The Vajont Dam Disaster - Italy 1963
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The Vajont Dam disaster is sometimes described as the deadliest "man made" natural disaster of all time. Failure to understand the geology of the Vajont gorge led engineers to build a dam which was doomed from the start. This terrible loss of life should have never have been allowed to happen. Here is an all too familiar story of unheeded warnings and over reaching ambition.
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As an Italian, I could never forget the brilliant and yet frightening exemplification written by Dino Buzzati, one of our greatest novelists and journalists, on the Corriere della Sera the day after: "A pebble has fallen into a glass full of water and the water spilled over the tablecloth. That's all. Just the glass was hundreds of meters high and the pebble was big as a mountain and below, on the tablecloth, there were thousands of human, defensless creatures..."
And, as mostly usual, the people in charge got away with minor punishment. Very sad, how law and justice are working.
@@foreverpinkf.7603 Sadly this is a recurrence when disasters like this happen. Nevertheless a factor which contributed to this chain of bad decision was that most of the geologists and engineers who tried to solve the problem of the Mount Toc fracture were convinced that the landslide would have fallen as a cascade of stones, like already happened months before in a nearby reservoir, replicating the effect of a huge teaspoon of sugar thrown in a tea cup: actually it fell all in one piece like a huge sugar cube, causing the disaster we know today They underestimated the risk and did not take the precautionary measures to evacuate the population, despite others had been very vocal and announced the risk for the communities of Erto and Casso, like the journalist Tina Merlin which was a real life Cassandra (and if I remember well neither she envisaged the risk for Longarone as everybody was convinced the risk was mainly for the riverain settlements).
@@cayasta1970 The BIGGEST Reason for so many deaths was the Sheer Stupidity of the people who were killed. As you noted, the possible dangers of a dam failure were well publicized, and events just before this disaster made local residents even more apprehensive. But those DUMMIES chose not to evacuate simply because they didn't receive an "official order" to do so. How STUPID Is That ?
So-called Western Liberal Democracies pride themselves on how much Freedom their citizens have. But what good is all that Freedom when citizens Are NOT even Smart Enough to voluntarily remove themselves in the face of Immanent Danger ? Events like this one convince me that most people don't really want Freedom, but Want To Be Told What To Do instead !!! "Freedom" is wasted on Foolish People such as these !!!
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@@foreverpinkf.7603 Some things never change, just the date, unfortunately!!!🙏😢❣️
My dad once told me, while passing through the Piave valley , around 5/6 years after the tragedy, one could see bedsheets and pieces of clothing still hanging on top of the tallest trees, so high the flood had dragged them, out of any reach; therefore, they just left the stuff in there... A most haunting sight for bystanders, a reminder of human green and stupidity. Still gives me the chills.
After a tropical storm made its way up the east coast to Vermont I saw a few boats In Trees. Water is scary powerful at times
I visited The Dolomites in August of this year. I have a photo from the traffic circle in Longarone with the dam visible in the gorge above. I parked and hiked down the trail (steep and rocky) and touched the upstream face of the dam, realizing that there was 750' of landslide debris under my feet. I took the tour across the crest and then had a wonderful lunch at a cafe in Erto. I also visited the cemetery and paid my respects. I had first read of the disaster in Life Magazine in 1963 and had to see it for myself. I am an engineer, and disasters like this are a powerful cautionary tale.
Must have been an amazing experience for you.
You read the story in 1963. And hiked that treacheroud track 59 years later. You must be in one amazing shape.
My wife's grandpa was hiking in Death Valley with a group of seniors in their 70s and he found his new wife in that group lol. Some folks really can do those things for decades longer than we expect@@frankfarago2825
94% casualty rate!! That is a stunning number!! As you pointed out, that is a hard number to get your head around! I knew a little about this disaster but the photos and numbers are absolutely shocking!! Very sad subject but great video my friend! Couldn't be happier to see you uploading videos again after all that y'all went through. I'm very glad you and your family are ok and I hope and pray that good times are ahead!☺
Hoping "that good times are ahead" for a narrator
who specializes in Disasters is rather ironic, don't you think ?
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap."
@@JosephKulik2016 How is it ironic ? Also "As yet sow, so shall you reap"
Do you think the narrator is causing these disasters ?
What happened to the host of this video? Comments say he went through something bad??
@@49kittypretty1 Afaik from he said in a video about smoke jumpers (firefighters dropped in badly accessible zones to stop wildfires from spreading) was that a wildfire in the area where he and his family live (central Portugal) came within meters of his house. i can't remember if that video coincides with the event that this commenter is talking about though.
I remember this happening. I was in the 8th grade. Now, decades later, it echoes the St. Francis Dam disaster in southern California a few minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928 when the water behind the dam saturated the ancient landslide that formed the narrow point of the canyon and caused a spectacular failure of the dam which sent a wall of water down a canyon killing many and washing bodies out into the Pacific Ocean. Thank you for providing the excellent photographic documentation of this story which we did not have in 1963.
Was it htat dam from which a part of it wasz still standing for decades before being demolished because kids were playing there and once fall and died?
Good to have you back, and a great telling of a truly tragic story
This type of disaster is just unfathomable. It's extremely difficult to imagine.
I was born in the UK, in 1961 and this is the first time that I have heard of this disaster. Absolutely shocking to imagine what those poor people went through in their final moments. RIP.
I first learned about this during a geography lesson at school. The sheer scale of what happened is still difficult to comprehend. A classic case of “After Hubris comes Nemesis”
Given that Monte Toc was nicknamed "The walking mountain" by locals, that should've been a hint. I live near the site of the St. Francis Dam, which also failed due to an unstable canyon wall which was ultimately attributed to an ancient landslide. At the time it was built (1924-1926) we knew far less about geologic hazards than we do now.
Oh wow.. that’s crazy.. I can’t believe that the engineers and geologists didn’t immediately take that as a sign that, maybe these people who lived there were acutely aware the mountain was truly unstable. And the fact that all the towns people- who knew the mountain was unstable- tried fighting to not have the dam built there in the first place, just makes it all the more incredulous that these engineers still went ahead with the project, knowing full well how dangerous it was. Unbelievable.
Mount Toc it's on the border between the regions of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, "toc" means "piece" in venetian and "rotten/broken" in friulian, this sums up quite well.
They were certainly skilled at *building* a dam but not at where to put one.
Many, many accident and deaths could have been avoided. Just one exmaple. Near Chamonix Ski resort (France) there a polace named Montroc. It was decided to build a residential area with chalet in an area that was known for being an avalanche corridor. An Old guide warned the authorities about building in that zone but still they did it and it was completly erased by an avalanche in the '80s.
Guess what ? They started building again there.
Another example, in Passy, 10 km from above mentionned Chamonix Resort, there was in the early '70s one of many sanatorium. This one was builf right under a cliff (this is a moutain area, above 3000ft high). Though there had been some warning like crack in walls that winter and small landslide of snow and mud, nothing was done. One night a landslide occured and catch the wing with the boys' dormitory. No survivor. When I read about that tragedy when I settle in the area, i read the testimony of a shocked rescuer who said they were excavating the kids bodies, still holding their blankets/comforters (stuffed animals).
As always there was signes that should have alerted people. WHatver the era, whattever the country, the sames mistakes lead to deaths.
For visual reference, waves at Nazare, Portugal, are reputed to get to be 100 feet high (people surf those things!). Those are massive waves. It isn't just the height, it is the enormous mass of water in them. Getting caught in one can lead to all kinds of broken bodies, as well as drowning. The estimated height of the Vajont wave was seven to eight times that height. Just trying to imagine such a wave at Nazare is mind blowing. It would "wipe out" everyone on the "safe" observation deck throwing them miles inland.
The record for the highest surfed waves at Nazaré was just a little shy of 40 meters if I remember correctly, something like 36 or 38 meters. The Vajont dam itself was already more than 250 meters tall, and the wave that swept over it was another 150-200 meters tall. So all in all the megatsunami that came over the Vajont dam is 10 times the size of the largest Nazaré waves ever surfed.
The fact that the dam held up to that tremendous force is impressive
That kind of dam, although thin, is really strong as the more you push on it the more it divert the pressure to both side of itslef and the moutains "pushe back".
This incident has always fascinated just because it's nearly impossible to imagine what it must have looked like when that wave of water came over the dam. Of course, there are only estimations of how big the wave was but I've seen everything from 100-200m. Anything that big is absurd to imagine.
It's way more than I can imagine.
The commonly accepted estimate (according to the Wikipedia page) was 750-800 feet (220-240m) over the dam crest. I can believe it - looking at the landslide, which completely fills the valley bottom for a distance of a mile, and reflect that the lake of water had to go somewhere. I believe it, I just find it hard to imagine it.
@@cr10001 The Golden Gate Bridge is 746 feet. 800 feet? My god.
The highest wave ever recorded was 1728 feet: the Lituya Bay Megatsunami (July 9, 1958). Two people survived to tell their story.
@@cr10001 It's completely plausible considering megatsunami's caused by mountain sides crashing into a lake or fjord can be many hundreds of meters tall (the Lituya bay one was more than half a kilometre tall). They calculated that if the Cumbre de Vieja volcanic island in the Canary's would split in half and slide into the ocean it would produce a megatsunami of more than half a kilometre as well.
A devastating example of 'just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should'.
Correction: It was the *northern* slope of Monte Toc (which formed the southern side of the Vajont valley) that was the problem. The southern slopes of the mountain overlook a different valley altogether.
The dam itself, of course, was magnificently well built and is now probably the world's highest retaining wall.
Standing on the main road beside the dam, you can look up at the high ridge which rises intimidatingly above you. At first you think 'so where was the landslide?' Then you realise you're looking at it. A narrow side road runs along the top of it for a mile. The thought that all this lot just slid into the lake makes it easier to understand how the water went 800 feet over the top of the dam - though I find it impossible to really comprehend.
Drop an effervescent tablet in a full glass of water, you'll have some water spilled on the table. No scale the glass to the dam's size.
Thank you for presenting all of your videos with such respect.
This sunday would be the anniversary of this disaster, rest in peace to the victims
Hearing the wave was estimated at 750-800 feet high is not just mind blowing but also extremely terrifying
200 meters
I remember learning about this disaster in my natural disasters class. The immense scale of this disaster is truly unfathomable.
Your coverage of obscure historical tragedies is chilling and amazing. More.
This was no 'obscure tragedy'. I think, perhaps, it's simply a case of you not being around at the time this took place. It was a shocking catastrophe that received huge news coverage (at least in Canada) at the time. I was 10 years old when it happened and I vividly remember seeing this on our national news station.
Whoever brought the story to light did a great job, thank you
I had never heard of this disaster -amazing that the dam withstood such enormous forces, but that the carnage was caused by a landslide.
How could the Dam Builders not see this coming? Great video as always.
Coz they were so blinded by the magnificence of their amazing dam (which btw is still standing, tho with no water behind it), that they chose to be blind and ignore the warnings from the geologists, that this was NOT the place to build a dam. The dam itself is an amazing piece of engineering, the placement is an amazing proof of human stupidity and recklessness.
I would add human arrogance along with the restlessness and stupidity
They knew, just ignored the signs
They did see it coming ,but underestimated how bad it could be
Money is blinding and greed is all rich scum see
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we visited a dad's friend in Barcis in 1984 and you could still see the water marks from the waves caused by the landslide on the steep cliff walls of that area. Truly a major tragedy.
glad to see you.. surviving the weather hope you are intact...great vid. as always.
In the summer of 1965 as an 8 year old my family had holidayed in Italy (Lido di Jesolo). I recall our bus (homeward leg) travelling up thru the wasteland that was the valley and the hushed conversations of adults talking of the dam disaster. Some minutes later off to the right the dam came into view. Other than what looked like damaged railings it was completely intact. It gave me the willys for sure.
Good to see you back creating! :)
Welcome back! We have missed you.
So getting Johnstown Pennsylvania vibes.
Yup. On a devastatingly grander scale.
My mother was in high school in Johnstown in 1936, and got out of the flood with several friends. 😊
Ravens Eyes channel is pure class, excellent delivery, the audio and soundtrack is great. Really glad it is back after a break.
Another masterful video by the Raven's Eye! The dam should never have been built. What a senseless tragedy. All those lives lost! And for what?
You should do a video about the big blue crane collapse. Three iron workers were killed, and I haven't seen it covered on other channels yet.
Great video, your channel rocks and you have been missed.
Thank you for another interesting video - and great to see you back again!
This always fascinates me, along with the Malpasset dam failure around the same general timeframe. We're not talking the 1920s or 1930s, this is post WW2, engineering had moved on in both cases, and yet this disaster is, if anything ,absolutley mind blowing with a 94% casualty rate
Malpasset could have bein avoided if it wasn't for the A8 highway that was build at the time in the valley downwards the dam. They just had pourred concrete to built pillar for the bridge of the highway and releasing water would have not helped dry/cure the concrete. When they finally changed their mind it was too late. Plus it was not build for electricity production but for watering the agricultural lands around. Therefore the by-pass valve was undersized. I'm 6"4 and I can not stand into the dam's pipe.
Amazing that the dam held after all the water and land pressure against it during the massive slide.
This is a clue it was well built. And now instead of water it retains a similar aùmount or dirt. Still holding.
I’m so glad your back! It’s been to long❤️
At last a new video from The Raven's Eye..
Thank you for this video and indeed this channel.
Please keep up the good work.
What didn't help was the fact that the previous winter 1962/3 was particularly harsh with heavy snows and deep penetrating frosts resulting in the destruction of many of the roads and weakening of the subsoils across half of Europe. I went by road from Ostend in Belgium to Innsbruck in Austria and many of the roads had been reduced to mud. The cold and penetrating frosts destabilised the underlying geology.
Glad you're back!
You're my favorite for these types of videos good to see you again👍
This was tragic but you have to admit that was a very well built dam with all that water flowing over would of collapse any other dam
Those that went in their sleep were the lucky ones. Such an event is loud enough to easily wake, and by then it's only 30 seconds tops
The Narrator's closing words: "...ignored warnings and engineering hubris..." are repeated over and over again in history and moving forward into the future. Always crystal clear in the hindsight of disaster, but somehow of no concern when "progress" (i.e. "money") is as stake. The Titanic, the Hindenburg, Challenger Space Shuttle, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Chernobyl...the list is long.
I'm not sure that I agree with "engineering hubris". Perhaps "commercial hubris" is closer to the mark. The engineers designed a dam that could (and did) withstand the force thrown at it. The commercial management - not the engineers - were the ones who rejected the geologic reports and ignored the mile long crack appearing. They were the ones who should have been castigated, not the engineering staff.
😩 " HORRIFIC!....I hope that All of those responsible for this preventable tragedy were haunted until the very end. "
My deepest respect and a thick thank you for taking the time to learn to pronounce these Italian names and places correctly. You, sir, are pretty alone in the vast Internet with that.
That disaster makes me feel so bad for them. Longarone will never be the same because the Vajont Dam Disaster in 1963.
Excellent content, ty for educating me abt this
No matter how hard I try, I cannot conceive what a 200 metre wave would look like. I have seen surfers riding huge waves that look enormous, but they are 'merely' 30 metres high. Such a tragedy!
please use metric measurments when describing european things. I have problems to imagine with gallons, feet, Empire State Builings and so on.
But great documentary, keep up the good work!
Yes yes
It's simple math
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"Empire state buildings and so on" 😂 💀
Thanks for all the research you do to bring us these historical segments that claim so many lives and show so much destruction. I thoroughly enjoy each and every one.
Thank you!
It's difficult to grasp the magnitude of this failure - the sheer numbers are beyond understanding.
Heartbreaking.
Good grief! I’ve never seen some of the aftermath photos of the slide itself behind the dam. As big as the dam was, it looks like a tiny ant compared to the sheer size of the landslide behind it! Wow!
Excellent but somber storytelling as always. I've seen several versions of this story, but as expected, you provided a little more information than others. Also, after hearing another video mispronounce every single place name, even turning Dolomites into 4 syllables, I appreciate the care you take to deliver the proper pronunciations.
By the way, Bad Day HQ seems to be reposting some of your content. I didn't check the whole channel; I just recognized "The West Gate Bridge Collapse" as soon as I clicked.
The engineers prooved they could build a damn that holds and it did, so well that the mountain gave up first. Tragic.
Keep up these amazing videos, your channel is going to blow up I can just feel it! Great work as always!
"engineering hubris",indeed!I love your channel,and your intelligent commentary, RE!
This is unbelievable. How could someone even greenlit the project despite so many dangers
Greed and corruption.
The worst disaster in Italy. Not only was it the deadliest catastrophe deriving from a major landslide, it was also the most frightening, terrifying and unavoidable water wave, 70 metres high, that swept Longarone away. Many corpses were not found and many others had simply been pulverized by the hurricane wind that destroyed Longarone seconds before the giant wave wiped away the poor village.
May God be merciful with the victims, Many of whom were teenagers and students.
Good to have you back!
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@@heroesofhogan233 Now take your protein pills and put your helmet on, will you!!!
@@gary1961 ; Am just curious, and everyone's been asking, what shirt the OP's been wearing.
@@heroesofhogan233 Major Tom should have just told the papers that he wears his own shirts.
@@gary1961 ; The OP should know that his wife Loves him 'Very Much'
Excellent…great narration. Many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember reading that the blast of the air + debris was measured to be almost 2 times stronger than the blast from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Great video. Really enjoy your work. Keep it up
Wow, incredible story. I would never be able to live beneath all that held back water. I’d just be waiting for it to burst. Let alone a mountain falling into it. Shudder!!!!
You should check out a few other stories done on this disaster. There were many people that lived in great worry about the nature of the area chosen to build the dam as well as symptoms that there were big issues and danger of possible failure of the dam. In many ways there was a sense of an accident waiting to happen but no one really knew when that would happen and the enormous risk to all that lived in the effected area. Such a sad fate for so many Innocents.
@@Isabella-nh5dm yes, I do believe I will! I can just imagine how people must have felt….
I visited this dam and the area in 2009. There is a footpath from casso that runs up alongside the gorge towards Longarone. I estimated that we were 120 to 150 metres above the dam! There was bent metal (railings?) Pushed towards Longarone at this height!! The wave was at least this height - Horrifying! Rip those poor people!
I'm italian, and my grandparents from my mother's side are from Grea a little village over Domegge, just some kilometers north from there.
My grandmother tells me that everyone was concerned about it, and that in the days before the catastrophe a lot of snakes were coming out from the soil, probably feeling somethig vibrating.
That is only the biggest of some tragedy made from those who haven't respect of the knowledge of nature of the mountain people.
Accurate documentary. Thanks
Definitely a man-made disaster!
The surveyors failed, the managers failed, the geologists failed, the engineers failed, but not the architects or the builders.
When the mountainside slid into the lake and pushed out its contents, the design load of the dam must have been exceeded many times, yet still it held back what did not spill over.
Dams are designed by engineers, not architects. And yes, the dam must have been extremely well designed and built. I see no indication that any surveyors failed, and I'm not sure any geologists failed, either. As to who failed, it's complex - just read the Wikipedia page.
This catastrophe was a lesson to the entire world to always listen to geologists when building in places like this. They knew that the mountainside was not stable enough to withstand the constant pressure of water against it, due to the clay layer underneath… but those with money and power overrode those concerns. Today, geologists have the final say in any construction project like this- thankfully. It’s just too bad it took the loss of an entire town and 2,000+ people for the message to get across.
This was absolutely apocalyptic! Hell on earth!
Finally...❤️❤️❤️❤️..I was waiting for you my guy✌️✌️
Missed u Raven's Eye!
I remember my late father telling me about this happening 30 years ago never thought id see this video about it !
I cannot even imagine what that must have been like if you were one of the unlucky few who witnessed the crest of the wave 🌊 as it was peaking before it crashes down to erase these town's. It must feel other worldly to witness that and know, just know, there is NOTHING anyone can do.
RIP ❤️
Welcome back Raven's Eye🥁 always looking forward to your great video.
Nice to see you back mate. Excellent video once again, and an extra tip of the hat for putting some effort into correctly pronouncing the Italian names and locations instead of taking the "I'm probably going to mispronounce this so not even gonna try" route that I see on many other channels. You'd expect tech-savvy content creators to make use of things like live translation tools/apps to check stuff like this in order to raise the quality of their content, but apparently most people can't be bothered! Good to see that you can, little things like this do matter imho.
Its ridiculous how many stories like this have come out of Italy.
Corruption in the building industry goes miles deep and miles high there. And the level of incompetence was pretty high as well.
Welcome back!
What an opening!
Dam is still there next day?
Color me hooked.
I’m so so glad you are back making videos. I love your voice. It is very sad so many people perished and so much was destroyed. Please keep making videos.
Remembe this case. This was th St. Francisville Dam moment for Europe, unfortunately. Geologists and engineers not doing their homework created an epic disaster. RIP to all the Victims here.
Its unbelievable that..that dam didn't collapse!
Totally shocking!!
I'm curious as to what happened to the route of the river that was feeding the dam? With the river valley being completely covered up by the landslide, where does the river now run? I would love to go and see this area, I've been to the southern areas around Italy, but never up north. Great video and information shared. Thanks
A bypass has been built after disaster and the water is unloaded just after the dam. There are other two tunnels (not used anymore since at highest level) which can unload the water on opposite valley of Cimolais
@@AnakinIT sadly the by-pass was made secretly BEFORE the disaster and at the trial it become the material evidence they knew that the mountain was failing.
@@lucavaleri1797 an old bypass has been made when all the people know that there could be a "small landslide" from Mount Toc thus water can be easily drained. Actual bypass had obviously been built after disaster.
@@AnakinIT the bypass used today is still the first one. They only add a new entry because the old one was filled with gravel after 30 years
The St. Francis Dam had a central part of the structure left standing after the disaster until it was demolished to prevent injuries
It always takes the lives of innocent people before someone realizes that a calamity could have been prevented.
Perhaps there was a silent hero that day. The Vajont dam itself. It was foolish to build it in this location, but it was subjected to forces that far outweighed it's known limits and yet, despite it all, it stayed upright and thus prevented a far taller wave of water to flow into the valley.
What a great episode, now I'll expect it to appear on Bad Day HQ without credits to your channel.
Three surveys said “don’t build here” but they built here? Smacks of ignorance, incompetence and corruption at the highest levels.
The natural flow of water from the top of Australia to the bottom of Australia is disrupted by dams.
Removal of trees and vegetation has changed the filtering system of the original water ways.
Droughts bushfires and floods have resulted.
Dam walls are holding back the natural forces of nature. The push back from the force of the water being held back is making ground water in the areas behind the dam walls mountains hills that are barren.
The original water flows act as cooling for the Earth’s surface temperature so the changes effect the heating system of the Earths core.
Simulate to adding cold water to hot water it makes hotter water.
The only solution is to try to put things back the way they where as much as possible.
The Earth moves the ground we are on moves.
Water needs to flow.
This is simply the best I can explain the situation atm.
Well done video!
I had forgotten the details of this disaster before I saw this video. As I hit play, I opened Google Earth to explore along. I was looking for traces of the first small landslide, then I saw the big landslide still visible despite the new tree cover. I had a genuine oh shit moment right then.
How many disasters were caused by people seeing just how much they could get away with? Big and small...
I just had a look on Google Earth at the area. You can still clearly see the massive scar left on the land where the land slipped, and I mean massive. Such a tragedy that should never have happened. Yet another example of site surveying, and by the time the problems of the area had been fully understood, the money had already been spent on the dam. And rather than admitting the mistake, which would make them look bad, let alone lose them a massive amount of money, they just carried on and filled the reservoir anyway. Even a child knows what happens if they take a bucket of water and fill it with sand and stones.
Ironic that the dam should survive, after million of tons of rock just simply pushed millions of gallons of water over the top.
I assume it was a assumption that the slippage would be slow, how tragically that was so wrong. All those poor people would not have know anything at all, as night time.
The narrator made the comment that one side of the dam may have been built against an ancient rock slide - the engineers thinking that it was solid ground. That may well be the very same reason for why the St. Francis dam in Los Angeles California failed early in the 1900s. Extensive investigation showed that the entire east hillside may have been an ancient debris field from a landslide, among other theories.
Great video! 👍
Thanks for that, much appreciated!
This is a very well researched video. Just watched Dark History's video, which is good. But I think this one really digs deep into how and why this happened.
Hey, Raven.
Been a fan of your channel for a while, and it's great to see that you're back, I first watched an old show on TLC in 2002 (back when it was "The Learning Channel" and not "Total Loser Cretins") that played the Vajont disaster in detail.
Here's some incidents I'd like you to cover. All of the ones from Northern Ontario I have either a personal or ancestral connection with, from places I'm from. Others are pretty well-known fires, train derailments and industrial disasters that have happened in Canada in the late-20th Century to the early 21st. I know you do alot of good research in your videos, and I'd love to see your craftsmanship put into these videos. Some are pretty dark, while others in fact have happy endings and can show your viewers what happens when emergency services are well-organised and do their jobs. Others are just plain corporate greed and political corruption.
In the cases of the 1986 Timmins gas spill, and the 1986 Winisk flood, I either am blood-related to some of the actors who were involved or have known them through my childhood frequently visiting the fire hall. The Mississauga one, my current dad was evacuated along with his family on that night, and the grandfather of one of my friend group of train buffs was an RTC for CP Rail the morning after that wreck.
Would you like to cover some of these? I think your careful and sensitive touch to covering this genre of video would mean alot to us.
Keep the content coming. :) Love your work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9miska_Community_Hall_fire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Winisk_flood
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaster
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_Mine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Mississauga_train_derailment
republicofmining.com/2015/01/28/70th-anniversary-of-paymaster-mining-disaster-by-len-gillis-timmins-daily-press-january-28-2015/
scoopgillis.blogspot.com/2016/03/easter-monday-1986.html
www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/1999/r99h0010/r99h0010.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinton_train_collision
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Porcupine_Fire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1922
Phew - that's a lot of info there - are sure you shouldn't be starting your own channel !! Thanks a lot - I will have a look into those. Cheers!
@@theravenseye9443 hey, there. Sorry for the delayed response. Been really busy with life.
wanna really thank you for the Mississauga video and for the shout-out at the end. I showed it to my friends, and my dad who lived there since he came to canada in 1977, the video and the shout-out. they're proud of me for getting the recognition, and the quality of which you covered it.
Look forward to more content. :) Cheers!