The Midwest’s Destroyed Infrastructure Will Fail Again Unless It Gets A Major Overhaul (HBO)

Along the Midwest’s big rivers, hundreds of miles of levees protect people and property. But when water surged into the Missouri River last month, the levees crumbled - exposing an ageing, insufficient flood protection system. And with heavy rain expected until the end of May, more flooding is due.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been scrambling to patch the broken levees before the rivers rise again - but gaping holes are still unfilled. Right now, the Army Corps isn’t sure if it will attempt to repair the broken levees, or look to develop new flood control systems entirely.
Last months floods were the most intense the Army Corps has ever seen in the midwest. "It's immense," Bret Budd, Army Corps Chief of Omaha District Systems Restoration Team, told VICE News. "The word that keeps going in my mind, the adjective I use, is that it's biblical. It's a biblical flood for us. It is going to tax the resources of everybody around. We have over 500 miles of levee to provide to reduce the risk of flooding. Of those 500 miles we had over 50 breaches."
In 1936 Congress assigned the task of flood flood protection on to the Army Corps of Engineers. It built levees, dikes and dams along thousands of miles of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The levees stopped flooding, but made the rivers straighter, deeper, and more powerful -- which contributed to a 20% increase in the risk of a 100-year flood.
So building higher barriers as climate change intensifies rainfall, could make future flooding worse.
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[@Calyx]

Drove my 'Chevy to the levee but the levee was completely destroyed.

[@HeinzGudarian]

🤣😣

[@wewuzvikangz4829]

😂

[@scottbc31h22]

If it keeps on rainin', the levee's gonna break. And when the levee breaks, I've no place to stay. Mean ol' levee, taught me to weep and moan. It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home.

[@emiltrees]

Don Mclean wrote those words about a Bar called the Levy, not Levee. Just to let you know. Drove my Chevy to the Levy but the Levy was Dry. Get it? And good ol boys drinking Whiskey and Rye.

[@starcrib]

excellent.. in trumps American.. hHahahah. Fat Chance- keep voting the fascist Republicans, remember its all just a Chinese Hoax. #humanhabitloss #abruptclimatechange #yougetwhatyouvotefor #theuninhabitalearth #davidwallacewells

[@saltywolfgaming2353]

I live in Iowa, it's a swing state so i don't see it as one parties fault over the other. It's a corruption issue. For example, I refuse to buy a fishing license because they keep raising the cost and simultaneously cutting the parks budget. Money does not go to were they say it does. Our taxes go into someone's pocket.

[@HeinzGudarian]

Exactly truth👏

[@mrsmucha]

Maybe because your Senator Chuck Grassley wastes his time. A staffer for a committee led by Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley in 2016 worked to unearth emails deleted by Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate, according to the special counsel report released this week to the public.

[@Some_guy100]

Alaric but it’s not their fault. The army corps built levees to withstand floods from 50 years not what we’re getting nowadays.

[@kdilli6426]

@Alaric You're an idiot. Do not blame the Army Corp. They can only do what's within their budget. Which has not increased in years, even though the amount of work they must accomplish increases 10fold.

[@kdilli6426]

@Alaric Such as?

[@edwin0404]

But rich people need tax cuts 😂😂😂

[@SirLotzz]

Gotta build wall so Mexicans don't go to California.

[@edduanchavez3346]

Lotzz what’s the got to do with the Midwest and it’s flooding issue?

[@fredfrond6148]

Treasper Killa it is what republicans want to spend money on. Instead of the infrastructure that the people that voted the GOP in need.

[@tomspizzirri4574]

Ya. Cause we're all gonna need helicopters to get around.

[@seahog1911]

Housing and feeding hundreds of thousands of illegals cost a lot of doe🤷‍♂️

[@Yugetubes]

Don't fight mother nature. Let it go. Just move out of the flood prone zone.

[@Channel084]

How is this not a national emergency? Why is it getting so few coverage?

[@mashamitchell9574]

Because there are emergencies happening everywhere.

[@RotchildFrancoisJr]

People love to hate on Vice News but this is the only place where I see stories like this being reported. All the main channels are U.S Politics 24/7

[@pizzulo81]

Because of the Russian collusion investigation they've been covering instead. I would like to see all the so called "environmentalists" that are news reporters explain why they are not concerned with the biggest agricultural disaster in American history? This is bigger than Katrina. It's at $3 billion in damages so far, and that doesn't include future losses from the years it will take for the farms to be operational again.

[@krnpowr]

Instead, Trump issues a national emergency as a hissy fit because he can't get funding for his wall; later that day he heads to one of his golf courses to play a round of golf. Sad times we live in.

[@londyn9314]

They did report on the initial disaster and rainfall but after most of the stroms went through they stoppef

[@temporarymomentary]

When do people realize that the government doesn't give a damn about poor people? They don't care about you.

[@savedbychristsavedbygrace2049]

@Armed and Accurate NO FEAR Actually money and power is all they care for. Not trolling they are evil and thank you for pointing it out.

[@timahlf694]

Getting money for anything in this country outside of the military and giving more money to the rich i think is a thing of the past.

[@Moose803]

I want free college and health care and universal basic income. Please I deserve it

[@chssechen7597]

America could fund and solved a lot of its issues for example infrastructure if it didn't waste money on war,tax cut,subsidies for companies and etc.

[@krnpowr]

"war,tax cut,subsidies for companies" That's the mantra and slogan for the GOP. But their constituents: poor and working-class whites, keep voting them into office, so it's hard to feel sorry for the GOP base.

[@mps28]

krnpowr and also illegal immigration..

[@FirewarriorStudios]

For the record, most of those expenses pale in comparison to what we spend on an inefficient and outdated medicaid and medicare system. Plus most of those "expenses" create jobs and grow the economy Though illegal immigration is a huge expense, especially along the border

[@mrsmucha]

That is the truth.

[@olegkosygin2993]

Ironic how this farmer grows heavily subsidized corn and soybeans.

[@gamergrey7436]

U.S. Citizens: Our infrastructure is falling apart, our water sources are being polluted, and our average income isn't enough to sustain the average family, please help! Politicians: Right. We hear you loud and clear! Increase the military budget, we need more weapons. Oh and give Corporations a tax break. U.S. Citizens: *Surprise Pikachu Face*

[@tonytyler6390]

then donate more of your money... let me know how that works out ..

[@gamergrey7436]

@@tonytyler6390 I don't understand your reply...

[@kevinc9065]

Not a fan of all the Green New deal junk, but they are on point with this issue and are the most likely to do something about it.

[@dustinhiggins710]

People blame politics. I blame YOU, and ME. The people. We let this happen. We can't blame politicians. No one stopped driving their car. No one stopped buying plastic manufactured items that destroy the atmosphere when produced. You are the problem. These prices and problems are from all humans. Not the government. We have protections and powers to over throw our government if we're unsatisfied. People have been un happy for years. No change. All people do is complain on social media. Less than 1% of the people probably go protest or rally for change. You probably do nothing but vote and think you're helping out. 😂😔

[@fluffycakes527]

Gamer Grey aka republicans

[@merlinthebikewizard4392]

You cannot stop a river from flooding. If you build it levee, it will just send water down river. And just remember the song isn't called "If the Levee Breaks."

[@mn_0554]

The richest economy in the world can’t afford to build proper infrastructure but can afford a trillion dollar a year military budget

[@LegendNinja41]

it's for ''Defence'' (=

[@kdilli6426]

lol I'm thinking the same thing man. Isn't that fucked

[@Drskopf]

Take 1% of the so call "defense" budget and you'll have enough to boost infrastructure and the economy ..

[@ben8718]

@@Drskopf it was called war department headed by secretary of war, before they changed name to defence department in 1947, as we all know they have done nothing remotely defensive ever since, can't even defend the capital from cosplayers, but ofc can kill some farmers in middle east, war on terror by creating more terrorist than ever before, and wastes trillions with no tangible benefits we can see.

[@Drskopf]

@@ben8718 I'm sure that ridicule amount of money (budget) destined to the military is prob to finance ultra secret blk projects that won't benefit(of course) the common Joe.

[@德艺双馨比利周]

well global warming is still not real cuz the water is cold edit：this is a joke chill，and the guy did say when he was young，there werent much rain，so its not just infrastructure

[@astrum097]

@Kazoushi r/whoosh

[@wompwomp9904]

Its not really global warming its the lack of infrastructure.

[@bvh431]

@Kazoushi wooooooooooosh

[@Jamdouglass]

this guys joking chill

[@HeinzGudarian]

👍

[@Crismodin]

My house was underwater? No problem honey, let's rebuild in the same exact place again.

[@LK-pc4sq]

Just plop a floating home on the same spot!

[@rosshoyt2030]

It’s almost like.... the climate is changing?? Who would have ever expected this 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@Observer-cp4if]

LOL! Yeah, just the overwhelming majority of the people who spend decades of their lives studying the climate.

[@rosshoyt2030]

@Dragon1717 Not at the current rate of fast change over decades. Not sure how you missed that part....

[@rosshoyt2030]

@Dragon1717 Wrong - previously slow climate shifts are exponentially speed up exponentially and will cause 100's of millions of refugees this century. The earth is changing forever via runaway greenhouse effect. Learn some science.

[@mixmasterdevin]

The American dream. Alive and well

[@Bruh-jr2ep]

Hang in there buddy, I hope all the best for America❤ It saddens me that US was this place to dreams come true 100 years ago and many Finns escaped our horrendous situation to The States. And now USA looks more and more like 3rd world country. These infrastructure problems shouldn't happen in the Western world😓

[@BLUEGENE13]

people that think the american dream is dead are so narrow minded it's amazing, 70 years ago there were two world wars, and 2 atomic bombs were dropped, huge swaths of the world were under strict communist rule, nazism, facism, the spanish flu, polio, vietnam war. Other generations had a totally shit time too, probably MUCH MUCH worse (almost certainly much much worse) The american dream is doing fine

[@Bruh-jr2ep]

@@BLUEGENE13 Yeah but atleast middle class was strong until neoliberals took control of the government in the 1970's. JFK was the last president who cared about ordinary americans. After that it has been all downhill: middle class has shrunken, wages haven't rised but prices have, education system has gone down, privatization of the jails is problem and on and on and on... America is not the same it uses to be. American dream is now in the Nordic countries.

[@BLUEGENE13]

@@Bruh-jr2ep before about 1950, the middle class was shit too, you're looking at too narrow a frame of history.

[@Bruh-jr2ep]

@@BLUEGENE13 It was better compared to this day. Also poor wasn't so poor and rich wasn't so rich.

[@dlconstruction5255]

Time for change people 🙅🏽‍♂️ The storms will come harder faster and stronger every year this will not stop. All the people that say global warming does not exist will feel really lame in the next few years. The droughts the heat it will come on hotter every year stick around longer dry up everything. Then the rains will come on stronger faster and for short periods of times microburst. With the dry weather right before the rain water will have no place to go but slide along the top of the dry baron ground that does not allow moisture to soak into it. Which will cause flash floods witch will destroy infrastructure. We see this happening all over the planet open your eyes wake up stop living in denial. Good luck people 💪🏼🔨

[@colourmered6800]

Are you sure this is caused by "global warming"? Many citizens and scientists believe that the global warming narrative is a hoax, intended to manipulate and maneuver people into compliance. It is most likely that these torrential rainstorms, and levee fails, were engineered by the evils that own/control us. Research geoengineering, if you haven't already.

[@john.harrison]

​@@colourmered6800 Larry at the gas station might think global warming is a hoax but 97% of climate scientists agree its real and driven by human activity and the remaining 3% consist of 2% think its real but not human driven only 1% think we need more data only scientist in irrelevant fields like pure mathematics bye in to the conservative nonsense. by the way research the Irish Potato Famine no its not about climate change but the parallels of how conservative spun conspiracy theory's to justify doing nothing letting farmers get screwed and die in massive numbers is amazing. here some videos on the subject that should be simple enough for you to understand. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXLRhWVnrayXic0

[@colourmered6800]

@@@john.harrison....lol. Not sure who Larry is......but I do know one big difference between you and me.....I've researched both sides of this issue. ;)

[@john.harrison]

@@colourmered6800 yes yes you have done "research" aka googling shit. not going out into the field collecting data not attaining a fundamental understanding of the physics involved not dealing with the ever increasing effects of it on the national infrastructure. you look up some stuff on the internet to confirm what you already believed then look up a few other side sources like NASA, American Institute of Physics, the US army core of engineers and the said *Hmm yep I'm smarter then all of them nope climate change is not real i looked up shit on the internet!* ;)

[@colourmered6800]

@@@john.harrison a) no self respecting researcher uses google b) are you aware that NASA researchers admit adding fake inches to sea level rises to boost their false "global warming" narrative? Credibility rating = zero. And the US Army core of engineers I consider a "source" of propaganda, not information.

[@aperson2730]

This channel is awesome. The reporters are young but come across as mature in their mind-set and sincere in their questioning. 👍👏🙂

[@oct28th1985]

This really puts my towns problems in to perspective. These people are in my thoughts and prayers and have my support. Unfortunately I'm not wealthy so my vote doesn't count for much these days.

[@patmcbride9853]

Levees are almost always built too close to the water. Rivers need room to safely flood.

[@blakeb4583]

People's livelihoods were ruined, someone needs to answer. Living in Kansas, the shear amount of people who make their money in agriculture is what keeps the economy together. The state owes relief to these farmers and property owners.

[@DiegoAlvarez-lf8us]

"If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay."

[@tcrstowing555]

Trump would suggest that Mexico pay for a new levee

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

Problem is, it was the Mexicans that stole the levee....

[@Thunderchief-rt3gt]

@@tsubadaikhan6332 It was probably cheap illegal labor that built the fucking levee. WOMP WOMP!

[@frankblangeard8865]

When you build a levee to keep water out you are sending the water downstream for someone else to deal with. Sometimes that bites you in the ass. As it should.

[@rgsxyz1105]

Building/Farming in a flood plain doesn't help....that's why they call it flood plain.

[@frankblangeard8865]

@@rgsxyz1105 Farming without building a levee is OK. The Egyptians along the NIle relied on the farmland flooding to deposit fertile soil. It is when you try to exclude the river from the floodplain that the trouble starts.

[@PatrickBaptist]

Yeah and over in north east TN we have been getting more flooding that we usually ever see. I live in a RV park and the water was up in the step well of my rig and the owners of the park said the water had never gotten that high before.

[@CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq]

For those with an attention span longer than a KZbin video, may I recommend the book Rising Tide by John Barry. It explains the history and consequences of this whole situation.

[@yinan02]

This is a great example of how the U.S. government just focuses on short-term answers.

[@jebbo-c1l]

Give the river some room to flood on its plain. Building levies in one place pushes the problem downstream.

[@greywolf845]

...This is a consequence of local governments not having the tax dollars to deal with problems like this one.

[@ReignCharger]

Gonna have to give you a big faking N O P E. Army corps of engineers handles this shit, did you miss the video??

[@Columbakin]

Levees can actually do more harm than good

[@kalmorning]

You need large wet lands where you direct flooding waters and enough spaces between levees and river to handle high voloume of water in the time of flood. Don't build levees at the edge of river to use some lands along the river. They will eventually all fall under the pressure of flood.

[@lukefurey1402]

Ay, I live in Illinois and my governor is corrupt.

[@anthonyroberts2678]

Get rid of Chicago, and illinois will recover quick!!!

[@someguy8427]

It's less the governor and more so the house/lawmakers fault for not directing the money in the right direction, sure pritzker is under some of the blame but it's mostly lawmakers that don't do anything right. Pritzker is just the skapegoat in this.

[@r.pres.4121]

I live in New York and my Governor is corrupt as well.

[@sammyclark838]

I live in Wisconsin... This hits way to close to home...

[@gijs_k3737]

Ask the Dutch for advice. If somebody in the world knows anything about water management, it's them. Oh wait...the GOP does not like to invest into anything to prevent something like this from happening. They rather keep rebuilding things.

[@ajx9747]

What's a Dutch?

[@coolbreeze5916]

Why would you stick your finger in a dike? Tony Montana 1983

[@gijs_k3737]

@@ajx9747 The citizens of the Netherlands maybe?

[@ajx9747]

@@gijs_k3737 I see

[@krnpowr]

It doesn't matter what type of expertise we get. The GOP just gave $1.5 trillion in give aways to corporations and billionaires and just increased the military budget, so there's no money for instrastructure. They're even doing their best to shrink entitlement programs like social security and medicare.

[@timothygordon958]

There's a levee 2 blocks from my house and compared to the one in the video the broken levee looks 20 years overdue for renewal

[@robertsimoneau5232]

Good general reporting but no comparative analysis to the massive flood of 1993. Much work was done to try to control flooding. A few words about what worked and did not work would help people understand what to do for the next coming flood. One solution is to increase wetlands which act as sponges to absorb water. When levees fail they can only make matters. Another point that is never brought up is the the sediment is rich with nutrients and makes for good farming after flooding.

[@emptyshirt]

Rivers are dynamic things. Keeping flood water out of one place just means more floodwater for the rest of the floodplain. Spending millions of dollars to protect a few small houses and some field crops is not worth it. Hundreds of miles of levee don't need to be rebuilt.

[@Shredxcam22]

A lot of the problem is caused by building the levees in the first place.

[@Yugetubes]

Government failure creates the "NEED" for more government.

[@erikscross3969]

Silent weapons for quiet wars. Look that up on YT

[@Lauwergames]

Should let the dutch build the dams

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

They're too busy finger banging lesbians...

[@justinakers3196]

When the levee breaks, somethings got to give

[@robt400]

BUT DA GWEEN NU DEEO GONNA TAK AWAI MUH HAMBUGERS AND MALKSHIKES

[@daffiestsoup5554]

Wouldn't this constitute as a national emergency?

[@krnpowr]

Instead, Trump issues a national emergency as a hissy fit because he can't get funding for his wall; later that day he heads to one of his golf courses to play a round of golf. Sad times we live in.

[@kdilli6426]

It was turned into a national emergency. All that means is they can receive federal reimbursement from FEMA for a large majority of expenses.

[@Snarfindorf]

I'm sure the free market will fix this

[@andrewenriquez3138]

Luckily it's not a socialist government otherwise they wouldn't have the money to fix it! Loo

[@Snarfindorf]

@@andrewenriquez3138 Socialist governments raise taxes to fund things. Free markets raise prices to fund their yachts.

[@raulmcgangbang6890]

@@andrewenriquez3138 The free market obviously failed this community you ignoramus.

[@krnpowr]

@@andrewenriquez3138 Tell that to the people of Europe and East Asia who have socialistic governments, but have sound infrastructure, solid affordable healthcare, sound economies, safe cities, and governments that aren't in any more debt than the U.S.

[@andrewenriquez3138]

@@raulmcgangbang6890 no the government failed them. What makes you think paying the government more will get your shit fixed?

[@majortroll1417]

Every year it gets worse ... but he still lives there.

[@evilotto9200]

It's important to keep up on those insurance premiums

[@rem145]

It’s unfortunate that congress did not manage budgets well the last 50 or so years to the point there’s going to be a major impact to the financial system to start over. You need to be set up for emergencies like this that are impossible to predict

[@shaia9427]

Americas greed is cannibalising itself yet most these ordinary Americans have people have been made to think any kind of socialism leads to communism. When it is literally reason like this why having a social construct is soo important.

[@kevinzhu6417]

these are the problems affecting real americans. all the sensationalization of politics has taken attention from more immediate issues within our communities imo.

[@iconoclaster674]

Bring in the Dutch engineers!!

[@boondocker7964]

Can it hurt? They must have some insight worth listening to.

[@iconoclaster674]

Boondocker No sarcasm intended; I’m Dutch and owe a dry, floodless childhood to our engineers ;)

[@thesmartonepoint0]

This is a weirdly specific comment

[@iconoclaster674]

kawaii42 The Dutch have a lot to teach the world in the management of climate change.. Much our land has been “poldered” for centuries (land below sea level) so we’re uniquely placed to deal with sea level rises and river volume expansion

[@thesmartonepoint0]

@@iconoclaster674 Well it's just that this is the second comment I've seen mention "The Dutch" as an entire people referenced. Great engineers are in every country. The Netherlands aren't unique.

[@matrixman8582]

Either make the region more productive to pay for the levy or get rid of the levy and allow nature to reclaim the land.

[@MikeCraft28]

Why not stop the flow of the Mississippi River and then drain all the ocean water and build a huge wall all around California and put all the water there

[@danielweiss3810]

So now they need the federal government?

[@olavsantiago]

All the levees should be removed and the rivers returned to a natural state

[@AndiDuck]

The U.S. has neglected it's failing infrastructures like a slumlord .

[@whitesborowillis]

Yea and those damn temporary fiwes turn into permanent fixes. It is 2019 and we still making levees out of dirt smh is there not any other type of levee system out there???

[@crossedlightning1]

these farmers grow our food....what are we going to do without them?

[@TheWizardGamez]

I saw the sad images of the damaged grain, I'm sorry. a broken grain bin sucks

[@thechad6218]

Give them the Puerto Rico treatment

[@amosjsoma]

The ultimate solution is to remove the levies and allow the river to flood and recede naturally. A fact of life is that if you live in a flood plain, you can expect to be flooded sooner or later.

[@ULIEINTOME]

I took a trip in April down south thru Illinois Missouri Arkansas Mississippi... The Mississippi River has devastated everything around it... Its was truly sad to see peoples whole lives under water... and towards the end of the trip we got caught in that rash of tornados 🌪 that went across southern US... a tornado came directly over our vehicle in Vicksburg, Ms... we werent there 40minutes when it happened... got back home to northwest indiana about 2 miles off Lake Michigan and there was 2 inches of snow on the ground and its been raining ever since... almost 3 months ago... we’re witnessing the earth’s atmosphere rapidly changing and all the dumb ass news shows is violence and the bullshit politics... truly a very very sad time to be living in and its only going to get worse... this is what happens when you alter the whole harmony of a planet 🌎 that was perfectly set up for you already... Power & money will end our existence as we know it sooner than anyone can comprehend... just look at the worlds weather forecast... Wake up humans

[@AverageMonday]

Bro keep the government out of my life (even though 99% of my interactions with government are getting services from government)

[@scottbc31h22]

...He says while paying for his groceries with food stamps.

[@bettyemachetetmi5005]

@@scottbc31h22 Well I guess he falls under the "If I admit I know it, it's not as much of a transgression.. " So I guess I am just supposed to applaud as my own paychecks are fingerfucked to get him his entitlement allowance....? There's no shame in being on assistance when you need it, but you don't have to flaunt it. The great American buttcheek generatiion...

[@ayeyaeye]

when someone says "never" they are believing or perpetuating a static lie.

[@syfyrytr1652]

Why is the land rich to grow in? Because the river flooded and brought nutrients to the land over millennia. Mountains provide nutrients for these rivers and flood plains. Why are so many people flooded out? Low, flood plain land, is flat, easy to build on and cheap to buy. It historically floods. Why are water levels so high? Levees have channeled water thereby making it flow faster and higher within the levee banks. Solutions: setback levees, yes, but they must encompass huge swaths of land that was once flooded regularly, naturally, replenishing soil with nutrients stripped from upstream. Towns and buildings need be on hills. Look at the really old farms and you'll see they were almost always on high ground. Folks want to build where it's cheap and then get insurance payment when their short term poor location choice is ruined. Only the really hard choices make any real sense for the long term. No one wants the hard choice. Only easy choice. Sympathies to those affected. Peace. (PS: How about a WAR on Entropy?)

Hell, that's just levies. That's not counting our roads, bridges, etc.

[@CosmosGwelf]

Feels like this would be a third-world country kinda issue

[@timothywight4442]

Maybe there's to many levees.

[@ghosttargets9288]

Welcome to Illinois. At least the state workers pensions and politicians are stable.

[@Some_guy100]

They should build a new levee and have the river pay for it!

[@uprightape100]

Repeated flooding is gravity's way of telling you to move.

[@klardfarkus3891]

Short sightedness and intellectual failures cause most of our problems. They should have understood the scope of the situation better at the start. Then a functional system could have been put in place.

[@atriciacannon4579]

Binary Star headed for a flyby, crutal pole shift, New Madrid fault , big waves a coming. Food costs thru the roof, starvation etc. Prepare to meet your maker.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Hire the Dutch, they know how to build levees.

[@gerrynightingale9045]

*W+L= solve for 'x'...only in this instance, 'X' keeps getting LARGER*I'm failing to see how sequestering water from unimaginable rain-storms is going to work with what essentially are 'dirt embankments' and coffer-dams.* The only real solution is the obvious one...we're going to have to build massive amounts of culverts in every area effected that run to major tributaries and actual rivers, and that presents still more problems when normal causeways of water are 'over-loaded' far faster than normal due to the interventions* ( I live along the Ohio in S. Illinois...and right now the river is *STILL* at 'flood-stage' after two-months! It's 'normal' for the Ohio to flood at 'choke-points' & 'narrows' every year...but the event durations are lasting far longer than they used to! ) *When the Ohio is 'running high'...it will destroy anything in it's path...even concrete'blocks/squares/and panels' are useless, as are sandbags* (Those items 'work' against 'standing' or 'slow-rise' water...but against a River itself? ) *NO*

[@danforster6525]

as Led Zeppelin says "if it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break"

[@Nuurdin]

they could have used the billions tax payers money they used for war in middle east Iraq Libya Afghanistan Yemen now Venezuela regime change in process

[@patricklinsley3676]

*Trillions

[@irvgeezy]

Damn, I didn’t know it was THAT bad.

[@kdilli6426]

Yes, it was really really bad. And it occurred right where the majority of our food grows. Scary shit. I'm not sure why it didn't get more media coverage. This will impact all of us in some way.

[@gentilejoshsaved1646]

"We will never see that again" Hehe I know we need farming to a point but come on, there's gotta be a better answer.

[@jeffhanson6844]

I'm sure he'll get a bailout and have great new topsoil

[@helpmenow7]

Can’t even fix my road. It’s a disgrace

[@enrique88005]

Find some way to divert the water west, pipelines or something. It can and needs to be done

[@cmorse813]

That was fremont county not Montgomery

[@shawntravelstheworld911]

Dredge the rivers.

[@ttmallard]

Earthen levees are bad yet to de-energize a flooding river the low terraces, fields, took away volume where geography allowed. Get going on the Mayan dig•and•raise using channel dirt to raise fields to drain above the new flood volume with channels sized to equal that volume instead of miles of levees. The hydraulic concept an ordered delta, entries & exits cladded against flow erosion. Totally beef town levees, new bridges for roads to be usable even if raising miles, also channel digs. Local banks just sign the loans or there is no local economy soon, it's a debt economy after all.

[@ijvo1951]

The US needs a New Deal for Infrastructure, many roads and bridges need work around the country.

[@yo9758]

Building levees makes floods worse get ride of them so the rivers can flood naturally

[@juanfernandez1696]

Taxes lots and lots of taxes. Go ahead vote Republican again I dare you.

[@chaosXP3RT]

The Democrats will just raise Taxed and ban guns. Not voting Democrat. Sorry

[@MrDavidBFoster]

But mousey, thy are not alone in proving foresight may be vain. The best laid schemes o' mice and men are oft laid waste, and leave us nought but grief and pain for promised joy.

[@oswaldo9127]

No wonder housing in dirt cheap in the Midwest. No thank you! I'll stay in the south. So much betta y'all.

[@ECsponger2]

What's more important : building border walls to keep people out of the country, or building walls to protect the people of this country?

[@Naber_Dan]

It will happen again and again because what you're seeing is not what's happening.

[@BookofFuture]

Is it infrastructure week?

[@jonathanpalmer228]

How about this, do as the Australians do and force people who want to live in the middle of no where to adapt

[@amolkhobaragade]

That's why America needs #Bernie2020 !

[@pikminlord343]

so sad to see

[@maybebrown5374]

This guy looks like santorin from flyquest...

[@MRTN13]

Because building proper infrastructure in any way is a government job. But then again.... _SOCIALISM_

[@FuKYuClown]

Listen to all the comments blaming the rich for their poor choices in life! Work 100 hours or more a week like they do and you will come out of poverty and if you have time to complain on youtube about your poverty then you should be working to get yourself out of poverty! Life is harder so that means work harder and stop complaining......Grow a garden to subsidize your food prices, eat healthy to subsidize your healthcare, get a job and work hard and if you got time to complain you got time to work and earn money. Stop being brainwashed and rethink your attitude and thought process we are not a group think society nor will we ever be. I've come to the conclusion that there always has to be a Boogieman in every cause and the first Boogeyman was Satan and look how many Boogeymen we have now. The media is not your friend, the Government is not your friend....Focus on your life and your family and the key to getting out of poverty is working harder and working smarter.

[@krenee8640]

Al Bielik’s future map is coming true 😳

[@felixelgato1594]

All they need are bootstraps.

[@wewuzvikangz4829]

Maybe congress should get off its ass and pass that infrastructure bill already

[@tonyxthextigre]

I hope zero dollars from out of state taxpayers goes to help these people. Let these people be responsible for the politicians theyve chosen.

[@kenjackson6256]

OMG, those flood waters are brown! Has anyone told tRump he needs to build a wall along the Missouri River to keep that brown stuff on their side...?