Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

  1. Ruined lots of peoples lives, killed some and wounded many others. I was fortunate to both not be born yet, and second my parents to be were far downstream in Pocatello, where along the path of the water was located many dams that were all actuated to curtail most of the flooding. Hang'em... freaking building companies were looking to pad their pockets quick as possible. Pure and simple. And nobody in no English accent anywhere articulates the n in damn. WTF?
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  2. While I wasn't born until early 80's, my sister and law was a little girl in '76 and was a victim of the dam, she and her mom were swept up and stranded on the top of a tree in Rexburg. All of my family at the time lived in Pocatello that wasn't affected by the dam... many other dams downstream thru the Snake River, allowed the excess water to be diverted without much of any flooding. I think Blackfoot at the time was flood a little. I can imagine what they saw with the caves they dug... these deep gorges that are around here that the Snake and many other rivers flow through are all basaltic volcanic activity, lots of various types of caves carved out by magma/lava flows. Tons of these caves exist. Lots of hot water springs too as they're still geothermic active. You would think they would have had a clue with the caves they uncovered. At the very least, explore them. Today would be easier than then. They could send small drones and robots down to map them. I can understand why they were persistent probably... several dams all thru Idaho exist. Including upstream the Palisades dam; which is also an earth fill dam built in 1951 completed in 1957. And continues to function normally today with a very beautiful lake that is reminiscent to a inland lake in the Bavarian or Swiss Alps; a fjord like look. And many dams built throughout Idaho along the Snake river and many other tributaries. Very helpful in controlling flooding, use for farm land irrigation as well as lawn watering, and dependable and cheap electrical power generation.
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