Watch these runaway barges hit the Webbers Falls dam | FOX23 News Tulsa

As heavy floods ravaged Oklahoma, two barges broke loose on the Arkansas River and began heading downstream, threatening to hit the Webbers Falls Lock and Dam, authorities said.
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[@Jleed989]

It is so nice not to have someone in the background yelling OMG OMG OMG!

[@GavinGroth]

Jleed989 very true!!

[@kennyc9662]

Or a screaming broad

[@shavinmccrotch9435]

@@kennyc9662 I was just gonna say that! 😆

[@itsnotmeitshim]

True, but we did get a pointless countdown!

[@saschaberger_ofc]

so true..

[@MRJK87.]

I hate to barge in here like this, but frankly, I don't give a dam.

[@ChesterWolf]

I see what you did there. 😜

[@MRJK87.]

@@jeremiahtraylor7384 I already have, multiple times. It's fun.

[@ejhickey]

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[@robertm4735]

Mr JK 🤣😂👍

[@Runehorn]

Well played!!!!

[@ken12269]

Thank you for this dam video.

[@yogibeer9319]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sarcastic_14-yeard_old]

Really brought Percy Jackson into this

[@teknical100]

CNN reporter: Mostly no barges hit the dam.

[@lesgobrandon]

In cnns defense.....were mostly peaceful barges.

[@noodengr3three825]

But those barges weren't socially distancing

[@heyitsvos]

Correction: hateful dam attacks barges minding their own business.

[@Oliver-kv2mm]

It’s Trump’s fault.

[@Gunsandfun1961]

The Russians made the barges do it.....

[@tubhair]

Excellent visual lesson on the power of flowing water. You can be looking at a river that, on the surface, seems so calm. Almost still. But in the middle, just a few feet under that surface, there’s a raging current that will...well, suck a barge under.

[@wordreet]

A bit like an innocent looking saucepan on the stove. It might look yummy on the surface, but underneath is a raging curry, that will . . . basically suck a bajji under!!

[@Industrialitis]

That first barge disappeared in seconds also.

[@timwilson1840]

Great engineering,didnt even blink.Those wedge entrance pillars were very amazing design.

[@richardthomas5362]

That Dam is a beast!

[@liamgross7217]

In CHINA it would have brought the dam down.

[@quicksilver462]

It's like watching an engine block go through one of those metal shredding machines!

[@andrewvelonis5940]

What did the runaway barge say when it hit the wall? Dam!

[@xbpbat21x]

Barge Pilot: I swear i parked them right here.

[@michaelbarron6073]

That moment when you realize that you started your countdown too soon - "Ok, here we go. 5, 4, 3, 2.... 1..... wait for it........ and we're gonna have impact......... rightttttttt now."

[@justrob4586]

T minus 1, T minus 2 , T minu.. there we go!

[@timolston]

“Nailed it” went off in his mind to.

[@TracksideNW]

That guy was super annoying.

[@benhudman7911]

This is good validation to not be that guy.

[@0714will]

😆

[@Chuck-e7d]

Someone should investigate as to why the barges decided to runaway. Were they mistreated at home?

[@GRDray]

The power of water. Holy smokes.

[@tobyclark1399]

Was not expecting it to flip over!

[@OuradventuresGU]

Where is the film of them being recovered?

[@scottw550]

They just can't barge in here like that.

[@hughsong9073]

They don't give a dam.

[@knowledgeispowermediaprodu7094]

Best 2 replies....ever. lmao

[@johncoffelt6645]

FYI, when the Keystone Lake is releasing at almost 300 thousand cubic feet of water a second, which it was for several days, and the Arkansas River is running at near historic flood levels a tug is not going to be able to catch and restrain barges that have broken away from their moorings.

[@nicholastrawinski]

and now im thinking about what the math would look like on that scenario. a pair of 300 ton barges doing 10+ mph, and you have 5 minutes to stop them. the massive amount of shaft horse power that would take.... and also, do you even have enough time to get the tug boat captian high enough to convince him it will work?

[@LordNecron]

@@nicholastrawinski All while 'No Time For Caution' plays in the background?.

[@roygunter3244]

I was working on the Mississippi River on a tow boat in the mid 60s. A couple of kids, a girl and her brother were in a small ski boat that lost power above a dam as they were crossing the river not far upriver from a dam, it was one like this, a coffer dam and it was running water. Before anyone realized what was going on they were swept in just like the barges. Lots of power in moving water, the water the dam is letting though is going under the gates that are raised so the undertow is really strong. A fully loaded barge carries about 1,500 tons and the barge itself about 700 tons. I wonder if the barges folded up and jammed into the gates so that they couldn't totally close which would make it really difficult to get the wreckage out.

[@thegardensentinel]

So,,,, the kids?.... The boat?..... The non-coffer dam?...... I get it!!!! This story has a crazy "twist" coming!!! ☺ The dam floated away,,, the boat sank in a desert and the kids married each other and live on Malmac with Alf??? This is what makes news these days!!

[@klujics123]

Roy I knew a guy who dad was swept away in Texas, 5 or 6 family members total. They were at a family reunion on July 4th. The dam operator was drunk and opened the dam without checking the water. My friend’s dad would have probably made it out of the water, but his brother was a few feet closer to the dam. They each had a child. His brother realizing the undertow was too strong from his position handed the child he was carrying to my friend’s father. Now carrying two children proved too much. Lawyers for many decades still contacted the family trying to get them to sue, they never would. This happened in the 60’s.

[@johnerickson2673]

I love the countdown like we're at NASA

[@0714will]

😆

[@brinkshows2720]

(musical tone) Two runaway barges on the Arkansas River, One runaway barge on the Arkansas River, No runaway barge on the Arkansas River

[@joshuamoore24_7]

It will take several tug boats and really good steel cables to remove the barge wreckage. Once the water level is lower.

[@1982MCI]

Nah, that’s gonna take cranes platformed on barges to even attempt a recovery like that but you will have to be in a drought condition to do it so they may act as artificial reefs for a few years before it’s even attempted

[@tarnishedknight730]

Interesting video. It would have been better if there had been some explanation of how the barges got loose, what was on them, was the dam damaged little-much-beyond hope.

[@billbryce2538]

Here's one link that answers a few of those questions. If you search "barges webbers falls" you'll get lots more. kfor.com/2019/05/23/worries-remains-after-runaway-barges-hit-webbers-falls-dam/

[@kenrose1154]

They're tied off on wire anchoring off a anchor buoy pile driven into the riverbed, the high water flow eas able to tear them off that and away them loads go...

[@tarnishedknight730]

Bill and Ken, Thanks for the info. I know they will have to wait for low water, but it would be great to know how they get those barges out of there.

[@kenrose1154]

@@tarnishedknight730 they're will hire a salvage company to do that...and its gonna take awhile to do...

[@Gator-fromOZ]

It’s pretty simple HOW they got loose... AS USUAL it was carelessness and or STUPIDITY, or BOTH, as someone, somewhere, in some job was not paying attention to details, cause that’s how shit USUALLY happens😏 But yeah, I was kind’a wondering what was on them myself🤔❓

[@catfish500mark9]

Someone's insurance company sure felt the pain from that!!!!!!!!!

[@ichabodon]

That is one hell of a river flow

[@owentimo]

Well, someone is getting fired...

[@Stacie45]

In Washington state where I come from nobody ever gets fired. They sink a $100 million bridge through sheer obvious negligence, a train flies off a bridge onto a freeway and kills a bunch of people, the bureaucrats all close ranks and cover each other's butts. They do a detailed study and determine it was everyone's fault, the Governor's fault, the legislature's fault, the DOT's fault, the teacher's union's fault, the kids in grade school's fault...it is everybody's fault, it is nobody's fault. Everyone move along, nothing to see here.

[@integr8er66]

@@Stacie45 That is pure socialism

[@DredPirateRoberts]

integr8er66 - only our farmers are allowed socialism.

[@integr8er66]

Rigor Mortise Whenever you think you can do without food you can put them out of business, until then if you think its so easy why don't you just become one?

[@owentimo]

@@DredPirateRoberts If you think that is socialism, then what do you think welfare is?

[@MattOphoto]

LOL at the goober counting down

[@Guitarman7133]

Yeah, jack holes like that should work for nasa. THEY CAN COUNTDOWN THE METALLIC BALLOON LAUNCH. That's right kiddies, ALL SPACE ROCKETS ARE METALLIC BALLOONS WITH ROCKET ENGINES ON THEM.

[@doug7232]

@@Guitarman7133 then there are the satelloons

[@TheNorthwestWind]

Praise and respect Mother Nature

[@TheOzarkWizard]

How much ferilizer did that dump inn the river? what kind was it?

[@Ethan-uo5ff]

Just raw manure, not processed ammonium nitrate or anything. I'd be more worried about the dam breaking. There's all kinds of more toxic chemicals seeping into the watershed now with all this historic flooding.

[@paulchilders9969]

@@Ethan-uo5ff That's a lot of shit.

[@57fitter]

@@paulchilders9969" load"might have worked better

[@andygolden9598]

Dam that’s a strong dam

[@katherineaustin2477]

That dam must be really strong

[@marlaleemouse]

Corona virus 'stay at home' brought me here. It was interesting.

Legend has it this is a great place to go magnet fishing

[@Guitarman7133]

ITS MUCH EASIER TO JUST GO BUY THE MAGNETS.

[@Z4Zander]

Take the really big magnets.

[@RJ1999x]

If they are Allis Chalmers turbines, they would grind the barge up and send it down stream

[@RJ1999x]

@David Bryant no kidding Poindexter.

[@RJ1999x]

@David Bryant no dumb ass, I said if the turbines were made by Allis Chalmers they would be ground up, not that they were ground up. A shame you can't read

[@sippycup6762]

Now now children, play nice.

[@RJ1999x]

@@sippycup6762 😂

[@tonywright8294]

Huston we’ve landed !

[@syedbukhari9408]

Runaway floating barge could damage dam .divert other side.

[@yrunaked4]

we seem to be short 2 barges, DAM

[@KalatSaar]

Sorry we can´t see them ......

[@johnspurrier0001]

Any updates? Did they clear the dam jam?

[@alexosborne5629]

This shows the water is relentless, powerful and predictable.......

[@badlandskid]

How rude. To barge in like that

[@jackmasters9953]

Price of Fruity Pebbles just went up!!!!😂

[@desertmulehunter]

Supply chain disrupted.

[@drinkthekoolaidkids]

Just pay the ransom itll be all good .

[@K3Flyguy]

Dock tie down things got hacked, whole food supply worldwide just go up by 10% to cover the costs.

[@Contantq]

Cleetus! I thought you tied it off!

[@davidtappe5337]

Thanks, lmao.

[@crystalford5964]

Webbers falls isn't too far from where I live. I remember this

[@SoUThCReATiOn]

I fish the Mississippi River around huge barges I can just imagine the power of all that TON of steel getting pushed like toys

[@Guitarman7133]

What kind of fish do you catch in the M. river? It's amazing the amount of fish you can catch in a dirty/ muddy river or creek.

[@evmanbutts]

@@Guitarman7133 Bass and Catfish probably

[@kituwahband]

I think our engineers need to go to Michigan to rebuild Sanford & Edenville dams; ours had barges run into them and nothing broke.

[@douglasbedell1917]

I wonder if the bridges can withstand the pressure of these things against them underwater. Tons and tons of blockage against the wall underwater being forced against the damn wall, it was not designed to withstand such pressures I hope it doesn't fail

[@kahnfused1]

@@douglasbedell1917 below the gates there is no flow so the barges will just lie there like dead weight. The weight of the water already pushing against the base of the dam far outweighs the weight of the barges. Thanks for playing though.

[@1982MCI]

@@kahnfused1 thank you for beating me to that. I was gonna say the exact same thing Michael. I guess the pressure of all of that water is somehow Nothing compared to those couple of soda cans that are now at the base! How some of these folks even get to work and back each day boggles my mind, no wonder this country is falling apart! Take care buddy and be safe out there!

[@lzylifeguidesubscribe2124]

I totally didn't expect them to sink!

[@Dawgs241]

Title should be runaway barges hit dam, with Nasa engineer commenting in background.

[@robertm4735]

That current is dam powerful tap tap boom😉

[@gggunit99]

Dam good video

[@stealthg35infiniti94]

Any videos on the barge wreckage removal at this dam?

[@jakehighland929]

Is that even possible or is the barge part of the river bed now l

[@1982MCI]

@@jakehighland929 it’s probly still there due to the danger of trying to remove it unless we enter a drought where the river flow is almost nonexistent

[@jakehighland929]

@@1982MCI ya I don't think we have anything stronger than a river

[@gomercoggs6622]

Ain’t that a dam shame?

[@russelljr4026]

Was there any damage to the dam?

[@jtuttle11]

Fortunately, they hit the Dam instead of striking the Locks. That would have put the Arkansas River out of the shipping business for months or years.

[@justbe4481]

They went down fast

[@MercenaryLocusGaming]

ROY CAPPS that’s what I was thinking

[@DMarkAgostinelli]

Yeah, I know. It looks like the were completely destroyed and all the debris was probably sucked right through. It looks like there will be like no clean up!

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Anyone going over that dam...their best bet would probably be to try to grab onto the metal supports for the dam on the way down. They're on either side of each gate and they could at least climb up out of the water. There is also a concrete base block at the bottom in between each gate to try to grab onto and lift yourself up.

[@shaunford8529]

Well somebody done f&*×ed up

[@freemanwaters2506]

Nature, never one to shy away from demonstrating the hubris of the human species.

[@brucesimian3743]

That water is like a honey badger. It don't give a fuck.

[@imfuctifino]

Why did they not close the sleuces to stop the flow and therefore mitigate drawing in the barges?

[@tracynation2820]

Great video. 💙 T.E.N.

[@robertbaker50]

Wow! The way the dam ate the first barge is unbelievable.

[@mosbysmen]

they need to build a series of islands 300 yards out from the dam to stop barges from hitting the dam again

[@jeffsmith894]

Why?

[@mosbysmen]

@@jeffsmith894 so barges impact on the islands and NOT the dam

[@jeffsmith894]

@@mosbysmen doesnt hurt the dam....they arent torpedoes

[@mosbysmen]

river barge weights 200 tons is moving at 3mph hits dam ,that is goind to cause damage.

[@jeffsmith894]

@@mosbysmen ...well looks like it caused irrevocable damage on that dam

[@windowsvistasuxalot]

Most satisfying video I ever saw!

[@ralphpomm4943]

Amazing how the dam stood up to such force.

[@kenrose1154]

Over a decade ago ACBL had a barge loaded with powered concrete sunk right in the pier in Lemont, Ill...they had to dynamite it into pieces to get it out.... But this here....looking at a lot of underwater cutting whenever the river levels off

[@Guitarman7133]

You know what happened a few years ago in BC? They were offloading a cement/ drywall barge, and the load shifted, AND THE BARGE TIPPED, WENT UNDER, THEN SHOT RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER AND LANDED ON A DOCK WORKER!!!!!!! He was pinned under the bow of the barge HALF OF HIM WAS CRUSHED, THE TOP HALF SCREAMING FOR SOMEONE TO HELP HIM. No one could, and he died right there. Left behind a wife and 3 little girls. F me.

[@hornetscales8274]

That certainly poses a problem on clearing up the debris.

[@davidpetersen1]

Yeah.. that's what I was thinking. Htf do you remove the obstructions?

[@1982MCI]

@@davidpetersen1 you won’t. Unless a drought comes along at some point where the flow of the river is minimal enough that they can get a barge down river with a crane on it to lift them, otherwise it will stay right there at the base of the damn till it rusts apart and breaks up

[@davidpetersen1]

@@1982MCI There is a vid on how they did it. :)

[@russelltheone6969]

I just love watch disaster in slow motion. Its like reliving my last break up. The guy counting down is feeling very important at the moment, like his intire life has built up to this event. The random lady yelling oh my God probably wasn't even watching. She noticed the hobo rubbing one out in the woods behind the news van, those silly hobos. My deepest question, why is there not a food truck an some nice classic rock to commemorate this day?

[@DrLumpy]

"OMG! OMG! OMG! This Burrito is hotter than Pine Bluff in August"

[@walterfink9782]

Saw this, where the view was where you could see the hit, and the barge sink. Close ups showed the sinking and other possible damage to the dam.

[@billycarter1911]

I fished below this dam take plenty of sinkers because you will get hung up on every throw!!!

[@drinkthekoolaidkids]

Man that's aggravating , I'd probably say bump that , gonna fish somewhere else.

[@jerryadams2191]

Es mucho trouble, thanks. 😎🚢🚢

[@dalen5720]

My dude got a tinder match when tying up the boat We know what was more important🤣

[@Guitarman7133]

THE RED ONE WAS IN THE LEAD, BUT SUDDENLY VANISHED FROM THE RACE.

[@allrock1238]

well the big issue is the all barge wreckage blocking up flow through at least 2 gates reducing the amount of flood water flow downstream if the river flow is high enough it will pile water up on the upstream side and can over top the dam

[@terenfro1975]

Those barges are nothing compared to the force of that water. What did you think was going to happen?

[@Guitarman7133]

I was thinking maybe they would straighten out and slide right through, like an suv in a walmart parking lot.

[@mypronounismaster4450]

I thought alien spacecraft were going to fly down and zap the barges into hyperspace.

[@KeystoneState]

Hungry Hungry Hippo Dam

[@phlodel]

Gilligan, did you use one of your sailor's knots?

[@ellenlandowski1659]

Barges get loose off upriver tugs all the time and NO ONE ever chases them down or beaches them!! They are just left to crash into what ever...the tugs don't notify anyone that there are barges lose and coming down stream. A loose barge hit a railbridge and offset the rails. The. City of New Orleans train ( like in the 1960s song) was the next train over that bridge and detrailed into the river. Killed all the crew and most of the passengers and destroyed the engine. No one ever tracked down where the barge came from or why no one notified the rail road that the bridge had been hit.

[@MaKaElectric]

Dam wins!! Fatality!!

[@Meditation409]

Pathetic! I hate the folks that are responsible for that. Someone's ass is in deep trouble for that.

[@kevinkelly1529]

😂🖕

[@chrismoody1342]

Whoever owns that dam should be finding out exactly who owns those barges. The barge owner has some explaining as to why the barges got away with no attempt to restraint them.

[@tobenkinzle4498]

Record flooding in the area

[@vanncarter6391]

Muskogee owns the barges, there was MULTIPLE attempts to restrain them, considering the water was in record depths, holding back a barge is not an easy job.

[@realvanman]

This is a lot like 11 foot 8...

[@michaelwashington2682]

Wondering if they're going to try to retrieve them or just leave it submerged?

[@u.s.militia7682]

Runaways are common. Why don’t locks and dams have defenses up for them?

[@ski5350]

I remember this like it was last year

[@stevemitchell8631]

And the fishing has sucked all the way down river since... Fertilizer Fishkill

[@walters49]

And they squawk about the damage to the Suez canal by a ship going crossways. This has the potential to be a lot more destructive . Fortunately I thing the engineer who did the design had such a potential in mind from the outset.

[@theone1517]

Looks like the barges were racing!

[@kona1967]

Dam good video.

[@DrLumpy]

Countdown guy should have used metric.

[@dougburke50273wind]

So why didn't someone in a tug boat go after these barges so they wouldn't crash into the dam?

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

Like they went through one of those giant industrial shredders. Wow.

[@HellYeahImIrish]

but they didnt shred they are stuck to the inlet side of the dam.

[@davidfox5827]

Wow!

[@vps1014]

Damn dumb title...a dam is a body of water...a dam wall is a structure to be hit by a runaway barge, floating on the dam surface..gettit? Dammit..

[@jacka55six60]

No watered down comments please.

[@pmscalisi]

They need to sell that dam construction technology to the Chinese

[@jayt6021]

Give them some time, they'll just steal it. Thats why they are always a bit behind.

[@donaldcadwell3911]

Why wouldn't they shut the gates to stop the flow of water for a bit? Could they?

[@MrLookatmyhat]

Gonna need post10 to fix that clog

[@donnawoodman6249]

Yea, him and his twin brother!

[@robertcollins7515]

Water is such a powerful thing.

[@curtnicholson7771]

This I think is the recent flooding from all the rain in the past couple of weeks if I'm not mistaken. So it makes me think if at some time they ever get back to a low flow time I would think that they would some how try to remove them somehow. That will be the video I'm going to want to see even more than this one. This was a very nice catch and I wasn't sure if it would sink a larger vessel such as these two barges but as we see they are no match for the incredible power of water! One of gods strongest forces on earth!

[@jasonhawes5096]

I think all it took was a small hull rupture to sink those barges. With that much water pressure against an immovable object, they were torn apart from the inside

[@danburch9989]

The date of the posting is May 23, 2019; not recent.

[@bestamerica]

' what are 2 things inside the barges

[@johnnyholland8765]

Someone is going to pay dearly for that one. But hey were blankety blankety insurance company. "We know a bunch of crap cause we have seen a bunch of crap"

[@aaronreese1530]

Someone is SOOOO FIRED..!

[@tobenkinzle4498]

The record flooding in an area will most likely be the cause