Michigan flood displaces thousands, threatens chemical plant

Floodwaters have overtaken dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people from communities in central Michigan. (May 20, 2020)

[@TyanaAlexandra]

A resident called this a ‘natural disaster’ no sir. I’m afraid this one is man made.

[@tuckerandfriends]

This is so sad, I'm sorry for all the people affected by this flooding!

[@johnhessom1513]

You haven't seen nothing yet its storm season

[@doncrist2012]

A reminder to never buy or build in a low lying area near any source of water

[@harrylarry4672]

Yeah I live in florida good luck with that

[@maatdei8127]

Ancient mud floods talked about this a few years ago 😳🤯 I hope that all the people are safe and recovers from this.

[@sandranavarrette3031]

ME TOO I HAVE FAMILY 👪 WHO LIVES THERE AND MY EXTENDED FAMILY 👪 TOO.

[@thisisger]

looks like that city got some big mouth bass in there

[@eustatic3832]

What was the maintenance plan on the dam? Had it been maintained? Had it been inspected?

[@user-fg8ux8zo6w]

Maintenance plan? Inspection? THAT SOUNDS LIKE COMMUNISM

[@doverbeachcomber]

At 2:14, those are telephone and possibly CTV cables, not “electrical wires.” You can tell both by their position on the poles and the splice cases visible near their attachment points. Both use only low voltage and pose no electrocution risk. Power lines, on the other hand, are always at or very near the tops of poles, for reasons made obvious by this sad footage.

[@makeamericagreatzz3997]

GOV Nitwhit should be put in prison for this. Way to vote Michigan. There's consequences for the way you vote.

[@chunkymunkey9182]

There are always consequences for the way anyone votes, just a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.

[@judsonmeraw6294]

Is this inevitable with all US dams?

[@nikkic83]

Shouldn’t alter the natural flow of life. Disaster will always be the end result.

[@edm1207]

Dam talk about watching a whole lake move downtown😱😬

[@johncole7858]

Stop blaming on god he is not behind this but the people who control you did it

[@nobleeightfoldpath8633]

It's easy to blame God instead of looking in the mirror. 👍

[@xxxx2935]

.... the book of psalms chapter 94 verse 8 verse 9 first 10 verse 11......UNDERSTAND , YE BRUTISH AMONG THE PEOPLE: AND YE FOOLS , WHEN WILL YE BE WISE ? ... HE THAT PLANTED THE EAR , SHALL HE NOT HEAR ? HE THAT FORMED THE EYE , SHELL HE NOT SEE ? ... HE THAT CHASTISETH THE HEATHEN , SHALL NOT HE CORRECT ? HE THAT TEACHETH MAN KNOWLEDGE , SHALL NOT HE KNOW ? THE LORD KNOWETH THE THOUGHTS OF MAN , THAT THEY ARE VANITY..... the book of amos chapter 3 verse 6...... SHALL A TRUMPET BE BLOWN IN THE CITY , AND THE PEOPLE NOT BE AFRAID ? SHALL THERE BE EVIL IN A CITY , AND THE LORD HATH NOT DONE IT ? ..... the book of isaiah chapter 45 verse 7..... I FORM THE LIGHT , AND CREATE DARKNESS : I MAKE PEACE , AND CREATE EVIL : I THE LORD DO ALL THESE THINGS..... the book of jeremiah chapter 10 verse 23...... O LORD , I KNOW THAT THE WAY OF MAN IS NOT IN HIMSELF : IT IS NOT IN MAN THAT WALKETH TO DIRECT HIS STEPS..... the book of proverbs chapter 20 verse 24...... MAN'S GOINGS ARE OF THE LORD , HOW CAN A MAN THEN UNDERSTAND HIS OWN WAY ? The book of job chapter 12 verse 15 verse 16 verse 17...... BEHOLD , HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS , AND THEY DRY UP: ALSO HE SENDETH THEM OUT , AND THEY OVERTURN THE EARTH..... WITH HIM IS STRENGTH AND WISDOM : ( THE DECEIVED AND THE DECEIVER ARE HIS ).... HE LEADETH COUNSELLORS AWAY SPOILED , AND MAKETH THE JUDGES FOOLS..... the book of ecclesiasticus chapter 3 verse 24........ FOR MANY ARE DECEIVED BY THEIR OWN VAIN OPINION ; AND AN EVIL SUSPICION HATH OVERTHROWN THEIR JUDGMENT....... the book of revelations chapter 21 verse 8...... BUT THE FEARFUL , AND UNBELIEVING , AND THE ABOMINABLE , AND MURDERERS , AND WHOREMONGERS , AND SORCERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE : WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH..... ALL PRAISES YAHAWAH BAHASHAM YAHAWASHI....... thank you for your time........

[@jmartin4204]

God is ALWAYS with a capital G and when referring to God he is written with a capital H

[@farcebook1836]

Yikes, dude.

[@chuckychuck]

👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@jeffmcneal8659]

I wouldn't be out floating around in a metal boat.

[@jaroninnis7588]

Thank you woodTV8... This is excellent coverage of such a catastrophic event... "no more donations" - made possible by the overwhelmingly beautiful people of my wonderful state, Michigan

[@victoriaschon1155]

Reporting Leon Hendricks: you're awesome! Thanks for reporting.

[@suzycat2026]

Prayers for all the people & the animals affected by this tragic disaster 🙏🏻❤🐱♏☯️🌌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@deborahaichele8829]

Sorry folks. Prayers your way.

[@Boblobblaw88]

Him -"Thats the Tittabawasee" Her: "Oh---that's the river that flooded?" "Ummmmm.....yeah.....we're in a boat in the floodwater ma'am" Is this their brightest reporter?

[@neilhowes4215]

GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE INVOLVED! MY FAMILY WILL PRAY THAT THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD IS WITH YOU ALL!!!

[@shirleyhughes1455]

AMEN! I , too am praying.

[@DanielPerez-ee3wp]

People can't go back there ever again?

[@rainyrrrr4183]

Prayers for Michigan 🙏

[@malissawells1541]

May God bless u residents of Midland Mi

[@NikonChicFL]

This is insane! 🤯

[@showmercytoothers4059]

Did it fail?

[@TyanaAlexandra]

The phrase ‘stay home’ so many have taken for granted 🥺

[@conspiracyphreakphreaka6082]

so, with out the damns the water would be this high normally? seems kind dumb to build in any of those areas and never expect disaster?

[@davejordan1458]

Nature is reclaiming territories. Let nature do what it does naturally. Work with nature, not against it, and things like this wouldn't happen.

[@synnacastroman3813]

The lady was so sweet, she’s like you just go with the flow.

[@Keerahmendes]

you live in michigan??

[@elianayisrael82]

Hope that water isn’t full of lead.

[@karenwilliams6662]

what about animals????

[@blaker007705]

Every dam has a life span...they need regular maintenance and inspections. My heart goes out to the communities and the people affected by this tragity

[@thatoneguy611]

The issue wasn’t the dam’s age, it was the spillways not having enough capacity, allowing for the water levels to rise too high and push down the dam.

[@edwardcolunga5212]

A brand new realization hits for the ones who think that there were all that and a bag of chips now they're homeless I wonder what they think now makes me kind of wonder it kind of humble you

[@tessdizon8563]

Hello 👋 guys in times like this we must pray get it all into our knees pray praise and in all things always give thanks 🙏 to God

[@hankwm.hatcher9603]

You got a loose screw rattling around. Yea, religion.

[@boburemperor7941]

They guy looks really optimistic!

[@Keerahmendes]

you live in michigan??

[@beastmodejelly8654]

Water:This land is mine!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🏞

[@andecap1325]

Darn those damns...

Don't worry, everyone is covered by mandatory flood insurance.

[@beastmodejelly8654]

Stills painful tho..

[@KS-cl8br]

Flood insurance is not mandatory. Are you saying it's mandatory in Michgan.

[@bergz77]

THESE DISASTERS IS A OPEN INVITATION TO DEVELOP NEW WAYS TO RENOVATE CITIES AFTER THESE DISASTERS THEY ALWAYS REBUILD THE SAME WAY, I NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT

[@bilb.o]

That M20 bridge, highlighted at the end, was just redone in the past year, so I'd hope it's structurely safe...

[@loveskey]

Just like in the movie Evans Almighty

[@hillaryclinton2415]

wait, no masks? arrest them.

[@boobear6256]

Please people go to higher ground where its safe,dont go back untill its safe

[@badactor3440]

ya think?

[@gelomendoza2543]

That area seems hopeless to recover.

[@Keerahmendes]

you live in michigan??

[@ljy82]

with smartphone technology today...watching clips on KZbin and other online media...helps everyone to at lease learn from other countries disasters that people will just pick up and get back on their feet. Now days I think people well hopefully learn not to attach themselves to material things too much....only because life is so fragile and the main thing out of all this we will weather any storm and pandemic and continue to survive. God Bless.

[@njs123forusa]

Prayers and thoughts going out for the people of Michigan that are being inundated by the rain leading to overwhelming flooding and dams breaking.

[@hankwm.hatcher9603]

Dams aren't supposed to collapse. Somebody was asleep in the wheelhouse. Can you say Witmer?

[@Bluebaby422]

Everyone has a lake house now

[@johnprudencio8226]

SOMEONE IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOING PMS ON THE DAM ITSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FIRED THOSE OLD PEOPLE THEY JUST SAT DOWN AND NEVER INSPECTED THE STATUS OF THE DAM SOMEONE IN A HOT SEAT!!

[@bobjohnson3917]

Why are we always told that dams are for flood control, but the way they are managed creates more flooding? Why are most dams filled up with water and then they maintain the basins behind the dams at a mostly full level? Maintaining mostly full basins provides almost zero holding capacity during large rain events. Why wouldn't it be more beneficial to maintain basins at very low levels, so that during large rain events, the basins would need to fill up before any flooding would occur? If basins are already full to begin with, wouldn't almost all of the water from the large rain event be all flood water? All the dams within a watershed could be maintained at a mostly wide open state with low water levels, and then after a large rain event, all the dams along the river could partially close, so each are slowly filling up their basins all at once, with some filling up faster, but all raising their levels together controlling the flow. Then increase the closing of the dams as needed to hold back more water. This would provide an enormous amount of holding capacity compared to the current so called management plans of today.

[@SuperDeut4]

Now move them all into cities into stack-n-packs. That is after all why "they" do these wicked things to the world.

[@georgehillsdale2429]

Who is "they"? What are stack n packs? Who is doing what to the world?

[@ezgoin4132]

Why so many dams? What happens when we redesign this land. As everything else man does, reconstruct, redesign, or redefine, cosequences.

[@petertsai6899]

Oh my god!

[@Porter5habazz]

Wow 😔🙏🏿

[@kenciolek843]

Go dig in the history picture books , there's bad floods in the 1800 covering downtown Saginaw . 500 year flood is stretching truth it seems. Plus they didn't have hydroelectric dams back then

[@melvinbrown735]

Blaming the devil

[@chunkymunkey9182]

Nah, the devil didnt do it. He only punishes bad people. Devil doesn't cause bad things to happen to people.

[@melvinbrown735]

@@chunkymunkey9182 I say things different meaning the samethang you say Get It 👍

[@jmartin4204]

Naturally when in a flood , usually a boat or a dinghy is the usual mode of transport to get around . Doubt you will be going around in a vehicle , unless a VW Beetle . This is a very terrible flood what happened in Michigan .

[@nuwagabamozes4433]

God is above of all. God is paying

[@alexanderthegreatahmadalto2867]

General Salam God bless his Sol was there working in tank factory

[@kolloduke3341]

IN an ideal world these chemical plants would have flood defences in place to deal with a flood this size ! , and if they dont then they shouldnt be there !!How many times have we heard of simular situations and its ended in pollution problems ..

[@johncole7858]

Look into all things i believe it was on purpose

[@badactor3440]

If you think this is bad, just wait for the imminent magnitude 7.5 temblor coming to southern California later this year.

[@narsesrodriguez2182]

YESSS!

[@margaretjones2055]

where has everyone gone for shelter who is feeding 5hem what emergency services are there or where. yes floods are extreme. I want tinges fron the folks that had to seek shelter somewhere

[@verafritz9281]

Don't take care of your dam?cost to much to maintain? Well you get what you deserve

[@harrylarry4672]

No one is wearing face masks?

[@joespappa]

Looks like Houston everytime it rains.

[@Keerahmendes]

you live in michigan??

[@wanzaitoonwanmohamad835]

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[@marjoriekarrick6721]

The town is Practicing social distancing, that should make the governor happy

[@robertpsotka3525]

they keep saying 500 year flood, there would be no flood if there weren't any dams

[@zabifaqiri4192]

The greatest president of US .... will downplay this matter . Perhaps blame it on governor GW

[@jenniferbrooks2615]

So sorry for these families. It's too bad the governor had to pretty near beg for help from an idiot president who at first told them he wouldn't help them because of the vote by mail.problem.. he must been prodded by his people to change his tune for political reasons bless you people and I offered but was told no more donations were needed. Sorry for all your losses.

[@chuwelson6602]

Virus will spread in the shelter ...

[@aussieopalgirl2915]

Was my thought as well. This Stresssituation lowers immune system. Prayers

[@user-fg8ux8zo6w]

@@aussieopalgirl2915 Prayers no, ML-Maoism yes

[@lemonslisterine1862]

Chocolate milk.

[@garrisonjones9340]

I think they call this "The last days" Jesus is coming and he's not pleased!

[@chunkymunkey9182]

Not yet. I have no mark on my forehead.

[@firebird68cougar69]

It's about time.. y is he takin so long?

[@eddievaldi6651]

Scripture took the east coast instead of the west

[@azariahtedford1811]

Dame Dame Dame

[@davidfasano7210]

Help President Trump...we need $$, Sure after I get the sword out of my back...🤨!

[@phyllislandry6401]

Stupid people

[@kenlimon2596]

You should be grateful for gretchun!

[@fracchi43]

Should’ve added more dirt to the dam. The dams should’ve been replaced decades ago. The government has known that but, corona virus.

[@kenlimon2596]

Will be singing kumbaya soon

[@preacher1965]

Michigan... a state who's governor proposed to permanently close all churches. Things that make you say hmmm.

[@user-fg8ux8zo6w]

ok jew

[@johnteter7054]

Because we are in the likeness of god they want us to cover our faces because the demons cant stand looking at gods image,i say if their scared;stay home they just want government checks anyways; dont tread on me because your scared STAY HOME

[@melc925]

Isn’t your supreme democracy and legal establishment supposed to have prevented this man-made disaster, Mike Pompeo and Trumpy?

[@bennytherollinstoner1932]

They lost alot of morels that very sad😯😔

[@dsignerer]

Why are still news talk about the flood? Dont you guys need to pay more fucking attention to HK Freedom issue? XDDDD

[@eddavisonjr8646]

HAS ANYONE SEEN OR HEARD HOW THE MUSSELS MADE OUT...IS WHITMER GORGING ON THE FRESH WATER MUSSELS?

[@eniceflims940]

SAD🙏🦠😷🧤

[@harrygruber2302]

That’s what happens if you have a Democrat Governor who doesn’t care about infrastructure.

[@galejones8720]

Hey, Trump told Governor that he wasn't helping ppl there unless the Covid numbers are lowered, that wasn't nice, many prayers n blessings thanks!!

[@Hmc3912]

I thought they love water and boats what’s the big deal

[@kennyjones5109]

Yahawah ba ha sham Yahawashi is visiting the earth in which he created bringing destruction to the wicked this is what you call a plague bringing the wicked to nought poor that is for those who have understanding ...

[@samuelfloyd5072]

It’s not historic flooding it’s a dam failure. If it’s flooding then no insurance will pay if it’s a dam failure then it someone’s fault. If it’s a company owned dam why was it not maintained. If it was regulations that made the dam owner’s shut down why couldn’t the government maintain the dam that was not productive for a company.

[@harveybeekerthegreysquirre8262]

The money wanted to stay Dry in the Pockets of the Crooked Politicians.

[@tinagossett70]

Think laser beams from above.....yep that will do it!

[@johnrhardin6460]

They can’t even repair their roads in Michigan

[@dcraexon]

It’s sad that government feels the need and greed to take advantage of those citizens like that , The masks are ineffective for viruses and affect peoples mood. The Spanish flu 100 years ago was a plan Demic also the vaccination is what killed millions and those Snake oil salesman it’s all in your local library or online. those who don’t study history tends to repeat it and there is spiritual wickedness in high places let no man deceive you. tell lie vision. Psych Op ,fourth generation warfare , crimes against humanity. 😎

[@nguyenthiauco3505]

Please impeach the governor.

[@upnorth6070]

I agree!

[@upnorth6070]

@Ahmir Ahmir She is an idiot and needs to step down.

[@zabifaqiri4192]

I guess u werent in US to know the facts ...plz keep ur 2 cents to urself

[@jon420]

Take care of business in your own state

[@georgeperez2539]

End of times only room for the rich but glory has yet to come that is God

[@debwoods5834]

Amen George 🙏

[@shirleyhughes1455]

@@debwoods5834 AMEN!!

[@williamswenson5315]

Well, gee golly. She's in a boat. I would have sworn it was a convertible.

[@kerrysmith1899]

I don't have a television, so I only see these types of news reports when I watch them on youtube. I inanity of it is astounding. On site reporters, nod their head and then start talking in a well rehearsed any story monologue. It's all the same, for every story.

[@beastmodejelly8654]

👌

[@comfortablynumb5582]

Whose idea was it to approve a chemical plant in a flood zone

[@felisacortez2951]

Hope for the best go with the flow Bless them lord have mercy upon them. Then to cope with the coronavirus too. In Jesus’s name I Pray that you see all thru thank to those who are stepping out to help n donate n May he grant them comfort good health n strength n courage to move forward. In Jesus’s Christ name we pray amen. This is a eye opener we all going tru something yet when you see n hear about this situation thank the lord for what you have as we see here they lost a lot n now have to find another place n belongings as well.......

[@HeyItsJonny]

"right now we are headed south on Main street" I'm so sorry for laughing. It's crazy because I used to deliver the mail to the Sanford and edenville post offices.

[@alansmlth7989]

......AND THEY WERE IN MIDLAND TAKING A SHORT CUT TO MOUNT PLEASANT!

[@tinagossett70]

Sad this reporter says “the rain”, again he says it was the RAIN!! NO IT WASN’T! He knows how 3, can I say that again??!! THREE DAMS IN ONE STATE BREACH!!!?? Nah, no coincidence there! Seems like this last one was at night, were the other 2 at night? That would be a good time to put a laser beam on a dam and make a hole and no one see it, yah think? Hit the thumbs up if you think so.. And pray Psalms 89 for protection. Praying for you people in Michigan.

[@TheDFM007]

My father used to tell me "I don't care if the house is gorgeous, it's in a low area, you want a house with good run-off and elevation" He also hated "cruise ships, turkey bacon, and 4cylinder front wheel drive vehicles."

[@michaelflemming7851]

🤣🤣🤣

[@coffeeenema6958]

I Like Your Dad

[@sallydorsey1851]

I am so sorry

[@antoniochristian8890]

River saying Michigan don't vote for Trump or else