The City That Vanished in 4 Minutes | VAJONT Dam Disaster 1963
VAJONT DAM DISASTER. October 9th, 1963. The deadliest dam collapse in history. The tallest dam in the world — built to tame a valley in the Italian Dolomites. ▶ Watch the full Lost Civilizations playlist: [ADD PLAYLIST LINK HERE] Eight kilometers downstream, Longarone: a quiet mountain town of 4,500 people. Most of them are already asleep. The dam's engineers know the mountain above the reservoir is moving. Locals call it "la montagna che cammina" — the mountain that walks. The engineers have calculated the risk. They have concluded — it will be fine. They are wrong by a factor of twelve. At 10:39 pm — 260 million cubic meters of rock fall into the reservoir in less than 45 seconds. The Vajont Dam holds. It doesn't matter. The water goes over the top. In minutes — Longarone is gone. 1,917 people die. 487 of them children. The dam still stands today. Empty. Never refilled. A monument to what happens when power ignores evidence. This is what Longarone really looked like. The night before the Vajont wave ended everything. Part of our Lost Civilizations series. Watch Babylon (600 BC) Watch Persepolis (500 BC) Watch Carthage (200 BC) Watch Pompeii (79 AD) Watch Rome (100 AD) Watch Angkor Wat (1200 AD) Watch Tenochtitlan (1519) Watch London (1666) Watch Paris (1789) Watch New York (1900) 📌 CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Vajont — A Valley Going to Sleep 1:30 - Italy's Economic Miracle and the Dolomites 3:00 - The Families of Longarone 5:00 - The Vajont Dam — Pride of Italian Engineering 7:00 - The Mountain That Walks 9:00 - The Warnings Nobody Listened To 11:00 - October 9th, 10:39 PM 13:00 - The Wave. The Aftermath. The Truth. 📚 Sources: Britannica: Vaiont Dam Wikipedia: Vajont Dam ASDSO Dam Failures: Vajont Dam Italy 1963 Compact Histories: The Vajont Dam Disaster Environment and Society Portal: Expecting Disaster 🔔 Subscribe — next time we step inside another city the world forgot. #damcollapse ##aireconstruction #city
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