How Did The Folsom Dam Failure Avoid Flooding The Central Valley? | Massive Engineering Mistakes
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2021
- In 1995, the Folsom Dam had a catastrophic spillway failure, which could have flooded the entire Central Valley of California if it weren't for the quick thinking of one enginnner.
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An epic sound editing fail on this video about a Dam gate fail
I JUST came from an Onion News video made 15 years ago making fun about this inevitably happening. So I searched and found this year old video and the FIRST thing I see, is a woman saying "NO ONE saw this catastrophe coming."
"this disaster will have been preventable, all of the warning signs are here... now"
lol exactly what i did
Music to loud drowning out what they saying
I wish there was a way to prevent such tragedy... that didn't require so much funding.
Music is too loud. Really hard to understand the commentary.
Bad narrative voice volume overlapped by music
The music is not loud enough.
😂😂😂😂
Smooth operator
Olympic swimming pools ? How much is that in giraffes ?
Needs captions yikes
How did they replace the gates without compromising the function of the dam and the downstream dams?
This should have been explained!!
DUDE I WAS THINKING THE SAME LIKE EVERY COMMENT ON THIS VID is an DARN LAUGHABLE jokkkkeeeeXD
@@la24dogg21 probably when dam levels dropped during the dryer summer months and the risk of storms re-filling it was low so workers could get in there and change it.
I actually went rafting down the American River at midnight on the 18th of July the day after the Dam broke. What they didn't say is the lake was at 90% before and went down to under 50% after. It stayed at under 50% for a few years while they fixed it. Then we didn't get much rain and folsom had never been the same.
@@sean99is and it seems like they just prefer to keep it low from now on, they don’t risk having it full anymore. as they say, Folsom primarily function is for overflow control and not much as a reservoir… these past days they don’t even let it reach to 50% capacity assuming there will be a lot of water coming from rhe current snow pack
The video is very misleading at the end. Only the failed gate was replaced. I am working on a project right now to retrofit and replace the trunion hubs on all of the gates at this dam. The video footing they are showing of the gate replacements is not for the main dam. An auxiallry dam spillway was contructed to the east of the main dam, and the video footage you see is for the installation of the gates for this auxillary spillway.
No such thing in non corrosive.
What is up with that accent?