As a child I was always fascinated by running water. That fascination lead me into a very satisfying lifelong career as a professional civil engineer. I am still and always will be fascinated by running water. These videos are pure eye candy to eyes that will never tire of seeing them.
@2020heinsite Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed your story. I grew up in a small town, 50’s and 60’s, named Stoney Creek. That creek flowed past the bottom of our yard. Spring thaw made it a raging torrent and very dangerous and certainly mesmerizing. It was about 20-25 metres rim to rim in most places, 6-8 metres deep and became shallower the further it travelled away from the Niagara Escarpment above which the source could be found. The upper escarpment cut was over 30 metres deep and filled with huge limestone slabs as big as a car. Many filled with fossils of ancient sea life. It was a great play ground for us kids. In season only! No career came of it, only great memories.
@johnmartlew4 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup pour ces nouvelles, depuis que j'en ai connaissance, ce phénomène des laves torrentielles, et particulièrement L'Illgraben, me fascinent, la force de la nature nous rend humble.
@claudehediguer80592 жыл бұрын
I just love your channel. Thanks for commenting in English too. Much appreciated. I can't always tell how the area has changed from one storm to the next. I would probably need a map or something. But I am constantly amazed at how powerful a relatively slow moving, thick slurry of muddy water can be. Shocking! Please keep them coming. Fan in the desert.
@MikeScheuring2 жыл бұрын
Greatful for the English too.
@karengiorella2690 Жыл бұрын
Again, love your videos! It’s just so fascinating, sometimes I watch them more than once! I hope to one day see this in person!
@wehvgirlpwr2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great recordings. Also your explanations or the indication of the size of the rocks. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to tell in the video recordings whether it is a pebble or a giant rock. I guess that the wall is 50cm thick. that would give me a dimension of what falls over there, if I'm about right.
@ryderhook2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for your Vídeos, my frieend!!
@TRUFAULT2 жыл бұрын
I was somehow transported down that same mountain and ended up here. I am happy that I did. This is quite enjoyable and is awe-inspiring. I have many questions.
@TechGorilla1987 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos, thanks
@edwardpetersen34372 жыл бұрын
Always like your videos. Thanks for showing the upper areas, always wanted to know what that looked like. Just one question, why is there a hippo standing in the gulch, top center, at 0:48 seconds? :P
@barleyeducated87142 жыл бұрын
Amazing impressions, that show the power of nature. Many thanks.
@onkelwolf12 жыл бұрын
That was something else. It started out looking like a glacier flow, then turned into a mud flow, tons of rock. The logs that went down. Once were trees? Did the rocks bust the limbs off?
@billrobbins58742 жыл бұрын
I am interested to know how you choose the names of the big boulders. And also what elevation on the mountain?
@AlexJBaldwin2 жыл бұрын
Unglaubliches Video! Vielen Dank fuer`s einstellen! Toller Fruehputz! lach...
@petermages94822 жыл бұрын
I've been enjoying these videos, truly a natural wonder. I have a few questions about the dam. What is it's purpose? What would happen if it wasn't there? How does it stand up to the force of the debris flow?
@DavidFraser0072 жыл бұрын
I was asking myself this as well when we were hiking there (very beautiful place by the way) and tried to do some research. It seems that this serves a dual purpose. For one it is supposed to slow the flow of water and the main purpose is to hold back debris so the creek does not erode the valley more.
@foobar9220 Жыл бұрын
I love your videos that also show the river not just illgraben.
@torinemerson8665 Жыл бұрын
Some vidéo as bevore, but tried to have better images. Some comments recuperate from the two first essays : Scha. : From the side it looks like a big drop, but not in total. What is it, like 2 meters? What difference does that wall make? Also, how are you always there at the right time? PEZ It's always a mystery and every torrent has is own mechanic. For Illgraben you have to reach 12mm rain, and an intensity at the end of at last 10mm per hour. I look at radar but when the rain comes from south I add a color more. And I also compare with the pluviometre of the passed hour situated 20 km away in the direction of the coming rainfall. If they show 6mm, it is favorable. When sudden rain, strom, if the intensity is more than 20mm/h it is also good, 40mm/h it is guaranty and if it is 60mm/h, I stay home. When Storm I'm more afraid, also because of the lightnings. PEZ The walls should be 6 - 7 m high. And the one at the end diseapeare almost. Remains 1-2 m. From falling, the energy of the debris flow is reduced. It happens 23 times in Illgraben. More in Chamoson, but they had to rebuild lot of the walls last year. The huge debris flow took them away. Most are big stones walls. The technic is from years 1800, in some torrents they builded steps with wood. Mek. There is a very nice French documentary on KZhead called "Manival, le mauvais torrent " on the channel "Institut des Risques Majeurs", which is explaining all of that. The documentary is in french but some English subtitles are available from the KZhead options under the video. M.H. I just don't get it. The last drop off point, how come there's not a pile of rocks hundred feet high, thousands of rocks are going down that path?. Im confused or stupid. I dont know which, maybe both. PEZ Confused, yes thousands of rocks are going down the path. Tip I have watched this video and I have more questions than answers. So I may not be more intelligent for having seen it, but in the end I may be wiser for being prompted to seek further understanding. PEZ You are not far from the Kingdom of God. The one who have questions will always remain humble, but on the other size, he will always learn something new.... Some about quality it’s why i tried it again, 3x. Ju, ma lu, seb
@pierre-emmanuelzufferey14702 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, as always! I am impressed that you stay home if the rainfall is 60mm/hr! It must be frightening and awe inspiring. M.H. - lots of rocks at the bottom of the last fall but they are washed away like all the others I shall now go and watch "Manival, le mauvais torrent" ...
@Neilhuny2 жыл бұрын
Merci pour ces explications. Oui, le documentaire sur Manival est très intéressant.
@claudehediguer80592 жыл бұрын
"60mm/h, I stay home" - what? I thought you drove there in your trusty tank.
@Don.Challenger2 жыл бұрын
It's crazy what rubble comes down there !
@lilasphotosandvideos432 жыл бұрын
A força da natureza, nos seus ciclos de renovação, uma maravilha ! Do Brasil, saudações !
@ronaldoferreiramuniz119911 ай бұрын
This happens with each rain? With all that much dirt/rocks going downstream, the Swiss Alps should be about 50 ft tall by now. And, those huge boulders just seem to float on by. Incredible!!
@mikemalo63362 жыл бұрын
Standing ovation!
@TheRopeAddict Жыл бұрын
It’s hard to imagine the scale of these debris flows and huge rocks. 180 tons is…..massive. Does anyone know the dimensions of the concrete spillways? Thickness, length across the bottom lip? It must be at least a metre thick. How they stand up this constant grinding. I’m surprised how the edges have remained intact.
@johnmartlew4 ай бұрын
Very soothing
@evelyne70712 жыл бұрын
Where does all this debris end-up?
@julieroles52814 ай бұрын
Awesome videos. But I have a request. Do a past/ present, chronological order of videos, from every angle you have. The trough falls, uphill, down hill, from the side it enters the river, from across the river, upstream, downstream. That would be awesome!
@shawnohara39082 жыл бұрын
I do not understand (intuitively) why there is not an accumulation of the large boulders at the base of the dam. If the net stress on each boulder includes a gravitational component, directed straight downward, plus a shear component, directed tangentially in the direction of the water flow (parallel (+/-) to the stream bed) then if you remove the shear component, why does the boulder not simply drop down and remain there? If anyone could refer me to a discussion of this process, I would appreciate it. Thx.
@MendTheWorld2 жыл бұрын
If there is enough water and debris to push a large boulder over the dam, then the same water and debris will continue to move it downstream. If there isn't enough water and debris to move a large boulder downstream, then it wouldn't have been pushed over the dam in the first place.
@darylmorse9 ай бұрын
Gotta say you have a lot of debris over there in Switzerland
@d64d642 жыл бұрын
Gibt es Bilder bzw. Videos vom Bau der Betonbarrieren? Das wäre sehr interessant!
@quattropower6002 Жыл бұрын
Letzte Mauer war erst vor 5 Jahren gebaut. Habe es gesehen. Soll 1 million kosten. Wurde ab November gebaut, ausser Murensaison. Obwohl eine kleine im 2018 Anfangs Dezember runterging. Mit grosse Kanalisation um Dickes Wasser durchgehen zu lassen während Bau. Tiefgegraben unten 2-3 Meter und geht 3-4 Meter in den Seiten, 2-3 Meter breit Dann wie gewöhnlich Armierung, dick wie Brückenarmierung Einschallung und MegaKubics Beton. Ich habe leider keine Bilder davon gemacht. Ich weiss aber dass einige von den 30 Barriere wieder gebaut müssen. Werde mich dann mehr an Menschen Werk interessieren...Aber Genial da die Energie der Mure beim jeden Mauersprung vorübergehend sinkt. Idee ist aber 150 Jahren alt. Aber sei es der Bauspezialist oder der Hydrologue wird sicher ein bisschen lachen über meine unpräzise Antwort....
@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 Жыл бұрын
@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 Vielen Dank für die Antwort! Sie haben es sehr gut erklärt.
@quattropower6002 Жыл бұрын
👍👍
@mig72872 жыл бұрын
Someone has lost a lot of fence posts?
@bazza945 Жыл бұрын
There's a lot of wood in that flow !
@johnmudd64532 жыл бұрын
The power of Mother Nature makes Humans look puny and helpless.
@bazza945 Жыл бұрын
Can anyone translate in english the first sentence in the video, please?
@munkustrap792 жыл бұрын
Hello, the Rhône is the river where the Illgraben goes. Last some years the Illgraben builded a huge alluvial cône. In October 2020, heavy rain in Gomser Simplon Saas valleys unleashed the waters which grabbed all that in half a day. Look at the video " Illgraben - where does all that material go". kzhead.info/sun/gLSPnsiyiox9pHk/bejne.html And some huge rocks of the past appeared. A women living there is used to say she saw a rock coming down the Illgraben so huge that nobody never saw. And so she was right...6m x 5m x 3m. I don't give a name to it because I didn't saw it coming down.... And who know what is under the Pfynn forest which is on the old alluvial deposit of Illgraben....
@pierre-emmanuelzufferey14702 жыл бұрын
Le cône de déjection va-t-il provoquer un lac de retenue dans le lit du Rhône ?
@huberthoudroy56612 жыл бұрын
Non plus ces dernières années. Mais en 1962 je pense qu'il y a dû avoir formation d'un lac. Mais peu de temps car le lit du Rhône est suffisamment pentu et le débit du fleuve assez fort pour que le lac cède assez vite. Plus bas le lit est très large et serpente, donc il n'y a pas trop de danger d'inondation. Mais n'étant pas hydrologue.......
@pierre-emmanuelzufferey14702 жыл бұрын
@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 Merci
@huberthoudroy56612 жыл бұрын
Pourquoi vous ne mettez pas du français aussi puisque vous l'êtes ? Ça nous intéresse AUSSI nous FRANÇAIS !!! Merci سبحان الله العظيم 🥀
@AllahuAqbarALLAH-9992 жыл бұрын
Pendant la crue du Rhône d’octobre 2020, le Rhône a creusé là où il n’était jamais allé depuis des années, kzhead.info/sun/gLSPnsiyiox9pHk/bejne.html révélant des blocs énormes dont celui-ci qui pèse dans les 180 tonnes. Puis j'écris les dates des événements ainsi que montre les blocs que j’ai vu descendre et que j’ai nommés afin de les repérer avec les dates de leur arrivée ou de leur déplacement dans le ou vers le Rhône. Pour le dernier évènement que je n’ai pas vu je décris : Et le 22 05 2021 à 2h du matin….voici le résultat. Puis je montre l’évolution du cône de déjection de l’Illgraben. Enfin je montre le canyon plus haut vers le pont bhoutanais, ainsi qu’un ravin nommé Sagenschleif, et montre l’évolution du chenal au cours de l’année 2020/2021.
@pierre-emmanuelzufferey14702 жыл бұрын
ummm, what are we looking at exactly, and what is it you want us to see ? if you gonna show before and after, make sure you use the same vantage point for both..
@rainman79922 жыл бұрын
Uh oh .....Uh oh.....Uh oh but of course you are right. the sol. would be a fix camera somewhere....Friendly
@pierre-emmanuelzufferey14702 жыл бұрын
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@thasokun76582 жыл бұрын
Obwohl ich dieses Phänomen sehr gerne beobachte, finde ich die Bilder unwirklich. Es sieht gefälscht aus! Eine solche Lawine würde alles zerstören, was ihr in die Quere kam, selbst wenn sie im Fluss landete. Die Bilder scheinen nicht wahr zu sein, aber es hält unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf sich.
@pastoraselmacastro66782 жыл бұрын
wie bitte?!
@Z0RDR4CK Жыл бұрын
@@Z0RDR4CK Obwohl es unwirklich erscheint, sind deine Videos erstaunlich. Ich schätze die Phänomene der Natur, die Gott geschaffen hat. Nur Gott kann Phänomene wie diese kontrollieren, die meistens viel Zerstörung anrichten.
@pastoraselmacastro6678 Жыл бұрын
золото есть?почему не моем?
@user-wn7it5uz7z2 жыл бұрын
It’s not yours because it belongs to someone else. (I hope you understand my English pun. 😏).
As a child I was always fascinated by running water. That fascination lead me into a very satisfying lifelong career as a professional civil engineer. I am still and always will be fascinated by running water. These videos are pure eye candy to eyes that will never tire of seeing them.
I enjoyed your story. I grew up in a small town, 50’s and 60’s, named Stoney Creek. That creek flowed past the bottom of our yard. Spring thaw made it a raging torrent and very dangerous and certainly mesmerizing. It was about 20-25 metres rim to rim in most places, 6-8 metres deep and became shallower the further it travelled away from the Niagara Escarpment above which the source could be found. The upper escarpment cut was over 30 metres deep and filled with huge limestone slabs as big as a car. Many filled with fossils of ancient sea life. It was a great play ground for us kids. In season only! No career came of it, only great memories.
Merci beaucoup pour ces nouvelles, depuis que j'en ai connaissance, ce phénomène des laves torrentielles, et particulièrement L'Illgraben, me fascinent, la force de la nature nous rend humble.
I just love your channel. Thanks for commenting in English too. Much appreciated. I can't always tell how the area has changed from one storm to the next. I would probably need a map or something. But I am constantly amazed at how powerful a relatively slow moving, thick slurry of muddy water can be. Shocking! Please keep them coming. Fan in the desert.
Greatful for the English too.
Again, love your videos! It’s just so fascinating, sometimes I watch them more than once! I hope to one day see this in person!
Thanks for the great recordings. Also your explanations or the indication of the size of the rocks. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to tell in the video recordings whether it is a pebble or a giant rock. I guess that the wall is 50cm thick. that would give me a dimension of what falls over there, if I'm about right.
Many thanks for your Vídeos, my frieend!!
I was somehow transported down that same mountain and ended up here. I am happy that I did. This is quite enjoyable and is awe-inspiring. I have many questions.
Love your videos, thanks
Always like your videos. Thanks for showing the upper areas, always wanted to know what that looked like. Just one question, why is there a hippo standing in the gulch, top center, at 0:48 seconds? :P
Amazing impressions, that show the power of nature. Many thanks.
That was something else. It started out looking like a glacier flow, then turned into a mud flow, tons of rock. The logs that went down. Once were trees? Did the rocks bust the limbs off?
I am interested to know how you choose the names of the big boulders. And also what elevation on the mountain?
Unglaubliches Video! Vielen Dank fuer`s einstellen! Toller Fruehputz! lach...
I've been enjoying these videos, truly a natural wonder. I have a few questions about the dam. What is it's purpose? What would happen if it wasn't there? How does it stand up to the force of the debris flow?
I was asking myself this as well when we were hiking there (very beautiful place by the way) and tried to do some research. It seems that this serves a dual purpose. For one it is supposed to slow the flow of water and the main purpose is to hold back debris so the creek does not erode the valley more.
I love your videos that also show the river not just illgraben.
Some vidéo as bevore, but tried to have better images. Some comments recuperate from the two first essays : Scha. : From the side it looks like a big drop, but not in total. What is it, like 2 meters? What difference does that wall make? Also, how are you always there at the right time? PEZ It's always a mystery and every torrent has is own mechanic. For Illgraben you have to reach 12mm rain, and an intensity at the end of at last 10mm per hour. I look at radar but when the rain comes from south I add a color more. And I also compare with the pluviometre of the passed hour situated 20 km away in the direction of the coming rainfall. If they show 6mm, it is favorable. When sudden rain, strom, if the intensity is more than 20mm/h it is also good, 40mm/h it is guaranty and if it is 60mm/h, I stay home. When Storm I'm more afraid, also because of the lightnings. PEZ The walls should be 6 - 7 m high. And the one at the end diseapeare almost. Remains 1-2 m. From falling, the energy of the debris flow is reduced. It happens 23 times in Illgraben. More in Chamoson, but they had to rebuild lot of the walls last year. The huge debris flow took them away. Most are big stones walls. The technic is from years 1800, in some torrents they builded steps with wood. Mek. There is a very nice French documentary on KZhead called "Manival, le mauvais torrent " on the channel "Institut des Risques Majeurs", which is explaining all of that. The documentary is in french but some English subtitles are available from the KZhead options under the video. M.H. I just don't get it. The last drop off point, how come there's not a pile of rocks hundred feet high, thousands of rocks are going down that path?. Im confused or stupid. I dont know which, maybe both. PEZ Confused, yes thousands of rocks are going down the path. Tip I have watched this video and I have more questions than answers. So I may not be more intelligent for having seen it, but in the end I may be wiser for being prompted to seek further understanding. PEZ You are not far from the Kingdom of God. The one who have questions will always remain humble, but on the other size, he will always learn something new.... Some about quality it’s why i tried it again, 3x. Ju, ma lu, seb
Fascinating, as always! I am impressed that you stay home if the rainfall is 60mm/hr! It must be frightening and awe inspiring. M.H. - lots of rocks at the bottom of the last fall but they are washed away like all the others I shall now go and watch "Manival, le mauvais torrent" ...
Merci pour ces explications. Oui, le documentaire sur Manival est très intéressant.
"60mm/h, I stay home" - what? I thought you drove there in your trusty tank.
It's crazy what rubble comes down there !
A força da natureza, nos seus ciclos de renovação, uma maravilha ! Do Brasil, saudações !
This happens with each rain? With all that much dirt/rocks going downstream, the Swiss Alps should be about 50 ft tall by now. And, those huge boulders just seem to float on by. Incredible!!
Standing ovation!
It’s hard to imagine the scale of these debris flows and huge rocks. 180 tons is…..massive. Does anyone know the dimensions of the concrete spillways? Thickness, length across the bottom lip? It must be at least a metre thick. How they stand up this constant grinding. I’m surprised how the edges have remained intact.
Very soothing
Where does all this debris end-up?
Awesome videos. But I have a request. Do a past/ present, chronological order of videos, from every angle you have. The trough falls, uphill, down hill, from the side it enters the river, from across the river, upstream, downstream. That would be awesome!
I do not understand (intuitively) why there is not an accumulation of the large boulders at the base of the dam. If the net stress on each boulder includes a gravitational component, directed straight downward, plus a shear component, directed tangentially in the direction of the water flow (parallel (+/-) to the stream bed) then if you remove the shear component, why does the boulder not simply drop down and remain there? If anyone could refer me to a discussion of this process, I would appreciate it. Thx.
If there is enough water and debris to push a large boulder over the dam, then the same water and debris will continue to move it downstream. If there isn't enough water and debris to move a large boulder downstream, then it wouldn't have been pushed over the dam in the first place.
Gotta say you have a lot of debris over there in Switzerland
Gibt es Bilder bzw. Videos vom Bau der Betonbarrieren? Das wäre sehr interessant!
Letzte Mauer war erst vor 5 Jahren gebaut. Habe es gesehen. Soll 1 million kosten. Wurde ab November gebaut, ausser Murensaison. Obwohl eine kleine im 2018 Anfangs Dezember runterging. Mit grosse Kanalisation um Dickes Wasser durchgehen zu lassen während Bau. Tiefgegraben unten 2-3 Meter und geht 3-4 Meter in den Seiten, 2-3 Meter breit Dann wie gewöhnlich Armierung, dick wie Brückenarmierung Einschallung und MegaKubics Beton. Ich habe leider keine Bilder davon gemacht. Ich weiss aber dass einige von den 30 Barriere wieder gebaut müssen. Werde mich dann mehr an Menschen Werk interessieren...Aber Genial da die Energie der Mure beim jeden Mauersprung vorübergehend sinkt. Idee ist aber 150 Jahren alt. Aber sei es der Bauspezialist oder der Hydrologue wird sicher ein bisschen lachen über meine unpräzise Antwort....
@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 Vielen Dank für die Antwort! Sie haben es sehr gut erklärt.
👍👍
Someone has lost a lot of fence posts?
There's a lot of wood in that flow !
The power of Mother Nature makes Humans look puny and helpless.
Can anyone translate in english the first sentence in the video, please?
Hello, the Rhône is the river where the Illgraben goes. Last some years the Illgraben builded a huge alluvial cône. In October 2020, heavy rain in Gomser Simplon Saas valleys unleashed the waters which grabbed all that in half a day. Look at the video " Illgraben - where does all that material go". kzhead.info/sun/gLSPnsiyiox9pHk/bejne.html And some huge rocks of the past appeared. A women living there is used to say she saw a rock coming down the Illgraben so huge that nobody never saw. And so she was right...6m x 5m x 3m. I don't give a name to it because I didn't saw it coming down.... And who know what is under the Pfynn forest which is on the old alluvial deposit of Illgraben....
Le cône de déjection va-t-il provoquer un lac de retenue dans le lit du Rhône ?
Non plus ces dernières années. Mais en 1962 je pense qu'il y a dû avoir formation d'un lac. Mais peu de temps car le lit du Rhône est suffisamment pentu et le débit du fleuve assez fort pour que le lac cède assez vite. Plus bas le lit est très large et serpente, donc il n'y a pas trop de danger d'inondation. Mais n'étant pas hydrologue.......
@@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470 Merci
Pourquoi vous ne mettez pas du français aussi puisque vous l'êtes ? Ça nous intéresse AUSSI nous FRANÇAIS !!! Merci سبحان الله العظيم 🥀
Pendant la crue du Rhône d’octobre 2020, le Rhône a creusé là où il n’était jamais allé depuis des années, kzhead.info/sun/gLSPnsiyiox9pHk/bejne.html révélant des blocs énormes dont celui-ci qui pèse dans les 180 tonnes. Puis j'écris les dates des événements ainsi que montre les blocs que j’ai vu descendre et que j’ai nommés afin de les repérer avec les dates de leur arrivée ou de leur déplacement dans le ou vers le Rhône. Pour le dernier évènement que je n’ai pas vu je décris : Et le 22 05 2021 à 2h du matin….voici le résultat. Puis je montre l’évolution du cône de déjection de l’Illgraben. Enfin je montre le canyon plus haut vers le pont bhoutanais, ainsi qu’un ravin nommé Sagenschleif, et montre l’évolution du chenal au cours de l’année 2020/2021.
ummm, what are we looking at exactly, and what is it you want us to see ? if you gonna show before and after, make sure you use the same vantage point for both..
Uh oh .....Uh oh.....Uh oh but of course you are right. the sol. would be a fix camera somewhere....Friendly
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Obwohl ich dieses Phänomen sehr gerne beobachte, finde ich die Bilder unwirklich. Es sieht gefälscht aus! Eine solche Lawine würde alles zerstören, was ihr in die Quere kam, selbst wenn sie im Fluss landete. Die Bilder scheinen nicht wahr zu sein, aber es hält unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf sich.
wie bitte?!
@@Z0RDR4CK Obwohl es unwirklich erscheint, sind deine Videos erstaunlich. Ich schätze die Phänomene der Natur, die Gott geschaffen hat. Nur Gott kann Phänomene wie diese kontrollieren, die meistens viel Zerstörung anrichten.
золото есть?почему не моем?
It’s not yours because it belongs to someone else. (I hope you understand my English pun. 😏).