No stupid music = 1 like

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

That's the biggest harmonica I've ever seen.

The power of water is amazing.

I think someone upstream maybe looking for a new job.

Here come people barging in with the dam jokes...

A good example of why it is strongly recommended to not get too close to a dam when fishing or boating.

This is why you should keep your barges on a leash.

It’s amazing how strong that water pressure is

I used to work on barges like these, never saw one go down thankfully. Had no idea they could fail so quickly

We should throw more stuff down there. That looked cool

Any beavers out there watching would be very impressed.

Was anyone else hoping they would just slip on through?

People have often argued with me regarding just how power flowing water can be. This video says it all! Destroyed those massive barges like a toy.

That water looks absolutely pristine. 👌

That’s some Dam good engineering.

No problem. Chip and Joann can have that reno done in 5 weeks for $85,000.

The recovery crew might be working some overtime today?

"Oh, you're approaching me?" That engineer must be so happy right now.

I'm no expert, but shouldn't someone have kept that from happening? Like the person who is looking for new employment.

That thing fit in there at first like tetris piece. Then the power of water showed it what it could do.

Oh dam

Me at 2am: KZfaq Recommendations: ugh lets recommend him this why not Me: ah sheet here we go again

Here we see a dam in the wild hunting it's natural prey. Baby barges. Poor guys got swallowed up

They should close the gates where the barges are to protect the dam foundation from scour.

I felt certain the dam would be fine. I did not see coming that they would get pulled under like that

About a month ago I read about a construction barge out in Knoxville came free from it's dock in the middle of the night as it was barreling towards Henry St bridge a guy on a tug boat and a random fisherman rushed out and actually caught the thing..that's awesome if only OK had volunteers

I watched this video a week ago now KZfaq is suggesting I watch every dam video on the internet.

Barge uses Ram It's not very effective

as unfortunate as the incident is, it's incredibly satisfying to watch the barges crumple

mother nature ALWAYS wins

"You should have secured the barges better so they wouldn't float off and hit the damn." -Captain Hindsight

0:36 - Find a girl at bar, approach to flirt 1:13 - 😞

Now that's a lot of damage!

I was waiting for a fighter jet to blow it up before hitting the dam :)

As my Geology professor once said, "Water always wins".

All the damn dam jokes are taken

that’s about a thousand metric fucktonns of water per second in that river

Each barge is 200’ long, 35’ wide and weighs 1600 tons loaded. They might as well been a small pontoon

I’m a bit confused. Can someone explain? What was the trying to be conveyed

Can't those barges read the dam sign? No Boating In This Area!

A couple of beavers could have stopped those barges...

Omg! I just expected them to get stuck there. There's nothing left!!!

Before we get started with the dam tour does anyone have any dam questions?

Not what I was expecting. Tore them up

Me - Hey FEDEX, where is my package. FEDEX - What package??

Nothing to see here folks just another complete accident. I’m just surprised the damn didn’t explode three seconds before the barges hit.🤷‍♂️

How, or was the remaining piece of barge removed?

Those barges are huge I've been next to them, they are made of some thick steel. I'm probably not fishing below the dam in a boat anymore.

that water just broke that shit down with ease crazy i was expecting it to just sit there

Dam: 2. Barges: Zero

*white barge* 0:00 - "I just love being this close to you!" *red barge* 0:36 - "fuck this shit I'm out!!"

DAMN that one went down in a hurry 😱

Water Always wins.

Thanks for the video 👍

I'm glad nobody or no animal was on the two barges I really hope the dam doesn't fall apart that would be bad super bad i'm praying for everyone and every living animal that is getting affected by the flooding in Oklahoma. Prayers from Indiana

Lucy, you got some splain-en to do...

Watch the boil just past the damn when the second barge is pinned and as it is destroyed the boil surges around the unimpeded flows and cycles in towards where the flow is impeded. As the barge breaks apart, the boil surges in where the flow is still impeded and reduces where the flow was impeded but is now visibly unobstructed. Then as the camera zooms in and you see the workers on the walkway where the 2nd barge is pinned and breaking apart, for a moment you see a red mass in the water in the 1st quadrant (center of top right of screen) which is presumably part of the 1st barge coming to the top of the boil. It is likely being ground to small bits and is being cycled from the bottom to the top compliments of hydraulic flow rather than buoyancy, as the boil of a damn reduces the buoyancy of objects due to more oxygen in the water. Damns are awesome mechanisms for displaying the power of flowing water. Dangerous, but awesome.

Does it comes out on the other side shredded?

Considering the current conditions, they caved under pressure.

This footage belongs on, "YOU THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK?" lmfaoo

Now the barges are a dam problem.

The river was flooding at the time, and three times the usual amount of water had to be allowed through the dam to alleviate problems upstream.

thats gonna be one hell of a recovery job

Right. Someone go get the big stick and poke the debris free

Well that's what happens whin you barge in

Was there any damage to the dam ?

That blocked of a good chunk of the flow through these 3 openings

ups- power of the water just scary!!

Skyler: Barge: "I am the one who dams!"

The red one sank sooo quickly. I wasn’t expecting that.

So... what was the outcome? Are those barge hulls still there?

So thats where El DeBarge's music career went.......

That'll be fun salvaging!

The sheer power of water is crazy

Might have been a good idea to close a few of the opened gates for 10 minutes, so the barges could get away and the dam wouldn't get damaged. Just a suggestion.

Can we get the Titanic theme song in the background?

Life lesson 67.... Water always wins. Always.

The force of water is devastating

That water is terrifyingly powerful

As much as we as a people think we can harness and control water and fire, things happen to show that we are indeed wrong in that thinking.

Is there a video that shows how the heck they cleaned that up?

Anybody know what these were carrying?

I don't get what those were and what was their purpose? Were the unmanned, or did people die?

God damn barges !

Holy dam

Something’s incredibly relaxing about this. Idk why.

Remember: A pint's a pound the world around. And a pint is teeny in this scale. So there is a LOT of force on those barges, which were not made to resist such force. Did not take long at all.

This only 10 miles from where i live they were full of fertilizer. The day before they broke free and were roped back in and broke free a second time

Dam strong

The fabulous Oklahoma highway patrol set those barge's free such smart men. They didn't know that dam was built by real men and did not fail.

Please hold all of your dam questions until the end of the dam tour!

What are the barges made out of . Corrugated boxes?🤣

Dam said damn

Sir, You cant park your boat there.

So, we have a ship in Boston, a barge in Oklahoma and another 2 barges here......... What are the odds of that?????

As a Webbers Falls citizen I think whoever didn’t prepare these barges for such a flood should be fired.

Criminally negligent.

shows how powerful water really is

Were they carrying anything?