Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. There was another famous catastrophe back in 1933 when the dam broke in Columbus, Ohio.

   James Thurber chronicled the event in The New Yorker. Here’s a link to a pdf of the story. It’s about 10-minutes or so to read the whole story, maybe less for most people.

   https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Thurber_Dam_Broke.pdf

   1. That was fun, thanks!

2. When I hear the phrase e a r t h a n dam I think of a herd of beavers running around using stones and sticks to hold back the water. Not good especially for 23 million cubic feet of water. Water Plus Earth equals Mud.

   1. I am fascinated by the videos showing the reintroduction of beavers into the dry areas of the USA and the positive impacts their dams have on the environment. 10000 beavers could have done the job upstream for free with better results and less fatalities

3. Hey! This is clickbait. I was promised we’d see some teetons.

   1. Mmmm…teetons.

4. Love how one govt agency, US Geological Survey, told the Dept of Interior “You shouldn’t do that” and were ignored. 11 People died, did any bureaucrats go to jai?

   1. No.

      Next question?

   2. In all fairness, back then they were in the business of building things to help people, even if a few made a horrible mistake.
      Nowadays they just tell everyone that the land owned by the us people is off limits because the thin-penised purple-streaked hop mouse might be offended if someone went in and used the wrong pronoun.

5. This dam appeared to have been built on the basis of wishful thinking rather than analytical data. I endorse the desire and purpose of the dam … but don’t think much of the engineering.