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Posted: 2/14/2017 3:45:01 AM EDT
Interesting to read about some these. I never knew about the Vajont Dam in Italy. It was tallest dam in the world at 860 ft and was nestled high up in the mountains right above a small town. In Oct 1963 at @10:59pm a massive landslide came down from the mountains causing a mega-tsunami to flow over the dam.
Top 15 Dam Failures Vajont Dam Failure - Italy 1963. Death toll 2000. Wiki on Vajont Dam Under construction. 
Before the flood. 
You can see how high the water level got over the dam. Water that high pouring over a 860 ft dam is not good. 
Flood wave down the valley. 
Whats crazy the dam did not collapse and it still stands today, empty of course. 
 Vaiont-FlyBy.mov  Vajont 49 anni dopo.... |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 3:48:34 AM EDT
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So a landslide fell into the lake and overtopped the dam, but the dam held? Wow.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 3:48:53 AM EDT
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Holy shit. They didn't stand a chance
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:08:48 AM EDT
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Holy shit. They didn't stand a chance The article says it overtopped the wall by 250m. Holy Fucking Shit |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:18:30 AM EDT
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Nope nope nope nope!!!!
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:25:47 AM EDT
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China's Banqiao Dam failure killed over 170,000 (26,000 in initial flooding, the remainder from famine and disease in the aftermath. Some estimates as high as 230K!)
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:26:03 AM EDT
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Wow
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:42:33 AM EDT
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The article says it overtopped the wall by 250m. Holy Fucking Shit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:45:18 AM EDT
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Holy shit!
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Posted: 2/14/2017 4:50:16 AM EDT
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China's Banqiao Dam failure killed over 170,000 (26,000 in initial flooding, the remainder from famine and disease in the aftermath. Some estimates as high as 230K!) That is mind blowing but I've never heard of it until now, and it happened in the 1970's.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 7:31:08 AM EDT
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I like how the Manchu II, in India, killed either 1800, or 15,000.
How many people, We do not know. |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 8:56:00 AM EDT
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The list doesn't seem very accurate.
Black hills flood 1972 Technically, it was a flood exacerbated by a dam failure, rather can caused by the failure. |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 5:32:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2017 5:43:41 PM EDT
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My aunt was killed in #11, the Buffalo Creek flood in 1972.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 5:51:43 PM EDT
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Nature always win. We can hold it back sometimes, but never forever.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 6:06:56 PM EDT
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Pretty good movie on Netflix, "The Wave," about a landslide in a fjord in Norway causing a title wave. Fiction, but interesting.
 The Wave | official trailer (2016) |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 6:20:40 PM EDT
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CheeseVille Dam.
I can't remember how many times I have heard about that dam bursting. Thank God Mighty Mouse was there to save the day. |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 6:21:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2017 6:29:34 PM EDT
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Technically the Vajont dam did not fail.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 6:33:24 PM EDT
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Technically the Vajont dam did not fail. It's like pitching a perfect game and still losing...
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Posted: 2/14/2017 6:42:24 PM EDT
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16. My college dating experience... all 4 years during my first bachelors degree plus the two years when I got my second bachelors degree.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 7:07:35 PM EDT
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My aunt was killed in #11, the Buffalo Creek flood in 1972. Is your family orginally from that area? I remember some of the BCF. Heavy rains and WV do not go together too well. |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 7:15:09 PM EDT
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And GD hates on Itallian engineering, looks like that dam did it's job. This is a good watch.  Disasters of the Century | Season 3 | Episode 28 | Vajont Dam Collapse | Ian Michael Coulson |
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