to see the affects of our dam breakage for more time to come.

[@russell7384]

I live in NY and have family in Michigan and i never heard about what happened. I hope recovery will be quick

[@Scott-lm4wh]

I live in Midland, Michigan and the dam failures are still affecting so many people. With all the lawsuits involved with this, people will not see a dime for a very longtime. The damage is still very visible and many are still displaced from their homes.

[@HaroldC4000]

As one of the thousands who experienced the catastrophic spillway collapse of the Oroville Dam, I can tell you that it is one of the most frightening things I have ever been through.

[@steveluke2395]

And, unlike the 300 feet the video describes, the spillway at Orville Dam is 3000 feet long.

[@pitomontes531]

Just the noise would wake the dead. You have experienced something rare

[@peggyscott7108]

As a resident in Idaho in the US I participated in the clean up after the collapse of the Teton Dam on June 5, 1976. It was incredible to see the damage

[@ItstoadXD]

ur amazing dude

[@Justin_Newman]

I was in downtown oroville when the damn cracked and spillway broke it was insane! It was like no laws mattered people were driving cars on sidewalks and just abandoning vehicles too and running on foot, where I lived at the time was right next to the damn and when I finally got home, I could see the damns spillway just breaking more and more. As soon as I saw this video I knew this had to be in here so I watched👌🏼

[@jay-d8349]

I think the driver in that catapillar killed other people trying to escape !

[@allendawe9276]

the whole thing revolves around money save, save, save at the cost of lives

[@Mirolp7]

it doenst even makes sense. They could save money by building it properly, so its working for a long amount of time. I dont have to mention your country folks may approve you more if you dont killing their entire village, do I?

[@SigmaHayate]

@@Mirolp7 they don’t save money for no reason. They save money for their pockets and assume everything goes well so they can keep the money for their wealth

[@goni2493]

@@SigmaHayate And then they lose all of it when something goes wrong.

[@SigmaHayate]

@@goni2493 “money makes you blind”

[@medicbabe2ID]

@ALLEN DAWE There's a channel that's all about the investigations of large scale industrial accidents; chemical plant spills, gas plant explosions, and the like. Can't remember the name, I'll look and come back in case you're interested. It never fails that companies won't take an extra recommended safety measure at $0.20 per employee, but then a year or so down the road that would have prevented an accident that cost 3 lives, thousands in hospital bills, millions in lost revenue while the plant was down for repairs and untold costs in bad faith with the community and negative press. *smh* EDIT: The channel is USCSB.

[@levimendesportela3975]

Vale is responsible for more than 3 of those in Brazil, they're known for that by here, I had family in one of the cities destroyed and a branch of the family had to move out due to the river being dead, we were lucky to have Israel helping us to locate survivors 😢. The biggest dam in the world is half in Brazilian territory, vale is the bad apple by here, most of the dams here are concrete made and not land made.

[@seekingtko3146]

there's alot of digging here to put this up, awesome video thank you

[@dajam9035]

16:38 so they knew the damn thing was defective and they used it anyway???? I seriously hate people! I really do!

[@Mr.Robert1]

You hate people, that's why God invented dogs cats and animals well that's all the same thing but you know what I'm saying I agree

[@dand1486]

there greedy, and like most care only about them selves.....sad how things are

[@weirdrts3250]

E

[@deadlyduo7877]

“Damn thing” unintentional pun

[@dinkywinky2860]

You should always assume that everyone is bad at their jobs. World War 2 could have been prevented on two separate occasions but incompetence and straight up ignoring intelligence allowed the blitzkrieg to happen. History is crazy, it's almost all human incompetence.

[@Cyb3rin]

I love how 100 people are first 🤣🤣

[@alpaca4902]

I'm 2,800th

[@EBM120.]

Yea lol

[@Welshman2008]

They all peaked too soon like their dads.

[@renrenoneinavat6221]

I have never seen a dam up close

[@joashbergman5477]

I live in Michigan so i remember seeing pictures and video of the titabawasee dams failing, and pictures of people on emergency evac, people in inflatable boats with their cats and dogs, one person walking their horse. It was only hours after the first dam failed that the second one did as well and that day, the news and media in Michigan was all focused on the dam failures.

[@ryanwheelock264]

"Do you have any stories share them in the comments." I bet you $10 Michigan will be in this. I was right. I live in Michigan.

[@kingofmonsters7452]

Gbu

[@davidlittle3327]

Yes

[@davidlittle3327]

I don't live there anymore, did tjo

[@jeffdavison8421]

Ask the people of Sanford, Michigan.

[@anakinskywalker5917]

I do to

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

I don’t have to watch this video to see total dam failures, I own a mirror

[@_zoeyshaa_]

Dammit. Get it? Dam? Like ya know. The water wall?

[@yxzaan7273]

Lol got me

[@beannuggy5639]

THE DAM PUNS ARE INSANE

[@rndmpinkiepie64]

Dam construction crew: "well, soil is too soft and concrete can break. What can we make dams out of so we never have to worry about another break again?" Phil: "hi! Phil Swift here with FlexSeal!"

[@tickinhonda4127]

Watch me break this dam! THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE! We can fix it with flex seal.

[@zardy5737]

XDDDDDD

[@boeingb52stratofortress86]

@@tickinhonda4127 DAMage*

[@rikkipowers3921]

😆

[@benduffy4223]

"just watch as these 2 truck drivers come within seconds of being swept into" *ads play* Grrr

[@zardy5737]

XDDD that happened to me too lol

[@pineforest1442]

THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO!

[@monabeth47]

That’s why I pay for no ads , well worth it . Can’t stand em

[@MizBryteEyez]

Yep, same here!

[@sammorgan31]

Brave browser. No ads. Ever.

[@lrd_ghst_tast1170]

This is an older one but the flood of Johnstown. It's a smallish town in Pennsylvania approximately a half an hour from where I live. The story is pretty interesting and definitely worth looking into

[@rikkipowers3921]

How far is this from phila

[@rayfridley6649]

@@rikkipowers3921 Johnstown is closer to Pittsburgh than Philadelphia.

[@hishambutt5487]

Damn bro I was shocked to see this.

[@BeeReports444]

*I* *pray* *anyone* *that* *sees* *this* *is* *successful* *in* *life* 💰

[@thebrothersofgod2262]

I hope

[@s.aj7]

Ok thx

[@andy_c]

b e g o n e b o t

[@beans_21]

bot

[@yukinamonroll5137]

Bot or not, its still a nice thing to say X3

[@genghiskhan6185]

I feel like dam failures is just mother nature giving a middle finger

[@scytheyt4051]

Fr

[@RE-zl7sy]

dam that hurts

[@mariabelmonte7802]

dam that hurts

[@fruitthegreatest9062]

dam that hurts

[@RE-zl7sy]

dam that hurts

[@smwsmwsmw]

6:34 "the dam ruptured in the most terrifying way possible". What non-terrifying ways are there for a dam to rupture?

[@deposit6192]

*when you waited all day to take a piss and finally get home from school* :

[@keithclark486]

Waste of time If you can't read the sign bathroom.

[@braindeadwaffles8329]

"This became all too clear on september 11th" *Hold up*

[@insertnamehere9558]

Omg ur right-

[@scrapfightergd]

9/11 flashbacks

[@noah07601]

Seems like that date is just unlucky

[@meau400]

"Damm" man...

[@WildPotaot2]

*pun gun noises*

[@jakobbrenne5073]

the first add that came up was flod protection lol

[@grantjones6708]

I live 45 minutes away from lake Oroville in California. Our dam almost had a massive breach when the spillway started to collapse

[@silviu4248]

When I first visited a dam in my country I only stayed on the lake side , until my dad called me to look at the other side ... Let's just say I got scarred for life.

[@patiencelloyd1568]

Why? What did it look like?

[@silviu4248]

@@patiencelloyd1568 the dam was 130 m high and there was no fence or anything , just a 50 cm border. I was imagining how would it be if I tripped over there and fall in void.

[@weirdrts3250]

E

[@patiencelloyd1568]

@@silviu4248 ohh shit that does sound scary!

[@ch4nn5l_n4m5]

Dams be like: OH HEY BABE *RELEASES WATER AGRESSIVELY*

[@victoriavaughan3964]

Lol

[@lovelyt8022]

😂😂😂

[@user-ut3uh8jn5w]

Lol

[@user-ut3uh8jn5w]

18:30December 1 be like

[@Steve-vf7se]

Fascinating! Dams that failed to hold, but still can be fixed. I'm impressed by this, I love it. Counties around the world had this problem, the dam descriptor. Fun fact: what dam would break into one piece? This world has big questions to be told, to be answered.

[@airishunter]

Who ever voices this video has an amazing voice for videos like this 😎👍

[@KageNoTora74]

A hydroelectric power plant fails at dawn "Dam, sun..."

[@basillover32]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE OMG

[@nathanlynch9634]

In the town I live in has a river that runs through it burst its banks a few years ago and flooded a large portion of the town I wasn’t living here at the time but my mum told me about it.

[@MayimHastings]

Takes a whole lot of greed and arrogance for engineers to turn a blind eye to a damned dam 🦫

[@biglwutang84]

Disasters can happen anywhere but this is like the 394754th reason I'm thankful to live in America.

[@jeaniebird999]

Here's an off-subject, fun fact that this video reminded me of - My friend spent time in Laos, while in the military, and said it rained 24 hours a day, for two whole months. He was certain that was the worst place on earth until coming back to the states and having to spend time in Kansas. He now knows he was wrong. Kansas, according to him, is definitely the worst place on earth. 🤣

[@babysneakyloot8988]

People:HELP THE DAM BROKE Badlands:Enough talk

[@annapowell9203]

That's the real use of cowboy hats that we've carefully kept secret for years. They're used as flotation devices.

[@chrismaze3441]

Kinda like flotation devices on airplanes don't do much good when your doing 300 + MPH straight into the ground

[@Spartan_Jackal]

23:10 All those Fieros, man. Hurts my soul.

[@paulrozko4815]

What was that dam inspector thinking 🤔 ??! ..😁 you see what I did there ?

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

In the States... Unfortunately... The answer for around two dozen states is "What dam inspector?" ;o)

[@patreschke6047]

Check out the fail of lake delton in wisconsin the whole lake drained !!

[@Mr.Robert1]

Pat I'll be checking it out shortly thanks for the info

[@patreschke6047]

@@Mr.Robert1 cool it took out a bunch of houses that collapsed into the water !!!

[@weirdrts3250]

E

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

That was water getting into a salt mine IIRC? It literally melted. Predictable, but fortunately not fatal (if it's the one I'm thinking of).

[@Ezekiel903]

I think the US is one with the worst infrastructure in the world, as a developed country it suffered more damage as China, because of infrastructure failure

[@wolfinred2893]

July 1st of 2015 Northern Indiana, 1-2 dams failed and tons an tons of water rushed the Wabash River, etc.

[@louigi6001]

Have not watched the whole footage yet but the Vajont dam in Italy definitely should make it in this list

[@LittleDrummerBoyLittle]

I guess you’ve never heard of an earthen dam? They’re quite common, even here in the USA.

[@AUTISTICLYCAN]

We have had a few earthenworks dams fail in the USA too. This is among our worst dam failures of all time. The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The dam broke after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. South Fork Dam was an earth- and rock-fill dam located about 8 miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. ... The resulting flood wave that contained 20 million tons of water and debris caused 2,209 fatalities and became known as the “Johnstown Flood”. South Fork Dam an earthen works structure. So you see we had our damn failures too and look at that death toll. All because some super rich 1%'er goof's wanted a private fishing lake.

[@sammorgan31]

@@AUTISTICLYCAN "All because some super rich 1%'er goof's wanted a private fishing lake."(sic) Don't you mean by wonderful collective government for the good of the people? I mean most of you lunatics who cry about people having more money than you are usually all for public works like this..... except when they go wrong, then you blame the rich. "The South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838-1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the canal system to be used as a reservoir for the state's Main Line of Public Works canal basin in Johnstown. It was abandoned by the commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests."

[@ShadoeLandman]

@@sammorgan31 In this case, the rich definitely need blamed. The Commonwealth were not the ones still using the dam for their own fun while neglecting to maintain it and HIDING it.

[@Lemony067]

4:56 "what caused this" The first 2 words in an ad: "Oregon homeowners"

[@joshuatremper5026]

Dam those really were massive failures

[@PexiTheBuilder]

Feels good to live country with only few dams and none of them nowhere near.

[@allenthecook7696]

18:09 The guy who bangs his hammer once to fix the bridge and charged $20 million is the true MVP

[@castonyoung7514]

How is he a Multimedia Video Processor?

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

I'm reminded of a story (have no idea how true or not) about Henry Ford inviting Nikola Tesla to his factory for a tour and luncheon chat... During the tour, they happened on a section of the assembly line where a cable with clamp-on hooks would slowly and steadily draw the mostly complete cars along the floor with various workers grabbing parts and jumping onto them to install along the way... AND while Ford proudly explained his machinations, an alarm rang and the line stopped. Several guys in lab-coats assessed the thing with mostly quick visual inspections, a few shared sentiments with workers, and then one would fiddle a bit with a pulley on the floor and another would pull the lever to re-start the line... A few minutes passed and the same thing happened, and Tesla started watching over Ford's shoulder as the same antics were repeated. The third repetition, Ford was starting to get anxious and then tried to divert attention to the impending luncheon time, but Tesla was a bit simpler man, and pointedly asked why Ford didn't just fix the problem. "We've tried," Ford responded. "Some of my best guys have spent weeks studying it, and still haven't got a solution... BUT if you think you're good enough, I'd happily pay whatever you charge." "Certainly, "Tesla abruptly whirled and took a very businesslike pace out the door and down the street to a hardware store... Ford looked a little disturbed and confused, but within a matter of minutes Tesla was returning and shrugging out of his jacket, on his way to one of several boxes on the floor about the cable-works. He proceeded to open the housing and pound mercilessly on something inside for several minutes, and then casually flipped the thing shut again, returning it to working condition while yet another guy in a lab-coat pulled the lever and resumed the line working. With his jacket hooked on his fingers, over his shoulder, Tesla returned to Ford's side to watch the line for nearly twenty minutes without a single disturbance, and then handed Ford the hammer. "That will be 5 thousand and 5 dollars," Tesla nodded. For a moment, Ford was amazed that in minutes Tesla had fixed what his whole team of engineers hadn't been able to in more than a year... AND then he was incredulous. "Five THOUSAND... For a HAMMER?!" "No," Tesla shook his head. "Five dollars for the hammer... available at any hardware shop. Five THOUSAND for knowing where to swing it." ;o)

[@cherishbendyuwoch.b6868]

I live and Texas and... OF COURSE WE CAN SWIM WHAT DO YOU THINK WE ARE DIM WIPS 😒🙄

[@JoshuaMcKay1]

Actually a lot of dams are made from soil and normally it’s done like this to not only cut costs but because it’s actually A good material to make a The dams out of!

[@codypendant6745]

About "engineering failures". Having worked in a department tasked with continued maintenance on buildings after a problematic project, and seeing what happens when pay-offs occur to bring costs down, I can tell you that the engineers are the least of the problem because they are paid first, with honest money, and before the shit hits the fan. It's what happens AFTER the plans are drawn up and the office with authority gives it the green light that shit happens behind closed doors. Look at the plans, spec sheets, bill of materials, stress tests, and diplomas. Anyone wanting a high quality structure hires a reputable engineer/architect. His license is on the line EVERY time he puts his stamp on a project. But what happens when the schedule gets delayed by weather, supply chain, union strikes, over-booked contractors, to name a few? It's not due to anything "engineer" related. The engineers are done for all practical purposes. So, now project costs start climbing and the funding department starts having cold sweats. If only there were a way to mitigate these horrendous, climbing costs? And what of the extended time frame to completion?! The project coordinator casts about frantically for a solution because they are getting heavy pressure by the owner to stay on schedule. Ta...Daaa! In walks Slimy Pete with his hand out to save the day. He will grease all the squeaky wheels (for a fee). So Pete, who probably DOES NOT work for any of the entities involved and is a solo act, is given some authority to make deals (off the books of course). He contacts all the suppliers and contractors offering sweet deals and kick-backs for preferential treatment of this project. How does spending more money help? "Time is money", so he is going to try to save huge time. He makes sure he somehow gets the inspector of record into his pocket because the fun is about to begin. Once he has his ducks in a row (contractors, suppliers, inspectors, financiers...) he begins executing methodical corner cutting. The final product almost always has a reduction of quality, and sometimes catastrophic failures because the inspector of record was out having caviar with Pete while the corners were getting cut. Once back on site, the inspector looks everything over with a cursory glance, assures that there is indeed concrete in that form and acts like he is being thorough, even though most of that concrete is actually fill dirt. A week later he receives a package of money in a drop box. If the inspector cannot be bought, he will most likely be replaced by the entity paying for the project. Pete has skillfully orchestrated the flow of material and information and miraculously brings the project back on schedule or nearly so. This is how dirt replaces concrete, and space shuttles blow up after launch. Someone with a higher pay scale (and smaller brain) makes life and death decisions based on time and money. Whatever fails is somehow placed on the backs of the engineers, who have almost NO bearing on the AS-BUILT quality when completed. However, since they are the farthest removed from the actual build, they get blamed. What ever idiot, who has the money, and causes the fuck-up, always tries to hide it by selling out those with the brains. The final mystery is how the inspector of record doesn't lose his license after the fact. After thought: I'd like to know who it was that forced the Shuttle Challenger to launch even knowing the problem with the seals. Then I'd like to know why that person was permitted to live. A designer/builder must be willing to use his/her creation.

[@quinnfails49]

When you realize that your name is in the title

[@triop_king6815]

I didn’t know my name was dam

[@triop_king6815]

JK lol

[@thebombz]

1:45 what are you doing step br- *cuts throat*

[@MusicGunn]

Earthen fill dams are quite common for lakes that require long rather than high dams. The largest lake completely inside the state of Arizona, Lake Pleasant, has an earthen fill dam, the New Waddell Dam. So yeah, soil.

[@stevenalleman9884]

I lived through the Teton damburst a nightmare that I shall never forget

[@electrofan1796]

I bet that dude on the tracker was like "fuck! fuck! fuck! fuuuuck!" Kudos to that guy making it on that slow ass tracker lmao.

[@dylangrauman550]

lol

[@Mr.Scootini]

Given, I haven’t been to my childhood town in a few years now, but I remember the local dam having cracks in it. I’m not sure if they fixed it or not but watching this video makes me worried that even if they did, it probably will eventually collapse and absolutely annihilate the houses that are DIRECTLY below the dam wall...

[@Xtars]

The worst dissaster in my hometown is a guy launching a big Firework to a landslide hoping to stop the landslide lmao

[@captainsledge7554]

These failures are a dam shame too

[@glitchedchaos4846]

The miniature: water exploiding and flying everywhere Me: Haha water go brrr

[@pattmyn]

YES!!!! Thank you for dragging Vale into this video. They're basically the "pharma-bro" of mining companies. They've also yet to pay a quarter of those fines by some estimates due to the rampant corruption within Brazil's government. And for future reference - Vale is pronounced more "veil" because of...reasons? Either way, keep mispronouncing their name to antagonise them or pronounce it properly to raise awareness - both are fine by me.

[@pattmyn]

PS: Feel free to contact me about these a-hole's colossal screw ups, I've got quite the treasure trove of info about them.

[@michaelmeddaugh2124]

Prison or death life in prison is moral for such screw ups. Think about what would happen if you or I killed that many people just by being ignorant

[@pattmyn]

@@michaelmeddaugh2124 Prison would be the least of our worries. 🙄

[@eternitylinx6905]

Wow the 2018 Kerala floods didn’t even make the list

[@redeye8075]

18:30 I wonder if you jumped into that massive stream would be anything like that scene from Pokémon 3 the movie when they used staryu and totodile. More likely the impact of the water would break several bones.

[@joestoeckel135]

Damn, this was a good video

[@doggomemesniffuh]

Now I can finally say GoDAM now that's a lot of DAMage

[@RandomNPC001]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@LewisSav]

What did the fish say when he ran into a wall. DAM

[@rubyred6954]

It’s SICKENING how it seems 99^ of the time no one is charged for dam failures!! Unbelievable 😠

[@michaelmidax8108]

5:16 It's crazy how that dam was 91 y/o & broke in 2019, 91 is 19 backwards. Strange coincidence

[@Bakedevil007Music]

Getting famous off of comments day 42 so I can live the dream of becoming a big youtuber, Live Life to the fullest!

[@callumari5762]

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[@CheezClubRBLX]

@@callumari5762 bot

[@beans_21]

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[@beans_21]

why so many likes

[@reinzai5927]

damn, those dam damned

[@HonorTheFallenTheyDeserveIt]

Nothing has happened to my hometown yet but I fear it might. The Norris dam is 87 years old

[@robertphillips6296]

Earthen or Tailing Dams are the most dangerous types of Dams.

[@bigsmiler5101]

I grew up near the Spencer Dam (13:21 - 14:37 minute point). The area below it was my favorite party place. Much of the financial loss was due to the next dam below (Gavins Point on the Missouri River) having to fully open its gates and widespread flooding from it.

[@mrmayortheiv]

Does this guy make his videos, then upload it at 0.75 speed? This would be completely unwatchable without increasing the speed. Thank you KZbin for that option!

[@pdmullgirl]

I definitely think the engineers should be responsible for these dams failing. Their the ones who know how everything works and doesn’t work. Therefore, they should be the ones to tell the rest of us how and what to monitor. That would have to be scary as hell having a dam break and all that rushing water coming your way!!! Where would you go??!!! Scary stuff. Enjoyed watching your video. ❤️💜💚

[@jansdavisbelerts1196]

mother nature: water dragon justu

[@Notazomb6319]

Damn it, the dam blew up

[@jaxsoncampbell1942]

Bruh the dam pun at the start got me cracking up

[@Plantrum]

The narrorater be like: "And 17 people died... Dammit"

[@503osito]

"HOPE THE TEXAS KNOW'S HOW TO SWIM" 🏊 😂😂😂😂

[@Yousemimight]

The thumb nail is a normal release of water that happens almost everyday on many dams.

[@Yousemimight]

@Brandon Bartlett lol yeah oops. What is funny is I read your comment as "damn thats normal" for a second, like I'd say back "yeah its normal"

[@my12spoonswithrose43]

You need to do one to include the ST. Francis Dam. It did a hell of a lot of damage & killed many people. It needs to be on lists like this just because of what it did.

[@semoby8049]

16:08 did anyone else hear him say "fortnite"?

[@suzannedemoranville7120]

He did... "fortnight." It means a two week period. I looked it up XD

[@semoby8049]

@@suzannedemoranville7120 No it's fortnite

[@suzannedemoranville7120]

@@semoby8049 Look at the captions, and then look up what a fortnight is. I’m not sure if you’re referencing the video game as a joke or not, but if you are, sorry for being so persistent XD r/whoosh me if you are

[@semoby8049]

@@suzannedemoranville7120 it was a joke