Rapidan Dam 6-25-24 Rapidan Minnesota

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Brandon Knudsvig SHARE Media

Ай бұрын

Minutes before the house fell in.
The power of the water that you can feel when you are out there is incredible.

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@RDC_Autosports Ай бұрын

4:41 that’s a layer of copper in the ground that’s why the soil is green

@bonafide2410 Ай бұрын

Copper scrap is like $4.00 a pound right now. Get a shovel. lol

@patrickprafke4894 Ай бұрын

We cant. Tge state iwns all mineral rights and copper is tracked at scrap yards too.

@pacificostudios Ай бұрын

I hope it stays like this. The dam can be a fishing pier while we and wildlife enjoy the waterfall.

@davedowning7572 Ай бұрын

Seems crazy that with such good access no one is trying to clear the log and debris from the spillways! The many "Officials" are just wandering around. Where is the little excavator, crane truck, tow truck, etc??

@truthbeknown23 Ай бұрын

Mother nature fixed the small spillway issue.

@williamgibb5557 Ай бұрын

Using a crane with a clam shell bucket, they could have removed some of the log jam and maybe made it much safer for the dam and surrounding land.

@parkerramthun Ай бұрын

Not with how soft the ground is tho.. not really worth risking thousands of dollars in machinery being destroyed in a matter of minutes. Besides the impact would be minimal despite the amount of debris that has been swept away prior

@SeaWeed2 Ай бұрын

Dude, we know that, but they can make excuses,, much much easier to get fed funding, and hire more of their relatives. This generation is built on excuses...was there for 63 years before they came along.

@OnTheRocks71 Ай бұрын

I know the power of water is very natural, but there is something extremely unnerving about seeing that power scour the earth so far down. The layers of exposed soil look like a giant alien force took a core sample out of the land and just left a big hole.

@StealthMode139 Ай бұрын

Nature's Work of art. She tried to tell us. ty.

@larrygaal4808 Ай бұрын

THE POWER OF WATER, AMAZING!

@DanoFSmith-yc9tg Ай бұрын

No way the bridge before the dam is structurally sound at this point.

@DanneyTanner Ай бұрын

You can see how the county got its name of Blue Earth😊 the layers of blue dirt

@Carl_McMelvin Ай бұрын

Please show us where you see a single spec of blue dirt. 🤦‍♂️

@DanneyTanner Ай бұрын

@Carl_McMelvin down on bottom of the eroded hill side under house 4:40

@Carl_McMelvin Ай бұрын

@@DanneyTanner that’s not blue dirt. 🤦‍♂️

@lftdblazer Ай бұрын

Home is now gone. Hopefully the store will make it.

@timmorris8932 Ай бұрын

I'm just hoping someone saved the bee hives behind that treeline.

@Curly34584 Ай бұрын

The Dam is over 100 years old!! Help it go!

@StealthMode139 Ай бұрын

As an ET Hope they salvaged the Turbines. Prayers

Ай бұрын

Those homeowners must be completely distraught. Not just the home gone, but the property. Everything is over.

@chrisjohnson4666 Ай бұрын

Who ever owns that damn will be paying in the millions to each... All caused because they didn't do what other dam operators do and put in debris nets just upstream from the dam gates!!! What blows my mind is they made no attempt to save that house... NONE I've seen other breaches they have Chinook in there and cranes dropping boulders and rip rap and super sacks of rock to stop the erosion... Id sue the dam owner, the state government who supervises the dam and the local ema... All sat there helplessly...

@user-zz6lx6ej7o Ай бұрын

old footage white house went 16 hours ago

@annees9738 Ай бұрын

Very nice footage

@stenovitz Ай бұрын

As an earthling on the opposite side of the globe I've followed the escallation with grief and disbelief for recent days. Needs some enligthning like some music, maybe "Black Betty - Rapidan Dam".

@edc1569 Ай бұрын

Why can’t these structures be maintained properly? You would have thought with the changing weather maintenance on these structures would be increased, you’d have someone ready to open the auxiliary gates.

@VoodooDangerbird Ай бұрын

We spend 67% of the annual federal tax revenue on the War machine. ☯️

@lakemi4665 Ай бұрын

Incompetent management !!!

@travisyork3915 Ай бұрын

Nice shots 👌

@glenmurra3856 Ай бұрын

I was up there yesterday afternoon this video was taken later in the evening and from the pictures and video I took it's obvious that the river came back up a little bit yesterday and that's what washed out the dirt under the house My pictures you can see where the water was a little lower also if you arch close in the video when it's showing the bank underneath the house you can see blue clay that's where the name of the river came from Blue Earth and that's where the name of the city of Blue Earth came from the blue clay

@jeremys5904 Ай бұрын

Beautiful

@70thunderbolt83 Ай бұрын

Built a dam to beat the river. " You don't beat this river" Burt - in Deliverance "

@GrungeHistory Ай бұрын

People are like that's the strongest dam ever ok people you've got to understand geology and the bedrock the dam was built into/onto you can see alot of the bedrock being exposed now and that's when the issue will start getting worse if these conditions stay the same or get worse.because that fast moving water carring rocks/debris in the fast moving water is shaving it all down fast

@RichardGibson-ml1nw Ай бұрын

Get a long extension excavator with back ho eagle claw crane removal and remove the logs of tree debris behind part of the Dam

@joedude4822 Ай бұрын

Where's the footage of the house going in???

@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 Ай бұрын

Please update today! Looks like the bedrock has been significantly reduced.

@Clearanceman2 Ай бұрын

Once that went, the river went a lot farther to the left.

@michaelimbesi2314 Ай бұрын

The old reservoir is being scoured of sediment now. The last bits of bedrock that were keeping the level of the channel up are now gone and the water level is below the gates now. The entire river is now in the new channel and it’s eroding very quickly.

@peggyisme Ай бұрын

Is it eroding on the Southern loop of the river too? I saw what looked like water cutting from the Southern loop through land just the other side of the highway.

@zachreyhelmberger894 Ай бұрын

Ah! So that's where the name blue earth comes from.

@blusheep2 Ай бұрын

Whats that blueish white layer of rock that got exposed about 15' down?

@babysteps7600 Ай бұрын

Wonder if this is being done intentionally. Sure seems like it.

@stenovitz Ай бұрын

....and for what purpose are you thinking?

@ScottKroetz Ай бұрын

Intentionally? As in copious amounts of rain intentionally falling from the sky? WTF?

@SeaWeed2 Ай бұрын

Think about what we've seen since 2021.. This is totally typical. They just sit there and watch the dam fail. 30 yearsago, there would have been 100 men on scene to save the dam. These days, just need an excuse. The US is a complete mess.

@sarakaychilds2565 Ай бұрын

I sure hope they got everything in that house out before it fell.

@joedude4822 Ай бұрын

Really, that's what your concerned about😂

@cyndianderson7056 Ай бұрын

@@joedude4822 you can be concerned about more than one thing.

@SusanPoersch-rd7bj Ай бұрын

Don't mess with Mother Nature

@craignewman6709 Ай бұрын

I don’t understand why they haven’t blown up the top half of the dam? The water will flow faster there reducing the erosion on the left. All the debris clogging the gateways will be able to get over the blown dam.

@SeaWeed2 Ай бұрын

All this generation has to do is make up an excuse, then sit back and get fed funding and hire all their buddies.

@patroberts5449 Ай бұрын

After this is all said and done that house further in the back will be able to add a dock out its front porch😕

@donaldrose6455 Ай бұрын

yo need to remove the Log jamb !! Crane or Helliecop or C I L Boom !!

@thebigguy5226 Ай бұрын

The owners of this property should be granted property rights wherever they choose in the state land. Rest their souls.

@Facemeltermonk69 Ай бұрын

That 40 cords of wood only collected there after the last heavy rain, now it's so bad our guy said it's too dangerous to do it , it has to be a plan when things are fucked up this perfectly, good job guys you have the job😂

@SeaWeed2 Ай бұрын

This generation is built on excuses. imagine this 30 years ago. There would have been a 100 men there saving the dam. Now they just need an excuse,,,,and call their friends to watch the dam fail. Hitting bridges, etc. No clue how the US is still functioning after 2021...hint hint

@mar101r Ай бұрын

😢 BIG Learning lesson here ???

@chrisjohnson4666 Ай бұрын

Yeah do what other dsm operations do and put in floating debris nets in front of the gates that you can use boats to handle... Oroville dam and others have these... probably less than 10k and this is all prevented... Also see a complete lack of imagination or maybe fortitude in the operation on private and public sides... One a crane with a grapple probably could of cleared the Debris some have reach of almost 200 feet and then no attempt to control the erosion by putting in large rip rap which they have successfully done in other dam breaches... Nope just sit there and do absolutely nothing...

@mar101r Ай бұрын

I hope they save the Dam Store I want to go buy something from them

@chiefjoseph8154 Ай бұрын

Property taxes are low.

@elenagava4660 Ай бұрын

the county is not doing a good job they can clean the logs from a cargo bot and open the last 2 gates on the dam to save peoples homes

@dakota4211 Ай бұрын

This are exactly what I think. Clean up those logs and fill up the overflow you don't have to be scientist to understand that.

@stashi0189 Ай бұрын

Th contractor they use had two problems. The equipment was five hours away. Secondly their workers thought the dam was kinda unsafe to work on. Would YOU drive a truck and excavator arm onto that dam?

@elenagava4660 Ай бұрын

@@dakota4211 correct.

@nicotti Ай бұрын

@@dakota4211 But if you were a scientist you'd realize how silly that idea is. Given the force of the current right now, what exactly do you think they'd should use to fill up the overflow breach? They could drive a dump truck full of boulders off that cliff right now and the current would just push and roll it downstream.

@mikewhite6288 Ай бұрын

@stashi0189 I wouldn't, and I don't blame them for not wonting too.

@user-gs8oi7wz3i Ай бұрын

All home lost should sue the city for failure to protect those home and doing a shiny job of maintaining the dam. Sue for millions and emotional damages.

@Carl_McMelvin Ай бұрын

One of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read.

@ScottKroetz Ай бұрын

So, Mother Nature should also be sued?

@VoodooDangerbird Ай бұрын

Mother Nature bats last.

@atomatman3104 Ай бұрын

this is funny i love it

@annaleigon2948 Ай бұрын

The power of God is great

@TinMan0555 Ай бұрын

They need to be giving serious consideration to blowing the dam. Cleaning out the logjam sounds good in theory. Do I have any volunteers in the audience that will drive the equipment (large enough to do the job) out onto that dam right now? And, any attempt to shore up that dirt wall would have to be Herculean in scale. Simply dumping large rock over that edge would cause massive turbulence to the flow. Turbulence against dirt is like a saw blade against soft wood. Face it folks, until the dam is gone, the only thing that will save the dirt wall from continuous erosion is a drought. 🫡

@donaldrose6455 Ай бұрын

C I L Boom clear the log jamb Open hole in Dam KaBoom!!!