I think they planned this for the worst case scenario. The river goes around the dam and slowly erodes until the lake is drained.

​@@Bryan-Hensleythey definitely didn't plan for this...

@@CountryAndProud I'm talking about the people who built it.. I doubt you'll be able to interview any of them..

@@Bryan-Hensley they didnt install an emergency overflow... so they obviously didnt plan on it failing.

@@CountryAndProud maybe it's coincidence but it turned out to be a pretty good way for the dam to fail.

They are abc news

Minnesota isn't by any means the only state dealing with extreme weather and damages from storms. It is being covered by national news, I'm in California and heard about it as soon as the dam started failing, but there's hundred of weather stories to try and cover.

flooding the field saved the levy. that saved the city a lot of taxpayers money. stop nit picking, maybe go help someone in serious need, if they can tolerate ya.

That's called "burying the lead" and morons all over keep spelling it "lede" for some reason. Even spell check redlines it. as my Dad would say, "What is ya, ignert?"

@@robertmorris8997 Gots buuks cant,z reed ore speell

How did only one person just barely managed to catch the house falling in the river the entire nation was watching that thing

TV is for pretty, not for smart.

Lol.. wow.. Dense

The store is in danger. Other than that, it's a done deal. Best thing to do is stabilize the new left bank and let the dam sit there, doing nothing and costing nothing.

The bank the river is cutting into, is in danger of back cutting upstream and is threatening the foundations of the highway bridge.

Well there USED to be hydroelectric generation from the dam. The powerhouse is ruined. If they want a dam there again all that space needs to be filled with a new dam basically. All for failing to cement a proper emergency spillway!

@@tokomok That dam hasn't generated power since damage from a separate flood in 2019. Last April it got a rating of poor, with a significant hazard. Although the local public was against it, there was talk of removing the dam.

You realize by flowing around the river is cutting the foundation of the damn away.

There WAS hydroelectric power being generated and that's all gone now

yeah no they have money

@@kushking949. Really. How do you know that. It’s not about God at all. They let that dam do this they know about it.

They didn't do anything. Sat back and let it happen.

Could of blown the top of the dam...It will need to be rebuilt/replaced again anyways.

Once the erosion was within 10 feet of the house it was already condemned tbh. Even if the water evaporated the ground there was no longer stable and would have been continued to be eroded by wind and rain

@@reilly_sharky_reese yeah that going to erode into a slope over the years. They'll probably fill it back in after they tear down the dam, if they are going to do anything at all.

Hard to do in Minnesota

@rona4960 why's that? It's not listed as one of the top states with the most rivers

Yes, quite literally.

really? That sucks...

Why would they build a new dam? The old dam stopped serving its purpose decades ago. The Rapidan Lake basically a widening of the river silted in decades back.

Gates went from clear to clogged in about 20 minutes, so there's not much that could have been done.

you have no idea what it takes to remove trees smashed against a dam while the river is flowing at that rate and volume. This has nothing at all to do with funding

They should have cleaned the areas downstream from the dam. This would have never happened

@@cincoy3679do you have a plan for that possibility, send it to them, it’s to late now, but maybe for the next 100 years flood they could try your suggestion 😂

@@cincoy3679 I think you meant upstream, but then again you have no clue

vs what Fla, where they can't fix anything that gets destroyed?

"The little guy was funny looking!"

@@bluekitty3731 more'n most people even!

The dam was there long before the road. The dam was built to provide electricity for Mankato.

Highways were invented AFTER the Dam was built.

@@captiannemo1587 invented ???....you mean built ???

Hitler invented the highway system

There are highways near dams across the country.

Another armchair engineer with an opinion based on zero facts or knowledge of the situation, who knows more than educated experts in the field.

They very clearly stated it was to save repairing the levying around the field. If they let it breach, it would need to be repaired. This way the levy stays intact. Listen more carefully, OP.

@@MichaelDeHaven They very clearly stated, "Ballpark purposely flooded to protect downtown"... "They opened up the floodgates...that way the city could control the flooding, wouldn't get to that that taller levy..." Seems you're the one who should listen/read more carefully. 🙄

@@theboringchannel2027 I'm a former army engineer who has worked on flood control projects. I've probably forgotten more about the subject than you'll ever know.

​​@@jamesbarca7229Yes, they gave the heights of the 2 levies. The second level was never in danger. Right after what you cite. They go to an official at 1:07 who clearly explains the same thing I said. "So when the water goes down. We don't have to fix the burn." Context is important in evaluating what is being said. If you feel something is ambiguous, it is always best to go with the most charitable answer. This is a basic premise of linguistic communication. Now you are free to criticize a news show for ambiguity. That would be reasonable. But that is subjective. But it wouldn't be unreasonable, given you failed to understand their message. So you'd have a point. BTW, where did your first text quote occur? I didn't catch it. I caught the second portion, but not the first. Do you have a time stamp?

People gotta have their say. Us human, we just wanna be 'right' most of the time.

I lived in Chaska for a few years, it flooded just like this back in 2010-2011 as well, the baseball field was just fine. But they keep dragging their feet on raising Highway 41 that leads in/out of Chaska, it floods almost every spring.

They very clearly stated it was to save repairing the levying around the field. If they let it breach, it would need to be repaired. This way the levy stays intact. They would have had to do work on the field for flooding either way. But this way it's controlled and less damaging compared to a sudden breach of a levy.

@MichaelDeHaven I'm looking at it from a horticulture background. The sheer amount of weight from the water is compacting the ground, removing all air. Nothing except anaerobic bacteria can live in that. Once the water goes, it will take some time as the ground has reached complete saturation. The topsoil is now trash. The grass will need to be replaced if they want a proper field. The types of grass used for sports are far more expensive than lawn grass. Why build something expensive in a place that can be flooded?

@@vashlotus1891Very interesting! I'm nowhere near as versed in soil health as you. As for why build there. Don't know the answer to that. I'm guessing cheap real estate prices due to flood risk. It seems common(to build sport fields near rivers) in my experience though. Maybe it's simply cheaper to do repairs than build a higher levy to fully protect it. I'm genuinely curious myself. But thanks for the information.

If stupid hurt, you'd be writhing in pain

@@rona4960 lolz