Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota breached, prompting flash flood warning
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Flooding on the Blue Earth River breached the Rapidan Dam on Monday morning, with Le Sueur County residents advised to monitor conditions and potentially evacuate, according to the county's emergency management office.
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When will this country learn that you can't just slap something up and expect it to last forever without maintenance or upgrades?
When you have a significant portion of voters that believe ANY taxes are theft - hard to have enough revenue to keep everything maintained. Building a dam should lock in the maintenance cost as a future commitment - but that's not how government actually works in the USA.
It's been there for 114 years and there is no evidence it wasn't maintained.
@@jimbosc
Nice conspiracy theory. Explain why Biden's infrastructure bill didn't fix this dam? Oh right, only 10% of that money went into infrastructure while the rest went to outside groups
Yea this is what happens when Republicans keep stopping infrastructure upkeep. Unfortunate
@timmick6911 you can see the spill way was full of debris. It looks like water was on top of the dam before finding a route around. Maintenance would include ensuring the spillway is clear.
That's not the roar of the flood waters you're hearing...it's the nosie of all the shredders in county & state offices getting rid of the dam's documentation/inspection paperwork.
Get a hobby. You can't even take two seconds to care about the humans facing an atrocity before you start spewing your conspiracy nut nonsense.
at 1:33 the dam looks fine
Wow😂 👏👏👏
@@NiaLaLa_V Why do you only care for the humans? There are trees, animals, and insects dying too!
Nah, it's the dam. There was nothing TO shred.
This dam was very old and known to be in very poor condition for MANY years. Why was nothing ever done about it?
Ukraine needed the money right away!
State leaders have been too busy trying to figure out the difference between a boy and a girl……..!!!!!
@@frankblangeard8865 That is what was going to say.
Next thing you know some tin foil hat nutter butter will be blaming the failure on Ukraine. Can't fix Stupid!
Because the local yahoo's like to gamble and would not fix it unless they got someone else to pay for it, facts are hard to swallow.
The dam looks fine, the river has gone around it. The fact theres a lot of debris that looks to be partially blocking the dams overflow, could well be a big part of the problem. Easy to blame government or funding but looks like the individual who’s job it is to keep the dam clear is at fault.
clown
Bingo!!!! DNR does not allow trees to be removed from the riverbed! This is what happens when that's allowed to build up and not cleaned!!
Yeah, the dam looks fine.
This is why I refuse to live downstream of a dam.
I don’t care how “secure and safe” a dam is, I will live on the high ground thank you!
Somehow people don't see this logic for why people don't want nuclear power plants. It's super safe when it's working as intended, but when it fails it's really bad for everyone!
Bought my house 9 years ago and checked fema maps to make sure I'm out of any 100 yr flood zones
@@Crismodin i think if you are living by that logic you should apply it without convenience. A nuclear power plant has zero radiation at the area. They rarely fail but most importantly is how 5th and 6th nuclear facilities are designed. If they “fail” now they automatically shut down due to the inhibitors/reactants being sea water….they fail to “off” instead of being a runaway condition like older designs. And driving is more dangerous, should we go on? or you’re plugging the democrat’s ‘no nuclear because we have another agenda dependent on China” routine. It’s anti-American and everyone sees right through it.
@@viasevenvai there is always like over the top defense of nuclear power but the proponents always gloss right over the fact that if something does go wrong it could ruin the area forever and potentially poison people with radiation causing elevated rates of cancer, but no, that never gets mentioned, it's always "its so safe it generates so much safe power blah blah blah" spoonfed type logic. Yes, go on, against yourself, I will never change my opinion on this, just like OP with dams that are secure and safe.
Like living in New Orleans.
Oh no..😢
May you all get out safe..
God bless you all..🫂
I don't think God cares. I mean, the locals put the dam in God's hands, and now look what he did with it.
@@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- what a stupid reply.. Men are suppose to upkeep all man made things!
@@KOOLBadger In this case, though, they left it up to hopes and prayers.
@@KOOLBadger The last sentence of your original comment was the epitome of stupid.
What god
Do some phones not record horizontality 😢
A lot of phones (most?) require that you orient to landscape before you start recording. If you reorient after starting, it looks like it's recording in landscape, but when watched on playback, it's the dreaded portrait mode.
It looks more like it made its own spillway than that it failed.
Most people on here have absolutely no clue as to what you're talking about. But you're correct.
So the infrastructure was not maintained properly? Who do we trust to maintain things like dams? Follow the money. I'll bet you'll find that there are specific federal government grants given to correct the problems of this dam.
The dam is owned by Blue Earth County. The politicians have been contemplating what to do about the dam for 5 years. Nature decided for them.
Biden is Building Back Better! Just give him 4 more years and see how much more he does 😮
Generally, whoever owns the dam is responsible for maintaining it. Sometimes, that’s the federal, state, or local government. Sometimes it’s a power company or a factory. Sometimes, it’s a private individual. And sometimes, if it was built to power a mill or something that was later abandoned, it’s possible that nobody actually knows who owns the dam. And there probably wasn’t any federal money involved. The feds don’t often give grants for this. If they’re involved with a dam this size, it’s usually because the dam has a small hydroelectric generator. If the dam isn’t maintained, then FERC just stops them from generating any electricity, and responsibility for regulating the dam then falls to the state government. If you think this sounds like a great way to make sure that a dam that doesn’t make enough money to do all the maintenance suddenly doesn’t have money to do _any_ maintenance and so actually becomes _more_ likely to fail, congratulations on being smarter than Congress.
Already with the conspiracies. Sheesh
The Dam has held, the water is going to go over the top or around it. The question is did they release enough water when they had a chance to prevent the unknown.
The dam itself wont fail. The weak link is the spillway.
Prayers
It's only a matter of time before water makes a new route.
clear the debri might help?
For some reason that third word in your sentence sounds correct but looks odd lol
With what a butterfly net??? Debris.
unfortunately it wouldn't, this seems like the dam couldn't discharge fast enough. So like electricity, taking the fast route to ground, the water pretty much just went around as it was the fastest way to go down stream. This particular failure seems like its due to a design flaw, in that in cases of high water levels there isn't a plan or a spillway that would have released the excess water in an emergency rapidly in a control manner. Which in this case the water is carving out a mini canyon on land on the side of the dam, which fun fact that's not suppose to happen and could pose further risks to the structural integrity of the dam.
@@GroundByte my guess would be catastrophic to integrity of the dam and ability to stand. it's just going to get undermined until there is no foundation of support.
Clear the junk how?
Why are you the only ones reporting this failure? All other agencies are still saying immanent failure.
The demographics of people who will be effected are not newsworthy. This part of Minnesota is not "diverse" enough for the media to consider this to be "news"...
you mean Imminent? Learn to spell. Even if you're just an average american.
Because the dam didn’t fail the water just went around it
They were probably labeled as "cheap fakes" by the other news agencies. lol
@@jamesborck5908 yes, other agencies are reporting a breach, not a failure.
Looks like debris had built up and was never cleared. This would lead to water levels rising and over spilling at the side there, after that there's no going back.
Should have tried to clear that debris out from the dam before it became that clogged.
Would you drive a 40,000lbs excavator on there and remove it?
@@jeffb321 hell yeah I would. Get that damn excavator there and I'll show you.
@@jeffb321 what's your trade incase I need a mechanic or some welding done while I'm there?
Hey everybody, it's Captain Hindsight!
Solving America's problems as leisurely as he can!
Riding his majestic Lazy Boy and spreading pretentious nothings from his all powerful smartphone!
@codymoe4986 and you are accomplishing what while you are doing the exact same thing? You just like to pop off at the mouth.
I am so glad that we sent the money that could have prevented all this overseas.
I sent all of mine to Donald. He will fix it.
@@toddwilliams5905Lol! Good one:)
We have to make sure Zelensky is happy with his fifth mansion or else he will release the truth of Hunter's dealings.
Think of Sniffy's children!
@@emperorlondomollari5511 Sounds like something a Russian bot would say.
@@DementiaDon Sounds like something a DNC bot would say.
For those of you under 30. Minnesota gets floods.... sometimes its much worse. Minnesota is basically flat...it runs to the Rivers....all river's have flood plains. Where the water accumulates....until drained by the Rivers..streams .. creeks and ponds. Red River has had some recently. But that Minnesota river. Has gone up...20+ feet after a heavy snow melt and Spring rains. You drop 4-6" of rain anywhere...its gonna flood something.... usually fields or basements. Those who live to close to the river......pay!
Yes, people live in flood plains and nothing will change their minds as long as everyone else has to pay for their poor decision making.
Waiting for some ID10T form type to blame this oon the Ukraine. Three fries short of a happy meal!
*IN THE MIDDLE OF 🏖️SUMMER???* ☀️
How to say House for Sale Californians wanted.
Yeah but you don’t expect the dam to fail. I’ve been through many floods in my lifetime, but never a dam failure. That’s why we pay billions of dollars each year to engineers to inspect them and make sure these things don’t happen.
It looks more like the area around the dam gave way rather than the dam itself. Regardless, I hope everyone in the path of the water downstream made it out safely,
Perfect metaphor for the state & country
How is Pa and Mr Edwards going to get back to Walnut Grove?
It looks like the gates through the dam became clogged with debris and otherwise proved inadequate, so the river made its own spillway on the west bank of the River. I attended grad school in Mankato, so I know about that area.
Why did they wait so long to evacuate?
It looks like a design failure, why wouldn’t the dam have an emergency overflow off to the side (where it’s flooding over) and if it did have one it might not have been large enough or maintained properly, which isn’t surprising as we hate maintaining things for some reason.
It probably did... it just couldn't keep up since the main part that drains was clogged up with logs. All they had to do was clear the debris
People just think "it can't happen here", until it does. Better to have it and not need it...
@@Pigtrapper It looks like it made its own emergency overflow
@@DementiaDon Minnesota also has over 1000 dams, many of them are fairly old. Some of the are going to inevitably fail, even if they're well build and designed.
Can the chyron be any bigger?
Is this an expected area for overflow? Is that spot going to continue to erode down to the bottom level of the front side of the dam?
Having gone through a major flood in 2008 in my area I feel for the people that are affected and they are in my thoughts and prayers.
I would get fired if I was a news anchor because I would go off script when this drone footage plays. I would accurately report the situation. Obviously the dam itself has not failed. The spillways may be partially blocked with debris and the water level is high enough that it is finding its way around the dam. Depending on the geo makeup in the area of bypass it may wash out, or if solid rock maybe not. Sad that news anchors are incapable of thinking on their own.
The news reporters can only talk about what was scripted, any speculation on their part could result in termination.
That's like saying my bathtub failed because it's overflowing because I left the plug in and the water turned on. 😂
well, it's a chick... give her a break man...
Is that a thing?
In this case., it's better to err on the side of caution, so that everyone gets out of the way downriver.
why wasnt it opened earlyer?
I am guessing that countries around the world will be pouring in money to not only repair the damaged dam but to provide aid, shelter, etc to those displaced by the flood waters.
HA!
How long until yhey can fix it?
I think the problem has more to due with the fact that there is debry behind the flood gates....If they removed that in time, should that not have prevented the problem? Old dam, sure, but it's still holding water just fine. So the dam is not the main issue. Maybe the had to put an extra spillway right next to it? They could have updated and prevented it if you ask me.
I thought that’s what the Infrastructure Bill was for…
You are correct about what the bill is for but clearly you don’t understand the timelines involved in repairing infrastructure.
Warning should be took seriously. Amount of erosion and volume of flow emergency spillway was never built to handle such flows.
Another great example of the US’s fine infrastructure maintenance programs.
Guess the money was better spent on bike lanes and alphabet theory being taught to children.
@@TheRealMrAndrewtax cuts have consequences.
@@tentringer4065 that’s not the issue, misspending money is.
@@TheRealMrAndrew Actually there has been $450 BILLION allocated for infrastructure nationwide by the current administration. Of that amount, $562.4 MILLION was ear-marked for Minnesota waterway maintenance (dams, channels, etcetera). Republicans fought it hard, calling it "wasteful". It's very easy for that party to rally their base against government spending. Their voters do not understand the connection between "big government" and the services being provided. Hard to say if the Republicans' delay on this infrastructure is directly responsible for this, but it sure didn't help. But for sure their base will blame the current administration, without a hint of cognitive dissonance.
You can see the channel on the right side of the video.Someone was not monitoring the volume of water behind the dam..Partial releases done correctly avoid this.
Well, NOBODY is going to tell ME to evacuate. I've got my GUNS and faith in Jesus. Praise the Lord!
Build Back Better on full display.
What did Make America Great Again do about the situation??? Quit being gaslighting and obviously poor situation all ground.
thanks Randy
That doesn't really look like a failure, that looks like a overtop that went around the side and ate the ground up. Guessing they were releasing at full tilt but it wasn't enough. Nothing can really be done in cases like this, way too much water in too confined a space.
Dose Pete Buttigieg have anything to do with this.
You mentioned Fairmont as being on the Blue Earth River! Fairmont is 20 miles west of the Blue Earth River!
What county? La Sewer?
Le Sueur. Named after some French Explorer from the 1700s or something.
Shovel ready, eh comrade?
Aye Comrade
its a hydro damn clean energy for 3000 homes or you can put 10 giant bird chopper windmills in your backyard to replace it relax nemo
All that money from the Infrastructure Bill should have fixed that.
Good thing the infrastructure bill will help.
@@Armychick Can you tell me which part of the bill included maintenance for dams?
Sending prayers
Does this mean the Mississippi river is filling back up?
Right now it is at its highest I have seen it since the flooding back in the 60s around the Minneapolis area.
Stop alarming people. The dam is doing what was designed to do perfectly well. Right now it is using the spillway, which has been designed to use.
As someone who lives in mankato right near this dam my family is safe however there are people who have to live on the sides of roads without shelter due to there homes not being safe
Praying for all the people, animals effected.
Looks like the power plant still in place. White building we saw going down river was a nearby home & business.
Looking at these images, and then multiple articles from various news outlets said there's no evacuation orders 😱 Why the hell not?? 🤔
Good thing we sent 200,000,000,000+ dollars to Ukraine because we obviously don’t need it here 🤷♂️
You mean Trump's tax cuts? Those things cost more than 2 trillion dollars to US, and if somehow made permanent, several hundred million more per year after 2027. Ahaha!
Johnstown PA feels your pain.
"The county board has long been weighing whether to repair the dam, at a cost of about $15 million, as well as ongoing maintenance costs, or to remove it, which would cost some $82 million and take a decade to deconstruct." The dam removal wiil be sped up a little bit now.
Under whose administration was to take care of this infrastructure so many years ago😮
Hussein Obama.
Pretty much every administration for the past 30 years has promised to "FIX" infrastructure. Pick one..
Until Bidens infrastructure plan was funded and implemented there has been absolutely no major infrastructure funding at least back to the early 70s both parties ignored the problem for the past 50 years
And now it's time to pay the piper there are hundreds of bridges on the verge of failing and many more dams in the same condition trump spent his entire presidency saying he has a infrastructure plan and not one cent was ever spent
And now we are going to have to put up with major construction for the next 15 years just to catch up with the bare minimum that should have been paid for by federal and state fuel taxes collected and spent on other projects!
There should be a law that states that all federal fuel taxes be put into a special fund that can only be used for roads and bridges and the same for the individual states these funds should include all toll charges collected
The regional and local officials neglected the issue for years, they wanted someone else to pay for it. Free loaders gambled and lost.
This has been an issue since the mid 90s. So, everyone in government since then…
Who Built the Dam
Because arguing over inclusivity and gender drugs given to children without parental knowledge are important not the rural people who run farms
Yes, because if you do one thing it means you can't do anything else. 🤡🤡🤡
Tax cuts have destroyed the infrastructure through neglect.
Yeah, my landlord needs a tax cu, his only job is counting money.
No, giving our money to foreign countries and Big Pharm is where the $ went 😮
Democrat State...figures.
Somehow they will send money to Ukraine to help fix this dam.
Gravity never sleeps ! Hope all ok ! 💔🙏😢❗️
Has excessive rainfall caused more water to collect in this reservoir? I know many places have had months worth of rain in hours and days, so this could be what happened.
god dam thats crazy
wow! The House went too just sad :(
Powerful forces of nature.
Minnesota could be hit with very strong storms today including tornados as well
Government just focus on getting more tax from public. Taxpayers money go to Ukraine . Nothing done for public
Minnesota , if you’re listening, and I hope you are. This should have been addressed back in 2016 in the infrastructure deal that never happened because Trump decided a tax cut for the rich was more important!
God help you all !
Oh dear
God help us all fArms ranches
It hasn't failed yet! It may still fail, but it hasn't failed as of Tuesday morning.
Get the FACTS, correct!
Rapidan dam is fun to say
Another one?
How do Americans just keep going? Everything in your country is failing
Don't look good... does it????
Well that's a little ridiculous. It's just a dam, one out of 10's of thousands.
@@DementiaDon It's infrastructure all over your country, just falling apart. And no one has flood insurance or proper healthcare. I feel sorry for you
@@thetechnik Where are you from?
@@DementiaDon oh no, I'm not telling you my country so you can go on some racist diatribe. Focus on yourself
We're Lovin' it.
Thank goodness it’s only a partial failure. We don’t want to see another Johnstown flood.
1:22 So what is all that "debris" that appears to be lodged up against the left side of the dam - it looks like a pile of logs/tree branches close to the center of the dam?
@@AnX8765 I didn't know there was a "high water event"... I don't live anywhere near there. All I was saying was the dam itself looks FINE. It's the bank that eroded away and all that debris in front of the dam probably didn't help.
Grand solar minimum much?
Land of 10000-1 Lakes
So this is where hawk tuah girl has been.
Let's just send more money to Ukraine instead of up grading stuff in your own back yard!
reckon there's Too many people in the water,,happens in the tub all the time
Damn dam!
In the end it's the people living above the dam that will end up underwater. Insurance and FEMA will help to make people who loose everything, to the flood, whole again. But those above will lose 60-90% of their property value once it's no longer considered "lake front".
We’re going to need a bigger boat
Damn!
Guess this will be the "NEW THING" coming to a DAM near you!🙄
DO NOT BLOCK MY RIVERS
Imagine if our taxes were actually used to maintain our infrastructure instead of going to other countries?
Yep that dams going down .
Complex systems can’t survive something something…I think I heard about this somewhere before…
Okay, hear me out...I'm thinking more tax cuts for billionaires?
sorry but I don't get CBS anymore since KCCO Channel 7 was shut down,
Too far north to pick up WCCO and too far south to pick up KCCW. Central Minnesota is in limbo when it comes to CBS
Lets all pretend we care and blame instead of help out though.
I blame it all on William Howard Taft
Dammmmm..
Noone knows what’s maintenance. can’t order a new one off amazon the
Infrastructure issues in America? This can't be true.
The damn dam failed. Damn It!!!
There sure are a lot of essential things malfunctioning that couldhave been hacked.electric grid etc
Surfs up.