UPDATE Dams fail Edenville, Michigan 2 Breached Dams 500 Year Flood Part 1-3 4K Drone Footage

[@marvintpandroid2213]

There are thousands of similar low head dams all over America just waiting to break due to lack of maintenance. We need to do something about this this and we needed to have started 50 years ago.

[@ToyotaNutjob]

These are not low head dams. And if a low head dam.breaks its really not a huge deal to be honest

[@highkicker11]

@@ToyotaNutjob its a low head dam compared to the big ones like hoover dam.

[@ToyotaNutjob]

@@highkicker11 no, low head dams are a specific type of dam, these are just regular dams

[@paullasmith4975]

Cheaper to buy flood insurance than it is to build dams properly.

[@highkicker11]

@@ToyotaNutjob i know that the legal definition is not low head but again if you compare the mass of water they are holding back to the big dam's they are way lower in head then those big ones. but i agree a really low head would have way less impact. but you need to imagine hover dam failing and then place that kind of water displacement at a location as this. so i get where heads tails is coming from. i also get where you are at.

[@ptkr2272]

Thanks TAP! This is where I live and it's been so devastating to thousands. I'm fine and making meals for families, but there is so much to be done!

[@timelessaerialphotography.]

Our heart go out to you and everyone else. Glad you are ok!! Our footage goes to different agencies to hopefully bring more resources.

[@ptkr2272]

@@timelessaerialphotography. That's awesome, thanks so much!!

[@johnsweeney6072]

PT KR people like you are the reason so many get back on there feet ,well done and best of luck 🇦🇺

[@ptkr2272]

@@johnsweeney6072 Thanks John!

[@lindasandoval8944]

Hear you

[@JimNichols]

Title should reflect 50 years of neglect/ no maintenance instead of blaming it on a 500 year flood.

[@iamnegan2294]

I know. They pull that out their arse and the propaganda machine eats it up. Like we that stupid.

[@PCH456469871278]

Very true indeed

[@timelessaerialphotography.]

The footage goes to multiple agencies so I have to be very careful on how I title it but I know what you mean.

[@fastst1]

@Retired and Traveling Yeah, more of a stress test to reveiw the functionality of the emergency spillway that worked as designed.

[@bobivanski5635]

Timeless Aerial Photography LLC. What do you mean?

[@tnscavenger]

Thank you for not adding music. The video speaks for itself. It is amazing that the river bridges are still standing, even though the approaches are washed out. The amount of hydraulic pressure acting on the concrete structure would have been enormous.

[@clayshippy2652]

Thank you Timeless Aerial Photography LLC.

[@BG-bn6ev]

i enjoy your recordings , thank you for not adding music

[@daveycody]

good photography... would appreciate good, factual narrative....

[@jdc8352]

@larry ballard lolololol

[@jdc8352]

@@daveycody Maybe you should make a video with narrative

[@stevensapyak7971]

5.22.20. Thanks for posting this Video of the Bridges that were effected, The fact that while peoples homes were affected, is very bad, having these bridges knocked out of use, will affect anybody in the area and anyone trying to travel through the area for quite some time. It will be interesting to see if they will be able to salvage any of the bridges pilings and footings, if they can that will go along way in getting these bridges back up and in operation much quicker. Thank you this is a excellent video, something that is overlooked by the news media, and with no sound makes it very sobering......forces you to take in the magnitude of this disaster.

[@PJ-wv7dd]

Amazing and thanks for the back story on these dams. I have spent the last few days obsessed trying to understand how this happened. Your info helped immensely. Now I can't wait to watch your other videos on these dams.

[@plumeriapurple5718]

Thanks for sharing this, and the others. I am so heartbroken for my family and friends that are there right now. My hometown. We loved swimming and boating at Wixom Lake.

[@tl4633]

My heart breaks for my fellow Americans who lost years of hard work in just a matter of hours. I am truly sorry for your loss.

[@russell7489]

Why? 3rd flood in 30 yrs here People elect officials who ignore the problem over and over People even demanded lakes be kept filled to brim to max lake front property values ensuring in case of flood zero capacity to deal with it, oh and the dams, had been condemened by Fed inspectors years ago and private hydro owners ignored everything they were told to fix, apparently

[@bertlbarm4374]

does america have a dam protection program or only a politician protecting program

[@walsh9354]

It was owned by multiple people or the government ya.... no program for privately owned

[@SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite]

Might want to check a map, we probably have a few more dams than in your country.

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

Have to admit - other than talking bs - another thing politicians are good at - taking care of themselves .

[@mcearl8073]

Dylan Walsh thats what people seem to not understand. This wasn’t a public dam. It does seem a bit odd that a private person or company can own something that if failed can wipe out towns and they don’t have to have any safeguards in place to make sure it’s maintained.

[@allenelswick6961]

@@mcearl8073 The dams owner was not at fault in the failure it was the state of Michigan under Governor Whitmer, the dams owner had lowered the lake for safety reasons but were forced by the state to raise the lake level back up to normal in May all because of the death of thousands of endangered freshwater mussels. So the mussels are more important than the people. Funny how she and others were in such a hurry to play the blame game away from their own self.

[@paca_bill4863]

Great job with the videos. Used to spend many hours fishing on these lakes growing up.

[@pcar5]

There was a blurb on the news tonight stating the state of MI would not allow lowering the water level to do repairs and modifications to the dam due to a rare clam that lives in the lake. I guess it doesn't live there anymore. Good job Michigan.

[@themerrigans2734]

Good job filming. What I was looking for.

[@kituwahband]

Greetings from Oklahoma, you all have my thoughts & condolences. Here in Muskogee we had our flood last year at the same time but it wasn't anything like this. The Arkansas reached 46' (if my memory serves correctly) and devastated a lot of farm lands, homes, and crops -- even flooded the whole town of Webbers Falls; everything is back to normal around here. But this, what do you do? What's the answer ya know? There are no words I can give. God bless each of you!

[@Antonyg2100]

Thanks for sharing these. It is hard to understand what happened until you see these videos. Just unbelievable

[@sue8319]

Thanks for the references o roads & direction we are looking at.

[@guynorth3277]

How is this Beaverton, that's on M18, several miles northwest. I had wonder if it took out M-30, have taken that route quite a few times. A dozen guys getting paid top dollar to stand there and look at the damage.

[@recoveringsoul755]

The Live coverage I was listening to on the evening of the 19th, the news came over one of the dispatch radios or police scanners that M30 had been washed away, and another time they said M10 was under water. I'm not from that area. I was watching over at Inventor Lee Wheelbarger channel. It's nice to see what it looks like on the 21st. Great footage, horrible disaster

[@kayrogers9352]

We used to have a cottage on the tobacco river which is on the other side of the bridge in Edenville that washed out. We had a Beaverton mailing address, that might be why that was said. Don’t know for sure, just a thought.

[@seanszukhent5519]

My old house is shown from 3:20 - 3:30, right next to Stryker's marina. It is a Beaverton address.

[@kayrogers9352]

Thank you for labeling what we’re seeing. Easier to get your bearings that way.

[@21313cord21]

I started getting videos of damm breaches two or three weeks before this happened. I wonder if this was a normal thing or pre planned.why were the dams releasing water ahead of time when they knew levels were rising or were they deliberately left to fail.

[@melodies5622]

One way to depopulate a state on the brink of collapse.... force everyone to stay home and then drown them with a dam failure.. it's awful suspicious. Whitner had been pushing draconian style lockdowns... and if they really knew these were gonna fail?? It sounds like a setup to me.

[@allenelswick6961]

@kurtis howard The dams that have been removed were removed by enviromental mental actions so the fish could swim those streams again. No important dam will be removed.

[@Lelabear]

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[@Lelabear]

weewarrior.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/those-damned-dams/

[@Sammiejomitchell]

wayne lutterman, dams are intended for controlling the flow. When weather forecasts call for unusually large amounts of rainfall, they start releasing the water in the lake early so there will be more available capture area when the rains come. This much rain is more than the design limit and safety factors built in. Mother nature’s way of saying “hi”.

[@the_road__warrior6185]

Thank you for the sobering yet fantastic footage. Now the hard part is rebuilding. Hopefully engineers are learning from this, Hell, I’m sure dam & army corps of engineers are probably swarming trying to dissect as much as they can. Tho I heard some knew of a potential failure but did nothing, Is this tru??

[@architectinth]

Can you imagine how massive the mosquito population will be in a few weeks!

[@cadillac7568]

Theirs a new 🌊 of cv19 y'all get ready be safe we all in trouble

[@folkslee9679]

I was seriously just thinking that and then seen your comment

[@kansasthunderman1]

So in addition to the corona virus, we will have an outbreak of malaria too?

[@adamUDavies]

Any footage of while this was a raging flood ,? Always seem to get the aftermath

[@AndyHayes1]

Staying positive. No one died. Everyone was smart enough to evacuate when the time came. It’s a tight small community that looked out for each other and helped where they could. Now the rebuild and moving out is happening.

[@Jameson4327]

It would be great if you had a before drone video to compare to the devastation of the flood

[@ronachtenberg2609]

Well done. Appropriate music is a nice enhancement. Good speed on drone. Professional narration.

[@hksp]

this is the result of raising water for saving mussel, keep the property price up not 500 year flood

[@spanishforjames]

It would be nice to see a "before" picture of this area.

[@alshoney3]

I suggest going to maps.google.com and looking for Edenville.

[@adamcrealestate]

Thank you. I've been waiting for some great Drone footage

[@jjssbailey]

And the FAA wants you to ID you and your Mavic while shooting this, what will that accomplish?

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Marlin Spike more taxes

[@mikehawk892]

To where the river flows?

[@billnotice9957]

It is utterly divine intervention NO ONE died from this cataclysm.

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Miles Davidson thank you for your opinion Moses

[@sallym8176]

Wow awesome footage I live near here. Been fishing there so many times. Very sad 😢

[@gertfouche2741]

I am from SA - does not really know anything of the area. Watch the dr Jan Pol vet series on TV - is he and his vets ok and has his practice/buildings been damaged by these dam breakages ? God bless and stay strong.

[@622wesc]

What happens to all the fish?

[@scottparis6355]

Will they rebuild these dams? If so, why, if they weren't producing electricity and don't serve a flood control purpose?

[@ryanwalker3453]

Thank you for the video, I hope to see more updates as things progress. Subscribed, liked, and opted for notifications, thanks again!

[@danroydsbarbadostravelvlog3057]

New subscriber here. Watching from Barbados🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧👍

[@garrettburrows442]

some people should be going to prison for a long time.

[@laraza49507]

Who??

[@weaponizedmath4369]

Lottery gave 1.4 billion dollars to schools to Dumb'em down , now being home schooled for an indefinite period of time. Anyone wanna take a stab at changing the flow of that $$$$$

[@endirrwiggins2494]

They don’t give a damn( no pun) about lost of homes.... wait you’ll find out

[@thomasrudder9639]

What an absolute freaking mess!

[@bubbablue7772]

So every 500 years the dam breaks?

[@gottagift]

Seeing them lakes drained so low was jaw dropping.

[@ivanolsen7966]

look again ,,,,,,, that is a lake full of silt ...1:22 ...it wasn't more than a few feet deep ... THAT ! was the problem ..... who refused to dredge it so it would hold enough deep water at a usable level

[@davidswick8353]

Beautiful footage. Thank You!

[@a8a999]

This is heartbreaking...my thoughts to all who are suffering...

[@kathi3014]

And I hope everyone has a swift recovery and is safe from covid 19. I'm sorry for the lose of your homes, town and the devastation.

[@SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite]

4:48 the water was over that bridge? Wowow

[@timelessaerialphotography.]

Yes the wall of water was huge

[@joemc111]

I have to think some of the lakefront owners are partly responsible. Just maybe some of those people went to county meetings and said don’t lower the water,summer is coming and I want to be out on the water. If I look for meetings on KZbin might just find someone at a meeting bitching.

[@johntmccrakin109]

So glad you stepped up and took care of this. The other drone operator videos were not good. Fish eye of death.

[@joelstanhope7231]

Great range and good video.

[@jojodancer4947]

Why is it that when there are dam failures or near failures they don't fully open the flood gates untill it's actually to late. Aren't they supposed to have people that can calculate how a certain amount of rainfall is going to affect their lake so they better open the gates now to avoid disaster?

[@alanwheelock1460]

nice work , thanks for taking the time to vid .

[@eva905]

It was a 500 year event that the dam owners were given 20 years to prepare for.

[@2olvets443]

Newt Watson if no dam would have been there just how bad do you think flooding would have been, if any at all! They come up with how many years based on what recorded data? Is there recorded data for that many years back! I don’t think any dam made with, shall we say a natural berm, could ever be expected to last that many years period. I guess they pulled those numbers from thin air hoping water would never get high enough to flow over top the natural berm.

[@charliechauvin9647]

Lakefront home for sale, errr minus the lake.

[@russell7489]

hilarious thing is those same lakefront homeowners demanded lakes be kept within feet of top so their docks stayed in water, and that didn't allow for any flood capacity, losing the lakes totally

[@gregmiller5634]

How many dams in america are about to burst like these have.

[@getl0st]

These are possibly the crappiest Dams I have ever seen....

[@realityhappens4893]

Great footage very smooth new to ur channel. Very sad also 😢

[@samuelt2072]

Not one life lost because of this?! Amazing! Obviously there was some excellent disaster plan in place anticipating this kind of event. That doesn't do anything for the grief & pain of material loss but, at least (so far, as is known) no one died because of this. The "finger pointing" phase of this thing is well underway, and I can see the lawyers are going to have a real field day with it, also.

[@russell7489]

it's 3rd time in 30 yrs they get a lot of practice big question is why they repeatedly elect officials who just let it happen over and over again

[@PCH456469871278]

Ever watched evan almighty.?

[@tedfedders2069]

This is what happens when elected officials focus on hatred of each other/parties. Spending US $$$ on lawsuits against each other and neglecting obvious issues that will not wait until they are done sueing, accusing, and bickering like 5 yr olds. If POTUS said repair the dam...Dems would have said NO. Just to go against him. Lawmakers are elected to do a jog...not become intoxicated by greed. This dam was found to have major issues 3 yrs ago. If I had a home on that lake I would have at least been concerned. Trusting a government that is focused on greed and hatred is never in our best interest.

[@123chrismd]

This is about sediment I think. We don’t have smart land management policy that can mitigate all the run-off produced by farming in once-forested, poorly drained soil. The Lake was getting shallower and shallower with the sediment build-up, lowering capacity, and then you have a major flood and this happens.

[@Mucho-Taco]

It's very sad to see but one thing I noticed is the lake bottom is very clean

[@marytandy4532]

The government of Michigan knew that these dams, and many more, were in need of repair. Someone watching the water level should have figured out the failure long before they failed and warned the people living below the dams. State Governers need to be actively working on these issues before they become this bad.

[@tonycotto8073]

I love the music. Allows me to think while I see the devastation.

[@johnnyloungejazz5477]

The 500 year flood? Is that before or after the flawed dams collapsed? Would it have been nearly as bad if the state took steps to correct the damaged Dam’s? 500 Year flood is BS. It’s a 20 year failure of responsibility.

[@lakakl3787]

Sad for the people who have lost due this. Happy to see earth reclaim it natural beauty back. Nevermind me, I were born 100s of years too late. 🤠

[@doug2616]

Nature has knack for reclaiming itself no matter how many years it takes.

[@MOAONAABE]

i know its your business but its awesome to see these shots so soon after the flood. we could have used you after st helen's. on the otherhand mud boggin in michigan anyone?? we got nothing else to do, we should all go to michigan and help clean up and party all summer.

[@817mpease]

I think you need to do a bit more research as I did read an article the night this happened saying they had been cited on how many safety issues this I don't think is the entire story. It's a shame the residents and whoever got on the owner for lowering the water level when they did need to do some work and have a bigger spillway from what I read in the article. IMO this lake was made decades ago for recreation, fishing and tourism and should just be left alone maybe teach those that obviously didn't think the safety issues were worth lowering the level to do repairs. I really hope they use brains and are reasonable when deciding on what to do to clean up the mess. People should not be so greedy. Mother Nature is trying to tell us something time we listen.

[@meatybear352]

lakes were made in the 20s and we got almost 10in of rain in 2 days the gates were wide open for a few days and it didnt help

[@Gbennett1425]

at 5:50 there is another drone on the left side of the video

[@phillipmoore1523]

Marc Reisner’s book, Cadillac Dessert is an exceptional read about the history of dams, the Army Corp of Engineers, pork barrel politics and describes the financial cost, construction and maintenance of these behemoths! I don’t understand why the government agrees to foot the bill with subsidies for these dams and then allows the private companies to passively maintain them while downstream lives are at risk. The utility company owners, government officials and anyone who enabled these corrupt endeavors should foot the bill before any money from FEMA or insurance companies are used! Dams are the second most wasteful government project second to highway systems!

[@bigdog7041]

We never learn that Mother Nature always wins as we cannot design our way around it. Old antiquated designs to hold her back in this case shows you that very thing.

[@charz_adventures]

Rivers are not meant to be dammed. It causes destruction to the aquatic ecosystem and the ecosystem on dry land. It is unfortunate there was no plan in place to repair this dam.

[@mikemuniak4711]

Never under estimate the power of water ,man my parys go out to the ppl who lost it all ,unbelievable

[@saucywench9122]

Not a 500 year flood. The Edenville dam was constructed in 1924 and it is way past it's 50 year date. It should've been deconstructed decades ago.

[@jingo1963]

The only good that can come of this is for the government to fund a massive rebuilding project, to make things better, put money into the local economy and give the local population jobs. Hopefully they build it right this time.

[@savagetv2426]

Where are all the animals that lived in the lake

[@4133EWvianen]

Could not have done it any better................

[@tom22366]

Is it true that the Federal government said the dam was unsafe and to lower the water level until proper spillways could be built? But he state didn’t want inconvenience people with boat docks and harm the fish.

[@blueman5924]

I’m shocked that the nation that sends rocket ships to space, still has outdated earthen dams.

[@ivanolsen7966]

no it was a dam full of silt :see 1:22 .... you can see they have had to dredge parts just to get boats out on it ( the lake) .... and so it was " pretty " ( and not a stinking marshland ) they had to keep the water level too high .... guaranteed a woman was behind that

[@thepatriot8514]

Well we the people let them get away with it because nobody cares when shit is fine.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

Prepare to be shocked by many things. Perhaps daily!

[@nickhelton3888]

Anybody else see something flying through the frame at 8 minutes and 35 seconds to 8 minutes and 38 seconds looks like a small white aircraft moving extremely fast and extremely low however it is really small

[@DrDiff952]

The govenor is more worried about people going back to work, than she is about fixing the infrastructure!

[@leyaleigh5041]

People need to start preparing for total infrastructure failure. This is a prelude.

[@YouTubeUniversity-ko8ug]

Time for mosquitos to be very actieve

[@hartmutlorentzen9659]

Now the river is free again!

[@conspiracyphreakphreaka6082]

how do we know they didnt blow it on purpose.... also how did original up-loader know damn was gonna break and started to film?

[@watomb]

It could have been a lot worse now the state and county will need to build a replacement. While they are doing that you can dredge or remove all that dirt from behind the same so the new lake is deeper.

[@OscarDiaz-nn9ch]

Mother Nature doing what she does best

[@robertscrimger6044]

It’s not incompetence, it’s global warming.

[@scottfirman]

Where does the 500 year come in? I remember high water issues in the Great Lakes in the 1980's. Those earthen dams were all noted to be at risk a few years back. No one did anything to even come up with a plan to do something about this happening. Now they have no choice. Typical beacracy.

[@johnstonlarry]

Nice job

[@tiekbane]

Nature periodically reasserts itself when man gets too cocky.

[@stevegonzales3612]

Again mother nature prevails!!

[@russell7489]

Whats wrong in the pics No riprap below fill line whole slope needed rip rap Dam top needed to be min 10 feet above spillway Spillway needed to be wide enough to take hours to erode away slowly releasing water Spillway needed clear run to river this spillway took out forest which clogged bridge overpasses and spillways down stream causing more failures Reservoirs HUGELY silted up drastically reducing capacity requiring them to be kept filled to brim at all times to have adequate flow for turbines No armoring around spillways allowing back flow to rip apart dam Road THROUGH reservoir created bottle neck which washed out costing millions more to fix Bridges downstream needed to be higher and wider instead of cheap low embankments with minimal bridge to resist flood damage and allow flooding to stay in stream Dam Berms dangerously narrow needed to be much wider so over topping didn't mean instant failure Gated spillways needed to be lower to allow greater controlled discharge Note this is third flood in as many decades LESSONS ARE NOT BEING LEARNED since US taxpayer foot bill every time NOTE This is historically Red State, like every Red State allows irresponsible development that US taxpayers REPEATEDLY pay to fix

[@landanwarren5394]

Mother nature always wins

[@EKEACRES]

What a Mess.

[@Outlaw-Josey-Wales]

From the ice thaw in early march and then torrential rains, system just couldn't handle it

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Once a earthen dam gets overtopped it will fail. No maintenance schedule fixes that

[@rufus4779]

This is a terrible event. So many people devastated. So much loss. I believe you can only mess with mother-nature so long before she reclaims what is hers. Better to not build a dam and live within the boundaries set by mother-nature

[@lakakl3787]

This needs to serve as a wake up call to the multitude of concrete dams that will start failing due to age within the next 25 to 75 years.

[@rfi-cryptolab4251]

What a dam disaster.