Flood Collapsing A Road

1. owl
   November 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm

   Certainly interesting from an engineering student's perspective!

2. kef
   November 1st, 2008 at 9:15 pm

   poor infrastructrure?

3. AndyIII
   November 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm

   Oh mother nature...she is a bad ass chick.

4. SenorMysterioso
   November 1st, 2008 at 9:40 pm

   nature 1, road 0

5. Him
   November 1st, 2008 at 10:00 pm

   Whoa, that's powerful

6. wookielover
   November 1st, 2008 at 10:08 pm

   That was neat!

7. Robolasse
   November 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 am

   Once in a while, nature decides to give us a good kick in the ass.

8. ted
   November 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 am

   You're right, that was a pretty long video.

9. D Bozko
   November 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 am

   Moving water is quite the destructive force. The most telling point of the video was the drainage pipe surfacing above where the road surface used to be. Once that pipe was blocked destruction was inevitable. Very interesting to watch.

10. Daniel Kim
    November 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 am

    I was really surprised when the metal culvert suddenly came floating up. It's a great study in road bed failure.

    I kept waiting for a car to drive into the gap.

11. WordyGrrl
    November 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Long video? It took less than two minutes for that road to collapse. That's not very much time at all. And yes, don't mess with Mother Nature.

12. Skysurfer
    November 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Simple priniciple of water water erosion at work...

13. Skysurfer
    November 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Sorry, soil erosion by water ^^

14. Pudifoot
    November 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    I wonder where this took place

15. Johnny Cat
    November 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Probably in my neck of the woods, Pudifoot. Our northwest town had a small bridge go out just like that a year ago, and the road was just reopened 2 weeks ago.

16. Gail Pink
    November 3rd, 2008 at 8:50 am

    WOW! That was just insane! I hope no one was injured by accidentally driving onto this road after it washed out. Crazy!

17. Baba
    November 3rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    This was probably Highway A near the Wisconsin Dells. Summer of 2008.

18. Heather
    November 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    That was a road in the town that I live in. It was filmed by Channel 8, and the road is STILL being worked on. We had quite a few roads flood, making it literally impossible to get to your house. It happened in August of this year.

19. renderanything
    November 5th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Lots of water + undersized drainage pipe + obstruction = massive erosion.

    I wonder if there is a standard that road workers must follow when placing those courrogated draiage pipes based on CFM of runoff plus a safety margin, or if it is just a bunch of guesswork.

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