Welcome to the GOP ignoring everything that matters to cry about trans people 24/7.

The DAM was built & the DAM should have been repaired. The DAMN government can't decide about the DAM.

Whichever costs the taxpayers the most money. That will be the politicians solution.😮😮😅😅😅😅

@@chrisperry9002This attitude right here is why preventative maintenance on the guards as well as up stream clearing fallen trees isn’t performed. You’re part of the problem.

Y'all's government doesn't even know which bathroom to use.

uhhh... the dam broke from heavy rains last week.... try not to be such a dope OK?

@@wrsmith711 you just showed us you didn't pay attention to the video. Yes, you did. Try not to be such a… lol

@@wrsmith711it’s the debris that needs to be cleared

@@user-uo6gz3tm5zdebris follow floods

​@@wrsmith711exactly what happened. Flooding in nw Iowa.

Agreed. The last thing we want to do is play it safe.

It's failed.

Massachusetts too

Massachusetts ✅👋🏻

@@Richie8a8y high back! I'm near Cambridge

Dam, not damn. Damn!

And will have zero impact

And those responsible for Weather Wars!

It's a local news channel. Pretty much everybody watching the actual TV channel is from the area.

​@@Justin.Frankswell where is it?

Rapidan Dam, southern Minnesota

@@Justin.Franks Not when they put a clip on the internet it's not.

@@jeaniemcpeak8864 They stated locations four times: first, "just south of Mankato", second, "an hour's southwest of the Twin Cities", and third, that "the Minnesota Nat'l Guard" are doing all they can, and fourth, that the Gov. said "Minnesotans would get through this". Try listening better before being a snot.

Minnesota?

On a river. In a county. Near a place called rapidan? Great coverage.

It’s near Mankato, MN - about 1h and 15m from Minneapolis

​@@sarahgahlon7780 thank you

I didn't until the field reporter started speaking, then I knew it was Minnesota.

How else will we fund tax cuts for our billionaires other than to forget about infrastructure?

The comedian Will Rogers, in the 1920s said, "we have the best politicians money can buy", he was right then, and... today

these comments make my day🤣🤣

​@@The_ZeroLineWhat happened to that infrastructure bill money?

@@Steve-fx2fb I knew someone would comment this. You can easily look up where it’s gone. You think all the work could be done in 3 years + every last piece of infrastructure was covered in one bill. That would require more than our entire annual budget.

You're probably thinking that you're clever or funny. But the truth is you're failing worse than that century-old dam...just like your ancestors were when they stole the Native people's land.

Nobody wants to pay for that. Been a couple generations of anti government spending rhetoric

You must have missed the part of the report that said they could not use a backhoe excavator because the ground is not stable enough, so how do you plan to clean the wood... debris?

Beavers.

@@user-sy7ld3zl3o OP is pointing out that routine clearing work wasn’t performed to prevent this

@@user-sy7ld3zl3o Also boom trucks with claw attachments could be set up on the overpass

Yeah... that works a real treat.

Didn't she say it was currently to dangerous to send an excavator down there?

Think outside the box. They want it to collapse, therefore money will be given to them for rescue, repair etc. Lots of money. Just my thought. Nothing would surprise me anymore.

Yeah... because that has worked when? Never.

Or perhaps this was the plan Instead of removing the dead trees , wait for it to fail, then claim they font have a choice. After all , it' s not like our grid is hurting.....

Blue Earth River

Go ahead and tear it down. Costs should be a lot less at this point. Or, leave it, seal it up and let the natural river take it's course.

How do you move a dam

I don't know...looks like it's being moved right now.

Minnesota

You clowns and your prayers. If all these gods exist then why did this happen?

Somalia

We keep voting democrat and wonder why the state is falling apart👀

Isn't this the same state that had a bridge fall a few years back?

Stop giving money to billionaires. Return government control back to the people with truly democratic elections.

AOC country, go figure

Damn dam damning those damn dam people!

That's what happens when right wingers spend decades ignoring or voting against any infrastructure repair or maintenance because it costs money and the government using money at all is "socialism".

Built over 100 years ago... I think it's more like ran by morons and not maintained

The materials were probably correct when they built it over a century ago. Back when America was great....?

Are you saying the failure of the county is somehow Biden's fault?

Yeah, because there's no point in fixing anything if one thing breaks before repairs begin. This is, in fact, WHY the infrastructure bill was necessary. Personally, I'm kinda glad they're planning to assess and fix aging infrastructure.

All that money went to our beloved Teachers Unions.

Almost like the "just passed" part is relevant. Almost like it's a RESPONSE to years of neglect from the GOP because spending a single penny from the treasury is immediately branded as communism. Maybe blame the people who spent decades fighting every infrastructure and safety bill meant to address stuff like this? You know, the GOP?

Gotta finish it: Damn it, Jim. I'm a doctor not an engineer.

Of disrepair

The state owned that dam and leased it to the power company. Look how good the state is at solving our problems. Let's all praise the state and lick some boots yay.

Mankato MN.

@@jamesoquinn9168 Thank you!

Local news improperly edited for KZfaq

@@strongheartwoman1931 yw.

most of that "money" given was pre-existing US military stockpiles of equipment, not cash, i fail to see how 40-year-old M16's would repair a dam

False.

It's still assets with value we've given along with money while our bridges and dams are in need of maintenance, our population is in free fall and our largest portion of population are retired and demanding their SS checks.

Lend lease ? These suckers are on the hook for several lifetimes! We loaned old equipment at top dollar? 2100 the loan will be half paid back? Cheer up we screwed them not us.

A large share of the money in the aid bills is spent in the United States, paying for American factories and workers to produce the various weapons that are either shipped to Ukraine or that replenish the U.S. weapons stocks the Pentagon has drawn on during the war. One analysis, by the American Enterprise Institute, found that Ukraine aid is funding defense manufacturing in more than seventy U.S. cities. The "money given to Ukraine " is creating jobs in the United States most of it is not leaving the US. It's being use to upgrade our defense that needed to be done anyway.

WTF did you just say?

Absolutely! It is definitely the responsibility of the President to keep watch on all the dams in the country. I will point out that pot holes seem to be excluded from the list. Why?

I am just thankful there's a bill in place to help stop a lot of these disasters from happening in the near future. °~•.☆.•~°

What on earth are you babbling about? What does "infrastructure spending" have to do with this situation?

@@you2angel1 What bill is it that will stop torrential rain from flooding a river?

@@virgilhilts3924 the bill that knows that and prepares for it. Duh

@@virgilhilts3924 well I'm definitely not dealing with the brightest here am I. What you just witness is infrastructure failing. DUH It's far past its expiration date and wasn't properly maintained due to the lack of infrastructure funding over the past 60 years. DUH For the past several decades there has been report after report warning about infrastructure failure. DUH 🍊💩 don't want the money being spent on America's 3rd world infrastructure. DUH My great-uncle built these as a civil engineer in the 50s. Guess what dingbat that's infrastructure that was supposed to fail 20 years ago. DUH °~•.☆.•~° God it's like America's don't understand the buildings around them. Google could really help commenters stup*dity problem.

No

Kristy who? This is Minnesota.

The dam is doing fine. The area next to it, failed.

I agree, let's do both.

Oh, you are so right. Nothing like this could ever have happened in Trump's America. However, I wonder, since Trump went around checking on all the dams in America, wouldn't have been the decent thing to do to keep checking on them? Curious.

@@teaohar2 weak, face it, your dementia patient president FJB did nothing for you, and now you are reaping the non benefits, moral relativism is weak

No president is responsible for all the dams in the nation. Face facts .

You obviously have no clue how it works, do you?

@@Beautifulclouds60 How does it work?

The bots never take a brake to they

It's the built back better Ukraine plan

No, you don’t.