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Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1262961380166156292



Well, that's certainly less than ideal.

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Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
Dam it.

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

Came 2 post this

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0g16_LQaQ

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!
theres drat failures everywhere op not just michigan

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
https://twitter.com/highlyanne/status/1262932990126161922

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

hosed up if true

Schweinhund
Oct 23, 2004

:derp:   :kayak:                                     
Wow. 3 dams at once. What a coincidence.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Dixville posted:

hosed up if true

it's not true though

AchtungBaby
Dec 5, 2007


Schweinhund posted:

Wow. 3 dams at once. What a coincidence.

Do you think its related to 5g?

Nastyman
Jul 11, 2007

There they sit
at the foot of the mountain
Taking hits
of the sacred smoke
Fire rips at their lungs
Holy mountain take us away

AchtungBaby posted:

Do you think its related to 5g?

It's those lying democrats

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Congrats on your new lake, Michigan.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Building your house near a dam is like building it near a volcano. If poo poo kicks off it's sad and all, but in your heart you knew this was going to happen.

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
Please tell me someone caught at least one of them on video

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
A god dam travesty

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

Poor Dow. They're really the victims in all of this when you think about it.

Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

guidoanselmi posted:

Poor Dow. They're really the victims in all of this when you think about it.

Not to worry. They'll have plenty of liquidity here soon

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Devils Affricate posted:

Please tell me someone caught at least one of them on video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nML8d_IF9Q

Some shots of the dam and some really cool looking guys from Michigan.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Icochet posted:

Building your house near a dam is like building it near a volcano. If poo poo kicks off it's sad and all, but in your heart you knew this was going to happen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JqYUWl9qAA

halokiller
Dec 28, 2008

Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves


Schweinhund posted:

Wow. 3 dams at once. What a coincidence.

The dams are owned by the same private company who was in the process of selling them rather than keep up with the repairs and maintenance. :capitalism:

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]

Schweinhund posted:

Wow. 3 dams at once. What a coincidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft9sVTFOKic

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

Whats up with all those dams breaking? I thought america was good at building things like that and had a lot of money. If i was american i'd be worried about crossing any bridges right about now.

Sekenr
Dec 12, 2013




Thats just too many dam failures

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Caesar Saladin posted:

Whats up with all those dams breaking? I thought america was good at building things like that and had a lot of money. If i was american i'd be worried about crossing any bridges right about now.

You don't get to have lots of money by spending it on things that benefit the poor.

Synthetic Dreams
Jul 19, 2005

by Cyrano4747

Caesar Saladin posted:

Whats up with all those dams breaking? I thought america was good at building things like that and had a lot of money. If i was american i'd be worried about crossing any bridges right about now.

are you suggesting commie socialism in my america???!

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
Why not build all the houses on stilts that are taller than the dam? Bing bong simple solution right there Michiganers.

Captain Beans
Aug 5, 2004

Whar be the beans?
Hair Elf
What kind of dam failure is going on here? Are the dams washing away?

Back in the old Houston hurricane flooding thread there was tons of posting and reporting about “dam failure” which sounded very dramatic but in reality it just meant the water retained was so great that it started to wash around the edges of the dam like a bath tub overflowing. Not great, but the catastrophic “dam gone now” never happened.

The Klowner
Apr 20, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Apparently the HQ of Dow Chemical is within the flow path, so that could turn really bad really quick

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

somebody save the napalm.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Dams and hydroelectricity are commie bullshit, if it's not rolling coal it's not american

Dignity Van Houten
Jul 28, 2006

abcdefghijk
ELLAMENNO-P


Captain Beans posted:

What kind of dam failure is going on here? Are the dams washing away?

Back in the old Houston hurricane flooding thread there was tons of posting and reporting about “dam failure” which sounded very dramatic but in reality it just meant the water retained was so great that it started to wash around the edges of the dam like a bath tub overflowing. Not great, but the catastrophic “dam gone now” never happened.

At the beginning everyone was imagining some Hoover Dam like structure crumbling in cinematic fashion which would devistate the downstream community but in reality the "dam" was just a six foot high dirt retaining wall that some water sloshed over causing some downstream drains to back up slightly until city maintenance sent guys out to clear away the sticks and leaves. And for days the thread was a circlejerk of goons convinced the entire city of Houston Texas was just seconds away from being washed into the Gulf of Mexico

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

quote:

Lions in no hurry to reopen facilities
Posted by Michael David Smith on May 20, 2020, 4:26 AM EDT

I wouldn't go back to that state either, guys.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


Caesar Saladin posted:

Whats up with all those dams breaking? I thought america was good at building things like that and had a lot of money. If i was american i'd be worried about crossing any bridges right about now.

I've seen the crumblingn infrastructure of the states discussed here a bunch over the years. Someone even linked an interactive map of the over 4,000 (I think) bridges in need of maintenance. That's normal!

What's the end game though realistically. Defunding education while raising price of admission, defunding hospitals, defunding / dismantling welfare programs, neglecting the poor, neglecting infrastructure, whatever the list goes on forever but all these things have been systemic for 50 years or something. Do the powers that be just want to rule over mud people that are no more intelligent than an ox? Oh ok nm I see it now

flubber nuts fucked around with this message at 13:09 on May 20, 2020

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:

I've seen the crumblingn infrastructure of the states discussed here a bunch over the years. Someone even linked an interactive map of the over 4,000 (I think) bridges in need of maintenance. That's normal!

Once again it's the US fault.
Oh there's no school lunches? US.
Oh the entire US is populated by idiots because no one can read anymore and math is against the law? US' fault obviously.
A bridge fell onto an orphanage? Well that's Uncle Sam.
The US does the opposite and tries to spend resources to do upkeep? Nope that's imperialism. Can't do that either.
US colonizes the moon with slave labor? Also bad.
Without slave labor? Too socialist.

Fuckin unbelievable.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


Big Beef City posted:

US colonizes the moon with slave labor? Also bad.
Without slave labor? Too socialist.

Fuckin unbelievable.

but can we find an middle ground?

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
people should build their own private-use bridges and dams. taxes and public infrastructure are socialism communism

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug

halokiller posted:

The dams are owned by the same private company who was in the process of selling them rather than keep up with the repairs and maintenance. :capitalism:

I don't think they're going to get their asking price.

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tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician
Bernie tried to warn us.

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