The Edenville Dam in Midland, MI (world HQ of DOW Chemical) collapses forcing thousands to evacuate
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This year can truly suck a dick. So, at any rate, I grew up going to Wixom lake all the time as a kid, last year the wife and I bought a fixer upper near there on the Tittabawassee river that would serve as a small cabin and camping for friends to all gather once it was all done.
While I've not seen it with my own eyes yet, it's in the zone of major flooding from that dam failing. The river is supposed to be 14ft above flood stage by tonight.
I have some friends who don't live far from the Dow Chemical Plant whos containment ponds have now been confirmed to have overflowed into the floodwaters that are now all over that area as well.
So far about 14,000 have been evacuated. Luckily I have flood insurance, in MI if you don't have additional purchased flood insurance then you're screwed, you aren't covered.
At this point, I don't know what I'll be doing. Wixom lake is almost gone now and it'll be years before it's back. There's talks of lawsuits since it was warned a few years ago that the dam was in danger of failure then which is why the city has been trying to buy it (its privately owned) and this should show why privately-owned infrastructure is a horrible idea. If there's a lawsuit I'm sure I'll get in on it though I'm sure the payout won't be much once everyone gets a share, assuming we would win.
I feel bad for everyone impacted. As far as me personally, this for sure is not the year of Tarrant.
While I've not seen it with my own eyes yet, it's in the zone of major flooding from that dam failing. The river is supposed to be 14ft above flood stage by tonight.
I have some friends who don't live far from the Dow Chemical Plant whos containment ponds have now been confirmed to have overflowed into the floodwaters that are now all over that area as well.
So far about 14,000 have been evacuated. Luckily I have flood insurance, in MI if you don't have additional purchased flood insurance then you're screwed, you aren't covered.
At this point, I don't know what I'll be doing. Wixom lake is almost gone now and it'll be years before it's back. There's talks of lawsuits since it was warned a few years ago that the dam was in danger of failure then which is why the city has been trying to buy it (its privately owned) and this should show why privately-owned infrastructure is a horrible idea. If there's a lawsuit I'm sure I'll get in on it though I'm sure the payout won't be much once everyone gets a share, assuming we would win.
I feel bad for everyone impacted. As far as me personally, this for sure is not the year of Tarrant.
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Tarrant
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Yeah Saginaw is going to be in serious trouble as well. Currently, the flood stage for them is 17ft and right now they are at just over 20 and are expected to hit 23-24.5 feet. Not to mention all the water coming for them is now also contaminated.
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Loser Araysar
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best time to find treasures that have been underwater for decades
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Tarrant
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While everything will be rebuilt eventually...fishing will begin from that lake....I mean, probably for the next 20 years unless the DNR launches a major restocking project and even then, it'll be a decade.
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This is a disaster on top of a disaster on top of a disaster. I feel bad for all the people that are going to have to spend years dealing with the aftermath.
I read about the 2 dams breaching last night (Edenville & Sanford), but the following facebook screen, a few posts up, said (3); is there a third now, as well?
I read about the 2 dams breaching last night (Edenville & Sanford), but the following facebook screen, a few posts up, said (3); is there a third now, as well?
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Tarrant
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I mean, its 81 miles away, almost a 1/3 of the lower peninsula away. Not really "down the road".
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Kiroy
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oof forget all those people drowning, imagine having nice lakeside property like that and no lake.
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pharmakos
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Right up I-75
Close to me as a rural Michigander, where I live driving 25 miles to work (past soybean, corn, and sugar beet fields) every day is pretty much the median commute. Tarrant is close but he's what we would call a "cidiot" (easier to say than spell, portmanteau of city+idiot lol) since he's an urbanite who merely owns summer property in the boondocks
Tarrant tho man for real man hang in there, life's gotta feel like a real bad one-two punch.
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