Minnesota dam still in danger of collapsing after flooding

[@sarcasticnews1195]

1:24 magical floating umbrella

[@bohemethmonkey]

Lol

[@binaryflat]

Technology, isn't it great!

[@liteazwell1913]

😄😄

[@iprospectiprospect1431]

Nothing happened to the dam, the water just went around it.

[@bargdaffy1535]

Let me guess, you are not an Engineer, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@WinthropWarriors]

The dam collapsed. You do realize that the earth around the concrete is part of the dam as well, right? Here's something that will blow your mind -- some dams are even made completely out of earth!

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

The house and land near the river weren't "the dam".

[@bargdaffy1535]

@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 The Dam Failed because it is 114 Years Old and Engineers at that time didn't understand what 18" of Rain could ever happen in the Area. The Water isn't suppossed to overtake the West Abutment of the Dam and start carving through Loose Soil and Sandstone. It is an Infrastructure Failure due to many decades of neglect.

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

@@bargdaffy1535 The diversion occurred because debris from the river washed down and limited flow through the gates. Had nothing to do with the actual age of the dam. The second largest flood in the history of the dam coupled with too many dead trees in the river.

[@BongRipBing]

Nature doesn't give a dam. Nature takes a dam.

[@BongRipBing]

*Exception being Beaver dams. Nature gives those.

[@ghost307]

There is no danger of the dam collapsing. The dam is holding just fine. The dirt next to it is having problems although.

[@WinthropWarriors]

You do realize that the earth around the concrete is part of the dam as well, right? So the dam *has* collapsed. Here's something that will blow your mind -- some dams are even made completely out of earth!

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

No, the dirt was not part of the dam. The dam ended at the abutment which is still somewhat intact.

[@tylerdurden4006]

But now it's not a danger if it collapses when all the water is already gone...😂😂

[@bargdaffy1535]

No, it is not a huge problem and actually it falling would probably help with controlling the erosion.

[@tylerdurden4006]

@bargdaffy1535 lol, I love americans. You start with "no" but use proof why what I said was true in the first place...you do realize that don't you? No? I love the lack of smarts...hilarious all the time...🤣

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

There are more than 350,000,000 of us. You want to try me?

[@anishvarughese3002]

America is deteriorating from inside

[@canufi6my]

Yes, meanwhile America is pumping billions of dollars to countries that hate us!

[@gazoo-pl4nx]

how highs the water mama, 5 feet high and rising

[@mopthermopther]

🎶 nice

[@marumiyuhime]

no new video of the water shamful as a news station

[@kevinpawpadawgmoore8175]

As horrible as event is it could have been avoided but wasn't do to poor maintenance and neglect. Whomever is in charge of the maintenance on the damn dropped the ball so to speak. Most dams throughout the United States have some sort of barrier upstream from the dam to catch and redirect floating debris so that it can be easily removed before it gets near the dam and causes issues. People are saying it is a failure of the dam without a realizing what caused the issue. The intakes were plugged with debris forcing the water to go the route of least resistance which was the overflow Earth spillway which everyone knows will fail. So why didn't this damn have an upstream debris catcher diverter? Why wasn't the debris removed or even attempted to be removed? At the first sign of debris building up I feel had it been addressed and removal started then this collapse may have never happened.

[@nicotti]

In regards to the debris removal question you have: They said in the press conference on tuesday that the county hires an independent contractor to push debris thru the gates when it accumulates. They called that contractor after the debris started accumulating and the contractor said the equipment was 5 hours away. Neither the county nor the contractor were sure that it would have been safe for an operator to use the equipment, given the river discharge, by the time they could get the equipment there.

[@sprengron]

A massive amount of debris was hung up on the bridge just upstream. We had massive amounts of rain (I live seven miles away) and the debris broke loose last Sunday night. Monday morning water was overtopping the dam and it was deemed unsafe to send heavy equipment on the dam to remove the debris.

[@garyforbes8711]

They should blow the dam and get the water to flow back to where it was.

[@LindsayWilson-vj1wc]

That dam is incredible strong. The same cant be said of the rock it was built on.

[@WinthropWarriors]

The dam failed. You do realize that the earth around the concrete is part of the dam as well, right? Here's something that will blow your mind -- some dams are even made completely out of earth!

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

This was not an earthen dam. This was a concrete dam. No part of this dam was dirt.

[@tstahler5420]

That dam is built into the bedrock, it isn't going anywhere without huge amounts of explosives.

[@marumiyuhime]

sandstone is very erodible

[@tstahler5420]

@@marumiyuhime Fortunately the dam isn't anchored in sandstone.

[@marumiyuhime]

@@tstahler5420 yes it is get a geo map buddy. so if you are so smart and have a geoscience degree like me please educate me in the substrate the dam is anchored in. if not go fiddle

[@algeneadams4755]

So what are they doing to fix it?

[@marumiyuhime]

nobody is fixing that its going to be removed

[@CountryAndProud]

Stop with the clickbait about the dam, the river has bypassed it. Its already done for. The bridge however... thats more interesting

[@jeffliles5478]

No need to vacate now the water is 30 feet down now.

[@Illumirage]

You just say "A dam in Minnesota" Why do I have to wait 35 seconds into this video to find out where in Minnesota this is happening? Shouldn't that be the focal point, where exactly it is?

[@allenelswick6961]

The dam it's self is fine what was not fine never in the history of this dam has so much water come down the river from record breaking rain fall. I now see that dam being removed for ever and thousands of tons of rock and soild hauled in to refill all that area that got washed out.

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

New normal...

[@stevegarcia1796]

Looks like another distraction .

[@Robert-qt9lg]

It's all jesse ventura's fault damn that dam 🥴🤪🤡🇨🇳🇪🇭

[@bargdaffy1535]

See the Blue Earth River is angry because We live on a Red Earth now because of Global Warming.

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

Global warming is good for plants.

[@amyharrell251]

The City and State had to know the condition of the Dam and choose not to keep up with repair work thus legal liability.

[@Freese1]

Wonder who going to get the contract.. sucks what happened.. blow it or Rebuild it..

[@cuddles6569]

Too bad they said it's safe again

[@WBS001]

Well, if the water has all run by the dam, then there is no danger of flooding due to dam collapse

[@cuddles6569]

@@WBS001 they took the Levi down in Mankato today,,,its about 5 blocks from my house.

[@ryancarlson5644]

Yep. Fix it!

[@mokeysamo3528]

This is why you breed Beavers and get Beaver dams , they have the technology ffs

[@semperfi6801]

Olivia Calmes eyes. Wow. No offense meant.

[@liteazwell1913]

You are right about that.

[@HotTopic-u1m]

Stand closer so we can see

[@binaryflat]

The book of Revelation is our new normal. It is a playbook.

[@nicotti]

Pretty sure destroying everything with a flood was Genesis.

[@BrentButner-bm7zr]

Minnesota has voted Demonrat since 1972!! And they don't even know that God is in control of the weather!! They believe my car is the weather man. Global warming climate change 😂😂😂

[@roryteal5940]

Climate Engineering from the likes of the Pentagon and Evil Entities with names like Bill Gates are causing threats to biological and spiritual life

[@binaryflat]

@@roryteal5940 Hover over the target and youtoobey will remove your comment.

[@donkeykong758]

What? Are you okay? 'Cause you sound nuts. 🤪

[@boddysurfer]

You believe in feelings instead of facts and that shows your ignorance. Whats appalling is that you show zero remorse for the people that have lost everything. What's embarrassing is that in your deranged mind this is somehow political. You are an embarrassment to America.

[@BrentButner-bm7zr]

@@binaryflat 😂😂😂

[@mariagamboa6249]

😮🙏🏻

[@rnvrnv354]

Well, that would help in the process of demolition!

[@Clearanceman2]

Thanks, but can't fox afford a good camera?

[@amef15]

It would not have collapsed if they had called it a Holy instead of a Damn.

[@nicotti]

But all the holies in it were clogged with trees ...and that's why it failed.

[@pamparker7319]

R U N 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧