FLOOD DISASTER Dam Break Damage Reaches $15 Million
FLOOD DISASTER Dam Break Damage Reaches $15 Million
Remarkable pictures made from a KLTA helicopter as the Baldwin Hills dam in Los Angeles gives way and sends 300,000,000 gallons of water roaring down the valley. Thousands of homes are ruined beyond repair of severely damaged. People clean up. Authorities had several hours to warn the residents and only three lives were lost. What caused the break? There are several theories, but it will be up to the courts to decide who pays the damage - if anyone. Los Angeles, California Aerial shot of the big hole that's in the dam and the water is rushing out. MCUS - With a mighty roar the wall of the dam collapses and hundred of tons of water go rushing through the residential area. Aerial shot - You can see the force of the water crashing into the homes and making big huge sprays of water. Aerial shot - The cars that are pick up and carried away with this big force of water is absolutely amazing, the cars are tossed around like toy plastic toy cars. Aerial shot - As the water subsides you can see this huge hole in the dam wall where the force of the water broke its way through and there is nothing left except tons of mud and complete devastation. MS - Several people looking at the complete destruction of a home the complete inside is a wash out. Nothing there. MS - Most houses on this street are gone, washed away the other houses that are left, are in shambles.