S6E18 - Dam

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She's sorry everybody fantastic. Everyone's like what the fuck is the title of the show? Oh welcome back
Yeah, welcome. It's it's been another week. It has another I still call this an early show yet another Monday
Hey, how was how was your mother's day? Yes
Yesterday for those listening. Oh, hey for you. It was good went saw some family got to
Hang out with my little nephew
That's why I go to these things. That's fair. I mean they're all they're great and whatever but
Come on
He was he was having a blast like that's that's the reason no it was good. I had oh
Fuck I should have written this down
My uncle bought this beer and it tasted like peaches it tasted like peaches on a beach
That's sad
I'm sorry that it tasted like dog shit. No. No it was good like it tasted like it didn't taste like artificial peaches
It tastes like peaches peaches and beer, huh, and it was like kind of tangy. It was good
It was like lulu lemon or something. I don't fucking that was that yoga pants company. Yeah, that's
Nice yeah, you do anything fun um I went to my girlfriend's family's thing over her grandma's
which
It's okay. I just I
I really wish like I was telling her earlier this week. I was like man
I wish that they would just like put your grandmother in a home. It's like just down the street
Yeah, she's she
Is so insistent on like I will host
at my house, and it's it's like a half an hour away, but the problem is
That my parents are like I will host at my house, and they will both be like we're doing it at the exact same fucking time
It's like bro. Can you just fucking like help D out over here, please come on?
Pretty much every holiday is like us going to
Us going to my parents place for like two hours, and then we drive like an hour and a half
To go to her grandparents
We do the thing that we drive half an hour home, and it's like fucking God. Hey
Luckily though, I looked out today because uh
So on I think was Friday I texted my family group chat and was like hey
We're doing anything for Mother's Day. What's the plan for Sunday?
And my mom responds and it's like oh your father and I are going to grandma's which is
Like an hour and a half from here
Way out in the middle of fucking nowhere
um
And I was like pretty much anytime. She says that I'm like okay
That's her way of saying like don't worry about coming out for Mother's Day
Uh, but I wasn't sure so I texted my sister. I was like hey
I don't want to ask mom
If I should come up there because she's gonna she's gonna go. Oh well you're
No, if you don't want to come they don't come up
I don't want to come they don't come up here
So I was like am I gonna be the only sibling that doesn't show up?
That's within driving distance. They can make it if I don't if i'm not there on Sunday
Am I gonna look like an asshole and she responds she goes no we're camping like we're not getting we're not getting back till Monday
So don't worry about it. I was like fuck. Yeah
So yeah, I I sent my mom a text today. Happy Mother's Day
She was all giddy about it. Whatever
He's like oh you texted me once. Oh my god. He's d still exists great
Uh, he's still alive
Uh, and then yeah, we just went to my girlfriend's grandma's place
Hell yeah
Hung out there for like two hours and then came back so successful holiday in my book
Nice
Solid work
Yeah, yeah, this is all right. It's
They do this weird thing where every Mother's Day. I don't know why
I'm gonna I'm gonna voice a small complaint. All right, so
Her dad is a really good cook great cook
but for some reason on Mother's Day
They make like
Chinese food
Oh, oh they make it?
Yeah, it's okay. It's white people Chinese. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like white chicken with salt pepper. They're getting crazy with it
It's like fried chicken, but you have to like add more soy sauce
Yeah, it's fried chicken with a little bit of with two drops of hoisin. You don't want it to get too spicy
Like it's still it's still good and like all eating. Yeah, but yeah, it's just like what the fuck
It's so strange, dude
but uh
Yeah, that's that's the only thing about Mother's Day on her side of the family. I'm like what the fuck is up with this?
So yeah solid work and to clarify
She has
She has no asian blood in her body. Yeah. Yeah, that is very she wishes his weeb as fuck
My girlfriend is a total weed. No, I know that but yeah, uh, yeah, not asian at all
So yeah, I don't know. Oh well
Yeah, here we are. All right. You're here. Yeah, and you're alive. How uh, how was school? He started this week? Yeah started this week
I don't know what to think yet. I'm like I like the teacher. I've met her before
I like her. I think she's gonna be a really good teacher
But like I've got that
Panic that early semester panic. That's like I can't fucking do this
No, no, it's like we have a test every week and we have two predictor tests. So I'm like
gross
Studying every day even just just a little bit which is better than last semester where I didn't study ever
and then I'm I'm like
I just realized one of my earphone cups was off and I don't know why but yeah, I I
I'm
panicking
And I figure if I just do really really well in the first half before I start doing my clinicals
Yeah, and then I have to do my 120 hours in two months. I'll be I'll make it work. Fuck that shit, by the way
Yeah, if I i'm gonna hope to do two shifts a week five weeks in a row if i'm lucky
So if i'm lucky I can do three shifts in a week
For four weeks in a row and that month i'll be short on rent or whatever. I'll be short on the mortgage but
You know, whatever
Jesus it's gonna it's gonna be rough, but i'm like I I gotta do good
Do they have like a certain timetable that you have to complete it in that they're like hey you have
Two months to get your 120 hours in. Yeah. Yeah starting june
21st for me. So just after father's day
Until august end of semester. So whenever i'm trying not to think that far it's about two about two months damn
And oh and that yeah, it's gonna be fun
Uh, it's gonna be a lot but it's gonna be a lot i'm in the er
Yeah, and it's gonna be years. I think you'll love it though. Oh, I think so
It should be half and half at least in my personal experience
I've done a couple of clinicals in that er just two and one of them was dead
I think the only thing I did that day was
give some kid tylenol
which
Costs like six times six to twelve times more than if they just went to smiths and got it
You are going to be in like peak boating and camping season. Yeah, they they call it dumbass season
My aunt who is a nurse was like, oh you're gonna be there just during like dumbass season. You're gonna see some cool shit
That's gonna be like, oh, that'll be good. That'll be nice. At least it's like i'll be there for fourth of july. I'm hoping
actually, that would be cool if I were gonna work that day for it, maybe if if my uh,
Dude do an overnight shift that way that way you get all the people that have set themselves on fire with fireworks
That would be so much fun, but I think I think then there's some with his days
but they haven't said so I thought they would specify if it was going to be a night shift, but
You know if i'm lucky i'll get on some of those. Yeah, there's boatin holidays and see some mangle ass hands
Oh fuck
But it's it's not bad. They give you like this is gonna be busy. Yeah, they give you like six rooms
And then they fill them
You know everybody kind of takes a patient and gets spread around
So like you get one of the big trauma rooms and then you get five regular rooms
Oh, okay, and then they just kind of spread it around and you just
You document every every single patient you go in you do an assessment
Obviously you document that the doctor goes in and sees them
Yeah
Whether you're there or not cool
Sometimes you are sometimes you're not and then you document that and then you look and then they just have a board
And it just tells you oh this guy needs a blood sample
Go give this medication
Go do this go do that
Huh, it's not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. I'm hoping to get a little wound
care
But it looks like the majority if my clinicals in the past or anything to do with it the majority of them are
Old people with heart failure and it just got worse for some reason a bunch of dying warm ins. That's pretty much
Yeah
Dude there. I mean I can't be you know too specific of course, but there was this one patient who
Put on like 15 pounds in the previous week
Of just water because of the heart failure. Oh, fuck couldn't clear the water
So it was like the belly went to the knee. Oh full on one piece
damn
and
Yeah, that and then you know, they they catheter and
Gave some medication for that and dude
She overflowed. Yeah, though. It was like a liter
liter of cola, it was a liter of cola
in like
40 minutes
40 minutes
Damn crazy. That's crazy because that leads into that is a
Lead into the fucking episode. You're welcome. Yeah, thank you. You're welcome overflowing and uh
Way way too much water
No pee well
regardless, uh
Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna take a trip hoover. Damn
Hoover damn now we're gonna go to scalvey italy. Is that
That scalvey valley scalvey valley. Yeah scalvey sure you're pronouncing that call via
Fuck at this point
uh
so
The whole plan, uh, this is like 19 what 1907?
1906 pretty much uh scalvey valley
and
the residents thereof
uh decide that
It's a good time
It's as good a time as any to more or less exploit the gleno river
Uh for hydroelectric power hydroelectric power
Just starting to take off people are like, oh my god green energy. It's free. Yeah
Yeah, uh, and so this company
Uh vegano textiles they push a proposal for a dam in 1907
uh
it takes them
10 years to come up with like a design to come up with the proper location like pretty much everything
which makes sense like when you think about like
project planning and
construction of a dam
It's gonna take a fucking while to make sure you've got everything in in the right condition with how much engineering goes into these
so
work begins in 1916 and
And obviously they start off right off the bat with foundations now
uh
In 1913 they had submitted their proposal
For what's called a masonry gravity type? Um
The mason or not masonry. Sorry the gravity type dams
it's like
so gravity type dams rely on
like the material weight
Yeah, to to more or less like keep it weighed down. It's like an arch how the arch like distributes the weight to support the building above it
It's distributing the weight of the water
So yeah, if you if you were to look at it
If you were to like cut a dam in half cut a little section out and then look at it
Hey, no swearing. This is a christian podcast. Look at it from the side. It would look like a triangle
That goes like the base is really wide
It gets thinner up at the top and then towards the top of the water. It's basically just like a really thick wall, right?
Yeah, it's a very
basic
construction and it's generally what you would use if you're not going to use like
Mountains for support or like the hills that are on either side of it. Okay, uh
So yeah, super super common. And how does it generate electricity?
Oh, so they're gonna have all the water come out of the dam. Does it have uh, is it a steam engine?
Is it a steam engine? Yeah, what year is this? This is 1906. Um, so the water will feed out the front
Into this like towards this
scalvy valley
And it will feed into the hydroelectric
Power plant is the plant within the dam. No, the plant is like completely separate. Okay, okay
It's kind of it's kind of weird. No, no, i'm just like building a framing. You're good. You're good
It's not so it's not like within
The same company that's building it. Okay, it's just like yeah, let's funnel it
Instead of like like in Hoover Dam. Sorry. I know a lot about this. I took a tour when I was 10
But uh, you took the damn tour. Yeah, and they like
You know it goes when the water is going inside
But before it gets to the spillway, that's where it produces
And then it goes out the spillway as far as I understood it
It goes out of the spillway out of the spillway, but tunneled into the hydroelectric and then out. Okay
It's very it's very well could have been inside. I'm not trying to correct you. No, no, you're good
This was 1930's. As far as I understood and based on the pictures that I looked at
It's further down. They're two separate things. Yeah, cool. Yeah, because they definitely did that especially with this gravity type like
Yeah, you would need that
To have it within and I don't think you can do a gravity type with having these big empty spaces for power generators
With like the bases of more fucking massive. Yeah
So yeah, they they set off on this this gravity type dam which gravity type are usually
I'm trying to think of I don't really know very many dams. I know like the Hoover dam and that's pretty much it but
Gravity type dams are the ones that you would pretty much like
They're the longer ones because they have to support a lot more water pressure
If that makes sense. Yeah
They're the ones that like if you were to imagine somebody built a dam across a lake
That's what they would use. However
The other type that we'll get into well, I'll talk about this. So four years later. So in
1917 I believe
No 1920. Sorry
They realized that there's a cheaper alternative to gravity dams now the cheaper alternative is called
Reinforced concrete arch type dams. It's a narrow arch type dam
These ones are the ones that you would picture like they're kind of they're like concave
They go between those two mountains that the river generally flowed through. So what they do is they turn
They turn those two mountains into supports
and they concave backwards and they
Basically force the water to rest up against the the mountain side against the valley walls
Rather than all the pressure being on the dam itself. So these ones are mainly just like hey
We're stopping the water, but all the support sits on the sides
so
Four years after they've already worked on these foundations. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa
There's a way cheaper alternative for us to do this and it looks
So much cooler. Let's let's cut some costs now four years into it. Exactly. Damn
So they built these big bases these big foundations
They're like, hey, we just figured out we can save a shit ton of money. We can make these look pretty and at the time
Dams were kind of as silly as it sounds they were kind of seen as like this
Like not a sign of power but kind of like a sign of success like
You built a reservoir above your city and you walk out of your your beautiful little italian home and look to the left
And you have the mountainside and then you have this beautiful huge structure. That's got 25 arches
Damn. Yeah, like it's it's a beautiful
fucking dam
If you look at the there should be an instagram post that's up when this is out
That you can see the dam itself and like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like
See the dam itself and like it looks nice. You're like, holy shit that that's pretty
um
but yeah, they're not
those aren't really made to hold like
Trillions of fucking pounds of water or whatever
uh, so yeah
they they switch types they start setting up this fucking narrow arch type dam and uh
Uh, yeah, it it is set up to
Yeah distribute the weight across the natural foundation of like the mountains and everything not so much on the the damn walls
so
They continue on with construction and like I said, they get it all set up on top of what was a gravity dam
which is just
Okay, yeah
Like i'm sure there's some 1906 engineer who yeah, let's just like ran the numbers by hand
Well, I mean like because the two foundations are going to look
Insanely different you have this one that has a massive foundation and then the other one looks like if you were to just like
Take a board and stick it in the ground
It's kind of the idea. Yeah. All right. And so you've got this like angled foundation
And then all of a sudden the dam is like, oh we're here and it just continues up. It's like, all right, whatever
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Uh, let's see
Where were we? So yeah
the
damn itself
Is
720 feet long. Uh, it's about 150 feet tall
and in
1923
80 percent of this thing is done. So we're like what 17 years in since the idea of this project began
so
1923
80 percent has finished off and
They're starting like they're starting to kind of fill up the reservoir
Obviously that's kind of been happening while they've been doing construction
uh at this point
It's holding up one point two
Billion with a b gallons of water
It is a
metric fuck ton
Of water that's being held up by this dam
Uh, and the power plant is fucking killing it. It's kicking out like oh, yeah, it's kicking out like
Oh, yeah, it's kicking out like 3,700 megawatts right now, which is at that time like what they just had
Really shitty light bulbs and that was the only electricity that they had and like one town
Fucking telephone. Yeah
uh, but the whole thing was like it's kicking out all this electricity and the way that
these towns in the scalvel valley are looking at it are like
This is gonna bring so many people here because now it's not just oh, yeah, like we're some dumpy little town in italy
now it's
We're a town that can account for like, I don't know maybe a really big bank maybe
Like production companies streetlights. Yeah, like this brings a lot of opportunity if this
uh
Hydroelectric generator can
support
all of the electricity that they're kicking out like
It's a it's it's promising especially because electricity is so fucking new. Yeah. Yeah, this is quite the time period
Yeah, people are going crazy. They're all thrilled a cuckoo for electricity puffs
electricity puffs
Uh, so they complete in october
Uh, they they could electrocute an elephant
throwback
I don't know what episode i'm bringing
I don't know what episode i'm pretty sure you covered that. I don't know what episode it was though
Oh god topsy the elephant. Yeah, I don't know if i've talked about that one. I swear you did
Maybe I probably just made a joke about it because of bob's burgers probably
Uh, you're getting me mixed up with with
Bob's yeah. Yeah. Wait, are you not are you not teddy? Are you not tina?
Uh, so yeah
They finish up in october and after this is where things are gonna get a little shady
If they aren't told no
So after the completion the permit the permit for construction is revised to account for the design change
that happened
seven years ago
Six or seven years ago in 1917
Or no three years ago. Fuck. Sorry. I got confused. You're good. You're good 17
But three three years have passed since they've changed this design and they're finally like, okay, let's update their permit
so they do
and december 1st hits so
40 days after the dam completes. It's like 6 30 in the morning
uh
There's a worker out on the dam
And he's got this weird rumbly feeling and it's not from the alfredo the night before
This shit like the moots today
He can feel the dam like
Like rumbling. Oh, that's a bad sign like wobbling under his feet. He's like, whoa. What the fuck
I'm gonna go for high ground. Yeah, so he books it but at the same time it's like what can you do?
What the like what the fuck can you realistically do right now?
If the dam is starting to wiggle what are you gonna build supports in front of it?
This is 150 feet fucking tall. This isn't like oh hey in 30 minutes we can fix this
Because if you step in front of that dam, there's a chance in 30 minutes
Just this thing just explodes and everyone working on it is
dead
in an instant
So
He's this guy's like what the fuck like he's telling everyone and they're like
Okay, like we'll report of the higher-ups and it gets up and up and up and 45 minutes later
Uh, 250 foot section of the dam just boom. Oh shit
That's not good. Remember this thing is 720 feet long. This is more than a quarter of the dam has just fucking
disappeared and
pops out
Open up the fucking literal floodgates
So the first village
What gigio I think is what it is
It's basically wiped off the face. Oh, yeah
The fucking concrete the rock the water they're gone. They're dead
Oh, yeah, like no one no one survived. They could not survive my place that place was
That was a coast town
It's basically the Pompeii but with like water
The Pompeii of water that's gonna be a Pompeii of water
uh, so yeah, it's
What gigio is fucking done for?
what gigio is fucking done for uh, and
It's this just wave continues on
now
Uh, it goes on to partially destroy and flood two additional cities dezzo and uh, atzone
and
Dezzo itself is like not partially flooded. This place is fucking flooded. That's how it gets
Shit on pretty bad
Uh, no way. Yeah, it destroys two power plants in the process two dezzo
uh
And it takes down a bridge and it takes down a church, which is just heartbreaking
Oh, hey my thoughts and prayers add to them. Yeah, you know, that's that's the only thing that's gonna rebuild that church
Isn't it? Yep. It's the only thing that's gonna stop that damn water. Uh, so
As with most dams, uh when they break
It's and I mean this even goes for like tsunamis
um
When a lot of water
crashes in and starts tearing down buildings and shit
Generally the water will do a lot of damage, but the debris that it's carrying
Is doing a hell of a lot more. Yeah, like
Yeah, reinforced concrete probably is not helping the wave of water shows up
And then the wave of water's older brother
Fucking debris shows up and starts beating the shit out of everything else
uh
It carries all this debris into dezzo and that's like the debris is the biggest thing that fucking destroyed dezzo
um
The water was running and I know this doesn't sound like a lot
But imagine getting hit by a car that's driving 30 miles an hour. That's how fast this water is going
30 fucking miles an hour imagine being hit by a car going 30 miles an hour that you can drown in and has boulders
And it has boulders and fucking planks. Yeah, good luck
Uh, so yeah rushing at 30 miles an hour and it finally finally ends up draining into uh, lake isao
Now over the course of an hour this this fucking
Stunned me when I read it over the course of an hour
The level of the water from the highest point on the dam
To where it settled in the lake
That height difference is
Almost one kilometer
In the course of an hour that fucking water moved down a kilometer like that shit went a lot of water fast
Uh, they ended up or they it ended up killing over 350 people
It's estimated that it was closer to like six or seven hundred
Because of how many people were just missing and they were like, well, we can't claim them dead
Maybe they're just on I don't know a river rafting trip right now
uh
Three villages were completely destroyed
Five power stations were destroyed one of which is the one that they fucking built. Yeah
uh
And so many people are like I just imagine like
I just imagine like
This is really terrible to think but like just a bunch of really dumb fucking italians that are like, oh good
Something's so beautiful be so destructive and you're like, I fucking wonder how I wonder why do you think it was the cost-cutting measures?
maybe
So investigators after everything is after all the water is settled they show up
And they say
I think the dam broke. Yeah
I think I think something went wrong with the dam and it killed all these people. All right, that'll be a thousand dollars
Jesus christ, that's great. So investigators show up and uh, they start looking into like
The damn construction they're like, okay
think
Damn, that's built
Doesn't break within 40 days like even if everything is done really badly
40 days is a very short amount of time for a dam to break. Wait 40 days
That's all that's all it lasted. Holy shit. It was finished in october 1923
I mixed up the construction time for how long it was
No, no, no, no, no, it was finished in october 1923 and on december 1st
1923
Fucking damn bro. That's amazing it
It's got a
Fantastic 100 had to have set a record. Yeah, like that guinness book guinness book of world records
Hey, go check out italy. Yeah. Yeah, take a look at the gleno dam
uh, so
The g leno. Yeah
so
Yeah, they they start investigators start looking into everything
and they're going through some of the debris and they're looking at the wreckage just on the dam itself
and
they're seeing that like
The concrete that was used is just so badly set
They mix too much water into it or something. You have no idea
so
uh
In addition to the like really dumpy looking concrete
There's a bunch of like steel netting like sticking out which generally when you do
Wait sticking out of the like like
Steel netting that it's like air after everything is crumbled
Crumbled there's steel netting that's the concrete is kind of molded too. Okay. Now if you don't know anything about like
pouring concrete or anything, I don't know a lot but when it comes to concrete you generally have to have like
if you watch some weird video of a guy in like
The middle of nowhere making some little concrete house
They'll pour like a layer of concrete right and then they'll get like sometimes people will run like
thread or like they'll throw
Just something like rebar. Yeah, like people will
Big companies will use rebar but in like
Small homemade operations. Yeah, you can just unroll a shit ton of twine
Push it down into your cement and then pour a little bit on top
Really? Okay
So that it helps with the structural integrity
Oh, yeah, because concrete always is expanding and contracting
Exactly
So adding a little bit of structure
So you want something that's gonna basically like hold the concrete together as it expands and contracts
so they're seeing all this steel netting which
In a situation like this you would use rebar. You would use something. That's just a
reliable
Strong pole that's just set down in all of this. It helps. Yeah keep the integrity of the
concrete going upwards
As you would want with a fucking dam that's holding like
death-defying amounts of water
So they look at this this steel netting and they're like what the fuck is this they get it out
They go test it and they find out they look at like the ledgers and everything
They find out that what they used for
their structural stability
So
Old
Grenade netting. Oh my god, that's recycled and has already been used from world war one
so the first
cost-saving measure was to dump the gravity
The gravity type and go for something thinner
You're already going to save on a shit ton of materials because of that. The second cost-saving measure was instead of using
steel industrial beams
We're just going to use
like
Netting that nobody was going to like we basically just went to like a recycling like military company
And we're like hey you guys using that shit anymore
And this stuff is like fucking bullet holes and it like it just looks like dog shit and they're like we'll take it off your hands
We're building a dam
What the fuck?
So not only that
That it's that's not even like the biggest issue with all of this
You would think it would be was that you've got all this like busted ass steel netting in here
What they've done
the concrete itself
Uh, to preface this in 1920 there were questions raised about the concrete and the mortar that was being used
uh
and they they'd use this this specific concrete because it was
A cheaper alternative. So this is cost saving measure number three on this day
uh
The concrete itself isn't known for being structurally sound but on top of that
Inside the concrete
They're finding pieces of tar pieces of scrap metal. Oh god. They did filler chunks of wood
Oh, jesus and basically all of the construction crews daily trash
It's just what a great fucking way
Oh my god, italian engineering at its best, bro. Holy shit
They're literally filling up this dam. No wonder no wonder musolini got hanged in the street
They fucking they're just growing like like they talked about their cigarette butts that are found in there like pieces of like like
mcdonald's wrappers for example, like that's the shit that they're finding in these pieces of concrete is
His literal trash scrap. It's spaghetti. Yeah, a lot of meatballs. It's called the meatball. Damn
Oh god, so yeah
These guys are throwing and mixing in there. They're mixing their cement and they're just throwing trash in there to help with filler in this cement
and
The permits are being overlooked because it was changed halfway through the project. So they're like, oh, yeah, fuck it
We'll just take care of it at the end
Anyone that asked any questions during the construction of this dam was politely told to fuck off
good
Employees that asked questions about hey, should we really be mixing trash into this?
We're fired
so
After like the first or second dude that were like, hey, I don't think we should be doing
Like we should be pouring concrete like this
after they got canned pretty much everybody else on the project was like
Don't ask don't tell all right. I just won't set up my own house below this
Yeah, they they're basically just like okay, like i'm not gonna ask any questions because i'm gonna lose my fucking job
grand
Fucking gotta bring the parmesan some way, right?
Jesus
Sorry, i'm sorry
I don't know why but i i've been seeing a lot on social media how being racist towards italians is the only accepted form of racism
Accepted form of racism
Jesus and it's nothing against italians. I just like talking about their food
Because it's so good. I mean they are like italy is pretentious as fuck when it comes to food there
But it's their gatekeeping assholes when it comes to yeah
Take your parmesan. Oh, so you're saying they deserve it take your parmesan or reggiano and shove it up your ass
fuck you, uh
So I hope this gets picked up in italy
Oh god, dude, this is gonna be their first one and we're gonna get lynched. Um
so
Let's see
uh
Oh, they also failed to treat like the sand that's used in the concrete they didn't wash it properly
and so it ends up
like this
Crumbly mess of concrete like imagine imagine your neighbor that has a really fucking terrible driveway
and it looks like they're driving driving on gravel, but it's really just like
Crumbly ass concrete. That's what that's what they made the dam out of. Okay. Perfect. Yeah, like it's it's fucking bad
uh
So yeah, all of these really great cost-saving measures have combined to create a terrible damn
That took years 40 day damn that held up
1.2 billion gallons of water for 40 days
so yeah, uh
They don't stop any of the shit like
Like or they didn't stop any of the shit while they were constructing it. They're just like they continued to do this
So this goes all the way up the top
The mortar that they used is a more it was expired. Yeah pretty much. It's like a more spongy mortar
Because they didn't mix it properly once again who the fuck would have expected that
so
It's more porous and so the water seeps into it and then creates
literal like pockets of erosion because the water gets in there and it spreads
Like it it has a sponge effect on this mortar
So it spreads your little your little fucking bricks apart like it just destroys the integrity of this damn damn
damn get it now, yeah, so
All of this is because of the really quick rise in the water level
So they block this thing up 720 feet is a very long distance for this type of dam
Uh, generally you have a very small base and then it gets longer up at the top
But 720 feet is still a good fucking distance for the whole thing to just be a straight. Yeah, that's huge
Uh, so yeah, the water level was rising so quickly that they're just like oh shit trying to keep ahead of it
So they're working quickly
but the water isn't a
Because of how it's rising. It's not allowing for the mortar or the cement to properly dry
So it's basically like really wet cement really wet mortar
And a bunch of garbage like inside this damn
uh
so yeah 80 roads on the inside and
When the levy fucking breaks, yeah like jesus blast the fucking valley
uh
The the engineering board that would do their checks
Just because that water level rose they can't check on like the fucking foundation
On the backside where all the water is because there's fucking water there
What are they gonna deep sea scuba dive down to the bottom to find out how it's looking?
No, they they're not gonna fucking do that. They're they're down there scuba diving touch it
Yeah, the rest of it goes they're fucking dead. Yeah fucking
Surf on down to dead. So
uh
Worker qualifications come into question like do these construction workers even know what they were doing?
Probably not and ultimately the project manager and the lead engineer the design engineer wait
They actually had an engineer on payroll. It does not sound surprisingly enough. Yeah
This is the guy that switched it from from the gravity type
He was probably like a like the the kid of the ceo or something seriously
He's an engineering student
He took one semester his last name was surprisingly muslidi. I don't know weird, uh
So they both get charged with causing disaster through negligence
And they also get charged with multiple counts of manslaughter
350 counts of manslaughter to be exact damn and they get six months
No, luckily longer, but uh they get so
That was december 30th is when they're like they're like hey
Hey, you're being charged with this
It's like a two-year process over trial and both of these guys get three and a half years in prison
Three and a half years for 350 counts of manslaughter. Yeah
Damn, we gotta up our count. Yeah, i'm only at four 350 counts of manslaughter and like
complete and utter negligence
That's crazy. Yeah, totally total bullshit
that like
Do you think the company went to them and was like hey take a plea deal will will pay you for these three years or whatever?
I I would imagine so like god damn. Oh, yeah, italy at this point rules
the multiple arch dams
Is not the way to go and they basically are like we're gonna redesign any that are out there
Damn and we're never gonna fucking build them again looking pretty ain't the way to do it on these dams
Uh, the dam has since been kind of fixed
Uh, the old the old dam is still there but lower they've built like
a subsection that
Dams
Uh, but yeah, so
It's still in use today
And it's sitting above original concrete. Yeah. Yeah the original concrete was reused
God right. They just used the debris from the uh,
The village that was destroyed to fill to fill in the concrete. Yeah, they just put the spillway lower. Yeah
Uh
So yeah, it's it's still there today and they have a memorial site for all of those that died
Oh good that makes up for it then. Wait for it below the dam
Oh my god
Holy shit that needs to be a plaque on the dam like what the fuck
I'd like to imagine it's just you have the dam you have that little bit of water that's pouring out and then like
50 feet away. There's just a memorial site
And it's just like it's just a wall made of like wood shitty. Yeah
I was gonna say concrete with like shoes and shit sticking out of it gum wrappers. Yeah, you get uh,
you have somebody who survived the the
You know the breakage and they they show up and like I want to see
You know, i'm 102 years old this happened when I was a kid. I want to see where I lost my entire family
I was the only survivor they go they read the plaque
damn breaks and drowns
Yo for real dude
So yeah, the gleno dam
Fantastic. I love these. I love the disasters ones because I feel like we learn so much more
Just about the world in general
It's a learning experience. Yeah, and how people are still cost-saving
Corner cutting scumbags. Yeah for real who
Allowed them to build villages below this thing. Nothing has changed
It's 1907
Yeah
I've
Since before then yeah grand damn. Yeah, I know that fantastic fantastic work. So yeah
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