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The Johnstown Dam Disaster and Flood 1889 | A Plainly Difficult Documentary

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#Documentary​​​​ #History​​​​​​​​​ #TrueStories​ Learn With Plainly Difficult The Johnstown Flood happened on Friday 31 May, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam failed after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, the flood killed 2,209 people. 00:00 Intro 00:52 Background 07:45 Disaster 12:05 Cause Want to become a channel member?https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0MyY46T9ZYOzDHkYnIoXg/join Paypal Donate Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KC293ZJVG2VZG&source=url Help the Channel Grow Like, Comment & Subscribe! Subscribe Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0M... Equipment used in this video: Rode NTG3, Audient ID4, MacBook Pro 16, Hitfilm, Garage Band Check out My Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plainly_D Check out these other great channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/dominotitanic20/community https://www.youtube.com/user/CynicalC... https://www.youtube.com/user/JabzyJoe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHDQtN_vzFYJaq_Fx1eikg Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4946313/ https://damfailures.org/case-study/south-fork-dam-pennsylvania-1889/

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