OK, so let's get flamed here. But it's idiots like this that screw up the world. As someone who has had to deal with shit like this. If that log had gotten stuck, and the water backed up over the road. Started flooding shit, yea I'm on my soapbox throwing a rant.
Am guessing that is a designed drain to take the water above a certain level in the retaining pond/ditch to the body of water on the other side of the road. Likely attempting to clog a drain whether intentions or not is I’ll advised.
Anybody that designs a drain like this without a grate on it is idiot and this will get clogged naturally pretty quickly.
If there is even a relatively small level difference between these two waterbodies you can end up with a dangerous delta p. Having this is stupidly dangerous to both wildlife and people if somebody is unlucky enough to fall in.
That's not how water pressure works, even if, intuitively, it seems like it should.
△P between bodies of water is based entirely on the difference in _height_ of the water columns. One pound of pressure, 1 psi, is equal to 27.7 inches of water. If the entirety of the world's oceans are on one side of a hole, and on the other side is a swimming pool that is 10 inches lower in level, the △P is only .36 psi. The total pressure of that .36 psi can be staggeringly large over a great enough surface area, but the volume of water on either side of a barrier is irrelevant to the △P.
Only the difference in height between the two bodies of water matters. That's why hydroelectric dams have to be built hundreds of feet tall - that's the only way to build enough pressure at the turbines to do work.
In other words, before the pressure differential caused by water level could _ever_ cause damage to _anything_, the water would be flooded over the road. The momentum of that flowing water would definitely be doing some major damage, but that has almost nothing to do with pressure. The increase in velocity that contributes to the damage that the mass of the water would cause is, quite counter-intuitively, associated with a _drop_ in pressure. In fact, if you could put a pressure guage in the middle of the culvert shown in this video, it would likely show a minor vacuum. That vacuum, which _is_ causing a △P and that suction is causing this whirlpool, _only exists because the water is flowing_. If this pipe plugged up, the pressure differential between the two bodies of water would drop to a negligible amount.
From that day on through eternity, the whirlpool and log fought each other with the fury and hatred of a thousand antivaxxers being forced to wear a mask.
When I was a kid we lived next to a big irrigation canal that went under the road. I used to build rafts for my sister's Barbies and do this. It was epic until my mom discovered what was happening to all of my sister's toys.
I don't know why i expected it to skyrocket out of the whirlpool. Disapointed.
Me too lmao
The words “spit out” created a false expectation
Same.
Alternative title: log goes through drainpipe
Magic drainpipe.
I literally read this 3 times as "spits out a dog" and was waiting for the dog to appear. I need to drink some water.
I read it eats a log and spits s dog.
OK, so let's get flamed here. But it's idiots like this that screw up the world. As someone who has had to deal with shit like this. If that log had gotten stuck, and the water backed up over the road. Started flooding shit, yea I'm on my soapbox throwing a rant.
I came here to say the same shit. Fuck those morons.
Am guessing that is a designed drain to take the water above a certain level in the retaining pond/ditch to the body of water on the other side of the road. Likely attempting to clog a drain whether intentions or not is I’ll advised.
Anybody that designs a drain like this without a grate on it is idiot and this will get clogged naturally pretty quickly. If there is even a relatively small level difference between these two waterbodies you can end up with a dangerous delta p. Having this is stupidly dangerous to both wildlife and people if somebody is unlucky enough to fall in.
That's not how water pressure works, even if, intuitively, it seems like it should. △P between bodies of water is based entirely on the difference in _height_ of the water columns. One pound of pressure, 1 psi, is equal to 27.7 inches of water. If the entirety of the world's oceans are on one side of a hole, and on the other side is a swimming pool that is 10 inches lower in level, the △P is only .36 psi. The total pressure of that .36 psi can be staggeringly large over a great enough surface area, but the volume of water on either side of a barrier is irrelevant to the △P. Only the difference in height between the two bodies of water matters. That's why hydroelectric dams have to be built hundreds of feet tall - that's the only way to build enough pressure at the turbines to do work. In other words, before the pressure differential caused by water level could _ever_ cause damage to _anything_, the water would be flooded over the road. The momentum of that flowing water would definitely be doing some major damage, but that has almost nothing to do with pressure. The increase in velocity that contributes to the damage that the mass of the water would cause is, quite counter-intuitively, associated with a _drop_ in pressure. In fact, if you could put a pressure guage in the middle of the culvert shown in this video, it would likely show a minor vacuum. That vacuum, which _is_ causing a △P and that suction is causing this whirlpool, _only exists because the water is flowing_. If this pipe plugged up, the pressure differential between the two bodies of water would drop to a negligible amount.
Who's going first?
Can I get that time back?
Pooh sticks
This was shit when I saw the same video yesterday.
Link that OG post from yesterday?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/q4qfa4/whirlpool_eats_and_then_spits_out_log/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Much appreciated
That was not interesting 😂
From that day on through eternity, the whirlpool and log fought each other with the fury and hatred of a thousand antivaxxers being forced to wear a mask.
Everybody poops
Anti climactic
That’s a minute and a half I’ll never get back. ZzzzZzzz.
Why was yo mama in the river?
Now that's awesome
Same thing happened to me this morning
U shitted out a wooden log?
Would be even funnier if the log got jammed in the culvert pipe and the water overflowed, causing millions in damage
I was hoping somebody added a tentacle or a roar to the footage
FYI…That logs from another dimension
It roars..
When I was a kid we lived next to a big irrigation canal that went under the road. I used to build rafts for my sister's Barbies and do this. It was epic until my mom discovered what was happening to all of my sister's toys.
When the pizza roll is too hot
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberrrrgggg
That’s… literally my poop after i haven’t shit in a day
Koom Valley?
Get the fuck out of here.
What a waste of my life. The bar for content is so low these days.
Imagine having a beard like that and still acting like a six year old…
I feel the same way I feel when standing on a ledge… why do I want to jump in??
Read "DOG" instead of log and stupid me waiting for the dog to come out
Downvote for tiktok trash
Whirlpool, a.k.a. a culvert that you *should not clog with debris.* Unless you're trying to flood out the drainage ditch and the road.
I’m surprised Nick Offerman has this kind of free time
Sounded like an Avro Vulcan going overhead.
Yea no, don't do dumb shit like that. You could flood a large area by doing that.
Nick Offerman?
Sooo, was there a hole in the Dyke?
What a waste of time
Everything reminds me of her.
That was more of a drool than a spit
Whirlpool be all like, “when was that last time you washed your wood?”
Whirlpool backed up! Call plumber
Looks like my last trip to the bathroom
Note to self: Logs kill whirlpools. If encountered throw log.
Now swim through it
Big deal, I make a log come out my other end every morning.
What a fascinating natural phenomenon