Comments on: Flood Collapsing A Road

By: renderanything

renderanything — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:32:03 +0000

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.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:46:22 +0000

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.

By: Baba

Baba — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:15:11 +0000

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

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:50:34 +0000

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

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:48:49 +0000

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.

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:00:14 +0000

I wonder where this took place

By: Skysurfer

Skysurfer — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:39:38 +0000

Sorry, soil erosion by water ^^

By: Skysurfer

Skysurfer — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:38:53 +0000

Simple priniciple of water water erosion at work…

By: WordyGrrl

WordyGrrl — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:33:54 +0000

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.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:39:36 +0000

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.

By: D Bozko

D Bozko — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:38:31 +0000

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.

By: ted

ted — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:47:53 +0000

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

By: Robolasse

Robolasse — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:10:45 +0000

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

By: wookielover

wookielover — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:08:02 +0000

That was neat!

By: Him

Him — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:00:07 +0000

Whoa, that’s powerful

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:40:40 +0000

nature 1, road 0

By: AndyIII

AndyIII — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:23:08 +0000

Oh mother nature…she is a bad ass chick.

By: kef

kef — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:15:42 +0000

poor infrastructrure?

By: owl

owl — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:57:38 +0000

Certainly interesting from an engineering student’s perspective!