You've done a better job showing the devastation than anyone else I've seen. My thoughts are with everyone in your community affected by this.

Nice editing; I like your minimal commentary, letting the images speak for themselves. Good choice of music as well.

When I was in grade school ( mid 1960's) they had short info movies. The one I remember was the Army Corp. of Engineers tame the mighty Mississippi. Never ever think you will "tame" any body of water and never ever build in flood ways, flood planes or areas prone to flooding. Water always wins.

Better reporting than the official news

What's cheaper, repairing old dams that are on the verge of failing, or repairing entire towns flooded by said failed dams?

You did a fantastic job on your news report !!!! Very professional my friend I hope you are on TV one day as a news person . Very impressed !

Thanks you very much for the excellent video. The drone footage was amazing and especially thank you for no obnoxious music! I think this video is going to get a lot of traction in the near future.

Great job on reporting the damage...very professional.

Jordan nice job. I like how well you did the Drone and on the ground feed. Most people shoot all this drone feed all choppy with no idea of what you are looking at

Well done young man. Much better coverage than the local news.

Jordan - How sad. Until this tragic event happened, I hadn't even heard of your town, but I feel...sadness for you and all of the townspeople. Beautiful work on the video, though. Recording this...couldn't have been easy. God Bless you and your ENTIRE town.

Thanks for showing Sanford. I live in Michigan and had no idea. The media only seems to care about Midland, why is that when there are so many others that are affected?

Jordan, I agree! Great job showing the rest of us what you guys are going through. Living on a river I know the gnawing feeling that stays with you during the aftermath and the sheer magnitude of the devastation. Appreciate the video editing and music too! You guys and in my mind.....

Wow, wish I could make it out there to take some drone shots. This really shows how bad this was. Tv will never show things like this. Great video, thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.

Very amazing video, my heart hurts for those people who have lost their homes. And some their lives. I live in a town that floods majorly every 2-5 years and it always destroys everything in its path. I live right above the grand lake, and when they don’t open the dam gates for days. We experience the backup of water in a very harsh way. And I know people who died because of it. America really needs to focus on water issues, just as much as anything else important in the U.S.

Thank you Jordan ❤️. You have shown more than any network news coverage on television.... I'm crying 😭 right now. My entire family is part of that.

Im sorry for all your losses there hope everyone is alright .

You did a great job on this video! Ty for sharing

I've followed your fine coverage of this disaster and the recoveries for 3 years now. Re-watching this really brings back the scale of the personal cost. Very sobering and worth remembering. Thanks as always.

I'd like to thank you and the others for posting these videos. I'm from Midland currently living in the desert mountains of northern Arizona. My heart goes out to the people that lost so much.

You've done a fine video but, I can't help thinking as a supposedly rich country, America has some major issues with dams and bridges.

It’s about time the USA stopped sending billions overseas . This country needs money spent on failing dams .. bridges , power lines and highways

I teared up when I first saw the footage on KZfaq. I couldn't stop thinking about all those people's houses and businesses lost by this disaster. You covered more than what I was expecting. 😥🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for the excellent dialogue and footage. This really put the loss in perspective. My heart goes out to everyone.

Water Takes the Path of Least Resistance - Earthen Dams (Built in the 1920's) - Had No Chance - People Your In OUR Prayers, Stay Strong, Stay Safe - Moving Forward...Learning Curve...

Great footage!

Up close and personal! Thanx for the birds eye view on the destruction this left behind. Thoughts and prayers for all that have lost so much.

I’m heartsick. I know people who have been out of work for weeks and now they’re homeless. It’s nice that on this feed at least people are being respectful and nice.

This is the best coverage I have seen of this catastrophe. You did a great job of showing the magnitude of the devastation. If you don't do this professionally, you should consider it, although it could then be edited down to mediocrity. Keep up the good work!

Be careful: Anything could be hollowed out underneath and might collapse at any moment.

You did a phenomenal job. Thank you for taking the time to show people just how devastating this flood has been.

I'm from Midland but I live in Australia and watching your video was very heartbreaking. My sympathy and compassion goes out to everyone affected by the destruction of this beautiful area of Michigan. Love and prayers, Kathrin (Ritter) Green

7:13 There are a TON of those old 100 year old Steam Shovels down inside of Lake Worth over in Fort Worth, Texas. The lake was dug out in 1914, and when they were close to finished, but not quite it rained so hard for 2 weeks straight all of the old equipment used to dig the lake got submerged. The lake now is filled with over 100 years worth of silt and mud, which has undoubtedly covered much of the old equipment that was left behind. There is also an old Convair B-36 Peacemaker that crashed into the lake in the early 50's. They partially pulled up some of it but much remains in the late today likely also buried under 70 years of silt.

Should be a wake up call for the rest of our country. I have been saying for years that’s gonna happen here in Alabama. Praying for y’all

Nice job young man, our thoughts and prayers go out to the people affected! You have done a better job than any of the media!

Very well done. I live in PA and this is the 1st I've even heard of this on 6/12. I have more faith in people like you than I do with any news organization. People like you are the future of the news. Don't ever stop.

I forgot how flat and rural that part of MI is. Nice drone footage.

That was a very well made vid. My heart and prayers go out to all families affected.

I can’t even imagine how you would begin to clean up a mess of this magnitude. My hearts go out to those that lost everything.

Beautiful day! And I appreciate your content. Its was done with care & professionalism. Benevolent outcomes to all who have been touch by this!🙋🏾‍♀️💜

Really excellent job, you have a future in film making.

How amazed and heartbroken .. I pray that the Lord will be with all the people of Michigan and wipe out tears and despair in their eyes.

Thank you for showing all of us all the devastation. Great footage of everything! Loved this video.

Nicely done Jardan. This is something you will never see on network news. You stuck to the facts and showed what happened and kept emotions out of it althugh I am sure your heart was breaking. This is your HOME, these are people that you have know your whole life. Again, very, very well done.

These are privately owned dams and the owner has been negligent and under fire for years. Great footage. My heart goes out to these people.

Awesome video. Thank-You for footage. Really shows the destruction. After watching this video, i subscribed. 👊🖖

Excellent documentary Jordan. Keep up the good work. So sorry this happened to the many kind and hard working families of Edenville & Sanford.

Very good job Jorgen I live in west Michigan the way you narrated this was excellent, really sad to see so much damage. My prayers go out to the people there.

And that is the reason you never drive across a flooded roadway.

Great video footage. My prayers go out to everyone affected; this is beyond sad. Especially when it could have been prevented!

Jordan my heart goes out to your community. I am a native New Orleanian and returned to the city following Hurricane Katrina. The city had been underwater for weeks following breaks in canals. I rode my bike around the city in shock and spoke to many residents also in shock. I had so many memories of what this city had been and what it was following the water’s removal. It was difficult to believe that the devastation and smells could ever be removed, but it happened. There was an outpouring of help from so many sources and many words of encouragement and prayers. Looking back one factor that has stuck in my mind more than any other is how many New Orleanian’s came back , rolled up their sleeves and got to work. They didn’t rely on government and didn’t wait for money to filter through the system. They recognized a natural disaster had occurred which set off a chain of events that highlighted human errors and weaknesses. Waiting around for resolutions of responsibilities or guilt were not options. There was so much to do and people got busy. It is 15 years now come August and New Orleans is back to normal- well as normal as this crazy city can be. In our hearts we are back: culture, music, food and a deep appreciation of everyone who helped us and believed in the worth of this city. Your own work on what has happened to your community and how you put this history together is remarkable. The narration, the filming, the music and the look on your face as you described everything touched me. Hope is what drives us forward in such disasters and gives us strength to believe in the future. My prayers to your community and I hope one day I will find a video of yours showing your town up and running. Maybe it won’t be the same, maybe it will be better. I will say you should think about developing your talent for documenting events of historical significance. Digital media is a platform of immense potential.

Great edit. Best drone coverage. My prayers to all. Stay safe. Thank you for caring so much and taking the time. Appreciate you.

We feel your pain.

You should post both videos before and after

Jordan... thanks for publishing a very professional video of this devastation. Without question, your video is the most complete and well organized coverage of all.

This video is your resume. Very well done and our thoughts and prayers are with the people of the Sanford area.

for the next dam , call the Dutch first !!!

That’s gut wrenching. 🙁

What an excellent video you produced. This is better than would we see on the news. Great Job Jordan!

This a smack of reality for those of us who have never gone through a flood such as this. Great job of giving us some idea of what it's like to go through a disaster like this. My prayer go out to all the victims of this event.

Shows how you should just not mess with nature. Got people saying dams were bad & needed repair so how about a dam never built is a dam that never fails. In time nature will always win over man.

Sorry to the people for other losses. The state is responsible for keeping the water levels up when they were told to lower them but they wanted to save the fish and I muscles

An amazing job Jordan. You will not have to look hard for a job. This is coverage at its best.

I lived in Midland County 50 years ago. Makes me want to cry to see this. God bless and the best of luck to the folks affected by the flooding.

What did the fish say when he hit the wall

congrats to the gov of Mich and the people above the dams that sued to have the water levels raised great job

Nice work telling the story without editorializing. Great piece. Being from that area, I recognize mist of the areas filmed. I was on Sandford and Wixom last year. Truly devastating.

Im here in houston tx seeing your content & the news & my prayers go out to everyone in that community. Blessings to all!

It will take a decade to recover.. Time and Pressure

Crazy those people paid to live on a lake and they have just a dock in dirt now.

Jordan, I just had you pop up recommended and I live in Lake Orion. I know this area well and my heart breaks for the people in these affected communities. Thank you for your video.

That was incredible, best coverage of the area I've seen. Good work. Brought a real life perspective to the situation. Prayers for Michigan.

Nice overview of the damage! And all this resulted from the owners not wanting to spend $83,000, years ago, in the maintenance required! It's their fault, as well as the fault of the authorities that should have forced them, but looked the other way. As usual, it will translate to: no one will be indicted! This collusion between authorities and big businesses, is the source of all major problems today! With the people being constantly abused from both sides.

They said those dams were privately ownedd

I am so sorry for all the loss. Thank you for the excellent video.

You have done a great job with your video Jordan Best wishes to you and local residents...

Some people were saying that they knew the dam was about to fail and they just let it happen

Out military should have been there and put temporary bridges in. This is the new norm. This is one of many that will fell and our government knows it.

This made me cry. This flooding is almost worse than that of 2019 in Nebraska and the Mississippi Valley. We had water up to here, but not this kind of swept-clean landscape and hardly any roads were affected. I feel so sorry for those who have lost literally everything.

While I had heard of this dam breaking on CNN (I think), They provided no details, no pix, no overflies. My best wishes for the people of this devastated town. Good footage of this area. Well done Jordan.

Wow! The town looks like it was NUKED! Jesus, look out for the people of Midland county.

If I tried flying one of them drones it would have took off to never be found again.

Very nicely shot and well edited. So sorry so many people lost so much. Keep showing their stories.

Jordan, Please keep us updated! Make daily videos if you can and I'll keep sharing with our fellow Michigander's! My thoughts and prayers go out to all of you trying to live through this tragic event.

Somebody's head's going to roll...especially after the Oroville, California Dam Lesson. The Governor has the most access to all the experts on the subject. As an *Organizer,* and *Leader* ...she's completely *failed.*

GREAT footage Jordan Thank you for shown the REAL..... May GOD BLESS ALL that are affected may they recover and mend their broken lifes to SHINE Bright once again in JESUS I Pray.... Amen 🙏😪💜

Excellent, Jordan. Many people are looking for their boats, so anytime you can get close enough to grab a registration number or a decent look. . . it could reunite someone with their property. THANKS!

This is mother nature taking back what was hers. Its so sad and heart breaking. I pray for the families directly affected by this unfortunate situation.

They built the damn it got in Nature's Way and now you pay the price

Great job dude. Today we find out the owners of the dam were sued by MI attorney general for wanting to lower the lake level last fall. The MI AG sued for environmental reasons-they were afraid the runoff left would be too little to sustain some stinking clams. This disaster is the direct responsibility of the Governor and her AG. Democrats ruin everything they touch.

Thank you Jordan for your videos of the Sanford flood. You do an awesome job.

Super job Jason. Much better than any other footage of the devastation that anyone else.

The do nothing DEMS should go to jail...It's sickening...........

I wonder what that DemocRAT governor Whitless did with the funds she was suppose to have for infrastructure repair and maintenance, hmmm, good question....

This video was very well done. Sad images, and countless families are facing devastation. Thanks for posting this.

Thank you for the video of my town. My old neighborhood is completely washed away. Only a couple houses still stand but are cracked off their foundations.

This video was awesome. Excellent job of covering the damage. I grew up in beaverton, have fished in wixom lake, and sanford lake. even tho i am now in Bremerton Washington, I still have family and friends in Gladwin county, Midland county. my thoughts and prayers are with all that are going through this disaster. Michigan will always be HOME.

Thank you for your work, the devastation is unbelievable. My heart goes out to all that have been effected be this tragic event

Jordan, I’m not sure if videography is your chosen vocation in life, but it should be. You did an outstanding job of capturing both the tragedy and the effect on the humanity of your town. I’m so sorry you and your fellow neighbors had to go through that. Keep up the great work!

What horrible devastation! You did an awesome job on this video! Thanks for sharing!