Horrible news from Midland, MI

[brokephibroke]

Dams are bursting and entire towns are evacuated. Downtown midland will be under 9 ft of water! Really enjoyed living there for a few years.

[brokephibroke]

4. What?

[Cha]

13. Ikr.. I couldn't even.. was waiting for someone

else to deal with it. smh.

[GP6971]

5. I guess welcome to DU.

What's the point of your post?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I think the poster is promoting spam.

I alerted on it. We'll see.

[GP6971]

11. Thanks!

You doing OK with the virus?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. You're welcome!

Me and my husband are doing really well, thanks for asking. We're retired, so it's not a lot different from that.

I hope you're OK too.

[Celerity]

2. ...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. Thanks! Couldn't play an earlier twitter video of that.

[Celerity]

25. yw!

[Cha]

3. So sorry.. what the heck!

[brokephibroke]

6. Luckily my friends there

Are on the Chippewa river which is simply flooded and not impacted by the bursts.

[Cha]

12. I can imagine how grateful you are..

[AllaN01Bear]

8. found this

https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/1-michigan-dam-breached-another-at-risk-amid-midwest-floods/
eep.
also another post on du verifing this sit.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213460561

[tblue37]

9. Can you imagine trying to socially distance in an emergency shelter? As if covid were

not enough of a burden to deal with, now they have massive flooding!

[Caliman73]

10. Faulty construction? Overflowing?

What is happening there?

Hopefully people are safe.

[brokephibroke]

14. Old, weak dams

It’s an infrastructure issue that needs to be addressed nationwide.

[Mad cow]

15. They are earthen dams

Built in the 1920s...and privately owned.

[Caliman73]

17. Oh man.

Hopefully people are safe. The dams are around 100 years old and I am assuming that they were likely not meticulously maintained if they were privately owned. I mean municipalities, counties, and states defer maintenance so I assume a private owner would want to do as little as possible.

[Mad cow]

26. The owner of the Edenville dam had been cited

Over safety concerns and it received a "poor" rating in 2018. The downstream dam was rated "fair" but it clearly wasn't enough to hold the deluge after the first dam broke.

[Warpy]

18. Part of the rotting infrastructure that Republicans have shortchanged repairing

because it's not glamorous like aircraft carriers and overengineered planes that the military didn't want.

At some point it's going to dawn on people what sort of con job has gone on since the end of WWII and when it does, there will be hell to pay.

[yaesu]

20. michigan has some of the worst roads in the country thanks to repukes giving corporations

big tax breaks.

[James48]

19. Edenville Dam failure

From an airplane this evening. This is Edenville, on the Tittibawasse River.

There is another earthen dam 9 miles downstream that is now in jeopardy. I hear reports of 12,000 being asked to evacuate.


Here is a link to more:

https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2020/05/pilot-captures-aerial-footage-of-roaring-water-as-edenville-dam-bursts-in-midland-county.html

[greyl]

21. K & R

[applegrove]

22. Here is some footage:

Link to tweet

[Talitha]

23. O.M.G. - - NO!!!

[bigtree]

27. Trump mentioned Mighigan today

Link to tweet