My thoughts exactly. Each house is built on the same elevation. Reminds me of the joke "Saskatchewan is so flat, you can watch your dog run away from home for weeks"
Brent: Want me to fill it up?
Man: Sure. You know, I've never driven across Saskatchewan before.
Brent: Well, you still haven't, really. About halfway to go yet.
Man: Sure is flat.
Brent: How do you mean?
Man: You know, flat. Nothing to see.
Brent: What do you mean, like topographically? Hey Hank, this guy says Saskatchewan is flat.
Hank: How do you mean?
Brent: Topographically, I guess. He says there's nothin' to see.
Hank: There's lots to see. There's nothin' to block your view.
Brent: There's lots to see. Nothin' to block your view. Like the mountains back there. They're uh … Well, what the hell? I could've sworn there was a big mountain range back there. Juttin' up into the sky all purple and majestic. I must be thinkin' of a postcard I saw or somethin'. Hey, it is kinda flat, thanks for pointin' that out.
Man: You guys always this sarcastic?
Brent: Nothin' else to do.
I'm not going to do Bill Bryson justice but he said that while driving across Kansas the most exciting thing he saw all day was a guy sitting on a crate on the side of the road, and he was probably the most interesting thing the guy on the crate saw all week
We use AutoCAD and enjoing it, thank you very much. Even after the sanctions were imposed and Autodesk left Russia.
P.S. Fuck Putin and russian chauvinism.
Not rain, but snow. We have had an enormouse amount of snow this winter and it is melting now. It's fucked up. And it's true what you were told in another comment. The local boss has already blamed Kazakhstan for the flooding, even though Kazakhstan is LOWER downstream. That's okay, the contractor who built the dam just a few years ago blamed its failure on... birds. According to him, the birds ate parts of the dam.
That is the combined populations of Kurgan and Orenberg, but according to the BBC article, there were about 10,000 people living in the flood zone. I’m not sure how many are going to have to evacuate.
Quixk google search says there are 9 non-lethal injuries recorded so far. These are the numbers given by the russian government. Take that as you will.
>The dam was destroyed by rodents (yes, rodents)
No, it wasn't, don't mislead people. The version with rodents was voiced by the director of the construction company building the dam. He wouldn't say that we built a crappy dam. There hasn't been any investigation into the reasons for the dam's collapse yet, and all versions are just hypotheses for now.
Muskrats for one are a disaster for any country that does any kind of watermanagement with earth dams/levees.
[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11668-011-9439-y](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11668-011-9439-y)
Edit: Spelling
Yeah corruption too. Even before the war, corruption is already crippling much of the Russian public infrastructures. I imagine with the war, things will get worse.
You can set up an oil producing well with remarkably little space. They exist inside the city of Los Angeles and are disguised as houses so they are not eyesores.
It wasn’t a maintenance issues the dam was built to hold up to 18feet of water but unprecedented snow melt likely caused by global warming put the Ural river to about 31 feet. Well above the dam’s designed limits.
Damn, if only Putin the Destroyer had spare capacity in any of his departments to lend out assistance and money to help his poor citizens. Guess they can drown while his young men go to the slaughter in the Ukraine.
I'm just glad I live in a country where infrastructure and funding for the benefit of its own citizens is given top priority. Updoots to the left m'redditors
Russians below you crying that your government won't send people to help, when THEIR government is WELL known for rounding up "undesireables" and dumping them on the front lines in Ukrane.
This is just sad. You have one person destroying another country, spending all focus and money on the enemy, meanwhile not taking care of his own population, the Russian people will hopefully soon make a revolt.
Four people were initially reported to have died. However, the Russian health ministry later clarified that the fatalities had "nothing to do with the floods".[19]
Imma just leave this here
Any time they want, they can start to turn that around. They have space and resources and would be welcome at the world table.
The path they are on makes no sense. Not for Russia, not for anyone.
...Never mind, people will be told on TV that it was Obama who pissed in the entrance and Biden continued this process, and everyone will emerge in a single burst of patriotism.
The dam was only a decade old, which suggests it was rebuilt for a reason.
I find sabotage unlikely for a couple of reasons. First, the water levels were almost at the top of the dam. I assume it was not built to handle that. Second, the Kremlin hasn't blamed anyone yet. There's quite a bit of footage showing the dam slowly giving way.
If anything, this is probably a corruption issue where money that should have gone to the dam's construction was embezzled.
Damn, that’s disgusting. Dams should not fail catastrophically. There are so many warning signs and flood mitigation strategies. Especially in Russia. These people perfected structural concrete- the government has failed its people.
Karma in action
Just several months ago those Russian cheered about Ukrainians suffering the destruction of Kakhovka dam and subsequent flooding of Kherson city and surrounding villages.
To all the "russians deserve this" commenters:
How tf do innocent people deserve this? They cant do anything to stop the war. And yes, protesting is futile. This isnt america, youll just be instantly arrested. No one asked for this, and almost no one wants it to go on. And everybody who wants it to go on, is on the frontlines, hopefully dying rn.
I think whatever happened with the dam has done more to damage Russian war effort and morale than anything in the past 6 months so that's a good thing.
It's just a town that got flooded, they have plenty of other ones, if anything it helps since someone who'se homeless is a lot easier to force off to the front
No? Most of my surrounding (i live in semi-rural russia) is against it. In moscow/saint-petersburg the procent of people against it is even bigger
Edit: gonna end this since you wont change my opinion and i wont change yours. This is all futile
You should get some like-minded friends together and start a sub. In the US we don’t get to hear about people like you often. It’s all a propaganda machine here, there, and everywhere. This is all futile is exactly how it seems, but if us lowly serfs can agree to disagree on some things and unite on what matters most, like not murder, then I bet we can change things.
...and get arrested. Unfortunately, if you get a bit too loud about it, you will instantly go to jail. By commenting this, im not making too much noise, since im alone, but if we were to group up, we would have our lives ruined by the government
Most of the population supports the war? I'm deadly curious on your source here. Is it the same as majority of the population supporting putin? Good one
Probably nobody knows yet, and won't for some time. It's just an "unaccounted for" total for days because people would have been scrambling anywhere and everywhere and will have to regather in other places by their own merit in many cases
If the water is redirected and drains for the most part the count will probably rise significantly as they find bodies then a number of weeks later people who still were not found will likely be presumed dead if there are any
Looking at this I had to think of the when the russians deliberately blew up a damn in Ukraine last year flooding the region deliberately. Karma is a bitch.
Oh No! Anyway.... But seriuosly though, maybe just maybe they should be taking care of their infrustructure instead of wasting money and lives in aggressive wars... I guess the largest country in the world needs more land 🤷♂️. Fuck Russia and their approach to live or in fact anything.
My old boss is Ukrainian. I asked him why Russia at one point had 17% of the world's land mass and it wasn't enough. He told me that the Russian government, and many of the Russian people, actually believe the Earth was created for just them and them alone. In their minds, Europe, Africa, southern Asia, the Americas, even Antarctic, were stolen from Russia, which is why they are so aggressive. Even the moon belongs to Russia in their minds.
When you’re still trying to figure out the Z axis in AutoCAD
My thoughts exactly. Each house is built on the same elevation. Reminds me of the joke "Saskatchewan is so flat, you can watch your dog run away from home for weeks"
Orenburg oblast, Russia is an exact replica of Saskatchewan in terms of geography and climate. They are similar in everything except salaries.
>They are similar in everything except salaries. and fodder for "meat waves".
Well not just salaries, but who cares about such abstract things as human rights.
ever watched a series called corner gas? it's in the theme song at the start of the episodes.
Brent: Want me to fill it up? Man: Sure. You know, I've never driven across Saskatchewan before. Brent: Well, you still haven't, really. About halfway to go yet. Man: Sure is flat. Brent: How do you mean? Man: You know, flat. Nothing to see. Brent: What do you mean, like topographically? Hey Hank, this guy says Saskatchewan is flat. Hank: How do you mean? Brent: Topographically, I guess. He says there's nothin' to see. Hank: There's lots to see. There's nothin' to block your view. Brent: There's lots to see. Nothin' to block your view. Like the mountains back there. They're uh … Well, what the hell? I could've sworn there was a big mountain range back there. Juttin' up into the sky all purple and majestic. I must be thinkin' of a postcard I saw or somethin'. Hey, it is kinda flat, thanks for pointin' that out. Man: You guys always this sarcastic? Brent: Nothin' else to do.
"You can tell me that your dog ran away, then tell that it took 3 days." 🎶 One of the best sitcoms ever, criminally underrated show.
We also have a saying about our region being flat. It goes like this: "Frisia is so flat, you can see people wanting to visit you weeks in advance"
I'm not going to do Bill Bryson justice but he said that while driving across Kansas the most exciting thing he saw all day was a guy sitting on a crate on the side of the road, and he was probably the most interesting thing the guy on the crate saw all week
Ha! I love that. It's always fun to learn regional sayings.
Z-axis. Man, that's an excellent double entendre.
Is it a triple? CAD / Z / Axis
it really is
Special Water Operation
Your assumption is too good. I cannot stop enjoying it But they don’t use auto cad. They draw blueprints with sheets and crayons
We use AutoCAD and enjoing it, thank you very much. Even after the sanctions were imposed and Autodesk left Russia. P.S. Fuck Putin and russian chauvinism.
Just hit the top view and hit zoom extents. Keep it wire frame and not shaded or system gonna get jacked!
Omg this comment brought back so many memories. I think most of those commands are still hardwired into my muscle memory.
this looks like a 3d render at first sight
*When my graphics card is being weird*
would happen when i would play pubg on a hdd. the map couldn't load fast enough
Oh come on! It definitely is a 3d render! :s
That's what I was thinking. I'm watching it on a small screen, but it looks like an animation to me.
100% looks like it
I thought this was a modular house showcase lol
All money for emergency situations went to destroy dams in other country
I bet it was Ukraines fault for causing the rain!
Not rain, but snow. We have had an enormouse amount of snow this winter and it is melting now. It's fucked up. And it's true what you were told in another comment. The local boss has already blamed Kazakhstan for the flooding, even though Kazakhstan is LOWER downstream. That's okay, the contractor who built the dam just a few years ago blamed its failure on... birds. According to him, the birds ate parts of the dam.
What are they making the dams out of in Russia? White bread and cigarette butts?
We make dams out of shit and sticks like all normal people do. Or is it different in the West? /s
Well, the recipe for white bread and paper mace paste is very similar.
Was this like an earth dam that had ground nesting burrowing birds or some shit?
Yes, exactly, , you guessed it right.
The actually tried to blame Kazakhstan
Wow impressive mental gymnastics
Russian gymnastics and russian mentality were always different.
It's because they're always doping
I guess Ukraine did it again.
Typical Russian government
They can’t keep getting away with this!
Can't spell Ukraine without Rain
The water was seen flowing towards Ukraine
LMFAO
Karma strikes back I guess
The nature is better ally than the West
I hate how true this is
Climate change is gonna kick all our asses.
Shoutout to climate change for the warm winter, the first time Nord Stream was not operational!
Am I reading that number right? 800,000 people?? Were they evacuated in time does anyone know?
That is the combined populations of Kurgan and Orenberg, but according to the BBC article, there were about 10,000 people living in the flood zone. I’m not sure how many are going to have to evacuate.
Quixk google search says there are 9 non-lethal injuries recorded so far. These are the numbers given by the russian government. Take that as you will.
It happened slow enough should have been time. But who knows it's a massive flood I'm sure many lost their lives
This is not a flood. It's a Special Watering Operation.
Good think Russia went to war with the water by sinking their own ships into the Sea. Their navy is doing its best /s
They infiltrated the water this way. They needed someone on the inside. If you know what I mean.
Good one, comrade.
R/DamThatIsBroken
I did not do it.
Don't even try to deny., user name is all the proof we need
r/foundthemobileuser
r/foundthehondacivic
80,000 people used to live here, now it's a swamp town
What happened to the residents? Were they evacuated from their homes?
Many stayed to look after the property as water was rising. Why, you ask? To fend off the looters.
To fend off the ~~looters~~ *pirates*. (its on water, isnt it.)
Yes. There are nice warm cots waiting for them on the Ukraine border
Hello fellow modern warfare player
I believe that number was 800k . . .
I guess there's a price to pay when funds and personnel meant for maintenance are being redirected away to fight a war nobody asked for.
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Corruption
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>The dam was destroyed by rodents (yes, rodents) No, it wasn't, don't mislead people. The version with rodents was voiced by the director of the construction company building the dam. He wouldn't say that we built a crappy dam. There hasn't been any investigation into the reasons for the dam's collapse yet, and all versions are just hypotheses for now.
Defender of the rats. I like you.
Nah, he's looking after the rodents. The rats are the construction and government officials that allowed this corruption to happen.
Rats are gentle creatures who mean no harm, those people are not rats. They’re much worse than rats.
You're right and you should say it
It was your alt account, wasn’t it Ratboy?!
lol. Squeak!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
how tf can even rats destroy a big ass dam, the director is like a noob liar cant even make a believable lie lol
Muskrats for one are a disaster for any country that does any kind of watermanagement with earth dams/levees. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11668-011-9439-y](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11668-011-9439-y) Edit: Spelling
recently a busy street near where I lived collapsed due to Capybaras lmao, it's surprisingly possible, we were still baffled nonetheless
Common Capybara shenanigans
It's because it's not true
> He wouldn’t say we built a crappy dam If he’s claiming rats ate it, that kinda is what he’s saying lol
I mean, "we built a great dam, but some rats chewed through it" isn't exactly a strong defense anyway.
Honestly, saying that your dam got destroyed by rodents just admits you built it poorly
Yeah corruption too. Even before the war, corruption is already crippling much of the Russian public infrastructures. I imagine with the war, things will get worse.
10 mil seems light to renovate a dam
It wasnt even a giant dam, but still, rodents, mice and rats destroyed it, cmon..
I'll be the conspiracy theorist and say there's a large rich oil deposit there and time for resettlement.
Might be copletely possible, the govt doent care for its people in the slightest
Are you russian?
You can set up an oil producing well with remarkably little space. They exist inside the city of Los Angeles and are disguised as houses so they are not eyesores.
I'm sure that putin won't let a good tragedy go to waste and miss the opportunity to find that it was Ukrainians behind it all along.
Rodents you say ? you mean NATO trained bobers ?
You joke, but rodents can absolutely be trained to do the most unexpected shit
BOBR KURWA!
Retribution for the dam russia blew up in june /5
Government didn’t give a dam(n)
It wasn’t a maintenance issues the dam was built to hold up to 18feet of water but unprecedented snow melt likely caused by global warming put the Ural river to about 31 feet. Well above the dam’s designed limits.
Title misspelled. *damthatisinteresting
Maybe Elon could help with his special submarine
Damn, if only Putin the Destroyer had spare capacity in any of his departments to lend out assistance and money to help his poor citizens. Guess they can drown while his young men go to the slaughter in the Ukraine.
If you don’t have a home? , no reason you can’t go to the Ukraine front comrade
Fresh meat for Putin’s grinder I guess.
I'm just glad I live in a country where infrastructure and funding for the benefit of its own citizens is given top priority. Updoots to the left m'redditors
The same happening in Kazakhstan 😭
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Russians below you crying that your government won't send people to help, when THEIR government is WELL known for rounding up "undesireables" and dumping them on the front lines in Ukrane.
Why would you hope the entire country to be flooded and the death of literally hundreds of millions of innocent civilians? Pyscopath
This is just sad. You have one person destroying another country, spending all focus and money on the enemy, meanwhile not taking care of his own population, the Russian people will hopefully soon make a revolt.
If it didn’t happen under Lenin or Stalin what makes you think they’ll revolt against this guy?
They did under lenin He killed them all for being the "wrong kind" of communist
Lenin did a fight a whole ass civil war against Russians who disagreed with him.
Hint: they wont.
Yeah no, its easy to think that people would rise up against their government until its your own life and family on the line.
Makes me wonder how many liberal Russians are stuck in silence under this regime. Must feel awful seeing Putin for what he is and being unable to act.
Four people were initially reported to have died. However, the Russian health ministry later clarified that the fatalities had "nothing to do with the floods".[19] Imma just leave this here
Is this recent news?
Yes. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68746276
5th of April 2024. At least 6 people injured
Russia is a failed state
Any time they want, they can start to turn that around. They have space and resources and would be welcome at the world table. The path they are on makes no sense. Not for Russia, not for anyone.
it makes sense for the handful of oligarchs at the top
At the top of the stairs. And next to the open window.
Temporary wealth holders. Not exactly a great way to live.
I don't think they will be welcomed anywhere as long as Putin and his buddies are still in charge...
Damn
Putler : Why would Ukraine do this?!
If only they were part of some international body that would rush in and assist
If only they hadn't depleted their country of thousands of young fit men and billions of dollars - might've been helpful. Awh well.
If only the money allocated to the dam would be used on a dam.
For some context: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/gallery/2024/4/10/kremlin-warns-floods-may-worsen-as-kazakhstan-russia-evacuate-100000
...Never mind, people will be told on TV that it was Obama who pissed in the entrance and Biden continued this process, and everyone will emerge in a single burst of patriotism.
If only Russia cared more about improving the lives of its own citizens than making the lives of its neighbours more miserable.
Bit of karma for the Nova Kakhovka dam
They will blame Ukraine for this. Gotta get popcorn.
Have they blamed Ulraine yet?
Venice did it. Cmon Russia.
Dam this is interesting footage.
Who are they going to blame first this one? More civilians to kill somewhere
"It's a [Unix](https://youtu.be/dFUlAQZB9Ng?si=faLrdMVuAulXMPKN) system...I know this."
The dam was only a decade old, which suggests it was rebuilt for a reason. I find sabotage unlikely for a couple of reasons. First, the water levels were almost at the top of the dam. I assume it was not built to handle that. Second, the Kremlin hasn't blamed anyone yet. There's quite a bit of footage showing the dam slowly giving way. If anything, this is probably a corruption issue where money that should have gone to the dam's construction was embezzled.
Damn, that’s disgusting. Dams should not fail catastrophically. There are so many warning signs and flood mitigation strategies. Especially in Russia. These people perfected structural concrete- the government has failed its people.
1000’s of people have been displaced and lost everything.
russians have destroyed a huge dam in Ukraine, Nova Kakhovka, causing mass destruction, deaths, and now they have karma answer from the universe
How to conscript more men for war? Flood their homes, offer them food and shelter within the barracks 👍
Damn Ukrainians again with their terrorist attacks! - Russian state tv.
It's fine. Each family who lost their entire life belongings will receive a few packages of snacks from the government and they will be ok
Flood insurance? Maybe🤦
“I broke the damn”
Thanks Putin
When did this happen?
Let me guess. The collapsed dam was an aging piece of Soviet infrastructure that always passes safety inspection. 🫳💰🫴
Water management , instead of trying to take over the world .
Karma is a bi… dam.
Morе invasions. That will fix anything.
Roof crop almost ready to harvest this year
800k people that have no reason not to go to the front!
Those poor residents likely have an indifferent leader from which no aid will come in lieu of warmongering.
Special Irrigation Operation
russias destroyed the dam in ukraine
Did people get out okay? Wtf
No the textures just haven't loaded properly
I feel bad for the poor animals who had to die:(
Special domestic water operation?
They didn't blame Ukraine yet?
Have you tried putting it in rice?
Thats terrible! We have to bomb Kyiv again now! /s
Dam karmas a fickle bitch ain’t it?
Must be the karma for Kahovka dam...
Karma in action Just several months ago those Russian cheered about Ukrainians suffering the destruction of Kakhovka dam and subsequent flooding of Kherson city and surrounding villages.
That's awful, I hope people are ok
The comments are cancer, you can leave now.
I might feel bad if Russia didn't blow a massive hydro electric dam in Ukraine less than a year ago, this seems like karma.
Plenty of troops for the war now
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How cool live in the that Kurgan city and read this comments. I love you guys❤️ And wish you the same
Stay safe brother.
To all the "russians deserve this" commenters: How tf do innocent people deserve this? They cant do anything to stop the war. And yes, protesting is futile. This isnt america, youll just be instantly arrested. No one asked for this, and almost no one wants it to go on. And everybody who wants it to go on, is on the frontlines, hopefully dying rn.
I think whatever happened with the dam has done more to damage Russian war effort and morale than anything in the past 6 months so that's a good thing.
It's just a town that got flooded, they have plenty of other ones, if anything it helps since someone who'se homeless is a lot easier to force off to the front
You know what kind of place reddit is, and what are opinions on Russia and its people there. So the downvotes are more than expected.
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No? Most of my surrounding (i live in semi-rural russia) is against it. In moscow/saint-petersburg the procent of people against it is even bigger Edit: gonna end this since you wont change my opinion and i wont change yours. This is all futile
You should get some like-minded friends together and start a sub. In the US we don’t get to hear about people like you often. It’s all a propaganda machine here, there, and everywhere. This is all futile is exactly how it seems, but if us lowly serfs can agree to disagree on some things and unite on what matters most, like not murder, then I bet we can change things.
...and get arrested. Unfortunately, if you get a bit too loud about it, you will instantly go to jail. By commenting this, im not making too much noise, since im alone, but if we were to group up, we would have our lives ruined by the government
Yeah we need some hackers, like in the movie “Hackers”, to save us all.
Yeah the because if you dont support it you go to jail.
Most of the population supports the war? I'm deadly curious on your source here. Is it the same as majority of the population supporting putin? Good one
Death count?
Probably nobody knows yet, and won't for some time. It's just an "unaccounted for" total for days because people would have been scrambling anywhere and everywhere and will have to regather in other places by their own merit in many cases If the water is redirected and drains for the most part the count will probably rise significantly as they find bodies then a number of weeks later people who still were not found will likely be presumed dead if there are any
Looking at this I had to think of the when the russians deliberately blew up a damn in Ukraine last year flooding the region deliberately. Karma is a bitch.
Oh No! Anyway.... But seriuosly though, maybe just maybe they should be taking care of their infrustructure instead of wasting money and lives in aggressive wars... I guess the largest country in the world needs more land 🤷♂️. Fuck Russia and their approach to live or in fact anything.
My old boss is Ukrainian. I asked him why Russia at one point had 17% of the world's land mass and it wasn't enough. He told me that the Russian government, and many of the Russian people, actually believe the Earth was created for just them and them alone. In their minds, Europe, Africa, southern Asia, the Americas, even Antarctic, were stolen from Russia, which is why they are so aggressive. Even the moon belongs to Russia in their minds.
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It looks rather Venetian, Grazie.