My old dad used to say "Son, never live in a house where water flows down to you". Wise words that helped guide me to never live downstream from a dam or near a river flood plain.

There's a thing about all megaprojects in the world that go wrong, that schocks me: The absolute UNIMAGINABLE amouts of material that go to waste: Concrete, steel, glass, aluminum, etc. The amount of waste is beyond imagination. And THAT, disturbs me big time!!!😡😡

How refreshing - a video that starts off with an explanation of the thumbnail! Wow!

1 tip, don't live anywhere below a dam!

With so many occupational injuries and deaths, and so many issues with buildings being built with unsafe materials you'd think China would have an OSHA like organization that's three times stricter than OSHA, but idk.

@23:30 - "If burning cash were a useful form of clean energy, these people would win a Nobel prize"

Ah, America. Where the rich don't have to be responsible for anything as long as the right people are in their pockets.

I gotta say, though, the folks who designed and built the Viant Dam did one helluva job. The fact that it was already holding all of that water and was able to withstand so much more that it literally rushed over the top of it -- with the dam ultimately surviving that and still standing to this day -- is rather impressive.

A couple points of correction and additional information on the Kinzua Bridge. First of all, it is pronounced Kin-zoo, not Kin-zoo-a. When it was rebuilt in 1900, the entire bridge was rebuilt using steel to replace the original wrought iron-except for one item. The concrete bases had wrought iron bolts sticking up and the footplates of the steel columns had holes to go on the bolts and nuts to fasten them together. The bolts were not replaced because it would have cost more time and money. Steel collar nuts were used to fasten the piers to the wrought iron bolts. An inspection in 2002 showed problems that needed fixed. Repairs started February 2003, so the problem was being corrected when it was destroyed by a tornado on July 21, 2003. The story is detailed on an episode of Mysteries of the Abandoned, it is on KZfaq. I have visited the bridge and it is well worth visiting, especially if you are interested in history. It has a very nice and informative visitor center and has over 7,000 Google reviews with a 4.9 star rating.

Kinzua Park is so beautiful to visit. They really made the most of the tragedy.

Actually, the railroad bridge didn't go wrong, it served its purpose for over a century. Hopefully the bridge was empty when the tornado hit.

What happened in South Carolina is what happens when you favor corporations over people.

FOREST CITY "Where happiness never ends" Hahahaha Because the happiness hasn't yet begun so therefore it wont and doesn't have an end

I always like these videos, they're very informative

Asphalt is a weirdly flexible substance… when manmade. When naturally-made, it’s a bit more brittle. HOW flexible is the manufactured stuff? Galloping Gerty! Look at how much she was twisting before stress caused her to break

Thank you, Underworld. You have a very engaging voice. Thank you for your channel.

17:02 We have Georgia W's cronyism to thank for the utility company making us pay for non-existent services. That happened to us in Western Washington outside Seattle. There is a company that had ancient, substandard equipment and they just asked the state legislature if WE could pay for it, and they said "of course! No problem!" We 'the people' got *no say in the matter.* then our bills went up more than 31%. Worse still, they stopped approving financial assistance for the underpaid, the elderly AND the disabled. No subsidy help was available from around 1990 to the present. I heard that they *only just* started an assistance program, but it has yet to help me, I'm a quad and can't work.

Nothing like corruption to keep a project on time and under budget.

Those unfinished projects are such a waste of resources

Excellent video and information!

maybe you should also give height and lenght informations in meters so people from outside of the US can understand it

Awesome video as always!

There are a lot of unfinished Chinese projects. Most of them are labelled "tofu dreg", apparently.

01:25 "It was billed as the Eighth Wonder Of The World, right up there with King Kong & Niagara Falls!"

10:40 Well, the sign is accurate at least. For the same reason, I can't quit smoking. For something to end (like happy times and bad habits) they have to start. Someone said to me, "Eventually everyone quits smoking." "I said, "Bullshit. I'll never quit smoking." He said, "You don't smoke." "Exactly. That's why I'll never quit." Watching my grandmother die of emphysema convinced me to not start smoking. I was very fond of my grandmother, and I'm convinced that she would be very happy if she knew her suffering kept me from starting that habit. Her suffering was not in vain! If I started smoking, then her death would be made meaningless.

Love your tune, man! Especially between topics. Don't you ever give that up, no matter what anyone says.

Does China ever finish its major construction projects? So much waste.

I love your snark in this vid, especially at 22:36. I do love it when you get a bit snarky in other vids like the recent dashvid vid you did too.

Never live down stream of a Dam. It never seems to end well. Either the dam breaks and your house gets flooded or washed away. Or the dam over fills during heavy rain and they open the flood gates to save the dam, again washing away your home. Either way that Dam becomes more important than your life to the city.

I got to ride a train across the Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania a few years before it collapsed from a tornado July 21, 2003. I was so sad the day the Kinzua Bridge came down.

Takeaway from this, governments suck.

At position zero I miss the most expensive failed megaproject, which will hold this record for probably the coming 100 years at least: NEOM The Line (it is not fully abandoned .. yet .. but some of the other listed fails here are not completely abandoned, too).

amazing..good job

Hes the best narrator 🎉

Releasing the water would ruin the work of a small project. Not releasing the water ruined they work of a small group of people, work of many people, and it ruined the bodies of many people. In some cases the bodies were so badly damaged the owns had to abandon them.

Country Garden Chinese Realty Company declared bankruptcy a month ago March 2024. Same with the Chinese Ghost Cities. Same with the Evergrande Group.

What about the CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED TRAIN ? The TRAIN BOARD went through ALL THE FEDERAL MONEY (billions) before any track was laid! After years of red tape, spending BILLIONS, the train is not even close to laying any track BUT moved many people out of their farms and homes.

8:15-10:37 what an amazing looking place! The water in between the buildings, the setup, everything about this looks amazing! I would love to live there! Even though it’s 1% occupied, I would find something fun to do there/open up a restaurant or grocery store or something essential like that and start building my empire there! That would be so tight!!!

the biggest waste of space had me crackling

Isn't luxury for the mega wealthy something that should not exist in a Communist system? What would Carl think?

I would say that McKean county /Kinzua bridge are in the north-WEST of Penns.

8.02 Yeah because allied bombings were never messy at all . Quite tidy in fact . .

Geez, 130 ft wall of water through towns and villages? Must have been surreal for the minds trying to make sense of what they were seeing. That bridge collapse in Taiwan could generate some revenue from movie studios! Orrr, they could just use movie studio models, I guess. Wonder how they sold burning pure carbon as carbon neutral? That’s like selling ice to an eskimo.

you should do the $6.2 billion failed Mississippi lignite plant (Kemper Project)

Part of me want to hate on China for the absolutely ridiculous money dumps on some of these projects, but if I'm being honest that stadium did look pretty awesome.

is it posible to get contact to you? sry for bad english

I'm glad not to see a clickbait thumbnail today. This is a great channel and doesn't need to be ruined by cheap tricks.

Going off of your tornado videos. We once had 8 tornados in MN all around my place in a matter of 30 minutes. My cousins neighbor got hit by an ef 5. My cousin got hit by an ef4 my house on 80 acres was one of few that wasn't hit. The fire department was hit but it had huge trees blocking all entrances and exits. I went straight there after they passed with a chainsaw and cut them up so they could respond to calls. It was a crazy mf day

Forest Gardens sounds like a dream place to live!

in all fairness to not installing steel bolts who WHO could have foreseen a direct tornado impact, and for foot traffic alone it seemed not needed

6:41, where’s the rebar ?? 😮

Awesome

Kinzua Bridge withstood for a long time before they started working on it. some information is missing from this. it had withstood many storms before this. one is they were working on two towers at the same time .. causing it to sway back and forth until like dominos it fall down. it was built right just have someone come along and mess it up. also if thinking on coming to see it there are plenty of camping areas surrounding the Kinzua Dam and many things to do !

What about the damn that broke in Johnstown pa?

I was really happy to hear the pillars were destroyed. It’s just stupid that people would die and the people responsible don’t get life in prison

it used to be that you could ride a steam train across this bridge. you could also rent a caboose and camp at the siding just south of the bridge. i rented it once for a weekend. good memories. after that the owner of the knox kane railroad had an accident on the way to reading. he ran the boiler low on water and it blew up. he was killed and his son was badly injured.

Well dang.., I’m from and live in South Carolina and I never realized that happened… kind of bummed me out, but makes sense why in the last 15 years, we’ve gotten probably 4 or 5 refund checks or whatever they are called! I was wondering why they did that??!?

China's lucky they've had so few catastrophes considering they are trying so hard to make up for lost time. Experience: It is the one teacher that has its own time schedule and it does not forgive cutting corners.

High stakes, higher fails! Definitely not a cheap thrill

10/10

Man, nuclear power is so useful and powerful, its the best method for clean power, but its so scary to people who arent aware of how it works. Not to mention corruption and incompetence.

Wow 😮

I've already seen too many of these videos. They don't seem to be ending anytime soon. People who are just trying to life are being burned by greed, selfishness, and arrogance. If these videos could stop being produced that would mean that the human race has truly advanced to a higher state of being. But, human greed, selfishness, arrogance never seem to be in short supply.

The wave was travelling at 43 mph? That's pretty specific...Who measured it?

King Kong?

Toshiba also sc***ed our post office service with sub-parr IT after it’s privatisation, leaving the tax payer to pick up the tab also.

94 mph isn't even ef2 winds which is considered significant, imagine the horrors.

Not a single vehicle on or off that collapsed bridge thanks to early warning... They knew the bridge was unsafe?!

2 identical Nuclear Reactors were being constructed in Georgia like the ones in South Carolina. They are finally going in service in 2024! The cost overruns are massive!

Went to the comments for that George Washington dollar bill clip. LMAO

1:33 King Kong wasn’t real. He wasn’t particularly tall either . Botulism 🤦‍♀️

“The 8th wonder of the world. Up there with King Kong and Niagara Falls”

Hi Guys,Wish you have fun watching the video, have a nice day

The first part is missed labeled as Mifflin County..

Why the jumping between units? Just stick to metric.

Can somebody help me understand why the stadium in the last clip claimed bankruptcy through America? 🤔 Just doesn't make sense to me if it's in another country and the Chinese now have the full control of it why it was under America's duty to flip the bill 🤔

Don't you just love rich corporations.

It's sad that there are huge unoccupied buildings like that tower in China as well as complete ghost cities - I would have thought that given their large population, residents would have looked for affordable living in such ghost towns, and started their own businesses there or something. Maybe there is not much incentive? Infrastructure has decayed too much? What a waste of space and such destruction to farmland and natural habitats. I wonder if some Chinese billionaire will acquire the area and turn it into a tourist city or something, idk.

Never live downstream from a dam.

There is not a single nuclear reactor in the world that insured by a private company. Every watt of nuclear power generated is insured by one or another government program. This includes the US, which in the 1950s established a taxpayer-backed fund to backstop any company that took on a nuclear insurance risk. Without this government fund, not a single US civilian nuke would ever have been built.

That one where the city is making the people pay for the power plant - Everyone in the city should leave and go live somewhere else, then who are they gonna make pay for it!

Woops 2 of reactor finance

There's a small mega project over we're I live and it will probably fail. Some company removed 200 ACERS of forest, they started construction and everything is going smooth except what their building is just a bunch of hopefully not expensive homes next to a busy airport commonly used by LOUD FIGHTER JETS and a big GARBAGE DUMP that people from 20 miles away can smell, this isn't a joke they building homes in an industrial area and left not a single tree as a barrier.

Die Bruecke am Tay poem of Theodor Fontane , 1879 storm demolished bridge, as in Pennsylvania .

Megaprojects? There is one there.

And i am sure there was no insurance to cover the bridge...

I’m sad to see my current state of South Carolina on the list.

Why are so many of these in China?

Let's change the name of our world from "Planet Earth" to "Planet Money".

I already know the last story is about the Vajont Dam tsunami, but I swear I'm gonna lose it if I hear the narrator call it a "tidal wave" EDIT - thank goodness he said "tsunami"

ROFL this video has a hate on China 😅😂

It should say Forestville were happiness never arrived

If you build it, they will come? Don't hold your breath!

King Kong and Niagara Falls are wonders of the world?

There is too much corruption.

dam bursting story - that's not a tsunami

If the government in the US hadn't changed the laws, then the utility companies wouldn't have been able to fleece the public. Friends in high places certainly helps if you want to waste money because you don't have to face the consequences when it goes tits up. I very much doubt that any of these people, who left the public holding the bill, were held accountable or jailed. It's sickening. I wonder who was in whose pocket??

Amazingggg

We need to build more power plants

Proving my theory, " God hates bridges."