Dam! What a collapse

[89th]

From Jan 2024, in Myanmar. Worth watching, IMO. The sheer power of water... the enormous standing wave (?) at 4:55...

https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/myanmar-1

Link to video

[Horace]

The power of water is not obvious until you see something like that. But maybe it should be obvious, with how fluid and heavy it is.

[89th]

If there's one thing I've learned observing the human species, it's they substantially underestimate how fucking heavy water is.

[Horace]

Reminds me of stories of people walking into a river, and then not being able to get out. Water seems safe, I guess our species evolved to find it so.

[AndyD]

Great video

[Klaus]

What is the back story of that video?

[89th]

Wish I knew. I think the simplified version is it was a mine site that had waste water being pooled or dammed up, but the actual mine location was getting too close to where the water retention was, resulting in the collapse of the retaining “wall”.

No joke one TV show I’ve watched consistently year after year is Gold Rush on Discovery channel, and this is a common problem to deal with the downstream waste water