Why don’t the authorities in charge of the River do a controlled breech of the dam to prevent a catastrophic disaster. It would make sense to let the water go now before it backs up to disastrous levels.
@@GeologyHub, large floods and landslides are often caused by felled forests or forests destroyed by fires, because there is nothing to hold the water created by falling rain (this landslide is just one example of this cause).
This is a video. At 60fps it is worth approx 60,000 words per second if a picture is worth a thousand words. At 7 minutes @ 60K words per second, this video is worth 25,200,000 words. Which is more than the Bible, Koran, Torah, and the complete Encyclopedia Britannica combined, By a long shot.
Absolutely wild to see nature at work. All geological features form either incredibly slowly or frighteningly quickly. We're all about to witness the latter.
Yeah. I read about it and pictured something much smaller. That mass of earth is truly awesome. It would be interesting to walk among the slightly crooked trees down there.
Beautiful river valley. The geology and ancient erosion on the river is fascinating. Floods eons ago , and the terracing on that river bend showing the different water levels is incredible and very high up.
Presumably, all the nice flat terraces are a glacial base with the river cutting through it (in the last 7000-10000 years), the flat areas are variously yellow 'scrub?' and the nice green 'fields?' with circular mowing marks? pastures? (with the few pickups parked and some field roads one going down to the now flooding flood plain, you might wonder at seeing some golf foursomes out and about.)
@@Don.Challenger true enough, and from the looks of the blockage, some of those green areas might go under water before it tops over the landslide and starts flowing again unfortunately 😪
Thank you. Doesn’t need a lot of words to tell a story. I’m from a long, long way away, but what farmer doesn’t enjoy looking over another’s fence and thinking about what is going on? Stay safe guys. On top of fires and all.
If they let Mother Nature figure it out it most likely will... A good mining company with a good blasting crew could open up a channel on that solid side in about 2-3 days if they really wanted to...
@@DWSOutdoors Generally trying to cut through these things isn't a good idea, and blasting on unstable ground is an even worse idea. Any honest risk assessment says the best thing to do is evacuate the areas downstream and let the river do its thing. It will eventually come into a stable configuration on its own. In the meantime, the best thing to do is stay out of its way, even if that is really inconvenient.
Thank you so much for sharing the footage - I live down here in 70 mile - but have found the Fraser river is west of me which the Chilcotin joins to - I sure do hope that all residence up there are safe and away from the Danger.🤠
@@Lauren-vd4qe No. You are in a cult of human sacrifice, and the teachings of your so called "prophet" have gone, unlearned. Such as yourself. Good day, ma'am.
this is one of the best videos i've seen yet. good job. for those wondering, the video starts "downstream" and they fly up towards the slide area, which comes into view around 2:40
@@michaeld5888 The slide itself is in a remote, unpopulated area. The property damage will come when the dam formed by the landslide fails and releases an enormous amount of water downriver all at once.
@@beeble2003there's a huge amount of water backed up behind the landslide. Look at the mostly dry riverbed before 2:40 and compare it to everything after 3:40.
@@fallinginthed33p I think you must have misunderstood what I wrote. I know there's a huge amount of water backed up behind the landslide, and my comment says that.
Hey that was great! Thank you. I think it was 1983 when the Thistle landslide did the same thing in Spanish Fork Canyon Utah. I was a boat operator on the resulting Lake moving men and equipment as well as keeping debris from the emergency spill way. Good luck folks. Thats a doozy!
I was about to mention the Thistle, Utah slide too. Just drove up that canyon last week. I remember when it happened when I was young, big slide but way smaller river than this. Now the river goes under a tunnel, too much dirt to move. It was so weird to see submerged houses and buildings many years after in the leftover swampy ponds and dead trees below the water line.
Dozens of old slides on either side of the river, this is probably the +50 times a landslide has done this in the geological past. I remember Lake Hegben in 1959 in the Madison Valley in Montana. They were able to bulldoze a channel and get the flow back on their terms, but the protection was for a major hydro plant, not a streambed! Slide Canyon!
Thank you for showing how massive this slide is and the large area it currently impacts! Small snippets on the news are insufficient for lots of people to grasp this!
I have sent a message to Governor Inslee down here in Washington State, urging him to begin working on processing the international red tape & paperwork to send help to our northern neighbors in BC. While we cannot help you before the flood happens, we can at least send help to repair the damage that *will* be done to the various buildings & infrastructure systems up there. People from all over the world helped us in the aftermath of the Oso Landslide, so it is only right and proper that we try to help you in the aftermath of this coming disaster, too.
It’s pretty wild how we can watch this “incoming disaster” as you say. Most natural disasters, we don’t have nearly as much warning. This time, we KNOW there is going to be major flooding, it’s only a matter of time.
So thoughtful with other people's money. The only message you should be sending to Jay Inslee is to resign. Last time I checked, Canada enjoys first-world status and has all the resources and manpower necessary to handle this. Of course, if you want to head up there with a shovel and your galoshes nobody will stop you.
@@albinorhino6Not to poo poo on your comment, but the officials have shown the stats that the Fraser River system can indeed handle the impending increased flow, which should be less than the peak freshets measured in past. 🙏it is so.
@@albinorhino6 I'd like to prospect the dry river bed before it floods. Must be some crevices that have never been looked at. I'm sure someone is up there now with the same idea.
Your positive attitude and style are a rarity and worthy of merit and great praise in this half empty doom and booger chewed world we inhabit. A gold star and river length claim for you Sir, three cheers for the optimist, YAY.
You wouldn't be able to get out of the way fast enough even with a lookout. That wall of water is going to be epic in a bad way. Stay safe...stay high above the water.
The physics around this event are beyond comprehension. ~ Kind of like ~ OK ~ an instant lake. Can we keep it ? Can we control it ? Can we make electricity here ? Oh no. I think not. What will be, will be. 🙏 Of course a huge huge Thank You to the Williams Lake First Nation people for posting this. Gratitude 🙏. ~ New Hampshire.
3:25 Very uneven height "dam." This is good. It's likely to overtop a small part and scour that down for a slower release instead of taking it all out at once. That would have less impact downstream.
its loose sandy soil, then it overtops, it will rapidly erode the trench wider and it will only accelerate from there. This is the worst possible type of blockage.
@@snaplashwhat is the plan for this, leave it as a lake or rechanel the river. Doesn’t seem to be possible to let that amount of water build up on such an unstable earthen dam.
Thanks for the video. Interesting trivia I stumbled on: the slide happened upstream of Nagwentled, also known as Farwell Canyon. The B.C. government's geographical names data base says Nagwentled in Tsilhqot'in roughly translates to “landslides across the river.”
Great Video. I hope a temp 24/7 camera is near by, maybe more than 1. It will be really interesting how this temp damn will fail. Hope everyone down stream is safe.
I have to wonder if the government is going to let nature keep doing its thing, or are they going to try to get the water flowing ASAP to minimize the damage. I imagine that soil is too loose for it to last very long once water starts flowing.
@@audiogus2651 Yeah, there is no way anything could be done in any sort of safe manner on that loose landslide material. Maybe cut a diversion drainage path through more solid ground if they had months, but the water level will rise over/cut through that loose landslide first. All they can do it try to make sure people are out of the way when it bursts, and there is warning.
They ran out of video before they even got to the end of the current backup, but it is probably going to get very very far in this terrain. I am going to research this 🤔
Thank you for doing this. Thankful that it was not shot in portrait from a phone so we could see what is going on. Holy $hit! The landslide has many of it’s trees intact!
Thank you for sharing this with us. I live very, very far away, but being able to see the damage for myself makes me feel like a neighbour. Praying for everyone's safety!
It will, and after it does it will errode a wide opening very quickly. A lot of water is going to move down that river course very quickly.... with a lot of junk in it. Nothing downstream will be the same again.
Not a word spoken, yet this video tells the story better than anything else on CZcams. News anchors in a studio blabbing over 30 seconds of looped & zooming / spinning views they don’t understand destroys the context of what actually happened. Especially if one has no idea what normal looks like.
Look at pictures and/or video of Turtle Mountain/Frank Slide in Alberta. The actual event happened in 1903 but the only boulders removed were for the railroad, all others still remain. I've been there many times, it's mindboggling to see the extent of the slide. It happened at night when keeps in the town below were sleeping, there are accounts of people in one end of a house that were killed by the slide, and those at the other end were spared. A devastating event for those who lived in the area.
That looks unbelievable. Let's hope for the best. That water is backing up a long way behind the landslide. I sit here in Southwestern Oregon, just hoping that all you good folks up there stay safe. By the way, that was amazing footage of the river and landslide.
This footage brings the true, full meaning to the word "catastrophic". I couldn't believe what I was seeing at first. Prayers and best wishes for everyone affected by this natural calamity. 😮😯😢🙏🤗
More like awe inspiring, that is one massive chunk of mountainside that slid, kinda reminds me of Mt. St. Helens and how the mountainside totally washed out Spirit Lake.
No, it won't break through in the way you are thinking. the dam will eventually become supersaturated, and as the river behind it continues to back up and fill the valley, at some point it will reach the top, and begin to trickle over the dam, creating even more supersaturation, in essence liquifying the rubble and mud, and cutting a channel through it. Depending on how long this process takes, the impounded water will be more or less voluminous, and the longer it takes, the larger the volume of water that will ultimately be released, and it can be a catastrophic flood that has the power to create major damage in the river channel and areas downstream.
its loose sandy dirt. When it finally overtops or breaches, the erosion will be rapid and the small stream will rapidly turn into a torrent of water and debris. Thats why this is so dangerous.
Amazing footage of something that happened all the time when the earth was younger. A disaster in the making today. Excellent coverage, Thanks Williams Lake Nation.
It happens at essentially the same rate now as it did then. There were just billions of years for that all to take place versus the few thousand years people have been here to witness them.
Great video that really helps put this event in perspective and scale. That’s gonna be an enormous amount of water that builds up behind that mess and if it lets go suddenly the effect will be incomprehensible.
I live just north of Hope .We can only hope for a slow release and the water cutting a new Channel By the look of the valley it has happened many times in the past 100'S or 1000'S of years.
yup and its caused a torrent of water each time. It won't be a slow release given the soil type in the area. Any flow or breach will rapidly erode the blockage.
Holy crap... that reservoir is going to get huge before it overtops that. But when it does start to scour open, there's going to be some serious water/mud volume heading downstream.
That's how gold got in the Frazier River side note what beautiful country agricultural land right next to the forest beautiful River once nature takes its course an outdoor person's Paradise
Thank you for posting. It's truly overwhelming to see. I can only hope the damage won't be as monumental as is being predicted. My thoughts are with all creatures, human and otherwise, who will be affected by this.
Thank you for sharing this with us! Been trying to find good videos...nothing. This is the clearest view of what aoccured. I was in the area when this occured, had no idea though until I got the emergency notification text. Ill definitely be heading to Hope pnce i hear its broken loose. Might be interesting little tsunami to watch safely from the banks!!!
Seems to me the goal should be to get that plug saturated as quickly as possible. I'm not sure how many tankers it would take but I think air dropping water on the downstream end would help things release less catastrophically. Get it flowing before a giant wall of water builds up to push it out.
Amazing. My imagination was trying to create a picture of what this would actually look like and I came nowhere close. At first you're like, "where did that amount of earth fall from?!" Then you see the scar in the mountain....just amazing.
good Lord. can't fathom that mess going down river. Thanks for the video, couldn't make head nor tails of the news photos being unfamiliar with the area. this really shows the massive size of the slide
Thank you for the fly over. Brings it all into something we can see and understand. I certainly feel bad for those who will be affected, however, we do not control nature, and this is the price of living with it.
I would hope that Dan being a trained and very professional Geologist that maybe he could explain to his viewers on his YT channel why this occurs. I could see a landslide if the top soil was over saturated with moisture, but the fly over in this video looked to me like a lot of dead vegetation on both sides of this river. My first impression was the dead looking areas may have been mined and not good reclamation done. Just my opinion. I don't live up there, so don't know much.
i was wondering if Dan caused this, maybe he moved one to many rocks looking for gold.....lol if i lived in that area i would be there too with a gold detector and pry bars to roll big river rocks over from the middle of the river. it could be a real bonanza. maybe just have someone sitting at the new dam to give a warning if something has a catastrophic failure so i might have time to get out of the way.
Thanks very much for this perspective! Best I've seen! As you fly up towards the slide, you can see several spots where the land has slid into the river in the past. This river valley has been forever changing. Mother Nature, through, fire, wind, rain and snow as well as slides has been constantly changing the landscape over millennia. I have a feeling she's going to carve a nice new channel through that soft earth and continue the meandering river! All the best!
thanks for the by far the best video of this and showing the magnitude of what occurred and how massive of an impact it is and is going to be as it transforms and unfolds in the coming weeks when this pops and releases the back up.. stay safe everyone in the zone and looking forward to the flyover when it bursts.
wow that impounded fast looks like it will overtop tonight or tomorrow. Look at that Valley you can se so many old old slides in there this was only a matter of time
Grew up in Williams Lake. Been fishing here 100x. Praying this goes over the top and slowly erodes as opposed to bursts. a lot of people depend on this rive for food and water. stay safe.
Great video ,hard to beat a birds eye view. Thanks for the video. I drove along that river many times when I worked in the bush, absolutely beautiful area . Every one should be getting prepared for the rush of water.
An astonishing view to water impoundment. A first hand look at the soil (clay) composition and the scale of the landslide depth. Any residents downstream should be wary as the water volume to a possible breach, is significant. Thank you for the post. M.
Heard about this on the radio, but it’s difficult to comprehend the incredible scale of the impact. Such an unspoilt and beautiful country, hope it can be resolved without further landslides and destruction. Thank you for sharing this video, it clearly illustrates the difficulties faced by everyone in the locality.
this is the best view of it i've been able to find!
I’ve noticed they are not showing good views of not anywhere. Kinda suspicious and odd for a world full
Of cameras and satellites
@@chantzarcher4807 summer holidays and the weekend for the journalist.. the news isn't what it used to be pre corporate ownership
I hope somebody is setting up cameras all around that slide, waiting to film the inevitable.
Why don’t the authorities in charge of the River do a controlled breech of the dam to prevent a catastrophic disaster. It would make sense to let the water go now before it backs up to disastrous levels.
@@pambp5978they are busy with stories about puppies born to a trans couple or something.
Big Thanks to the Williams Lake Boys for putting this up here. Great footage.
Who are the Williams lake boys?
Why aren't the trees green on the hills and around the river? Was there a fire or did the forest dry out for some reason?
@@pnvidusa Yes, there was a major fire in 2017.
@@GeologyHub, large floods and landslides are often caused by felled forests or forests destroyed by fires, because there is nothing to hold the water created by falling rain (this landslide is just one example of this cause).
And no crappy music!
Wow, a picture really is worth 1000 words. Stay safe, everyone!
This is a video.
At 60fps it is worth approx 60,000 words per second if a picture is worth a thousand words.
At 7 minutes @ 60K words per second, this video is worth 25,200,000 words.
Which is more than the Bible, Koran, Torah, and the complete Encyclopedia Britannica combined, By a long shot.
i always said a video is worth a thousand pictures... Also this is a wild situation
Absolutely wild to see nature at work.
All geological features form either incredibly slowly or frighteningly quickly.
We're all about to witness the latter.
@@Itssmial_Ova A catastrophe in the making, in slow motion.... good thing there is lots of room for the water to go...
@@Itssmial_Ova What a lame statement.
Thanks for the fly over of the slide. It shows exactly how big it was and the problem everyone is facing.
I was gobsmacked when it came into view. Having the lead up in this clip made it sink in how big this event has been.
Cheers from Copenhagen, Denmark.
2:30
Yeah.
I read about it and pictured something much smaller.
That mass of earth is truly awesome.
It would be interesting to walk among the slightly crooked trees down there.
Amazing how many trees on the slide are still standing tall. Thanks for sharing, this finally explains the situation.
Trees are OP.
Standing tall? They're all burnt and dead. Hence the landslide.
Yes, and they're all at a slight angle off plumb, but not much!
I'm guessing that's because the mass only traveled a short distance. Not enough time to mixmaster the contents.
Homogeneous movement
Beautiful river valley.
The geology and ancient erosion on the river is fascinating.
Floods eons ago , and the terracing on that river bend showing the different water levels is incredible and very high up.
Some of that is glacial erosion as well.
Presumably, all the nice flat terraces are a glacial base with the river cutting through it (in the last 7000-10000 years), the flat areas are variously yellow 'scrub?' and the nice green 'fields?' with circular mowing marks? pastures? (with the few pickups parked and some field roads one going down to the now flooding flood plain, you might wonder at seeing some golf foursomes out and about.)
@@Don.Challenger true enough, and from the looks of the blockage, some of those green areas might go under water before it tops over the landslide and starts flowing again unfortunately 😪
@@scottlesage386 looks like they are going to mow while they can 👨🌾
The global deluge was only 4,000 years ago. The earth is only 6,000 years old. !
Wow, finally someone who is capable of capturing this on video. It was painful to watch other videos that barely showed the slide.
Thank you.
Doesn’t need a lot of words to tell a story.
I’m from a long, long way away, but what farmer doesn’t enjoy looking over another’s fence and thinking about what is going on?
Stay safe guys. On top of fires and all.
I added info about the fires too, but the people here are censoring the information because they are protecting the people who started them.
Thank you for this footage. Best coverage I've seen.
That burn scar is massive. Hopefully the saturation and inevitable draining won't trigger more slides.
If they let Mother Nature figure it out it most likely will... A good mining company with a good blasting crew could open up a channel on that solid side in about 2-3 days if they really wanted to...
@@DWSOutdoors Generally trying to cut through these things isn't a good idea, and blasting on unstable ground is an even worse idea. Any honest risk assessment says the best thing to do is evacuate the areas downstream and let the river do its thing. It will eventually come into a stable configuration on its own. In the meantime, the best thing to do is stay out of its way, even if that is really inconvenient.
This particular hill has had 5 other slides in the past few years, this is just the first big impact. This hill is absolutely gonna give again.
the fires and trees dying are a big reason for the slides to begin with
@@melanie_meandersnot in this case. The slide depth was WAY to deep to be effected by tree roots. This looks to be at least 50-100ft deep or more.
Excellent video. It really clarifies the situation. Well done! Thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing the footage - I live down here in 70 mile - but have found the Fraser river is west of me which the Chilcotin joins to - I sure do hope that all residence up there are safe and away from the Danger.🤠
2:40 comin around that bend, and youre like "holaaay fuuuuk!"
no need for that
@@Lauren-vd4qe sorry.... mom
@@Lauren-vd4qe No. You are in a cult of human sacrifice, and the teachings of your so called "prophet" have gone, unlearned. Such as yourself.
Good day, ma'am.
@@Lauren-vd4qe lmao cry harder
03:08 instant dead end. I too would be concerned when the river rises and the pressure it creates. Looks like an apocalyptic event.
Wow thankyou That is a massive slide Hopes for the best for everyone
this is one of the best videos i've seen yet. good job. for those wondering, the video starts "downstream" and they fly up towards the slide area, which comes into view around 2:40
The size of it is a shock when it appears. I hope people are safe but property loss will I suppose be devastating.
@@michaeld5888 The slide itself is in a remote, unpopulated area. The property damage will come when the dam formed by the landslide fails and releases an enormous amount of water downriver all at once.
@@beeble2003there's a huge amount of water backed up behind the landslide. Look at the mostly dry riverbed before 2:40 and compare it to everything after 3:40.
@@fallinginthed33p I think you must have misunderstood what I wrote. I know there's a huge amount of water backed up behind the landslide, and my comment says that.
A picture - they say - is worth a thousand words. This video puts everything into perspective. Thanks for uploading it.
Hey that was great! Thank you. I think it was 1983 when the Thistle landslide did the same thing in Spanish Fork Canyon Utah. I was a boat operator on the resulting Lake moving men and equipment as well as keeping debris from the emergency spill way. Good luck folks. Thats a doozy!
I was about to mention the Thistle, Utah slide too. Just drove up that canyon last week. I remember when it happened when I was young, big slide but way smaller river than this. Now the river goes under a tunnel, too much dirt to move. It was so weird to see submerged houses and buildings many years after in the leftover swampy ponds and dead trees below the water line.
Dozens of old slides on either side of the river, this is probably the +50 times a landslide has done this in the geological past. I remember Lake Hegben in 1959 in the Madison Valley in Montana. They were able to bulldoze a channel and get the flow back on their terms, but the protection was for a major hydro plant, not a streambed! Slide Canyon!
Thank you for showing how massive this slide is and the large area it currently impacts! Small snippets on the news are insufficient for lots of people to grasp this!
Thank you for the footage Williams Lake First Nations.
I have sent a message to Governor Inslee down here in Washington State, urging him to begin working on processing the international red tape & paperwork to send help to our northern neighbors in BC. While we cannot help you before the flood happens, we can at least send help to repair the damage that *will* be done to the various buildings & infrastructure systems up there. People from all over the world helped us in the aftermath of the Oso Landslide, so it is only right and proper that we try to help you in the aftermath of this coming disaster, too.
It’s pretty wild how we can watch this “incoming disaster” as you say. Most natural disasters, we don’t have nearly as much warning. This time, we KNOW there is going to be major flooding, it’s only a matter of time.
Gov Worthless is a pos! Guaranteed he say no
Thank you 🇨🇦🇺🇲
So thoughtful with other people's money. The only message you should be sending to Jay Inslee is to resign.
Last time I checked, Canada enjoys first-world status and has all the resources and manpower necessary to handle this.
Of course, if you want to head up there with a shovel and your galoshes nobody will stop you.
@@albinorhino6Not to poo poo on your comment, but the officials have shown the stats that the Fraser River system can indeed handle the impending increased flow, which should be less than the peak freshets measured in past. 🙏it is so.
Someone needs to get a live webcam feed up there.
Stay safe everyone
It will be gone in a day or two.
I imagine there are probably a lot of scientists who would like to watch this erosion in detail, to learn as much as they can.
@@albinorhino6
I'd like to prospect the dry river bed before it floods. Must be some crevices that have never been looked at.
I'm sure someone is up there now with the same idea.
@@MrPlussesI'd also like to put my self in the path of an imminent deluge of debris and water.
@@6ic6ic6ic Let me help erect your tent.
Thank you for sharing! Prayers for all of the people that will be impacted by this event, hoping everyone stays safe.
Thanks for showing this. Prayers for when it breaks that all will be Safe.
Fairy tales do not exist
@@alanbiancardi2531 *tips fedora* ello m'lady
Why not pray it will go away and NOT break and cause devastation? Of course it will NOT bo okayFFs
Now is the time to look for gold! (Far enough downstream with a lookout near the landslide to radio if the dam breaks!)
Great footage!
I was thinking the same thing LOL
This might actually work since undisturbed earth will be washed out and deposited far and wide where people can find nuggets, if there was any there.
Man, imagine what’s built up at the base of those exposed boulders and bottoms of the deep pools. And when the dam breaks, it’s all gone.
Your positive attitude and style are a rarity and worthy of merit and great praise in this half empty doom and booger chewed world we inhabit. A gold star and river length claim for you Sir, three cheers for the optimist, YAY.
You wouldn't be able to get out of the way fast enough even with a lookout. That wall of water is going to be epic in a bad way. Stay safe...stay high above the water.
Unbelievable sight as the land slip appeared. Incredible video. Been following since news first broke. Thanks so much for posting.
The physics around this event are beyond comprehension. ~ Kind of like ~ OK ~ an instant lake. Can we keep it ? Can we control it ? Can we make electricity here ? Oh no. I think not. What will be, will be. 🙏 Of course a huge huge Thank You to the Williams Lake First Nation people for posting this. Gratitude 🙏. ~ New Hampshire.
This video is truly amazing! Thank you for taking the time, money and effort to make and share this.
"Fly over Chilcotin Lake, and River."
6:35 New boat ramp 🤔
the river is now called Protesting Trucker's Bank Accounts. its believed fascism is a factor of what caused the landsIide
3:25 Very uneven height "dam." This is good. It's likely to overtop a small part and scour that down for a slower release instead of taking it all out at once. That would have less impact downstream.
its loose sandy soil, then it overtops, it will rapidly erode the trench wider and it will only accelerate from there. This is the worst possible type of blockage.
Wow. I really hope that the water can start coming through gradually and not all at once. Thanks for sharing those images with us.
@@snaplashwhat is the plan for this, leave it as a lake or rechanel the river. Doesn’t seem to be possible to let that amount of water build up on such an unstable earthen dam.
Thanks for the video.
Interesting trivia I stumbled on: the slide happened upstream of Nagwentled, also known as Farwell Canyon. The B.C. government's geographical names data base says Nagwentled in Tsilhqot'in roughly translates to “landslides across the river.”
Good reporting. thanks.
Someone else suggested a live stream 24/7 so we can "monitor" the situation. I agree 🤗!
Great Video. I hope a temp 24/7 camera is near by, maybe more than 1. It will be really interesting how this temp damn will fail. Hope everyone down stream is safe.
Nature doing nature things.
I have to wonder if the government is going to let nature keep doing its thing, or are they going to try to get the water flowing ASAP to minimize the damage. I imagine that soil is too loose for it to last very long once water starts flowing.
@@skeptibleiyam1093 whatever they do, there will be insane levels of incompetence involved
That looks like it would be a fairly difficult to access megaproject.
@@audiogus2651 Yeah, there is no way anything could be done in any sort of safe manner on that loose landslide material. Maybe cut a diversion drainage path through more solid ground if they had months, but the water level will rise over/cut through that loose landslide first. All they can do it try to make sure people are out of the way when it bursts, and there is warning.
@@--Valek--
And needlessly expensive.
Thanks watched it three times. my jaw still on the floor. too bad news media can’t show this quality of work.
$ 1,300,000,000 for the CBC and those clowns can't be bothered to charter a helicopter, sorry I forgot, we are the WEST
Thanks alot, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Video*
@@scottywills124 million words
@@scottywills124 wrp3621 was using an expression.
@@Stone_Horse Yup, it's just an old saying.
That’s going to be a very large lake before it tops the dam.
They ran out of video before they even got to the end of the current backup, but it is probably going to get very very far in this terrain. I am going to research this 🤔
A beautiful valley. Let's hope this drains off slowly. Thank you.
Wow, that is going to be a massive amount of water.
Looks like it has to come up fifty to one hundred feet to cut the spillway. Epic.
@@hoboroadie4623ya late fall or spring !??!?
@@CosmicRain144 yeah not 48 hours
But I’m not an expert😂
amazing pilot and camera person. thanks. I hope everything works out.
Thank you for doing this. Thankful that it was not shot in portrait from a phone so we could see what is going on.
Holy $hit! The landslide has many of it’s trees intact!
can we not mention Gods poop please!!!
@@Lauren-vd4qe😂😂😂 God doesn't poop 😅
@@Lauren-vd4qe Christo-fascist Karen here to correct us all.
@@FairlyOddParents72 enjoy the tribulation, made especially for folks like you!
@@Lauren-vd4qe judgemental fascist. No such thing will ever happen. Enjoy your sad white ghost stories.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I live very, very far away, but being able to see the damage for myself makes me feel like a neighbour. Praying for everyone's safety!
Incredible views! Thanks for the update!
That's a huge huge slide. I gotta think that the river will eventually cut a channel across the slide and things won't be so bad..
I sure hope that they have plenty of cameras set up and ready when that happens. 🌊
It will, and after it does it will errode a wide opening very quickly. A lot of water is going to move down that river course very quickly.... with a lot of junk in it. Nothing downstream will be the same again.
@@Swarm509I mean, I'm sure this river has done this many times before, just fewer humans were around to witness what happened previously.
Not a word spoken, yet this video tells the story better than anything else on CZcams. News anchors in a studio blabbing over 30 seconds of looped & zooming / spinning views they don’t understand destroys the context of what actually happened. Especially if one has no idea what normal looks like.
Yup, news media had their day but it's clear they can't do a better job than the people themselves anymore.
Great video. That whole valley is a series of ancient slides
Fantastic view of the slide, thank you.
Thanks for the flyover great views
Just hard to comprehend a whole mountain side moving like that, great video.
looks like it has happened numerous times before in the area from the areal footage.
Mt St Helens
Look at pictures and/or video of Turtle Mountain/Frank Slide in Alberta. The actual event happened in 1903 but the only boulders removed were for the railroad, all others still remain.
I've been there many times, it's mindboggling to see the extent of the slide. It happened at night when keeps in the town below were sleeping, there are accounts of people in one end of a house that were killed by the slide, and those at the other end were spared. A devastating event for those who lived in the area.
That looks unbelievable. Let's hope for the best. That water is backing up a long way behind the landslide. I sit here in Southwestern Oregon, just hoping that all you good folks up there stay safe. By the way, that was amazing footage of the river and landslide.
This footage brings the true, full meaning to the word "catastrophic". I couldn't believe what I was seeing at first. Prayers and best wishes for everyone affected by this natural calamity. 😮😯😢🙏🤗
More like awe inspiring, that is one massive chunk of mountainside that slid, kinda reminds me of Mt. St. Helens and how the mountainside totally washed out Spirit Lake.
Great flying great clip. I have a feeling this has happened long before as well
Many times for sure.
that river isn't going to break through that landslide any time soon....
But when it does, there’s going to be a (bleep)ton of water behind it.
I think the more likely event is overtopping. Than the "dam" is quickly eroded.
a few days at the most
No, it won't break through in the way you are thinking. the dam will eventually become supersaturated, and as the river behind it continues to back up and fill the valley, at some point it will reach the top, and begin to trickle over the dam, creating even more supersaturation, in essence liquifying the rubble and mud, and cutting a channel through it. Depending on how long this process takes, the impounded water will be more or less voluminous, and the longer it takes, the larger the volume of water that will ultimately be released, and it can be a catastrophic flood that has the power to create major damage in the river channel and areas downstream.
@@shanemedlin9400exactly right. People should not take this situation lightly. It has potential to really cause a lot of destruction.
It’s massive, doesn’t look like it’s going to open up on a moments notice. That’s a lot of dirt
its loose sandy dirt. When it finally overtops or breaches, the erosion will be rapid and the small stream will rapidly turn into a torrent of water and debris. Thats why this is so dangerous.
@@avroarchitect1793 Trees are still standing, the whole thing moved at once
wow! what a super and comprehensive fly over and footage! thank you! with love, Connie
Judging from the landscape, these slides are common
The Geology Hub channel covers that exact thing in a recent video.
They are called the walking hills for some reason. Alberta and bc have this issue. Look at the hope slide.
Apparently the Indigenous name for the area means landslide.
Yes but they don’t usually block the entire river.
Geologically speaking, yes.
Amazing footage of something that happened all the time when the earth was younger. A disaster in the making today. Excellent coverage, Thanks Williams Lake Nation.
It happens at essentially the same rate now as it did then.
There were just billions of years for that all to take place versus the few thousand years people have been here to witness them.
Wonderful footage, well done. Thank you for creating and sharing this.
Great video that really helps put this event in perspective and scale. That’s gonna be an enormous amount of water that builds up behind that mess and if it lets go suddenly the effect will be incomprehensible.
Wow, thanks for the update and great shots! That's a lot of water!!!
I live just north of Hope .We can only hope for a slow release and the water cutting a new Channel
By the look of the valley it has happened many times in the past 100'S or 1000'S of years.
yup and its caused a torrent of water each time. It won't be a slow release given the soil type in the area. Any flow or breach will rapidly erode the blockage.
Holy crap... that reservoir is going to get huge before it overtops that. But when it does start to scour open, there's going to be some serious water/mud volume heading downstream.
Incredible footage, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for flying out there.
That's how gold got in the Frazier River side note what beautiful country agricultural land right next to the forest beautiful River once nature takes its course an outdoor person's Paradise
Thank you for posting. It's truly overwhelming to see. I can only hope the damage won't be as monumental as is being predicted. My thoughts are with all creatures, human and otherwise, who will be affected by this.
Thanks for putting this video together and sharing. Unbelievable.
Excellent fly over footage thank you!
Thank you for sharing this with us! Been trying to find good videos...nothing. This is the clearest view of what aoccured.
I was in the area when this occured, had no idea though until I got the emergency notification text. Ill definitely be heading to Hope pnce i hear its broken loose. Might be interesting little tsunami to watch safely from the banks!!!
Looks like it will become a beautiful lake up stream.
Seems to me the goal should be to get that plug saturated as quickly as possible.
I'm not sure how many tankers it would take but I think air dropping water on the downstream end would help things release less catastrophically.
Get it flowing before a giant wall of water builds up to push it out.
Amazing. My imagination was trying to create a picture of what this would actually look like and I came nowhere close.
At first you're like, "where did that amount of earth fall from?!"
Then you see the scar in the mountain....just amazing.
good Lord. can't fathom that mess going down river. Thanks for the video, couldn't make head nor tails of the news photos being unfamiliar with the area. this really shows the massive size of the slide
Thank you for the fly over. Brings it all into something we can see and understand.
I certainly feel bad for those who will be affected, however, we do not control nature, and this is the price of living with it.
Dan hurd will be loving this.
wow.. id be there quickly with my metal detector...
I would hope that Dan being a trained and very professional Geologist that maybe he could explain to his viewers on his YT channel why this occurs. I could see a landslide if the top soil was over saturated with moisture, but the fly over in this video looked to me like a lot of dead vegetation on both sides of this river.
My first impression was the dead looking areas may have been mined and not good reclamation done. Just my opinion. I don't live up there, so don't know much.
i was wondering if Dan caused this, maybe he moved one to many rocks looking for gold.....lol
if i lived in that area i would be there too with a gold detector and pry bars to roll big river rocks over from the middle of the river. it could be a real bonanza. maybe just have someone sitting at the new dam to give a warning if something has a catastrophic failure so i might have time to get out of the way.
I wonder, does he have any claims in the area? i wonder how many folks are/will be panning in the dried up creek/river bed?
@@markwentz8332 he has claims on the Fraser river
Thanks very much for this perspective! Best I've seen! As you fly up towards the slide, you can see several spots where the land has slid into the river in the past. This river valley has been forever changing. Mother Nature, through, fire, wind, rain and snow as well as slides has been constantly changing the landscape over millennia. I have a feeling she's going to carve a nice new channel through that soft earth and continue the meandering river! All the best!
No video has shown the massive size of the landslide and either size of the Chilton River. Mindboggling.
thanks for the by far the best video of this and showing the magnitude of what occurred and how massive of an impact it is and is going to be as it transforms and unfolds in the coming weeks when this pops and releases the back up.. stay safe everyone in the zone and looking forward to the flyover when it bursts.
This would be absolutely incredible to witness, if the dam breaks and the lake releases. The pure, raw power.
wow that impounded fast looks like it will overtop tonight or tomorrow. Look at that Valley you can se so many old old slides in there this was only a matter of time
thats going to be one huge lake if that holds and a little stream forms through the center for it to drain
Thank you for this. Shows just how massive this slide was.
Holy crap a dry river bed in canada!!! Id be gold pqnning right in the middle lol lets gooo!!!!
Grew up in Williams Lake. Been fishing here 100x. Praying this goes over the top and slowly erodes as opposed to bursts. a lot of people depend on this rive for food and water. stay safe.
The irony- at 5:08 a sprinkler watering the crops!
Wow. This video really gives you a sense of the scale of the slide. Holy ...
Amazing! Nature is just amazing
Great video ,hard to beat a birds eye view. Thanks for the video. I drove along that river many times when I worked in the bush, absolutely beautiful area . Every one should be getting prepared for the rush of water.
It’s so long and deep I’m guessing that’s going to be a new lake, at least for a while.
An astonishing view to water impoundment. A first hand look at the soil (clay) composition and the scale of the landslide depth. Any residents downstream should be wary as the water volume to a possible breach, is significant. Thank you for the post. M.
Thank you. That is quite a backlog of water already.
Heard about this on the radio, but it’s difficult to comprehend the incredible scale of the impact. Such an unspoilt and beautiful country, hope it can be resolved without further landslides and destruction. Thank you for sharing this video, it clearly illustrates the difficulties faced by everyone in the locality.
Holy hell, that is a lot of material.... Crazy
Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Judging by the hillsides and erosion over the years, this has happened in the past. Many times.
This really brings everything into perspective. Thanks for showing us!
we'll be panning soon
Thanks. I watched it three times.