This is What Happens When Water Goes Out of Control

For the most part,

water

is a human's best friend, we drink it to stay hydrated, we wash with it to stay really clean, it's probably a cycle, you probably do it once a day or twice, three times a day or something like that, and swim in it to get in shape. and healthy, but as we're about to see,

water

can also be our worst enemy, bringing destruction to the parts of the world unlucky enough to incur its wrath, here are 15 times water got out of

control

, the chintang river tides a The tide is an oceanic phenomenon that occurs

when

a gigantic wave is swept into a river from a higher elevation ocean.

This is, of course, an extremely simplified description of the origins of a tide, but no explanation we can give here could do justice to the magnificence. For such an impressive event, suffice it to say that a title board is an absolutely stunning image as long as you don't get too close. Residents of eastern China's Xi Jiang Province learned

this

the hard way in October 2020. This is home to the Qing Tang River, famous for producing the world's largest tidewater wild boar. which residents call the silver dragon reaches its great length in mid-autumn. It is during

this

time that locals and tourists alike descend on the region to experience the wonders of the world.

Famous tidal wave in all its glory, the Chinese city of Hangzhou boasts some of the best silver dragon viewing points in the region, but as this image shows, these can quickly become the worst viewing points in the region

when

the board of titles is getting out of

control

. The snapshot was taken as the silver dragon roared over the shores of tourists from Hangzhou residents and even law enforcement officials can be seen running to safety in an ill-fated attempt to escape the wave. Since this photograph was taken, the government has built higher walls to protect the city from a repeat of this devastating event at the time of this recording.

Fall is right around the corner, so we don't have to wait too long to find out if these efforts will be successful or if the silver dragon is simply too powerful. to be tamed hey hey, did you know that if you hit the like button, subscribe and click the notification bell, you have a better chance of winning the lottery? What are you waiting for Tiger Jumping Gorge? We are not ready to leave China yet. In this next entry we will visit the country's Yunnan province, which is home to an impressive canyon known as Tiger Jumping Gorge.

The gorge takes its name from an ancient legend about a tiger desperately trying to escape from a hunter who was fleeing from the fence of his house, the tiger reached the edge of the gorge and the hunter approached. The wild animal was forced to choose between standing still and facing certain death at the hands of the hunter or trying to jump the gorge, the tiger decided to risk it all. and he jumped over the edge to rest on a rock in the middle of the canyon before making another death-defying leap and reaching the other side of the gorge safely.

Overall, the tiger cleared a gap 82 feet wide in this impressive feat. It was immortalized when the locals decided to name the gorge after the tiger. Today, Tiger Leaping Gorge is as terrifying as it is beautiful from the top of the mountain to the river below, there is a depth of over 12,300 feet to put that into context, the great canyon is a depth About 6,000 feet at its deepest point, making it less than half the size of Tiger Leaping Gorge, but it's not just a massive drop from mountain to river that makes this canyon so intimidating. by the powerful waters that flow through it.

It has been known to spill over overlooks soaking onlookers with as much ferocity as the tide we discussed in the previous entry, when the beautiful river gets particularly out of control. It has even been known to drag unfortunate souls into the canyon below. In a time when most people get their news almost exclusively from their social media headlines, television news reports must go the extra mile to convince viewers to tune in to a news anchor in Pakistan who He did just that and more when tasked with reporting to a mass audience. flood that hit his home country during the summer of 2019, knowing that his words could never adequately convey the severity of the flood, this intrepid reporter waded up to his neck in water and delivered his report while everything but his head was submerged with the water still rising.

The presenter rushed through his presentation and completed it in just 34 seconds, leaving himself just enough time to return to land before the unthinkable happened. It didn't take long for the images of the report to go viral and many viewers praised the reporter for his bravery and creativity, others called him a fool for risking his life for a story. Do you think this news anchor deserves global recognition or did his risky reporting take idiocy to new depths? Let us know where you stand in the comments below gate collapse in 1931 a dam was concentrated on the guadalupe river outside the city of new braunfels in texas the resulting reservoir was christian lake dunlap and it quickly became a site Popular for fishing, swimming and other outdoor activities for decades Lake Dunlap was New Braunfels' most popular tourist attraction then, in 2019, disaster struck when the powerful waters of the Guadalupe River caused the center wall of the lake to collapse. 90 year old prisoner.

The disastrous event was captured on camera, allowing us to observe the very moment the dam gave way, as we can see. From this footage, the immense power of the river was too much for the gate to handle immediately after bringing down the dam, the river floods the lake below causing unimaginable damage to the plants and wildlife that have been living in Lake Dunlap for almost a century as something terrifying. As this footage stands, we can at least take solace in the fact that the story has a happy ending in 2021, almost two years to the day the dam was destroyed, the Texas State Water Development Board approved the construction of a new dam in it.

Construction on the site is expected to be completed in May 2023, just in time for visitors to enjoy another summer on the waters of their beloved lake. The Dunlap Highway Collapse, As we learned in the previous entry, water has the power to destroy even the strongest man-made creations. Whether it's a dam or, in the case of the footage below, an entire highway, this video was recorded in the US state of Maine in 2008 after an immense spring storm. It shows large amounts of water flowing over a forested road as continuous rain causes the flooding to become increasingly intense after a couple of minutes, the road simply cannot take it anymore and collapses under the weight of the flood water.

The resulting sinkhole is relatively small at first, but quickly spreads to create a huge hole in the center of the road. By the way, this is some seriously chilling footage, but it's almost impossible to take your eyes off of it, no wonder Stephen King used Mane as the setting for so many of his classic horror novels. The fire hydrant geyser. No one is quite sure who invented the fire hydrant. Some say birds. Hill Holly Jr conceived the idea which would make sense as he also played a crucial role in the creation of the steam fire engine;

However, others argue that he simply altered an 1801 model designed by Frederick Graff nearly two decades before Holly was born. Allegedly, Graff even had a patent for the fire hydrant, but it was lost when the US Patent Office was Ironically destroyed by fire in 1836, although the origins of the fire hydrant may be quite confusing,

what

is clear is that the invention has saved countless lives since its introduction and continues to save countless lives each year, but when a hydrant opens of unauthorized fire, can go from being a source of life-saving water to an instrument of wanton destruction.

If you ever needed a reason not to open a fire hydrant without permission, this video shows us the aftermath of a car crashing into a fire hydrant in California driven by a pressure of 20 pounds per square inch. Water gushes from the fire hydrant, shooting upward like a suburban geyser. Fortunately, no one was injured when this particular fire hydrant exploded, but this is not always the case; every year dozens of people are hospitalized with injuries they suffered at the hands of uncontrollable water from an improperly opened fire hydrant. Frozen basement. There are two things every homeowner fears: burst water pipes and frozen water pipes.

If you have ever experienced any of these things, you know that they are extremely annoying and can cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to correct, but at least you can. rest easy knowing that you've never been as unlucky as this tic tac user who uploaded In this video, this homeowner lives in Montreal, Canada, and was understandably dismayed when one of his pipes burst and flooded his basement with several feet of water , adding to the homeowner's frustration that the pipe burst late at night, meaning they couldn't. to get a handyman to repair it until the next day believing things couldn't get any worse they resigned themselves to a night with the basement full of water and went to bed well it turns out they were wrong things got much much worse when The homeowner investigated their basement the next morning and were horrified to discover that Montreal's cold winter weather had caused the water to freeze.

This video shows laundry baskets, chairs, gym equipment and even the basement door stuck in a block of impenetrable ice. We don't know about you. but if it were us, we'd just cut our losses and make sure it would probably require some creative advertising to sell this one, but who wouldn't want to buy a house with its own ice rink? Loose Hose, The average fire hose costs approximately 50 feet and is capable of producing immense power that can put out towering flames in just seconds. How immense is an immense power. That power varies depending on the situation, but for a typical downstairs fire, a hose needs 150 pounds per square inch of water pressure, that number doubles.

In the case of a fire on the top floor, since firefighters must ensure that the water jet is strong enough to reach the highest floor of the building with such a large water pressure, an active fire hose can cause serious damage if a firefighter loses control of it during This is why many novice firefighters must undergo an extensive course on handling loose hoses as part of their training. While we recognize that this course is totally necessary and extremely challenging, we can deny that the footage of these loose hose training sessions is quite funny in this video.

We see two new recruits attempting to capture a loose hose as it releases gallons of water with the power of a baseball pitching machine on steroids. The images could easily be mistaken for a scene from a Laurel and Hardy movie, especially at the moment when one of the recruits runs. away from the hose scared fortunately the more determined of the two finally manages to climb the hose as if it were a ladder and subdues it like a real firefighter the tide is high the tide is high but I'm holding on so go away Lyrics of the song Paragon by 1967 which would be most famously covered by Blondie in 1980.

Now we're not sure

what

Debbie Harry was singing about in her iconic version of the song, but we're going to assume it probably wasn't the theme. of the ganges in india because that river produces waves so powerful that even the most determined pop rock icon couldn't hold them back. The Ganges River is primarily known for its affiliation with the Hindu religion in recent years, however, it has caught the attention of surfers. and other water sports enthusiasts through the enormous waves it produces in late spring and early summer, as we can see in this video, these waves reach dizzying heights and cross the water at dizzying speeds, when they get out of control can cause serious injuries to surfers and spectators alike, but even though they are well aware of the risks, water-loving adrenaline junkies routinely travel to the Ganges, sometimes traveling to the other side of the world just to experience the thrill of riding what are perhaps the most underrated waves in the world. font joke there is a fine line between a joke andA total destruction of property soaping teeters right on the line and very often crosses it, but what exactly is soaping and why do so many young people risk criminal charges just to try it? is one of the latest practical jokes that took the Internet by storm, basically it is about a person or a group of people who take a large amount of soap and throw it into a public fountain, the friction of the water flowing from the fountain creates a foam which causes a great foam. developing and oozing over the fountain is all very juvenile, but it can be quite fun to watch, don't believe us, check out this video recording of a real life soaping perpetrated by some angry students in Texas.

Freshmen pour gallons of soap into the campus fountain and within minutes a veritable foam party takes place, they even take off their shirts and jump into the fountain as the cloud of soap continues to expand, it doesn't pass long before other students realize what's going on and at the end of The fountain images are filled with almost as many academics as foam, no matter what you think of this joke, it's hard to watch this video without being caught up in the infectious laughter and joy of the students, even though they probably didn't. They find him so happy when they were stuck with the several thousand dollar bill because of the damage soap often causes to the bubbles on the roof of a fountain.

Water bubbles have been a thorn in the side of homeowners everywhere since the advent of indoor plumbing, if not. If you don't know what water bubbles are by name, there's a good chance they look familiar when you see them, plaguing virtually every building that has a shower, toilet, or even a single working sink faucet. They occur when moisture seeps into a painted wall or ceiling and cannot find its way back with nowhere to go. The water causes the paint to expand creating the appearance of a bubble in the mostly infected area. These water bubbles They are relatively small and can be rectified by simply removing the affected paint and adding a new coat in its place, but if a water bubble is left untreated for a long period of time, it is likely to allow more water to enter and expand further, causing will cause it to take over the roof.

For a gigantic water bubble like the one seen in this video, we don't know if the owner who recorded this video didn't notice the water bubble when it first appeared or if he noticed it and just decided to ignore it anyway. They undoubtedly regret giving the bubble the opportunity to grow to such a huge size with more than a liter of water accumulated inside. The bubble is causing almost the entire bathroom ceiling to fall down once the owner pops the bubble, a gush occurs. of water that seems to be an endless stream of cash that it's going to cost to fix that damn bathroom ceiling flush, as we learned from our look at Lake Dunlap earlier in this video, a dam break can have disastrous effects, it's because That is why most modern dams feature a spillway or overflow channel, allowing for a controlled release of water from the dam.

By doing so, the spillway dramatically reduces the risk of the dam gate collapsing under the weight of accumulated water, but at the same time a spillway prevents a catastrophic flood from occurring. In some cases, the planned release can be as devastating as the sudden avalanche caused by a dam failure. Take the following video for example, here we see a premeditated release in Taiwan as Thousands of intended gallons of water can be seen falling down the spillway and into the lake below. Unfortunately, the water proves too powerful for the spillway to contain and quickly deviates from its charted course and flows onto the road below, the resulting flooding is so severe.

As law enforcement officials were forced to completely close the road, fortunately the water was eventually drained without the road suffering the same horrible fate as its main counterpart. The whirlpool on Australia Street is known for its extreme weather conditions, but even its long-awaited permanent residents were left stunned. Floods that hit land in early 2022 were particularly hard hit in Queensland and New South Wales, with floodwaters reaching almost four meters high in some parts of the state. In photographs and videos of the flood, the worst affected areas look almost like post-apocalyptic wastelands with people trapped on the roofs of buildings while others are forced to travel through city streets and in canoes, but there are no images of floods that are more terrifying than the ones you are about to see.

The video was captured by Brisbane resident Michael Hall when the flooding was in its most destructive stages. shows a whirlpool swirling in water three meters high that submerged an entire sports field. The whirlpool is so powerful that, by the looks of it, it is sweeping up cans, bottles, and other pieces of trash. strong enough to do the same to any living creature that dares to approach her. Ultimately, this devastating flood caused over $1.5 billion worth of damage in eastern Australia, tragically claiming the lives of a heartbreaking number of residents and displacing tens of thousands. More rebuilding efforts are underway and are supported by numerous fundraisers and charities across Australia and around the world, so be sure to seek them out if you are in a position to contribute to their cause.

We will extend our stay in the land of Australia, however, leaving Brisbane in New South Wales and heading to the city of Melbourne with much of the city's economy centered on the Yarra River, it is reasonable to assume that the famous mass of Water plays a role in the disaster we are about to see in reality, however, it is not the Yarra River that is responsible for Melbourne's recent water problem, but a problematic water pipe in a suburban housing estate as a water main. . responsible for supplying water to a huge area of ​​Melbourne, so we're sure you can imagine the chaos caused by its explosion;

In fact, you don't even have to imagine the chaos because here we have pictures of the explosion that show more More than half a million gallons of water are shot 250 feet into the sky and a 130-pound metal cage is also shot into the sky which, ironically, had been placed over the pipe with the intention of preventing such an explosion if the pipe ever burst when the water returned to the ground, caused severe flooding in the surrounding area and even managed to sweep cars off the roads, which is his merit. The water department responded quickly to the explosion and had engineers on the scene within minutes, but even with all their efforts. experience it took them over an hour to stop the immense flow of water during this time the water levels rose to rival those of Brisbane and Queensland at the height of the floods discussed in the previous entry Ice jam in Crikey The ice jams in Ice can wreak serious havoc on plants, wildlife and even our own way of life, but despite the serious threats they pose to the world as we know it, most people seem to have no idea what traffic jams are. ice, don't worry, we are here to tell you everything you need.

I need to know that ice jams usually form towards the end of winter and the beginning of spring, at the junction of these seasons, both heavy rain and sunny days are common, causing river levels to rise while ice sheets break up as newly created chunks of ice float down the river. river, its path can be built, this can cause a buildup of ice chunks that impede the flow of ever-rising waters. When such an event occurs we have what is informally known as an ice jam, if an ice jam does not break quickly it can lead to serious flooding, which is why the person who recorded this video was so excited to see the breakup. from an ice jam that had been plaguing their community for too long.

This video shows an event rarely seen on camera, the exact moment an ice jam breaks loose. To the delight of the video uploader, the ice jam gives way under the heat of the sun, finally allowing the free flow of water that it had been obstructing for days by its appearance; another day of blockage would have caused the river to overflow. so the last minute melting of this ice jam actually averted a total calamity. Well that's it. Look at the water 15 times when it is out of control. Which of these water accidents that appear in today's video surprised you the most?

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