Explosion at Hoover Dam

[bolverk 29683]

 

 

[Js1 85353]

Westworld is real life!!! 

[bolverk 29683]

[Pato del Muerto 52507]

Not too concerned about fire on the concrete, and I assume the explosion they caused that little fire isn’t sufficiently energetic to cause harm. 

[Guest]

So how does one train for a fire in a dam?

smoke? check.  massive electrical risk? check Risk of getting about 6 different kids of burns? check.

Then if you fuck up real bad, you get to drown too...

Edited July 19, 2022 by slorch

['stache 21817]

[ztejas 43463]

I think you could nuke the Hoover dam and it would still manage to keep some water out. 

[Brisketexan 105152]

Thread title makes me think of a string of generic 1970s disaster movie titles.  "Opening this Friday!  'EXPLOSION AT HOOVER DAM!'  Starring George Kennedy and Linda Blair!"

[Dr Fear 1268]

I believe the fire is where the electrical generation equipment is.

[TwiceHorn 31488]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Thread title makes me think of a string of generic 1970s disaster movie titles.  "Opening this Friday!  'EXPLOSION AT HOOVER DAM!'  Starring George Kennedy and Linda Blair!"

Richard Rountree.

[Your Mom 4806]

 

[Captainant 27679]

1 minute ago, Dr Fear said:

I believe the fire is where the electrical generation equipment is.

Yikes, that could potentially be quite an expensive fire if there's any serious impairment of generation capacity

[Deej 76800]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I think you could nuke the Hoover dam and it would still manage to keep some water out. 

There's still water for that dam to hold back?

[Surly Bevo 24962]

Ain’t no water left in that god damn lake anyway

[Catpfish 618]

I really tried to find a gif of Harrison Ford running through the dam in Force 10 from Navarone but quickly lost interest

[Trey3216 15346]

10 minutes ago, slorch said:

So how does one train for a fire in a dam?

smoke? check.  massive electrical risk? check Risk of getting about 6 different kids of burns? check.

Then if you fuck up real bad, you get to drown too...

You won't even know about it if you drown, luckily.  

[ztejas 43463]

1 minute ago, Deej said:

There's still water for that dam to hold back?

Hypothetically.

[Trey3216 15346]

2 minutes ago, Catpfish said:

I really tried to find a gif of Harrison Ford running through the dam in Force 10 from Navarone but quickly lost interest

Not a lot of gifs from that movie.  Have tried to find some before as well.  

[dcbc 14487]

11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Thread title makes me think of a string of generic 1970s disaster movie titles.  "Opening this Friday!  'EXPLOSION AT HOOVER DAM!'  Starring George Kennedy and Linda Blair!"

Weekend network TV in the late 70s and early 80s was all about the disaster movie.  Young DCBC ate that shit up.  Probably why Airplane! still resonates so strongly with me.  That and the "we're also out of coffee" scene.

[TwiceHorn 31488]

3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Weekend network TV in the late 70s and early 80s was all about the disaster movie.  Young DCBC ate that shit up.  Probably why Airplane! still resonates so strongly with me.  That and the "we're also out of coffee" scene.

Irwin Allen ftmfw.

[Hate 20108]

18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Thread title makes me think of a string of generic 1970s disaster movie titles.  "Opening this Friday!  'EXPLOSION AT HOOVER DAM!'  Starring George Kennedy and Linda Blair!"

 

15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Richard Rountree.

I'll only watch it if Ernest Borgnine is in it.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

when that will smith post apocalyptic movie came out, history channel started doing these shows where they look at what will happen after man.  they hypothesized the hoover dam would be the last remnant of our existence. 

[Texas St. Armadillos 1381]

16 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

 

What?  No Miss Teschmacher?

[Captainant 27679]

https://www.ktnv.com/news/boulder-city-confirms-hoover-dam-fire-is-extinguished

Fire's out

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

Just now, Hate said:

 

I'll only watch it if Ernest Borgnine is in it.

no. you're watching with george kennedy.  everyone is watching with george kennedy.

[HOOKEM4 5037]

18 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Ain’t no water left in that god damn lake anyway

Just 10 million acre feet or so. Basically empty.

[Hate 20108]

10 minutes ago, Texas St. Armadillos said:

What?  No Miss Teschmacher?

I just know that young Hate always loved when she saved Superman while wearing a wet white shirt.

[kibbles 70]

fucking bin laden.

[RDCanecutter 26446]

12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

https://www.ktnv.com/news/boulder-city-confirms-hoover-dam-fire-is-extinguished

Fire's out

Take that, Russia.

[Steel Shank 9426]

 

[atomheartbevo 89686]

13 minutes ago, kibbles said:

fucking bin laden.

There’s already conspiracy theories

 

[Upgrayedd 5813]

56 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Thread title makes me think of a string of generic 1970s disaster movie titles.  "Opening this Friday!  'EXPLOSION AT HOOVER DAM!'  Starring George Kennedy and Linda Blair!"

 

54 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Richard Rountree.

 

40 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Irwin Allen ftmfw.

And Charlton Heston

 

In Sensurround! 

[kibbles 70]

47 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

There’s already conspiracy theories

 

I don't understand twitter, but that is hilarious.  I would be impressed(but not supportive) if someone could blow up that dam.

[WBT 20586]

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

 

you can tell it's fake from the way no dead bodies are freed when the dam cracks open

[LW Goatman 1124]

I was a dam builder. Across the river deep and wide. Where steel and water did collide.

 

[Steel Shank 9426]

Sing it, muthafuckaaaaaa!!

[Trey3216 15346]

18 minutes ago, LW Goatman said:

I was a dam builder. Across the river deep and wide. Where steel and water did collide.

 

[bernorange 8362]

I'm suddenly wanting to play Fallout: New Vegas again.

[cam4mav 771]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

There’s already conspiracy theories

 

Damn, the deep state really works quickly they already got to him!

[Grimas 669]

Mike Rowe showing how the generators are maintained at the base that was on fire:  How America Works

[FartingMonk 3608]

Someone blew a transformer 

[CHIEF 5091]

5 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

Someone blew a transformer 

Megan Fox?

CHIEF

[BERT 4360]

3 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

Megan Fox?

CHIEF

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

1 hour ago, cam4mav said:

Damn, the deep state really works quickly they already got to him!

 

but not before he was able to get a coded message out!

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A lot of people are wondering about this so all I gotta say is it’s just coincidence. I actually posted this at 1am last night and it got 1 like so I gave it another shot when I woke. Also the dam wasn’t destroyed and I live on the other side of the country nowhere near the dam.

[52-80 19162]

If there was ever a place I was less concerned about a fire its at the mouth of the goddamn colorado river

[FartingMonk 3608]

38 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

Megan Fox?

CHIEF

I self identify as a transformer 

[freyguy 4277]

[LW Goatman 1124]

28 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

If there was ever a place I was less concerned about a fire its at the mouth of the goddamn colorado river

A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado. 

[Bullneck 19107]

4 hours ago, Dr Fear said:

I believe the fire is where the electrical generation equipment is.

That's not going to shut down A/C in Vegas, is it?  

[Bullneck 19107]

4 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

when that will smith post apocalyptic movie came out, history channel started doing these shows where they look at what will happen after man.  they hypothesized the hoover dam would be the last remnant of our existence. 

After the pyramid complex at Giza?