5 Massive Dam Failures Caught On Camera

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• MA

  @marcmaz21 · 4 years ago

  2 of the beavers are still being investigated by the Army Corp of Engineers for not having a Dam Permit.

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• JI

  @jinxgirl5 · 4 years ago

  You know, I'd never thought about how a beaver dam failing could impact anything. That flood might not have been as catastrophic as the others but it was still a heck of flash flood, plus now there's no pond so there's some terrain changes to consider

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• RA

  @raviolitrail · 4 years ago

  I hope all the beavers were okay.

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• MT

  @mtlman12 · 4 years ago

  I lived through the collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho in 1976.  My home was a small town called Blackfoot, 76 miles south of the dam. The flooding was unbelievable even there.  It flowed down the Snake River valley and devastated farm lands and homes.  An amazing thing to me was how much the community came together to help each other.  I was in high school and me and my friends were in crews filling sand bags.  I was working beside farmers, teachers, retirees.  All together.

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• DI

  @DilanPerera1 · 4 years ago

  Beavers must be the civil engineers of the wild! Pretty impressed by the dams they built!!!

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• HE

  @heatmoon · 4 years ago

  For years Beavers built and kept up a big dam probably 100 feet across, just an amazing amount of water held.  One day the dam had a hole right through the middle, it was right behind our house so we knew it wasn't a DNR operation as they love hiring guys with explosives to blow them up.  Turns out that after a time the beavers decide the dam is no longer useful and moved upstream to a new good source of younger trees to build a new dam.  Amazing creatures.

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• PA

  @paulwallis7586 · 4 years ago

  Have to say, during the beaver dam part, I was expecting to see a team of beavers in hard hats and hi-vis jackets somewhere.

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• NI

  @nightmimebandaids · 4 years ago

  i’m so happy you included a beaver dam video in the list

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• ER

  @erik_eriksson_design · 4 years ago

  Dam impressive. Please Note: No beavers were harmed during making this film.

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• IN

  @intrepido4695 · 4 years ago

  The most impressive one was the beaver dam..I imagined them having a meeting on how to fix it..

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• SA

  @savagewolf6135 · 4 years ago

  That last one when all you hear the water flowing, almost put me to sleep. I didn't even realize it, until I came to the sense I was staring at the screen and forgot about everything around me. That was awsome!!!

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• US

  @usnasi4439 · 4 years ago

  In India there is an old dam named Mullaperiyar dam built in 1885 by a British architect. There has been so many requests to replace this old dam with a new one but is in dispute. I hope they will learn a lesson from these kind of videos and rethink.

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