Midland Flood 2020 - Peak of Flood - Drone - 500 Year Flood - Patman Droneography

[@PatmanDroneography]

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[@RonaldBrown59]

A very sad event, but you got some important historical video of it. Great work.

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thank you!

[@aprilmatney3515]

Phenomenal footage! Thank you for sharing, especially for those that are desperately wanting to see how monumental the devastation has been but know we need to keep our distance for our safety and to let rescue workers do their job. Would love to see you take more footage over the coming days and weeks to see the change!

[@PatriciaDarlingOne]

YES PLEASE!

[@PatmanDroneography]

I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure when I will be headed back to Midland.

[@terrybell3095]

This video is amazing for it really shows how devastating things can become for only we can imagine it, but to see it first hand like this breaks your heart knowing so many have lost everything. This couldn't have happened at a worse time for these people for they are facing not only the virus but losing much more. Our Thoughts and Prayers goes out to each and everyone of them.

[@carriekane416]

God, how devistating!! Prayers to all who are affected!!

[@MineisGod]

Why pick on God, the planet seems to be having issues?

[@eatfarts3024]

Lucy Sue according to Christians god made the planet so you do the math fill in the rest with whatever logic you possess.

[@ericrichardson7546]

I'm so saddened by the devastation. Your footage truly shows the unbelievable damage that has happened.

[@jamesfunk4169]

Your work is stellar, in depth and clear.. thank your for this video, it will be viewed as a historical document for generations ..

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thank you James!

[@matthewhingston7866]

So many wonderful memories of fishing with my dad and brothers and my daughter taught her to fish on Sanford lake

[@paulaogdenrealtormetrotoco9592]

Being from Michigan and having lived in Midland - this is so heartbreaking. A complete community devastated, seeing the Tridge underwater and knowing friends who lost homes to this avoidable flood. The dams were built in the mid-1920s and should have been updated/fixed when suggested.

[@bellebellebelle5485]

I am so sorry to hear that about peoples homes and the pain and frustrations they must be feeling. My prayers go out to them. From Nairobi, Kenya.

[@jaychatfield9937]

Paula Ogden the sad part is they knew it was going to happen and had been warning gov whitless for over a year about the need to release the lake pressure. YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP! Whitless Whitler must be stopped at all cost to save our state!

[@ColonelKlink100]

@@jaychatfield9937 Not the governor's fault: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3XLiHqKf9KNj7M

[@jeffsweeney2563]

@@ColonelKlink100 It is ULTIMATELY the Governors fault because she should have SHUT that bridge down and taken the (So called) owners to court and forced them from a public safety stand point. That (IS) her job to use the State Attorney's general office to enforce safety codes for right of way's on public roads and damns that would effect the communities at large. No Mam this lays squarely at the Gov. Desk along with the Local county Commissioner.

[@DyersEve726]

You guys realize Whitmer has been on the job a little over a year. Kinda ridiculous to place all the blame on her. Not like the dams suddenly went bad in the last 18 months. No blame to all the previous governors who completely ignored this for years and years and years?

[@triciam6527]

Very well done. Thank you for this. It is stunning. to behold and much appreciated.

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thank you

[@TechnicalTivah]

Thank you for sharing this all with the world! It's so sad to think this may have been preventable.

[@mad_cat_1st]

I graduated Midland High School in 1984. The joke in college (if you were from Midland) was that we could glow in the dark from the nuclear plant. Bechtel decided to build 2 huge concrete reactors in a swamp and wondered why they sank 16 feet into the ground. Almost bankrupted Consumers Power and raised energy rates for every customer in Michigan. A boondoggle of epic proportions. Now this. I guess you have to make extra effort and planning when you build something in a swamp. When I was in school, the big scare was dioxin in the water from Dow Chemical. Never thought that the TIT would wipe out the whole area. To all of my friends who still live there - STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY. We're praying for you.

[@mjwade5]

Such devastation...so sad for all involved. Very impressive drone footage.

[@timkennelly3611]

Thank you for sharing the footage. Unbelievable amount of damage that isn't going away anytime soon. Glad to see the Tridge still standing, hope it didn't sustain any significant damage. I always thought that was a cool bridge.

[@kevinquarderer3814]

Thanks for sharing

[@agrodavide]

Love from Italy...

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheJansenJournal]

Nature is hardcore...

[@joeoconnell5706]

Unreal. So sad. Thank you for this footage. Anyone else notice the two propane tanks in the debris pile on the inflow side of the Sanford spillway? That's potentially another disaster waiting to happen.

[@loispomranky6814]

Amazing drone footage! Thank you for sharing this with us. It's sad to see the devastation, but a reminder of all we have come through as a community.

[@krinn2485]

Thank you for sharing this amazing footage. The flag flying at half staff at the foot of the bridge left me speechless.

[@TheLiveOutLoudFamily]

So sad! We adore Midland. Thinking of all the people and businesses impacted! ❤️💕

[@jaychatfield9937]

The Live Out Loud Family the sad part is they knew it was going to happen and had been warning gov whitless for over a year about the need to release the lake pressure. YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP! Whitless Whitler must be stopped at all cost to save our state!

[@aronalvord]

Most of the roads shown are less then a year old including that huge reconstruction of M-20. If that washes out or proves structural damage the total loss between this, roads, homes and the dams will not be a manageable number. These losses have ripped my hometown apart and left my neighbors to figure how they get from A to B without this road or that road.. PLEASE, stay strong everyone!

[@debbiecaldwell5501]

:( my heart breaks for all involved

[@Sassifrass7]

Those poor people and animals....so sad.

[@agentorange8530]

Crazy, you can see the original river that used to be there.

[@BurtW546]

It's sad for all you people.Take ❤ care all of you.

[@warcorp]

Excellent footage, this has the feel of the Mavic 2 gimbal. I'm from Mount Pleasant originally and spent many a summer at Sanford Lake.

[@PatmanDroneography]

I am flying the Mavic 2 Pro for this video.

[@FallingStar44]

Heartbreaking

[@richarddrum9970]

This tragedy in Midland and that entire watershed are prime examples of ignoring the warnings issued by qualified engineers that older dams are in need of repair or should be breached in a controlled way. The National Dam Safety program has an extensive listing of “at-risk” dams and levees that should be addressed so that these tragic events are lessened. Funds need to be appropriated to fix these infrastructure problems.

[@dopester77]

devastating

[@vmains2003]

So sad ..... could have been fixed awhile back .... thankful no one got hurt

[@NightTrainFPV]

great flying my friend

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thank you!

[@ernestortenburg968]

Fantastic footage, spent many years in Gladwin, 17 years on Fire Department. Going to be a mess for fire & ambulance services to get around the flooded areas.

[@jfabiano6958]

Your footage is amazing. However, this could have been prevented. AG Nessel forbid them from lowering the water in order to protect the clams. Clams that would be safe anyways. Clams dig down up to several feet to make it through the winter and the drained or lowered basin water as the dam system was designed. The dam isn't a single component. The basin is just as critical as a component to the dam as the dam and dam spillway is. If you don't use (drain to make room for spring rain) the basin properly, that places undue pressure on the dam and spillway which are never designed to handle all the spring water capacity alone without the basin "absorbing" the vast majority of the spring water surge. NEVER FORGET

[@PatriciaDarlingOne]

Thank you. We have tears, chills, at the destruction of such beautiful area. but we needed to know.

[@jeffstock7819]

Excellent footage. Thanks so much! I lived in Midland for 25 years (up until a few years ago), and I will always have a special place in my heart for it. Great place to live. Unfortunately the two houses I lived in while there are probably flooded... :/

[@brickhawaii5661]

totally sad especially with other things going on now

[@billnotice9957]

There is more to Midland then the TRIDGE!!! What about dow gardens? The neighborhoods??

[@katie195]

Get a drone and video what you would like to see. This is great work.

[@johnstonlarry]

Nice work

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thank you Larry!

[@lemurchick1965]

Paradise California destroyed by fire, Midland by flood...... absolutely tragic. :-(

[@suzannehartmann946]

AND there goes THIS years crops

[@NannerDrew]

wow !

[@jimvandemoter6961]

This makes me sick. I know all these places. I remember when the Tridge was being built. My family owned a Dawn Donut shop on Saginaw road next to The Executive House Motel and across from Camps cars from 1963-1977. What really tears me up is this could've been avoided if the dam had been maintained.

[@mad_cat_1st]

Your family owned the Dawn Donuts??? Wow. That's one of the places I really missed when I split Mudville and went to college in 1984. I haven't had a really good donut since....

[@pamelafoye1439]

Great footage. What is the possibility of getting some more such as a week later and the clean up that is in the process, with waters receding?

[@PatmanDroneography]

I'm not sure when I will be heading back to the Midland area. If I do go, I'll make sure to pack my drone :)

[@Sunspot1225.]

Now will we build a safe dam? This was going to happen some day due to the warnng of the weakness of the old dam.

[@lindaschalkofske1485]

Sad to see this. :'(

[@jff3490]

Amazing destruction. Great drone work. What is the music from?

[@PatmanDroneography]

The music is free to use with an Adobe subscription, its from their soundtrack selection.

[@jasperedwards3341]

the new everglades

[@leedenke1900]

Great video! I like narration, even if it's sparse. Or captions. In disaster videos, you can't tell what you're looking at unless you're from there, and if you're from there, you're busy, not watching a video. Something like "the green item is the top of some playground equipment" or "the green item is where Martians landed to take over during the flood" would be informative.

[@leedenke1900]

Do you worry about running out of fuel while you are flying the drone? Thank you for the shots of the bridge from the side. You can see how the piers are lined up with the water direction, with the bridge set on it at an angle. At first I thought the bridge had shifted, but it's straight at the abutments (ends). I believe they put the piers (supports) in line with the current, which likely avoided more damage.

[@PatmanDroneography]

Thank you for the advice! I will keep that in mind for the next video. Thanks for watching!

[@313girl5]

How many square miles were flooded? Very scary, and I feel for these people. I have a cousin who lives here, but luckily her house was safe.

[@dmp9021]

So did the levy or levies fail?

[@richardfowler3753]

This will be another case study taught to civil engineers in future where the fundamentals of hydrogeology are spun out as being fake news on the tables of big business. It's also another classic case from the US (again) of why hollowing out regulations, in this case federal regulators, for the short term benefits of business are always very costly.

[@williamkechkaylo7915]

sorry you are wrong - the governor was warned many times it needed repairs but she vetoed all the funding passed by the house and senate - there ya go

[@kelblueskies3937]

Who was responsible for the maintenance on the dam?

[@mad_cat_1st]

Cheap assholes who hate fishing and water skiing.

[@twithrow2261]

More then one dam is responsible for this mess

[@arsconsulting205]

Have they determined the root cause of the problem?

[@jeffb215]

Oh no the trig troll must have drowned

[@joemcmillan2089]

Edenville Dam Following the federal government's 2018 license revocation, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) took oversight of the dam EGLE determined that the dam was structurally sound.

[@potrykusrdale2799]

That is not the way to autodredge a river.....Hope the families are safe

[@kayspinner]

Is that M-20? I can't really tell...

[@PatmanDroneography]

It is!

[@cmhighway6215]

Not being an a hole. But momma nature had enough of the progress of man. It's a natural thing. I don't think I'd hold my breath to see what this government does to help out the people. I went through it in 08 and only got $28. And a bologna sandwich.

[@jaychatfield9937]

Amazing that the skyline is at eye level and is a perfectly flat level horizon no matter how high the drone goes! I wonder how that's possible since the world is round and the Pythagorean theorem says it curves 7.9" every mile sq. Hmmmmmm lololo

[@hardradaaza]

😢😪😭

[@gcondray]

This is awful. So sad for these people.

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

What's there anyone looting and stealing? Get the guns out.

[@petebike]

Has Trump showed up without a mask, to throw paper towels at you yet?

[@MichaelJohnson-jt5cu]

And the governor is worried about social distancing and planting vegetables in your garden. Oh well.

[@SCCyclingLLC]

Another fair video ruined by crappy music. And I have this sweet drone but let’s only fly it 100 ft off the ground.

[@PatmanDroneography]

Why would I fly any higher? There are plenty of other videos of that footage. You can always turn down the volume too lol. Haters gonna hate I guess.

[@susantanis1543]

Is what happens when man messes with mother nature. Leave things alone!