Growing erosion continues at Rapidan Dam in Minnesota
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Flooding on the Blue Earth River has eaten away shores by the Rapidan Dam all week. FOX 9's Rob Olson spoke with those in the community about how it's impacting them currently.
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Anyone else unable to stop saying “Rapidan Dam” to themselves over and over?
Rapi dam damn Rapi dam damn 🎵🎵
woooah black betty Rapidan...
@@innercityprepper
Black Betty had a dam (Rapidan)
The damn thing gone wild
Daummm
Lt. Dan, Rapidan Dam....ugh...
The dam store is gone along with the dam playground, the dam house, and the dam bank.
At least they have the dam pictures and the dam video!
@@vickiclark1998 where are the Griswolds when you need them?
Dam it man, where are the dam Griswolds.@sublimehypocrisy
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bevis and Butthead had a field day with this gag." Where's the dam bathroom? " and yes these sophomoric jokes are hilarious.
Major Infrastructure in America is 50 to 100 years old
older than that in some places
And there are 800 US military bases around the world what we know about.
Most much older
It's ok, mother nature will help us replace it the wrong way
@Zodroo_Tint 800? WTF did number come from? More conspiracy bs ?
Just in case no one got the memo - rivers move around. If you build next to a river good luck trying to control the river.
That, and most Dams in America need replaced.
@@thepressurepack3777And a lot of old, unused ones straight up removed.
💯 percent
@@thepressurepack3777this dam was found lacking and they ignored improving it... Minnesota at it's finest
In the case of this dam, keeping the debris cleaned away from it would have allowed the water to flow through the dam instead of the water being forced to find a way around it. They do that here a couple of times a year so bad things like this don't happen.
I love media explanations of stuff. Reminds me of my grade school days.
They were looking at satellite images, you wanted them to turn into engineers right before our eyes?
lololololololol
15 of the hardest years of your life
Half of this country is stoned 24/7 you know.
They have to dumb things down or many will be confused.
If that bridge were in Pittsburgh, busses would still be driving over it until it collapses
Don't be like that now.
Pittsburgh has more bridges than any city in the world. It's amazing more collapses haven't happened with the amount of rain they get and all the rivers there. Grew up in Pittsburgh and can honestly say I never worried about bridges collapsing. Lol
gotta thank Trump for that, when his too busy allowing his government to do drug instead of pass laws
@@xxdesertstormshut up! This has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS!
@@kristacontreras6063actually when money is hard to come by to perform even basic maintenance and upkeep because it's more important to give tax cuts then politics does have a role. It's been decades that our infrastructure has had a failing grade all because of money. And that's politics.
I am curious why the cable tree catcher with the buoys that is by the bridge in 2011 is not there today? Who would have ever guessed if you allow a dam to plug and do nothing about it will overflow. Seems a little fishy by the Rapidan dam
Oh dear it looks like someone's child found a pair of scissors. 😂😂
Lol instead of "I want my park back!" She should have yelled "I want my bangs back!" 😂
Yup. Got them scissor bangs.
Came here to find this comment. I am not disappointed 😂
@@BOOMBiggityBamlooks like mommy added them to hers?
Her trend breaking style immortalized forever on TV!
I wonder if she'll remember her 15 minutes of fame? 😸
Mother nature will always win
(...or just not maintaining structures that require maintenance & upkeep...)
@@RyTrapp0 Nature does not care it will destroy that which should have never been put in place.
@@RyTrapp0 the dam itself is stable, theres nothing you can do about the banks eroding and water bypassing the dam.
Always, as time and nature always wins , unless it's made out of hard stone such as granite . Nothing man made , has withstood the test of time.
@@manchesterexplorer8519 actually all brass creations will last for millions of years, and will be the only human creation to stand the test of time on that scale
I like Minnesotans standing around in the rain. No umbrellas not even a hood up
We can always tell a tourist.. 😂
Just wait until winter!
It’s how we drink water
We're built different
@@Mastezz 🤣🤣😂😂
Somebody tried to cut their own bangs. 😅 2:10
LMAO, I thought you were right but in the next scene you can tell her hair is just caught in her glasses, she doesn't actually have bangs lol.
@@SwiKeyMTC I think kimm is talking about the child.
Yes, let's stick to the truly important things.
@@SquawkingSnailOh, come on. What could be more important than harmless and hilarious shenanigans of small children?
Right, and she had the serious face when she said I want the park back lol children are so precious!
What a dam shame.
A damn shame of the dam
anyone tole you I gave a damn damn sure told you wrong.
You out your dam mind 😁
To whom are you speaking to ?
@@JennyThomas-nv8zh do you really give a dam?
Hurricane Harvey flooded the greater Houston area, my home was flooded for 4 days. I hope that fema can help these folks like they aided me. Pro tip, after your home is no longer flooded purchase at least one dehumidifier, and cut the lower sheet rock in your home and remove all the soggy insulation. Do not let mold get a foothold in your house. Good luck!
If dehumidifiers are sold out, you could use a window air conditioner. Just set it on a table inside, run it, and collect the water. Basically the exact same thing as a dehumidifier but much easier to come accross.
Nope if you have flood and home owners call insurance company and tell them I need help now. Went through this in 06 in Florida with four hurricanes. We were going around doing the work tearing ceiling tiles and insulation out and I told the higher-ups dont we have insurance for this, and they said yeah. Then told me well well well that makes sense. And our company was over insured so they listened and got on the phone and said We need this we need that and they got it. That's why you pay insurance.
@@briansmith5469 "if you have flood insurance" I sadly did not, but if i did.....
@MikeSmith-ch7jv
I'm sorry I understand we were insurance broke in Florida we had insurance on top of insurance and never once claimed and should have. Had our whole screen enclosure wiped out. Luckily I had friends in the business that repaired it. But sorry for that even having it sometimes doesn't help out.
@@briansmith5469 there will be zero machinery and equipment locally available. Water remediation. Companies will be tapped out in 0.2 seconds. The best that most people will do is the advice given by this guy. And that's exactly what the remediation companies would do except with 5x the dehumidifiers, plus diesel heaters to keep the interior air temps at 90F-95F for ideal water saturation in the air for the dehumidifiers.
Hope people, animals,and property are safe.
❤Can confirm, humans and dogs have been out of the dam area since 2AM or so Monday morning. They got as much out of the house and store as was possible.
All they had to do is cleaning the outlets…. but they let it happen….
Maybe Minnesota should worry more about their infrastructure than changing their state flag and focus on making the bridges and damns safe for their populations.
Yeah lmfao keep dreaming
Keep voting democrat 😂
Dam* right.
That dam is solid... 😂 That's why the water is going around it you dunce.
Is that the state where the infamous somalian lives?
@2:11 *someone* was left with scissors unsupervised.
All because nobody bothered to clean out the debris that was clogging the spillways. (Or just install a couple of logbooms upstream, angled to one side for easier cleanout.) Stepping on dollars to pick up pennies, people never learn.
The event happened so fast there wasn't time to clean anything.
This was a major storm with major flooding and it unfolded in just a couple of hours.
@@matthewmoore7447 Yeah... doing a root cause analysis (what you call MMQ) does help... doofus.
@@matthewmoore7447 Nothing monday morning quarterback about it, this is negligence.
Every other dam in the country has booms that catch debris. Even conducting a feasabilty study, instead of just hiring an engineer to make a boom, speaks volumes about the incompetent management.
That's before you even get to the part where they negligently ignored the results of their study.
An earlier video stated that the company with the excavator to clear debris was five hours away from the dam at the time the flooding started. My question is there wasn't someone else with an excavator in the area that was just as qualified? I'm guessing there was
@@nicloewenhagen5557 But they weren't the one who had jumped through all the miles and miles of governmental red tape to get contract.
There was some huge negligence on the part of the damn dam operator. If they had opened up the two emergency gates and started removing the debris that was blocking the 5 open gates, with an excavator with a claw. This would have never happened. I smell a negligence lawsuit coming up
100 years from now all that eroded away will be a reminder to everyone there how high the river was back in 2024
It won't exist.jesus is coming.repent
@@daughter-of-christProve it.
What it looks like when they pocket the money set aside for preventative maintenance on the dam and roads .
They should try to lift that historic Dam Store onto skids and drag it back from the edge.
That is a piece of history.
That's what I was thinking too
ya built in 1890!
Dam close to the store. The twinkees are shaking in their wrappers.
I hope they evacuated all the Hostess! And the ice cream. And the pies and sodie pop!
Thanks again Pete Butgig. You can tell he's looking after America.
Is a county owned dam under federal purview?
@@rona4960is rain under federal purview?
@@rona4960 Funny everything was working just fine before the demons stole the election 4 years ago.
State knew about this possibility way before his time
Gravity always wins. Never mind mother of nature. S runs down hill.
Ignore the "reporter" rambling the obvious. The little girl is the smartest in the video.
gravity has nothing to do with water finding the path of least resistance.
Here in northwest Iowa we have flooding also. It’s horrible. Windom isn’t too far away from me and I do have family there. Two days ago the water was heading for their house.
I've been making comments on these videos for them to widen the coverage from the dam store.
Love and good thoughts for you Minnesota. From Warren County Missouri
I used to live across the street from Harriet island 2 years ago. So glad i moved. Feel bad for people above lost their homes.
I'm so sorry.....😢
Erosion doesnt stop and neither does rain ☔
THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the Salvation at the last day brought by Christ in the second and last incarnation in His new and holy name"
Almighty God said
The ENTIRE PLAN of My GOVERNMENT, a PLAN COVERING SIX THOUSAND YEARS, CONSISTS of THREE PHASES, or THREE AGES: The AGE of LAW in the BEGINNING; The AGE of GRACE (also called the Age of Redemption); and The AGE of the KINGDOM in the LASTDAY.
My WORK in these THREE AGES DIFFERS in CONTENT according to the NATURE of each AGENCY, but at each STAGE it MATCHES HUMAN REQUIREMENTS-or, to be more precise, it is FULFILLED based on the DECEPTIONS USED by SATAN in My WAR Here it is. 🛑
My PURPOSE of My WORK is to DEFEAT SATAN, to SHOW My WISDOM and ETERNAL POWER, to EXPOSE ALL DECEPTIONS of SATAN, and thus to SAVE the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE, who LIVE UNDER the COVER this. ☀️
This is to DISPLAY My WISDOM and ETERNAL POWER while REVEALING SATAN'S INCREDIBLE awfulness. Even MORE, it is to TEACH My CREATIONS to CHOOSE BETWEEN GOOD and EVIL, to KNOW that I am the RULER of ALL THINGS, to SEE CLEARLY that SATAN is the ENEMY of HUMANITY, the LOWEST of the LOWEST, the he is EVIL, and to SEE,with absolute CERTAINTY, the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD and EVIL, TRUTH and FALSENESS, HOLY and IMPURITY, and WHAT is GREAT and WHAT is LOW. 🙏
From "The Word Appears in the Flesh"
Fulfillment of (John 1:1) and (Ezekiel 2:9-10), (Revelation 19:9,13)
➡️ I am looking for and God is "calling" His people "chosen" the Israelites to gather to fulfill all this recorded "prophecy" that truly takes place and exists, He cleanses the entirety of a person's person on His white throne which He brought down will be built on holy place in the sky/RUclips "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐
(Ezekiel 20:39-41,43) 📩
"Jehovah said: "People of Israel, if you don't want to listen to Me don't! Go worship your gods--gods until you want.
👉 But the DAY will COME when you will NOT blaspheme me anymore. You will not sacrifice to your idols.
👉 ALL ISRAEL will WORSHIP Me on the MOUNT I have APPOINTED," Jehovah said, "YOU will SERVE Me there. I will PRAY for you there. There I will WAIT for you to offer the chosen offerings."
"There I will accept your OFFERINGS after I GATHER you from the PLACES I have DISPOSED of YOU, and there I will REVEAL to you My HOLYNESS in FRONT of OTHER NATIONS."
There, you will remember your evil ways and deeds. Because of this, you will hate yourself.
This is what Jehovah says: "I MYSELF will FIND and TAKE CARE of My SHEEP."
"You are My sheep in My pasture; I am your God." (Ezekiel 34:11, 31
"So, tell Israel that this is what I am saying: Everything I do is not because of you, Israelites, but because of My HOLY NAME which you despise in the PLACE I FILLED with you.
"I will GATHER you from other countries to RETURN to your CITY.
I will SPRAY PURE WATER on YOU so that you will be LUMINOUS. I will also REMOVE the STAIN you have become because of your idols."👈
I will GIVE you a NEW HEART and a NEW SPIRIT. I will MAKE your disobedient heart OBEDIENT."👈
I will GIVE you My SPIRIT so that you can walk according to my RULES and OBEY My COMMANDMENTS well.👈
"I will SETTLE you in the LAND I GAVE to your ANCESTORS (Adam and Eve are our ancestors). YOU will be My PEOPLE and I will be your GOD. "👈
(Ezekiel 36:22,24-28)🌷🙏
Someone build that kid a god dam park
The power generation equipment was removed awhile back so it was a "flow-in \ flow-out ' dam. It held no water back, until all the debris piled up and blocked flow.
I get more information from the comments than from the professionals.
I like that, dude I got a lot of good pie at that store, smiling ear to ear😁😄😃😀
“Can’t save the store but demolished the mobile home behind it, incase it got that far” 🤔
They cant safely take the store down because the ground is too unstable, but they are removeing as much as they can as any more houses or structures are just adding shrapnel to flow down river at high speed in flood waters which for obvious reasons is a bad thing
The quote was, "Crews removed an old mobile home". If you can't catch the words, turn on closed captioning. The word "demolished" was not in the sentence.
Maybe if they would blast the dam and let the water go straight through? Just a thought. They are in an area that that was created when the river was as wide as the plane.
One of the owners said that friends helped remove items from the store.
No way damns and bridges that should have been replaced years ago are failing…..no way
Spelled "dam" wrong.
The dam didn't fail, it's still fine.
They were in the planning phase of replacement versus repair. The initial study was done in 2021. Repairs would take at least 4 years (so, 2025). Replacement would take 10 years (2031). So, even if they had started the process in 2021, the dam still would not have been ready to handle this flooding.
Dam damns
@@marvindebot3264The dam failed so badly that it's not even a dam anymore, it's a diverter. How tf can anyone look at this video and say "yep, dam looks fine to me other than all that water going straight past it." 😂😂
Tragic but the damage doesn't even compare to mccook lake in south dakota
In hindsight maybe just dynamiting the damn and letting the water go through might have saved the house and the bank.
@@matthewmoore7447 I've been told there is nothing much downstream and the river is not an issue, just the dam store. Ha-ha.
Wait a dam minute.
😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️
Hope the store will remain. Sad for the state of Minnesota. It beautiful.
I wonder if she bought the damn scissors at the dam store😂
Did that kid cut her own bangs
💯%
That Damn Dam!
The Rapidan Dam
Don't use that type of language on the internet. It's a gosh-darn.
Well, the fact that the dam is still intact is a great indication of how well things were built back in those days. There are even stretches of old concrete highway that were built 100 years ago that are still around if you look hard enough! There are several sections of Highway 52 and Highway 61 in Southeast Minnesota, that are still in great shape after nearly a century in existence.
"gLoBaL wArMiNg, gLoBaL wArMiNg !"
Build back better, seems if the dam wasn't there the flow would have been normal, with all the dead trees that blocked half the dam intakes, added to the problem. Yes i know the dam was constructed in like 1910-12.
Go get help you are talking and answering yourself. Build back your mind first then worry about the government.
Same thing happened causing the Johnstown flood - an event that gave us slip and fall lawyers and a legal system where anyone can sue anyone else over anything.
Early on, I heard they had been talking about removing the dam, before this flood. It was used to make power in the past, but not in recent times.
@@hermanhale9258 Thanks for the info, and yes, it should have been removed then, probably will now at some point its all breached.
It's the dam thats causing the erosion. Those poor people that lost their house need to sue the city and state.
truth
that little spillway was really pretty. scary how much it took and how much water is still going
This is a good example of a video that actual professional creators would do so much better than TV channels. A creator who cares about the quality would put those satellite images on screen, not on a wall behind some person standing in the way.
Shouldn't Pete Buttplug be working on this.
He is. Giving a speech about how we need to spend trillions on climate change.
@@dbmn7571 😆😆
Perhaps the bridge. The dam is more in the Army Corps of Engineers' line.
Pete is busy working on his boyfriend’s spillway. It got clogged.
Who let all the debris accumulate in front the dam. Stupid is stupid does. Will be big cover-up about that.
Rivers and streams change their course constantly over time. I live about 300 yards from the local creek and when I dig in my garden the rocks are all rounded and water worn, indicating the creek used to run through here.
It's astounding that the dam structure itself is still holding.
Guess they didn’t learn anything from the oroville dam incident.
Local/state governments don't typically do a very good job of learning from the mistakes of others; they often have to learn first hand, which screws the citizens of course. But the citizen are also who vote them in on hopes & promises, so...
@@RyTrapp0 And the squandered the $ on guess who.
Entirely dissimilar events
@@virgilhilts3924Sure, but idiots can’t help but try to project issues on the incumbent administration. It’s the nature of social media today.
@@virgilhilts3924 is actually very similar.
Why arent they taking the dam apart instead? Seems like that would help the best against further erosion🤔
I'll admit I shed a tear this morning when I saw on the news the house was gone. 😓
They were lucky, very very lucky. The water slowly ate away at the surrounding soil, allowing water flows to slowly increase over a few hours, it wasn't a sudden total collapse of the dam. A slow but steady increase in water flows allows people downstream to get out of the way of the incoming water, and that saves lives.
I don't know why but .....i like saying rapidan dam ! I bet you can't say it five times really fast !
😂
Wonder which politicians are in charge of allocating tax payer dollars towards maintaining the dam? Instead of allocating the tax dollars to their pockets
Blue Earth County owns the dam.
So the county stole the money.
@@J-ge7qe The county held public meetings to decide what to do about the dam. No money was stolen because no money was ever allocated.
@@matthewmoore7447 Thank you, just what I read on the internet. The thing is, most county officials try to do a good job but must pick and choose how taxpayer money is spent.
Such a tragedy. So much history there. I rode bikes there with loads of people including my parents.
THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the Salvation at the last day brought by Christ in the second and last incarnation in His new and holy name"
Almighty God said
The ENTIRE PLAN of My GOVERNMENT, a PLAN COVERING SIX THOUSAND YEARS, CONSISTS of THREE PHASES, or THREE AGES: The AGE of LAW in the BEGINNING; The AGE of GRACE (also called the Age of Redemption); and The AGE of the KINGDOM in the LASTDAY.
My WORK in these THREE AGES DIFFERS in CONTENT according to the NATURE of each AGENCY, but at each STAGE it MATCHES HUMAN REQUIREMENTS-or, to be more precise, it is FULFILLED based on the DECEPTIONS USED by SATAN in My WAR Here it is. 🛑
My PURPOSE of My WORK is to DEFEAT SATAN, to SHOW My WISDOM and ETERNAL POWER, to EXPOSE ALL DECEPTIONS of SATAN, and thus to SAVE the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE, who LIVE UNDER the COVER this. ☀️
This is to DISPLAY My WISDOM and ETERNAL POWER while REVEALING SATAN'S INCREDIBLE awfulness. Even MORE, it is to TEACH My CREATIONS to CHOOSE BETWEEN GOOD and EVIL, to KNOW that I am the RULER of ALL THINGS, to SEE CLEARLY that SATAN is the ENEMY of HUMANITY, the LOWEST of the LOWEST, the he is EVIL, and to SEE,with absolute CERTAINTY, the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD and EVIL, TRUTH and FALSENESS, HOLY and IMPURITY, and WHAT is GREAT and WHAT is LOW. 🙏
From "The Word Appears in the Flesh"
Fulfillment of (John 1:1) and (Ezekiel 2:9-10), (Revelation 19:9,13)
➡️ I am looking for and God is "calling" His people "chosen" the Israelites to gather to fulfill all this recorded "prophecy" that truly takes place and exists, He cleanses the entirety of a person's person on His white throne which He brought down will be built on holy place in the sky/RUclips "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐
(Ezekiel 20:39-41,43) 📩
"Jehovah said: "People of Israel, if you don't want to listen to Me don't! Go worship your gods--gods until you want.
👉 But the DAY will COME when you will NOT blaspheme me anymore. You will not sacrifice to your idols.
👉 ALL ISRAEL will WORSHIP Me on the MOUNT I have APPOINTED," Jehovah said, "YOU will SERVE Me there. I will PRAY for you there. There I will WAIT for you to offer the chosen offerings."
"There I will accept your OFFERINGS after I GATHER you from the PLACES I have DISPOSED of YOU, and there I will REVEAL to you My HOLYNESS in FRONT of OTHER NATIONS."
There, you will remember your evil ways and deeds. Because of this, you will hate yourself.
This is what Jehovah says: "I MYSELF will FIND and TAKE CARE of My SHEEP."
"You are My sheep in My pasture; I am your God." (Ezekiel 34:11, 31
"So, tell Israel that this is what I am saying: Everything I do is not because of you, Israelites, but because of My HOLY NAME which you despise in the PLACE I FILLED with you.
"I will GATHER you from other countries to RETURN to your CITY.
I will SPRAY PURE WATER on YOU so that you will be LUMINOUS. I will also REMOVE the STAIN you have become because of your idols."👈
I will GIVE you a NEW HEART and a NEW SPIRIT. I will MAKE your disobedient heart OBEDIENT."👈
I will GIVE you My SPIRIT so that you can walk according to my RULES and OBEY My COMMANDMENTS well.👈
"I will SETTLE you in the LAND I GAVE to your ANCESTORS (Adam and Eve are our ancestors). YOU will be My PEOPLE and I will be your GOD. "👈
(Ezekiel 36:22,24-28)🌷🙏
my condolences and best wishes to all affected
The damn dam is history. Not worth trying to repair the erosion because it would be cheaper to demolish it and start all over. I would not be surprised if the final decision is to just demolish it and NOT rebuild it.
The powers that be had been contemplating removing it byeforhand.
Thank god those Minnesota politicians were doing the real work like changing offensive flag designs while their infrastructure collapsed can really tell we have a priorities straight here in America good job everyone !
What does changeing a flag have to do with this? its not a one or another thing, changeing the flag took half an hour this is a complex engineering problem that will take months to rectify
Months? 3 years min. Diversity départements move slowly.
@@robertburdette2365 Stop falling for fake news talking points
Thoughts and prayers to the families and community affected. Blame the Mayor for not knowing the infrastructure of your town.
Hope this relieves soon. Reporting from Texas.
Isn’t there any of that $1,700,000,000,000 infrastructure bill left ? Are we building back better still ?
It went to Ukraine...
This dam is an example of why we needed an infrastructure bill years ago but guess who blocked it for decades. I won't say the name but the initials are GOP. The dam is over 70 years old and needed to be updated or torn down even before the flood.
I fear the uniparty over the left or the right.
@@WJV9 Or perhaps, as the good book says, GOD will not be mocked!
Actually there is a wealth of improvements that I've already begun. Most certainly anything better than Mr. Trump ever did.
Does the Federal Gov't give Minnesota monies earmarked for maintaining, repairing and upgrading the states infrastructure?. If so where did the monies go if not to maintain, repair and upgrade infrastructure?.
The dam is owned by the county. Makes me wonder if they didn't get grants to help prevent clogging for floods, which is what lead to this. The dam couldn't keep up with the amount of rain. Or maybe the county was in a gridlock in the council on funds. Who knows.
It went to the suppression of Liberalism and Progressivisim in the State. These Good Ole Boys could care less about doing the RIGHT thing. Really not to upset that Mother Nature decided to take out another damn that had LONG AGO lived out its useful purpose.
My prayers are out to all of you!!!
Oh jeez, I’ve driven past there dozens of times in the last 5 years. Thats scary.
I'm grateful for the opportunity to engage with such a diverse and intellectually stimulating group of individuals.✨
LOL
Something to do with electrolytes, 🤣
Where did the money from massive Infrastructure Bill that Congress passed go?
Into projects in every county in the country, just like every other passed and unlike the one the orange guy never did .
@@sdsmt99because he didn’t want to spend what he didn’t have.
Dems should try that.
@@nelsonreau3842 That's complete BS. Because trump said he would pass a infrastructure bill, but never did because it wouldn't benefit him directly. And trump and the republicans passed a 1.5 trillion $$ bill Dec 2017 that did nothing for the economy but added to the debt and benefited the wealthy! trump only cares for himself and repubs only care for perpetuating their party over the country.
Half simply disappeared into democrat cesspools, we got
million dollar bike paths owned by the homeless or out in the country,and lots of ev crap.
@@sdsmt99 This is about the corruption of the congress. We know that only a small percentage of any of these bills go to where they are supposed to.
People ALWAYS underestimate the power of water...
Horribly incredible 😢
Time wins all wars.
I escaped from MN years ago ...best thing i ever did
Looks like nice, relaxed people up there. As long as there is pie...
The scale of the erosion is jaw-dropping!
I remember the time I went to that dam store!😢
There's a few geologists and engineers on RUclips that are explaining what happened here. It's better info than what this tv station is giving out.
Where is Pete Buttedge?
He's off judging booties
The dam is owned by Blue Earth County. Federal dams fall under the Interior Dept., not Transportation.
Give that Girl the Park Back Dammit
I want the park back too ❤
So maybe instead of spending trillions on wars we should have been rebuilding aging infrastructure? No way bro.
Maybe instead of making absurd exaggerations about the costs of supporting Ukraine against the illegal invasion by Russia you could learn about why the US is supporting Ukraine?!
We spent trillions, shovel ready, build back better, half of the money flushed down the Democratic toilet.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I don’t give a 🐀 ass about Ukraine dude.
@@frank-mp3bq You are making empty claims echoing the conservative politicians, but their problem is that's all they've got meaning empty charges against Democrats while doing nothing themselves!! republicans have no policies and offer nothing to improve life for Americans.
As proof trump said he would pass an infrastructure bill as president. He had control of Congress for his first 2 years and yet didn't get any infrastructure bill passed. In fact the only bill passed republicans and signed up trump was a 1.5 TRILLION $$ tax cut for the wealthy. That did little for the economy and only added to the debt because they had no remedy to pay for it!!
Stop making empty charges against Democrats that you can't even back up!!! republicans are continuing the sycophantic fealty to trump and have gotten nothing passed this whole session except when pushed to pass continuing resolution bills.
Sorry. He means a quarter trillion@@michaeldeierhoi4096
Funny no one remarks the dam held, didn’t fail.
Well it's still standing, is it not
Yet
"I want the park back!" What a cutie.
For years we would go to the top of the dam and experience the joy of feeling like we weren't in Minnisota. But now we are forced to deal with that reality.
Maybe the governor shouldn't have pocketed so much money....help the citizens
What i see is the dam is in the way of the river. Had they cleared the debris from the dam, the river wouldnt have rerouted.
While they're building a dam, they have to divert the water around construction. Is that the side they diverted to during dam construction? B/c if so, that was just fill that washed out.
Complex systems will not survive the competence crisis.
Succinctly phrased my friend. The complexity of the financial system being a case in point - even the felons who contrived it and benefited from it have now lost control of it, even with AI at their disposal. IMHO maybe a few million humans will survive the coming collapse of our technological civilization, but I've been wrong before...
Y all did a great job.
I bet the people who bought homes on the now drained lake are pissed off.
The store isn't done for yet!
To That little girl saying " i want the park back" ....i wish you could have it back.
Mother nature don't care about know park! Teach your children to do what's Wright by her not you!
@@kenmahoney5255 you sound like a real douche bag
@@kenmahoney5255 what part of my comment did it insinuate anything about me trying to teach that little girl anything?
You need to be taught some reading comprehension .
About your mother nature comment....Duh Einstein!
Amazingly resilient for a dam that - according to talking heads on TV - is gonna fall over any minute for about a week.
Carving the Grand Canyon didn't take "millions" of years. Amazing how fast a "Great Flood" can carve out the ground.
once again, always about dam failure not a failure of the people, politicians, and management of the dam. What a sh+t show.
Exactly worded perfect
Funny how taxes constantly go up, but nothing is ever fixed.
as long as tax money are spent on other countries its FINE by our own gov. ... cause we put those in power to tax us and give our money away ... =)
The money mostly sticks to the bureaucrats, welcome to modern feudalism
The Pentagon can't keep track of about 1 trillion dollars per year for enough years to total a practically exactly equivalent amount to what the debt ceiling has currently been raised to. Awkward coincidence, but black budget projects need their funding...
Good answer@@chubbyboo2218
Taxes pour into things you take for granted every day. I'm so sick of stupidity.
You would think they would try to get out what they could from the dam store. I pray for that family.
All future dam designs should have mandatory concrete spill ways.
Thank you for your hindsight.
Yes, the dam has concrete spillways and the dam itself has not failed. The water rose so fast and so high it went around the end of the dam. Ok
*June 26th was a few days ago?..*
Time flies when you're having fun. Seems like yesterday😂
@@pegs1659 *hahaha Good 1*
wow you are good!
too bad its not minnesota anymore, more like new somalia now