Side of Minnesota's Rapidan Dam eroded by raging floodwaters

Raging floodwaters continues to erode the west side of Minnesota's Rapidan Dam, causing a house to partially collapse into the Blue Earth River. CBS News Minnesota has more.
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[@argentum530]

Task Error: Failure of the dam operators to remove debris that blocked the spillway gates. This led to the river forcing water around the shoulder of the dam and the subsequent erosion of riverbanks. Gross negligence and failure of oversight by State and local authorities.

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

The dam structure may stand, but complete failure is not imminent, it is history. The flow around the dam is cutting its own river channel as we watch on TV. Nothing can stop it now

[@andreacalkins5189]

Uh, the dam has failed. Once the scouring took place the breach began. There's no power house. If it were my decision, I'd leave the remaining dam structure to help protect the left side of the embankment from being washed away. The house and business is a loss, no stopping water, mother nature always wins. I've watched this same clip a 100 times on other channels. I hope they were insured.

[@smg3253]

I saw a report/interview with the family that owned the house and the store. They had accepted that they were going to lose their house, but were hoping and praying they didn’t lose their store which is their livelihood. 😢🙏

[@donjones4719]

"If there's too much rain where will the water go?" Wherever it wants to.

[@donjones4719]

@@matthewmoore7447 Yeah, yeah. Wherever the force of gravity and the local ground contours and soil consistency, etc, makes it go. Or I should say, this all results in the water flowing somewhere. "Makes" implies a decision. And yup, gravity is always a downer. :)

[@frankrizzoa1275]

What a dam failure. Dam shame.

[@fsp394]

so sorry to see that. best wishes for the family

[@thisismyusername6717]

The dam is actually causing further erosion now bc the same water has to fit through a smaller space, making it faster.

[@webwhisper2701]

so sorry for all people affected 🥺

[@toastedjoe1013]

Except for that one guy. He knows who he is.

[@lynnmitchell5789]

Be safe folks 🙏🙏

[@VonSteever]

that's sad. I feel badly for those people.

[@seph4667]

Lasted just a mere 150 years. Shoddy construction...

[@zacharycrooks3729]

Water is the strongest element

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Who thought this dam design was a 'good' idea? The dam is way too small for the water flow in that area. Dams need to be designed for overkill when it comes to water releases so that this backup and overwhelming event can't happen to begin with.

[@Chainsnroses]

The river was like dam bro your good I'll just go around.

[@teeetekkr3xx]

Got dam mother nature

[@kellygrant3074]

"And when the levee breaks, I'll have no place to stay"

[@RoosterCogburn2112]

Damn

[@ccross]

Damn!

[@mukfay]

This is a tragedy, but there are similar tragedies happening all over the country. I wish the media would start covering sirius content that affects us all. The imminent collapse of the economy, the unbelievable debt, the unmitigated theft that's going on.

[@dawnhasbroken6304]

That was the dumbest reporting I think I've seen in years.

[@DorcasLandry]

Where is the COE & the big bags they use in hurricanes?

[@cashrjr23]

200 and 300 year floods that the Indians knew about

[@curtisdaniel9294]

Never underestimate the power dihydrogen monoxide!

[@hotrodray6802]

Make it illegal

[@majida70]

Global Warming 😢

[@2Phast4Rocket]

America is broken

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

America’s infrastructure is crumbling just like it’s economy, culture and communities. But USA is the greatest nation on earth 🤣🤣🤣What a joke and a laughingstock to the world.

[@Danny451]

Yes, but we have our GUNS and Jesus. Praise the Lord!

[@hotrodray6802]

Didnt the officials say that the dam was not failing... It was the land along side of it? SEMANTICS ??

[@risa_sh.youtube3244]

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[@brianbirchfield2087]

There had to have been some sort of sinkhole or something that made it that easy to fail, when was it last inspected if at all? Let me make it clear that I in no way am a dam expert.

[@ritaroad]

Infrastructure is eroding everywhere. There are no more inspections. In Chicago you drive through a viaduct and pray it doesn’t come crashing down on you.

[@salsuginusrex5196]

No sinkhole required. This is how rivers work.

[@donwrasse6841]

Hope you got good ad money off someone else's heartache it's only been on tube 5000 times .😮

[@jaraemcknight9721]

Should never have built so close, there's a reason

[@sw-tg6no]

The house has been in the family through multi generations. 100 yrs old. Infrastructure 1 trillion Infrastructure bill could have fixed this.

[@cvlcan]

I’m sure the insurance company that these poor homeowners paid for the last 50 years will say “damn failure” isn’t covered by your policy.

[@theboringchannel2027]

IF they have flood insurance they might be ok.

[@gruntgamer4204]

Threat of a complete breach has diminished? What the hell do you call that stream of water forcing it's way around the dam?

[@PurpleDreki]

Looks like black water to me.

[@pwmoorejr]

River realignment?

[@Kerry-uo6og]

A hiccup?

[@Zetharion1]

I had the same thought lol. Apparently the river redirecting itself around the dam is normal operations.

[@americanpatriot2.06]

If the flooding continues to supply water, that erosion will eventually unearth the foundation of the dam and it will eventually start to break apart from the pressure of the water. That would result in the dam itself failing and allowing the full flow of water downstream. The diversion has relieved some stress on the dam, but the flow is still pushing on the dam. It's just a matter of time before the erosion finishes it off.

[@EnlistedBombin]

Thats a damn strong dam. Water can't get through it so it goes around it.

[@Hello-pl2qe]

The dam store! Seems like a very appropriate name.

[@johnk4396]

I wonder if they sell any dam bait!?

[@teresawommack5148]

I am so sorry for your loss. I two lost my home in Louisiana, due to a Hurricane. I will pray for you and your family. Hugs!!

[@_Ben4810]

I think the consulting engineers who designed & specified the dam & contractor from the past who built really should get some commendations... That is incredible that the structure has remained intact throughout so far...👌

[@chrishaddad5362]

It was built in 1908! It’s a hollow concrete dam which they do t use anymore

[@caddyguy5369]

​@@chrishaddad5362Pretty sure it still powers around 500 to 600 houses or so. Not so sure about at the current point in time, but it is/was in operation.

[@randallmarsh1187]

@@caddyguy5369 Somebody yesterday said that power generation ended several years ago. I believe it had something to do with a prior flood ruining the generators.

[@caddyguy5369]

@@randallmarsh1187 Ahh. My bad.

[@caddyguy5369]

@@randallmarsh1187 I knew it was damaged in previous flooding, but didn't realize it took out the generation. I know it was known to need serious work or removal since the 70s but got patchwork instead.

[@XCBen]

I am gonna say that dam has failed, and it isn't imminent.

[@rtqii]

The abutment failed. The failed abutment actually prevented the dam from collapsing.

[@juneyshu6197]

Its no diff with part dam!

[@gruntgamer4204]

@@rtqii if a dam doesn't do what it was built for, then it has failed. Regardless as to whether the structure itself is intact.

[@SScott-hi7kt]

This is why you put a spill way around a dam. In this case the water made its own. So sorry to the people that lost that beautiful old home.

[@pianobaby-od7mp]

What happened to the trillion $$ infrastructure money?

[@dawnhasbroken6304]

Ukraine looks great...have you seen their cities lately? Gorgeous and new. I"m not kidding.

[@obiwankenoobi4202]

This is what happens when you straighten rivers and move into flood plains.

[@Houston77005]

For decades local authorities have failed to maintain these dams and now their citizens must pay with their homes/lives for that failure.

[@bigpicturethinking5620]

This dam footage is making me nervous!

[@michaelratcliffe7559]

At this point the dam remaining is actually causing the diversion of the river and the erosion of the land and the loss of property. Lawyers might ask if the county or state could have done anything to demolish some of that, now ineffectual, dam to relieve the pressure from the current rushing around it and eroding that bank, the property and to help limit some of the loss.

[@theboringchannel2027]

hmmm, lawsuit from one home/land owner or several thousand suits from home/land owners down stream of the now blown up dam. tough choice for sure.

[@kamalakrsna]

"DAM it!"

[@DRUTLEDGE]

$200 BILLION for Ukraine while our country falls apart

[@BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Don't mess with the power of a River... Looks like the river has found a new path 100% and the Dam is fully bypassed. So Zero load minimal chance of failure

[@bettyvarone4420]

Where is all of this winding up ? What a horrible thing to happen.

[@benjaminsnell3393]

Nature always wins

[@toolwithintention]

So the dam didn’t fail, the road attached to it washed out and the dam was bypassed No different than an spillway Now if that dam fails, the high level of water it’s currently holding will all go down stream

[@steveklick]

Ohh look at all that water erosion that happened in a few days and not a million years!!

[@juneyshu6197]

My stars, youre darn right😂

[@adog21]

Haha spot on!

[@thisismyusername6717]

I saw the first video of it and just said “DAMN” and then busted out laughing at myself

[@Tsinteris]

This is a good metaphor for our country!

[@rufinomorales2910]

You can see the layers from where it ripped off years on years Earth's crust.

[@khalfanihoward1826]

😂😂😂

[@nicolatesla5786]

Okay this is really really cool. If that's sandstone, that means that region was part of a major ocean. Sandstone is compressed ocean sand. It would be fascinating to actually look at the granularity of the Sandstone up close to see if there is any tiny seashells in it?

[@caddyguy5369]

FWIW: "In Minnesota, sandstone and other sedimentary rocks were deposited during the early Paleozoic Era, about 500 million years ago. At that time, Minnesota was near the equator, and shallow seas covered most of the state. Sediment eroded from upland areas was transported to the seashore, and the coarser-grained sediment eventually formed the sandstones seen today in southern Minnesota. Some of these sandstones are so poorly cemented that the grains can be rubbed off with your finger. As the sandstone is eroded, piles of clean quartz sand are formed."

[@nicolatesla5786]

@@caddyguy5369 I a picture did I downloaded from the internet apparently someone took a picture out of a geology book. See what I'm trying to determine the coal deposits in the United States were formed during the Carboniferous period where are the United States was centered over the equator. The Hadley cell circulation Collide over this latitude where the barometric pressure is very low and that's where tropical rainforests are formed by large amounts of precipitation. I probably should ask this in a Facebook geology discussion page. By the way of this flood how many inches in a 24-hour period has come down in this region are you aware that the polar jet stream add the subtropical jet stream are starting to break up or started to break up about 15 years ago they're no longer a continuous ribbon of air and as a result is causing atmospheric blocks there's a lot of strange dangerous events that are occurring with these atmospheric blocks. What is the Omega wrap heat wrap Heatwave. Apparently they're causing more brutal dangerous heat waves that caused the temperature to Skyrocket. One occurred over Fort McMurray Alberta. And that caused the temperature to Skyrocket to 91 degrees Fahrenheit the very dangerous aspect of these very high temperatures over at Forest canopy with low humidity less than 30% humidity it causes the moisture to evaporate out of the tree and the branches very similar to the Christmas tree effect where you don't water the tree for a full month and it becomes a volatile flaming Calderon with flames between 1/2 entire length of the tree. Did that happen to during the April 2016 fire in Fort McMurray. And the reason why these heat waves are occurring more often is because the polar ice sheets are shrinking is causing the polar temperature to increase to the three times. From my understanding is the temperature gradient difference between the Arctic and the equator are shrinking in other words the temperature is coming more in line with each other and that slows down the air exchange the atmospheric air circulation between the Equator and the Arctic. This causes the polar jet stream to slow and it causes really big temperature differences. It's called the temperature departures were the departures are becoming much more extreme than what they should be in the past. So the surface of the Earth is not heating or cooling more evenly but it's becoming more extreme overtime

[@bradb4740]

The little dam that could

[@chiefjoseph8154]

And nobody saw this coming? Must be a Democrat run town.

[@snypa-ck7hn]

dang, this was some terrible luck. you think they could have saved the house, and dam if they had just opened the dam fully? hindsight, i know.

[@chrishaddad5362]

It was fully opened, but because of the heavy rain debris clogged the gates

[@hmong_keeb_kwm]

The dame gate was clogged, and the contractor who was hired and was supposed to come in and unclog it backed out because it was too dangerous. Three days later, this happened.

[@Lestr75]

" it remains in eminent risk of failure" sure looks like it's failed already

[@robertmedina3982]

Is the garden ok?

[@p1dru2art]

Honey that's not sandstone

[@thinkpad4]

Glitchy video

[@ImpossiblyBlack]

I don't know how they are going to restore that abutment to make the dam useful again.

[@DemPilafian]

Ok, you're hired!

[@vinny2195]

Grand Canyon here in just a few moments.

[@sandbridgekid4121]

State and Army Corps of Engineers, failed the citizens of this community.

[@theboringchannel2027]

not really, the local gov didn't want to kick in the 20% of the bill to repair or replace, feds pay 80% which was granted in the new infrastructure bill, Local gov, republican, dragged their feet and did nothing to save $

[@hmong_keeb_kwm]

That dam was built in 1908 and completed in 1910.

[@jcbell-dh1bm]

The dam store may survive but the dam house didnt.

[@hotrodray6802]

Store will be gone in a week

[@joelfarm8497]

Yeah, the top edge is dangerous and once the river calms, grading and sloping will require cutting it back several hundred feet.

[@ReginaRedding]

Even if the river spares that store, it will never be used again. The entire area there is beyond unstable. The erosion will keep happening, especially if it keeps raining uncontrollable amounts!😰🙏🙏🙏

[@theboringchannel2027]

you are correct, and even if the ground is stable enough, that road will be closed for construction vehichles access to do repairs or reconstruction which will take 4-8 years or more. So business is finished in any scenario.

[@christopherg6335]

So sad. I grew up here

[@montanamtngirl]

Heartbreaking. 😢

[@dgs1001]

What happened to Obummer's 1 trillion for infrastructure or Xiden's 1.2 trillion for same? Ya, rhetorical question.

[@startthebengine]

Least of Minnesota’s issues right now.

[@WhitePOWERranger1]

Somalians

[@narimenrhodes-zh7tr]

Next time you want to SHEALD us from reality, make sure your reporters know you're doing that. FLASH!😂

[@gregmkay]

Looks like the State or whoever owns that dam needs to dig into the budget and FULLY compensate the people who lost their homes and the properties that went with the, plus expenses and aggravation.

[@nuknukssafeplace]

Is it me or the barricades ( for stopping traffic ) are NOT in the right areas. If, you look closely. The Police, have barricaded the Highway, the Road where the Convenience Store is: But, what about that "Short-cut" where it looks like a walking Path? However, if you observe ( follow the path ), you will see, that a part of it also, fell into the Water. But, NO Barricade!!

[@caddyguy5369]

That's the Dam Park. I was curious about the building there. In the one drone footage it almost looks like flat charred remains, but I didn't look too in depth.

[@sahkmatow]

⛈️

[@ednalampkin9996]

😮😢😮

[@josephfitzgeraldnsw5794]

Why would they post this? I’m viewing this as of it being posted one hour ago. But yet it’s some video footage from this morning. Why didn’t they post it this morning? Unsubscribe.

[@frederickjeremy]

Lord please spare the dam store, i didnt know about it until yesterday, but i like it now.

[@hardickmcfondle2956]

Hmm.. It sounds like whoever was in charge of the dam is damn out luck when it comes to keeping their job...

[@Honey-Sanchez]

So.........where am I supposed to get my Rolling Rock now?

[@thepharcyde5239]

That's how bidens brain eroded😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davewarrender2056]

Thats what happens with sedimentary rock , very susceptible to erosion

[@fumrious]

Eminent failure?!? It has failed!

[@mayalunics4740]

The Fury of Angry Nature

[@blackpanda7298]

Whoever built that dam on porous limestone is a goof. That dam should’ve never been built there.

[@curtpangracs8684]

Climate alarmists opine in 3...2...1...

[@Gk2003m]

The rapidly eroded Rapidan Dam

[@randycoppola2069]

You had one job, film the house...

[@lutomson3496]

2 of the spillways were closed off years ago and there was no emergencey spillway...there is a complete breach the dam is gone for the most part and it has paid for itself over the decades cheap owners did not take care of it and no emergency spillway

[@AndrewSmith-ir1ui]

Behold. The grand canyon of Minnesota!

[@Bucksighter]

But they still won't remove any of the debris and open the gates...

[@joycemyers8140]

California Texas Minnesota sounds like morher nature is flushing some toilets.

[@PetalPusher-ci4jx]

The path of least resistance.

[@chrisgilbert4232]

Never get the facts straight

[@MrMarklanders]

FEU A VOLONTE.

[@simonnoble2345]

The dam has not collapsed, but it has failed, in as to stop the flow of water. Construct your statements correctly

[@SafdarAli-ow4ij]

Mighty Poseidon in full fury and rage ravishing everything in Minnesota.

[@davidtaurian9006]

Everything?? Minnesotas now history? Pretty sure life will go on here.

[@SafdarAli-ow4ij]

@@davidtaurian9006 wise man, I did not mean that? I meant that whatever the thing comes in the way of the water is being washed away like strong dams and Rocky buildings. Criticism is every man's right, it's just life now. No one can help it!

[@alandaut6093]

Sadly - there is likely no insurance coverage for this.

[@codygocam]

News reports try sooo hard to be dramatic with every word. Its hilarious!

[@phild8095]

Where are the kayakers?