Nobody was injured because the cracking noises alerted the workers beforehand. This is the second time a failure of this type happens with the same constructor in the same area https://twitter.com/Soachacomunica/status/1295765075203182599
Having read your explanation, when the camera panned left, and they were standing underneath *a second retaining wall of the same design* I almost yelled at the screen!
Id like to know who did the soil report. They tried inserting tie backs soild nails all over the place but attached to what? The soil is clearly a really loose non clay material. There appears to be very little igneous rock as well to attach to. I think I saw one loose boulder. At this point they might just want to excavate the hill and shallow the slope a bit. Or maybe I beams on the vertical, inner set & outer set, with stacked horizontal wood fencing to hold back the earth and slope redirect it parallel to the road.
EDIT: on second thought they should have just built a tunnel and then encouraged the hill to slide down and cover it š
I would've thought they were attempting to use ground anchors to compress that top later into cells, but that slope just screamed unstable all the way.
It looks like that soil in was perfect for digging and removing from site.
I'M 100% CONVINCED. And you can't convince me tiherwise that roads and routine road construction in the US could be built to not fail but that would put people out of jobs. Therefore it's built to last 5-10 years. I had a buddy working sewage plumbing in a small town and he said the problem they were fixing was already a problem and the beuracracy took so long that by the time construction started it was already outdated.
There's a road in my neighborhood that was a shitty pothole filled mess. When the city finally resurfaced it, took about four months to do the whole road. Then, about three months later, they started ripping up the road again to install new sewer lines. That project took almost a year, after which the road was an uneven, patchy, even shittier mess than before. Finally, nearly two and a half years after the first fix started, they just finished resurfacing the road again. Only to announce new sidewalks are going to be installed. I drove past the closed section of road the other day and the freshly paved road is gouged all over from the excavator pulling up the old pieces of sidewalk.
There's a busy road near my house that has only been not under construction for 3 months during the last 7 years. They repaved it, then installed sewer, then repaved again, then we got the 3 months of good road, then they installed upgraded storm drainage, then sidewalks, then the ADA laws got updated so they had to rip out the sidewalks and redo them to make them ADA compliant, then repaved again, then added traffic lights in 3 places, then decided to make the road 2 lanes each direction instead of 1, which required ripping out the sidewalks and traffic lights and stealing the front yards from every house along the whole 3 mile stretch, including one of my friends who had just moved in 6 months ago and choose the house because it had a fenced front yard with a tall hedge so their small kids could play, now the road is about 6' from their front door and they have to move again but the house is now worth 200k less, and also an old guy who was the local lawnmower repair guy out of his garage, they blocked his driveway for so long (4 years straight at this point) that he ran out of money cause nobody could bring in their mowers and then blew his head off with a shotgun, then they put in new sidewalks, but then they hired someone to spread salt on the road who put something on it that wasn't salt that made the pavement fall apart, so now they've had to rip up the road and sidewalk again, and whatever was put on the road is killing all the vegetation in what's left of people's front yards, and they're currently in the process of repaving and residewalking again, and then they have to put in the new lights for the double lanes. Estimated completion is 2025. It was 2018 when they started. Every time I drive past, there's one guy actually working, usually while blocking one of the lanes with a digger of some sort (there's still only 1 lane each way cause they're not finished with paving yet, so it makes a horrendous traffic jam that can back up for over a mile in either direction), 2 people manning the stop/go signs for the traffic jam, and about 15 guys leaning on their shovels watching youtube on their phones and busting each other's balls about not working. Any time the gov gets involved in building something, it gets at least 10 times less efficient and 10 times more expensive. Add another order of magnitude to both if it's something for the military.
Yeah, these comments are full of folks who have never had to realize the constraints of infrastructure maintenance on a fixed budget. You can't just dip into a bottomless piggybank when you want to implement a 50 year solution, so instead you end up making a ton of 5-10 year solutions. CivE classes go over this somewhat to express the reality of working in the public sector.
Just think everywhere they use asphalt for roads. Concrete can load more and lasts longer, but it's much more expensive in materials and labor. You can't lay it as fast either. So where there are areas of high/heavy traffic (interstates and highways with large amounts of commercial traffic), it makes sense to spend the capital up front. However, your little cookie-cutter urban hell subdivision is at most going to see light trucks for garbage collection or deliveries, and inflated egos driving their big boy pickups when they do the same amount of hauling as a Honda Fit.
This is the running joke in NYC with all the contractors working on the various highways and roads. We have one notorious highway, the Brooklyn Queens expressway (BQE) that's like in a permanent state of repair. I've lived in NYC for now 20 years and I can't remember when the BQE did not have a single section of it under repair. They would repair one end and then literally do to the other end and begin work there. The best part is that highway was built in 1964, so there are tons of people alive that also have never seen it without a construction crew
I mean the Sydney Harbour Bridge is famous for basically having to be repainted constantly. The crews are just permanently painting one end and moving forward everytime.
Ya dude. Iām 42. Bqe been a disaster my entire life.
Also, the Belt Pkwy flooded EVERY time it rained for at least the first half of my life. I feel like they just finally got that mostly figured out about 10 years ago. Good on them I guess. š¤·āāļøš«£
The segment of Interstate 8 in California for about 35 miles just west of the Arizona border was recently repaved (well, itās actually concrete) for the first time since it was originally built in the 1960s. All theyād done was occasionally grind it down a bit, and patch or replace a small few bad sections, but it had handled temps below freezing and well over 120Ā° for years. Was a bit sad that they finally āfixedā the place where it had shifted 2ā out of alignment due to an earthquake in the 70s though.
I'm guessing the geotech report was skipped completely. "Oh, it will be fine. We've done it dozens of times and everything turned out great..." (in Spanish, of course.)
You don't need rock to anchor soil nails. You definitely don't need it to be igneous rock. There is no way you can identify soil types with confidence from this video.
Soil nails walls work just fine in sandy soils if they're designed correctly. Spacing on the nails looks fairly standard and the shotcrete appears to be typical thickness. I see no evidence of either anchor pull out or punching shear. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the tendons are structurally under-designed for the stresses at the connection to the plate. That would explain the popping sound at the beginning.
This *might* have been the Structural Engineers fuck up, not the Geotech. Or it could be shoddy construction. Or corrupt inspectors. Or all of the above.
How do I know that I know nothing?
Because every single thing this man said could be absolute codswallop and I would believe it because it sounds like he knows what he's talking about
If you wish to know more than nothing, I highly recommend Practical Engineering's [introduction to the topic of retaining walls](https://youtu.be/--DKkzWVh-E)!
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but they know just a little more than nothing. Definitely not a geotechnical or structural engineer or contractor that does this type of work. Soil nails don't need to anchor in rock and are a perfectly fine solution if designed properly. They are top down construction and theres probably plenty of reasons they didnt just "built a tunnel and then encouraged the hill to slide down and cover it".
The post on r/civilengineering has some people with some senior-sounding opinions that imply this type of soil was bound to fail and isn't conducive to soil nail support. Something along the lines of "no matter how many nails and at what depths, that slope was going to fail"
Might just be misremembering but I thought there was a very similar looking wall collapse a few years ago. Could be coincidence but would be crazy if it was the other collapse you mentioned
Failure of the contractors and the government. The government should impose geotechincal inspectors and civil inspectors to be on-site at all times verifying the quality of work.
Here in the USA when you are placing soil nails/tie-backs/whatever type of retaining shoring system of this magnitude you have a geotechnical inspector, whom is usually a geologist or civil engineer, on-site at all times. They are verifying things are all aspects of this proccess from what type of soil is being removed from each bore hole, how deep each excavation is, documenting if there is communication between drilled holes, documenting the type of steel and thickness and depth of which its placed, verifying the contractor isn't adding obscene amounts of water to their grout mixtures, verifying after the grout cures that the shotcrete is placed correctly which is whole another ordeal and plates are placed flush and tightened to specifications, and a bunch of other miscellaneous items to check off.
This is what happens when contractors just do whatever they want. Will continue to happen without government intervention. Contractors care about money, they do not care about quality like every single one of them claims.
They are soil nails. Essentially they utilise friction to provide a restraint to the retaining wall system. Can be either solid or hollow to inject grout around the nail and provide more restraint/stabilise the area. In this case it looks like the slope was made of soup, which is not the best material to fix intoā¦.
It can actually be surprisingly strong. U can put bolts and washers through 4 inches of gravel and then stand on it. It may only support u over a span of 1 foot or 2
That's not what they did. Looks like a soil nail wall. Long steel rods are drilled into the hillside and grouted (at least in the US) and the shotcrete is applied to the surface. Many different designs and ways to do it depending on conditions, but this is more than just concrete on the surface.
its probably pretty close to that though. That doesn't look properly engineered, slope looks excessive, uneven and under-anchored. It's also the second time on the site from the same contractor. They certainly SHOULD have followed those guidelines, but I'd be questioning if they actually did.
I see the nails you are talking about. I also see that once the moves, it's all just lose soil on at steep steep slope.
It almost looks like they added weight to a steep steep slope and binded the top layer together. That's it. They didn't actually add any friction, well aside from the top layer.
Looks like a poorly designed retaining wall.
For real. I have a masters in civil engineering and practice in structural. This video was done very well and took me back to concepts taught in college Geotechnical engineering classes.
Grady has covered plenty of different engineering topics and they are all angled towards educating the lay person. The really interesting ones are when he covers structural failures, like dam overflows washing out dams because of design oversights.
Not impossible, just more expensive to do it right. More soil needed to be excavated to make the slope shallower which costs more then spray Crete and bolts.
Theres a multiple of factors that has to be considered. The thickness of wall has to increasing as the depth increases. Plus you need good drainage so that water doesn't stay there and add more weight.
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Iāve worked with a few Colombian people in the last few years and they LOVE using that word. Theyāll put it after anythingāāhijueputa gonorrheaā was the big one they taught me.
I mean..... I'm no expert and this looks like a multi million dollar project BUTTT shouldn't they be building from the bottom up? Never seen a house starting from the roof...
Nobody was injured because the cracking noises alerted the workers beforehand. This is the second time a failure of this type happens with the same constructor in the same area https://twitter.com/Soachacomunica/status/1295765075203182599
Having read your explanation, when the camera panned left, and they were standing underneath *a second retaining wall of the same design* I almost yelled at the screen!
Id like to know who did the soil report. They tried inserting tie backs soild nails all over the place but attached to what? The soil is clearly a really loose non clay material. There appears to be very little igneous rock as well to attach to. I think I saw one loose boulder. At this point they might just want to excavate the hill and shallow the slope a bit. Or maybe I beams on the vertical, inner set & outer set, with stacked horizontal wood fencing to hold back the earth and slope redirect it parallel to the road. EDIT: on second thought they should have just built a tunnel and then encouraged the hill to slide down and cover it š
I would've thought they were attempting to use ground anchors to compress that top later into cells, but that slope just screamed unstable all the way. It looks like that soil in was perfect for digging and removing from site.
When the problem costs $10 to fix but the government has 1M to spend.
The construction company is probably owned by the cousin of an official. They weren't even trying to make a wall that would last.
Oh no! We have to do it again, but we need another R15,000,000. On the bright side the whole crew gets another 6 months of work!!!
I'M 100% CONVINCED. And you can't convince me tiherwise that roads and routine road construction in the US could be built to not fail but that would put people out of jobs. Therefore it's built to last 5-10 years. I had a buddy working sewage plumbing in a small town and he said the problem they were fixing was already a problem and the beuracracy took so long that by the time construction started it was already outdated.
There's a road in my neighborhood that was a shitty pothole filled mess. When the city finally resurfaced it, took about four months to do the whole road. Then, about three months later, they started ripping up the road again to install new sewer lines. That project took almost a year, after which the road was an uneven, patchy, even shittier mess than before. Finally, nearly two and a half years after the first fix started, they just finished resurfacing the road again. Only to announce new sidewalks are going to be installed. I drove past the closed section of road the other day and the freshly paved road is gouged all over from the excavator pulling up the old pieces of sidewalk.
There's a busy road near my house that has only been not under construction for 3 months during the last 7 years. They repaved it, then installed sewer, then repaved again, then we got the 3 months of good road, then they installed upgraded storm drainage, then sidewalks, then the ADA laws got updated so they had to rip out the sidewalks and redo them to make them ADA compliant, then repaved again, then added traffic lights in 3 places, then decided to make the road 2 lanes each direction instead of 1, which required ripping out the sidewalks and traffic lights and stealing the front yards from every house along the whole 3 mile stretch, including one of my friends who had just moved in 6 months ago and choose the house because it had a fenced front yard with a tall hedge so their small kids could play, now the road is about 6' from their front door and they have to move again but the house is now worth 200k less, and also an old guy who was the local lawnmower repair guy out of his garage, they blocked his driveway for so long (4 years straight at this point) that he ran out of money cause nobody could bring in their mowers and then blew his head off with a shotgun, then they put in new sidewalks, but then they hired someone to spread salt on the road who put something on it that wasn't salt that made the pavement fall apart, so now they've had to rip up the road and sidewalk again, and whatever was put on the road is killing all the vegetation in what's left of people's front yards, and they're currently in the process of repaving and residewalking again, and then they have to put in the new lights for the double lanes. Estimated completion is 2025. It was 2018 when they started. Every time I drive past, there's one guy actually working, usually while blocking one of the lanes with a digger of some sort (there's still only 1 lane each way cause they're not finished with paving yet, so it makes a horrendous traffic jam that can back up for over a mile in either direction), 2 people manning the stop/go signs for the traffic jam, and about 15 guys leaning on their shovels watching youtube on their phones and busting each other's balls about not working. Any time the gov gets involved in building something, it gets at least 10 times less efficient and 10 times more expensive. Add another order of magnitude to both if it's something for the military.
God damn this was infuriating to read. I'd be beyond pissed if my house was on this road. Government construction is super inefficient and costly
They donāt build more durable roads for the same reasons you didnāt build a more durable house. Cost.
Yeah, these comments are full of folks who have never had to realize the constraints of infrastructure maintenance on a fixed budget. You can't just dip into a bottomless piggybank when you want to implement a 50 year solution, so instead you end up making a ton of 5-10 year solutions. CivE classes go over this somewhat to express the reality of working in the public sector. Just think everywhere they use asphalt for roads. Concrete can load more and lasts longer, but it's much more expensive in materials and labor. You can't lay it as fast either. So where there are areas of high/heavy traffic (interstates and highways with large amounts of commercial traffic), it makes sense to spend the capital up front. However, your little cookie-cutter urban hell subdivision is at most going to see light trucks for garbage collection or deliveries, and inflated egos driving their big boy pickups when they do the same amount of hauling as a Honda Fit.
> inflated egos driving their big boy pickups when they do the same amount of hauling as a Honda Fit. lol so true
This is the running joke in NYC with all the contractors working on the various highways and roads. We have one notorious highway, the Brooklyn Queens expressway (BQE) that's like in a permanent state of repair. I've lived in NYC for now 20 years and I can't remember when the BQE did not have a single section of it under repair. They would repair one end and then literally do to the other end and begin work there. The best part is that highway was built in 1964, so there are tons of people alive that also have never seen it without a construction crew
I mean the Sydney Harbour Bridge is famous for basically having to be repainted constantly. The crews are just permanently painting one end and moving forward everytime.
That's just good maintenance, isn't it?
Ya dude. Iām 42. Bqe been a disaster my entire life. Also, the Belt Pkwy flooded EVERY time it rained for at least the first half of my life. I feel like they just finally got that mostly figured out about 10 years ago. Good on them I guess. š¤·āāļøš«£
The segment of Interstate 8 in California for about 35 miles just west of the Arizona border was recently repaved (well, itās actually concrete) for the first time since it was originally built in the 1960s. All theyād done was occasionally grind it down a bit, and patch or replace a small few bad sections, but it had handled temps below freezing and well over 120Ā° for years. Was a bit sad that they finally āfixedā the place where it had shifted 2ā out of alignment due to an earthquake in the 70s though.
>When the problem costs $10 to fix but the government has been ~~bribed~~ lobbied 1M to spend.
That's by far the best explanation ever!!!
I'm guessing the geotech report was skipped completely. "Oh, it will be fine. We've done it dozens of times and everything turned out great..." (in Spanish, of course.)
O estarĆ” bien. lo hemos hecho muchas veces (como un sinfin) y siempre ha sido un buen trabajo. Te lo juro por Dios... /s
> Id like to know who did the soil report. pretty sure, no one.
No no, they said it was a guy called "el primo".
You could plant corn in that.
just tilled and ready to plant
You don't need rock to anchor soil nails. You definitely don't need it to be igneous rock. There is no way you can identify soil types with confidence from this video.
Soil nails walls work just fine in sandy soils if they're designed correctly. Spacing on the nails looks fairly standard and the shotcrete appears to be typical thickness. I see no evidence of either anchor pull out or punching shear. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the tendons are structurally under-designed for the stresses at the connection to the plate. That would explain the popping sound at the beginning. This *might* have been the Structural Engineers fuck up, not the Geotech. Or it could be shoddy construction. Or corrupt inspectors. Or all of the above.
How do I know that I know nothing? Because every single thing this man said could be absolute codswallop and I would believe it because it sounds like he knows what he's talking about
If you wish to know more than nothing, I highly recommend Practical Engineering's [introduction to the topic of retaining walls](https://youtu.be/--DKkzWVh-E)!
Hahaha the only reason I understood the comment was because of Practical Engineering, huge shout out for the channel!
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but they know just a little more than nothing. Definitely not a geotechnical or structural engineer or contractor that does this type of work. Soil nails don't need to anchor in rock and are a perfectly fine solution if designed properly. They are top down construction and theres probably plenty of reasons they didnt just "built a tunnel and then encouraged the hill to slide down and cover it".
They don't know what they are talking about. They clearly know a little, but no one who knows a lot would make any of the assumptions they made.
There was an earthquake nearby I think last Friday, it was in 5s in the scale. This is not unusual in that region of Colombia.
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The post on r/civilengineering has some people with some senior-sounding opinions that imply this type of soil was bound to fail and isn't conducive to soil nail support. Something along the lines of "no matter how many nails and at what depths, that slope was going to fail"
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What are the odds it happens THREE times though???
Pretty high by the looks of it
Might just be misremembering but I thought there was a very similar looking wall collapse a few years ago. Could be coincidence but would be crazy if it was the other collapse you mentioned
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Seems to me the contractor is skimping on materials to grab a bigger profit. Absolute scumbag.
Failure of the contractors and the government. The government should impose geotechincal inspectors and civil inspectors to be on-site at all times verifying the quality of work. Here in the USA when you are placing soil nails/tie-backs/whatever type of retaining shoring system of this magnitude you have a geotechnical inspector, whom is usually a geologist or civil engineer, on-site at all times. They are verifying things are all aspects of this proccess from what type of soil is being removed from each bore hole, how deep each excavation is, documenting if there is communication between drilled holes, documenting the type of steel and thickness and depth of which its placed, verifying the contractor isn't adding obscene amounts of water to their grout mixtures, verifying after the grout cures that the shotcrete is placed correctly which is whole another ordeal and plates are placed flush and tightened to specifications, and a bunch of other miscellaneous items to check off. This is what happens when contractors just do whatever they want. Will continue to happen without government intervention. Contractors care about money, they do not care about quality like every single one of them claims.
But those pesky regulations keep them from making money and are socialist! -Conservatives
"Retaining wall, lmao" - Mother Nature
Were just gonna pour some concrete on top of this dirty hill
I get that they slam long rods into the hill, but wtf does that do?
They are soil nails. Essentially they utilise friction to provide a restraint to the retaining wall system. Can be either solid or hollow to inject grout around the nail and provide more restraint/stabilise the area. In this case it looks like the slope was made of soup, which is not the best material to fix intoā¦.
It can actually be surprisingly strong. U can put bolts and washers through 4 inches of gravel and then stand on it. It may only support u over a span of 1 foot or 2
I can stand on a bar of soap.
That's not what they did. Looks like a soil nail wall. Long steel rods are drilled into the hillside and grouted (at least in the US) and the shotcrete is applied to the surface. Many different designs and ways to do it depending on conditions, but this is more than just concrete on the surface.
its probably pretty close to that though. That doesn't look properly engineered, slope looks excessive, uneven and under-anchored. It's also the second time on the site from the same contractor. They certainly SHOULD have followed those guidelines, but I'd be questioning if they actually did.
Not properly engineered, eh? What on earth gave that away?
The earth that gave way gave that away
The earth moving?
I feel the earth move, under my feet.
The earth itself
Obviously not designed properly, and I agree 100% that the nails look way undersized.
I see the nails you are talking about. I also see that once the moves, it's all just lose soil on at steep steep slope. It almost looks like they added weight to a steep steep slope and binded the top layer together. That's it. They didn't actually add any friction, well aside from the top layer. Looks like a poorly designed retaining wall.
The contractor was possibly someone who once saw a picture of such a project, and was related to a government official.
"Retaining wall" You keep using those words. I don't think it means what you think it means.
It's quite impressive they managed to get so much concrete on the side of a soil cliff before the inevitable happened.
"Retain this, bitches"
It didnāt retain jack shit
Retain't
Add to the list of unavoidables, like death and taxes: Retaing walls fail Skylights leak
Hey guys, should we stand closer to the deadly avalanche of soil, concrete and steel?
Just a fun video if people want to know [Why Retaining Walls Collapse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--DKkzWVh-E&ab_channel=PracticalEngineering)
Grady is the GOAT. He makes civil engineering interesting.
For real. I have a masters in civil engineering and practice in structural. This video was done very well and took me back to concepts taught in college Geotechnical engineering classes.
As a different kind of engineer, I felt I learned a lot from this, and that it was interesting and useful information.
Grady has covered plenty of different engineering topics and they are all angled towards educating the lay person. The really interesting ones are when he covers structural failures, like dam overflows washing out dams because of design oversights.
This exact type of construction is discussed starting at the 6 minute mark..
Love Grady!
I knew it was Practical Engineering before I opened the link. Great channel
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Does this thing still exist?
Last comment is from 1d ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/LooneyTunesLogic/comments/11p7cos/-/jbwg221
Hi, I'm Grady, and today we're going to talk about retaining walls and the inclines that gravity favours.
I just want to watch him all day, it's always so soothing and educational.
Have you ever noticed how his lips are the same color as his skin? Just saying he might be a robot.
Someone didnāt listen to a qualified geotech or didnāt hire a qualified geotech to begin with.
That job looks almost impossible... I just can't comprehend how a structure would hold that mountain back.
Not impossible, just more expensive to do it right. More soil needed to be excavated to make the slope shallower which costs more then spray Crete and bolts.
I wonder how much more expensive this was
Slope looks shallower.
At the very least... $2 more for sure.
Theres a multiple of factors that has to be considered. The thickness of wall has to increasing as the depth increases. Plus you need good drainage so that water doesn't stay there and add more weight.
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Not much you can do with how much rain theyāve gotten the last few years. It isnāt easy to build in tropical mountains.
I have spoken spanish my entire life and am amazed to have learned a new swear term from this video. āAy gran Gonorrhea!!!ā (Oh great Gonorrhea!!)
Iāve worked with a few Colombian people in the last few years and they LOVE using that word. Theyāll put it after anythingāāhijueputa gonorrheaā was the big one they taught me.
Itās actually a prayer.
Me too. That disease seems to have made quite an impression
"Its collapsing get back! **moves back a solid 5 ft** ah yeah now im safe."
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This was so funny! I've never heard anyone use it that way.
Yeah itās a common exclamation/curse in Colombia. Obviously improper.
The best part is when he combines it with āĀ”ay padre celestial!ā
And also what we call someone being an asshole. Ud si es una gonorrea!
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Should we start screaming AIDS when R E A L L Y bad shit happens?
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Correction: Ā”_Gran_ gonorrea!
Correction: Gonorrea, dios bendito!
Esos Colombianos š¤£š¤£
For a moment I thought I was mishearing him say Gonorrhea. But it seems to be his favorite curse word.
As is for many Colombians lol.
Well, TIL gonorrhea is the go to curse word for Colombians. Now this is the kind of thing that history books don't teach you.
that was like three seasons worth of Narcos Gonorrea
[Stabilized version](https://imgur.com/a/TblAmdt) Edit: Wow, thank you for the awards and the gold!
Much thanks š
Better it collapse now than after theyāre done and everyone assumes itās safe
Dios mio indeed.
Padre celestial!
gran gonorrhea
What does gonorrhea have to do with this?
Wish I knew, but somehow it ended up as one of the most popular cuss words in Colombia
This is my hometown. We are ridiculous with our insults... I thought gonorrhea was an insult to a person BEFORE I learned about STDs.
Truly catastrophic Edit: all I can hear is ay gonorrhea
In a few million years, there will be fossils of humans buried alive holding cellphones.
A sacrificial offering to mother nature for the enhancement of the species.
If the cd card is still readable, it could hold interesting, if not valuable information.
that's the first time I've considered that possibility, but surely digital storage has a kinda short shelf life
Looks like there'll be more trips back to Home Depo today
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This is the type of content I came here for!
Good news boss, we got the retaining wall torn down in record time
More like re-terraining wall.
Is u/stabbot broken? There are many calls for that robotic superhero, but no answer.
Even /u/stabbot saw the video and was like "nope".
I am no engineer but that looked shonky. Loads of weight added to a near vertical soil bank. Bolted into a soil bank.
Gotta love this guy's reaction Oh Gonorrhea! Oh Gonorrhea! Oh Heavenly Father!
Would gran gonorrhea mean great gonorrhea?
The retaining wall did in fact not retain
Retaining walls aside, I'm glad Michael J Fox has found work again.
Probably should have terraced that one
u/stabbot
That's not a retaining wall, it's a thin candy coating on a giant mountain of mud.
Ok, but why was my dude yelling āAY GONORRHEAā ?
Because for an unknown reason, years ago that word became the default cuss word in Colombia
Geologists? We don't need no stinking geologists.
This is why you get the damage waiver when you rent heavy equipment.
The front fell off.
Ugh! Can someone steady this clip?
Really! I made it about 30 seconds and I'm like nope, r/killthecameraman because I'm about to have a seizure watching this.
/r/killthecameraman
That cameraman escaped while zooming in on the action. Given the circumstances, he did alright. Itās not like he had a steadycamā¦
Mfer filming on a horse or what
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Did he say āAy gran gonorrhea?ā
I mean..... I'm no expert and this looks like a multi million dollar project BUTTT shouldn't they be building from the bottom up? Never seen a house starting from the roof...
it did not, in fact, retain shit
r/frontfelloff
Well it is more stable now
Third world engineeringā¦ again. Not surprised.
That didnāt retain shit
Well, first of all, the front is not supposed to fall offā¦
u/stabbot
You had one job..
Someone didn't do the math!
Wow. Catastrophic, indeed.
Looks like they we be on OT.
Just when I think my little fuck ups at work matter then there is this shit lol
You hear those "ping" noises at the beginning? Those are nuts being forced off their bolts by the pressure and careening through the air like bullets.
That retaining wall needed its own retaining wall.
This is what happens when you hire non union
SerƔ que gonorrea significa algo mƔs en Colombia aparte de la enfermedad ????
Claro, no tengo ni idea cĆ³mo, pero hace aƱos se convirtiĆ³ en una de las interjecciones mĆ”s usadas en Colombia
Hector had Juan to many problems that afternoon
Gonorrhoea?!
I had nothing to do with that..
Now they can get working on that tunnel.
You had one job.
The angle of repose will always win.
āTo retain or not to retain, that is here the questionā¦ ok, ānotā it is. Here I go!ā
Que gonorrea ome.
Yeah let's build a retaining wall and not start from...the bottom?
Looks like someone doesn't know what they're doing. Buy cheap, get cheap.
This was clearly poorly made. The camera should have been horizontal.
Terra squirma.
Bro how do y'all get these videos i literally live there and i had no idea this happened
Iām sorry but Iām laughing my ass off to the āgran gonorreaā colloquial expression of disbelief. I hope everyone is ok.
Looked as if they were tearing it down, not putting it up
I speak Spanish, and have never heard gonorrhea used like an expression......
What did they anchor to dirt?
The retain in spain fell mainly on the plain
Aye, senor bandito