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  • damn what a shame

  • Awesome!

    Love it when nature prevails.

  • Can anyone tell me where Lake delton is i know that it's in Sauk county but where is it in terms of North east north central southwest southeast , it would be a great help if soeone could tell me thanks

  • @IMABuDdAh14 Wisconsin Dells

  • @IMABuDdAh14 Lake Delton is located about 50 miles (about 1 hour) North-Northwest from Madison. It's a 3.5 hour ride from Chicago.

  • i know its horrible that all the fish died but imagine how much jewelry,ships,planes,cars,home­s,army tanks,fishing poles,andtrains and other awesome things that r at the bottom of a rive where i live there is a entire city underwater including a train

  • My familys condo is on this lake. This basically happened on my aunts birthday. It pertty much ruined r boating and tubing fer the summer. haha

  • what would you claim that under? Flood damage?

  • I hate the storm that washed it away it was on my b-day :( The worst present EVER!!!

  • this is so bizzar to watch :S

  • WHY DONT THEY STAND CLOSER

  • a houseboat lol

  • I actually live about a half mile from where this happened

  • man a year ago that happend

  • That is so sad. That was a nice house, someone's house. Actually I'd feel the same way if it was a little run down house someone loved to live in, but somehow the very size and neatness of the house makes it more shocking at first.

  • amazing

  • good news fellos and fellas, Operation Lake Delton is underway! no worrys you can stop crying you will be able to swim in that dumb lake again soon =]

  • When you go to the Kalahari in the Wisconsin Dells, they have a TV there playing the original and complete footage. It's very sad to watch it and know that your friend's house just got washed away...

  • yo molliemcubutter12, can you get footage of that because i know after a couple months kalahari wouldnt be playing it would they? idk anyways ill just go down there today and check it out

  • and someone "coincidencally" has a camera...hmmm...

  • No, someone probly thought it would be a good idea to record a historical event. After they seen it coming.

  • Architects, Builders, Code Officials and Homeowners are all turning to SMART VENT automatic foundation flood vents to protect homes from the destruction that a hurricane, flood or other natural disaster can cause. SMART VENT is designed to provide both flood protection and ventilation and is the only ICC-certified vent to meet the requirements as set forth by FEMA and the NFIP for all homes or buildings located in a floodplain.

    Educate yourself, be safe, and save on flood insurance.

  • i hope no one was in that house....

  • me and my friend found our way around the police fences and walked down byt the house afrter is was like fully dry it was crzy there were like carcker box still laying in the kitched the were a bunch of dead fish dryed up it was nuts

  • WOW!!! simply amazing

  • o man i feel really really bad for those ppl who lived there poor poor ppl

  • O SHI-

  • HOLY SHIT........

  • p0wned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • That house got KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT into the river.

  • holy shit.....

  • Wow it tore a new channel to the River! How are they going to patch that one up? and the Road?/

  • i just got back from wisconsin dells ad we went and walked on the remains. its incredible.i have some rock form the bottom the i will keep forever. its so sad but so cool that you have the opertumity to do that. but the family ....wow

  • make a nice race track!

  • sorry for what am about to say, but this shi! will happen again. it happened once, it goes twice and sooo on. i feel sorry for the ppl in there.God bless us all.

  • thats not lake Delton!

  • man this was just so crazy. i just went up there a couple of weekends ago and walked in the lake. there is absolutely nothing left. just a small stream of water that's emptying into the wisconsin river. just crazy

  • Oh my God, it's really a big disaster! poor Wisconsin residents.. I wish it would never happen again

  • I'm just amazed by all the ignorant comments by some people regarding the homes that were washed away! Very ignorant people...

  • i went there today, and its absolutely amazing. that there's no water left in it. i actually walked to the middle of the lake, it was crazy.

  • The nation needs to pray. There is much trouble in every sector of life.

  • Do you really think SO???

  • it was so stupid all these people standing around - they could have been tossed in there too..

  • I saw what happened to brick homes in Biloxi when Katrina hit. It doesn't matter what your house is made out of. When the ground washes out from beneath it, the house is gone. And, uh...a lazy American couldn't have afforded a home like that. Use your head.

  • bricks paper neither will help dude when shit go down it take everything whit it u see,,,,,,,,,,, it even taking the street whit dont built a house near a lake and soft grown spot

  • You're a fucking idiot. My dad does carpentry as a job and i know his houses are very stable. And bricks are less sturdy than a wood framed house.

  • i can promise you that a brick house would not have held up like that once it hit the water. but, i guess that since brick houses control the weather and prevent levee breaks and soil corrosion, they would have that mystical advantage over paper.

  • I must admit that the grey house put up a valiant fight, kind of looked like a house boat.

  • This is just still unbelieveable. It makes a few inches of sewage water look like nothing.

  • Omg, i live about 1 hour and 30 mins away from here. I can't believe this happened!--and i also can't believe they got that house on videotape! The city i live in is actually  on the Wisconsin River...but it never floods

    cuz we have sandy soil...it just swells and we have a million dams for that. LOL

  • That had to be heartbreaking to see for the people whom owned that house.

  • cossack4life dont know about the russians. but read some on haarp witch is the amreican weather control. check out that haarp not saying they did or have done anything with it but they have it.and some videos from the china earthquake say it did.who knows theres so much bull sht out there

  • who here is actually from wisconsin? i was there. you had to see it to get the real picture

  • I'm from Lake Delton...seen it for myself. The Dam didn't break like a lot of people keep saying...people DID NOT build their houses too close to the water...the lake over flowed because we had wayy too much heavy downpour than we've ever gotten before. We broke the record by 2 feet people! The lake overflowed and forced a channel to empty into the Wisconsin River...it washed right through a road. It has nothing to do with how anything was built it was wayyy too much heavy rain!!

  • i am..im from Stevens Point

  • That really sucks. Makes me not want to own anything I wouldn't mind losing, ya know? Like...a REALLY nice car, for example. I'd be all nervous someone would scratch of dent it. But with all the cars I've ever owned...no big deal. It's nice to have nice stuff...but when people work their entire life away for something like a big house or the stuff in it...well, the water can just come and take all that away in an instant.

    Now, experiences with family and friends...they're fully insured. No cost.

  • your an arrogant piece of shit

  • dude, thats sum1's home....its not funny shit....

  • it is funny

  • would u like it if that waz ur home?

  • it would be great, so there

  • You wouldn't think it was funny if it was your life's work and belongings being washed away... with no insurance to cover you because this was not "supposed to be" a flood plain. If I were you I would just pray I never had to experience this kind of devastating loss in my life and shut my mouth.

    The dam didn't break... the levees broke.

  • I agree

  • @21leathergirl Who the fuck would be dumb enough to build a house in a flood plain and then bitch about when your house was destroyed by a flood except some union filth from Wisconsin.

  • @OBAMASTINKSLIKEANAPE THANK YOU!!! I live in this town and there are so many big houses right on the lake! The people who own Mount Olympus built a huge (and ugly) house about 2 feet above lake level. I can't wait for the next big storm!!!:D

  • its not that i was criticizeing any body what i said was if i was going to buy a house there or build one i would look for shit like that i know no one knew it could or would happen dont care how much you pay for taxes but we have a dam in our county and were all paying to rebuild before theres a problem like that and to say i dont care is stupid you dont know me or what i think i know it wasnt a dam its a dike with a road on it the water went over and washed it away fact.i got it rite.

  • OMFG.

    A 1 Billion dollar tourist business down the fking drain.

  • build smarter. people have to know that if there a mound of dirt holding the lake in and water washes over it. it will wash away .but if there was a steel sea wall there it would of held up if i buy a house i would of looked for problems like that build better smarter lake front property is expensive and the community should fix potential problems like this who should pay for this. the people who buy these houses and the township that collects the taxes from them im sure they pay high taxes

  • look i visited the dells right after this happened and nobody suspected okay? if we did we would have done that , but you know sorry that we don't suspect crap like this to happen to our lives. and its none of your frickin business to worry about our taxes. oh and by the way we don't effin care about what happens to our taxes when our homes just got washed away.

  • First off, this man-made lake was made without anything flowing into it, without SEA walls, hello, its a man made lake and with the precautions that homes could be built on the lakeshore. What you're not getting is that these homes were more than 50 feet or so from the shore! The water rose, collapsed a highway (not a dam) and rushed through into the boarding river. It was a disaster and ended up looking like a mini-Katrina town. Don't criticize the builders.

  • my spelling isnt the greatest sorry but i try

  • No one in their right minds would have guessed this to happen. It is unheard of in the state of Wisconsin. By the way, the people who have properties on that lake had lived there for years and many built the houses themselves. This lake had no dikes, no rivers. I repeat, it was MAN-MADE!!! Before you criticize a state, make sure you find out the facts. Also, next time you may want to pick a state that won't fight back! On Wisconsin!

  • do u no english eightpoint...cause that doesnt make sense...

  • hope they remeber this when they rebuild rivers rise lake will rise over dikes witch creates a canal and away go the lake wet dirt falls and housees to close go with it rivers flood takeing houses cars everything.hurricanes come and blow ocean front homes away.thing before u rebuild please soory to see the damage.but how many time do we have to see this before we stop putting our selfs in this remeber the 3 pigs build better safer smarter

  • WE DIDNT HACKIN' THINK THIS WOULD HAPPEN!! DONT YOU GET THAT!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!? THIS IS WISCONSIN WE BUILD FOR TORNADOES, floods happen but we didnt think the dam would frickin break. you dont even care about any of these people do you?

  • Please get your facts right the dam didnt break, the road gave way!!

  • I feel for the owner i really do.

    God bless them.

  • this is so sad!

    people have been out in the empty lake bed with metal detectors and buckets to try and find things.

    like a 3 carat diamond ring!

    i really hope this is fixed soon!

  • Then their is Wisconsin's embarrassment: Gov. Jim Doyle.

    He taxes, taxes, taxes, doubled fees, and is very very mean to gerbils.

  • People bitch about that, and that is relatively low.

  • i agree f*** liberals and f*** obama

  • yeah shut up

  • The primary fault to this was the dams which were made to prevent it from happening in the first place. It's easy to call people stupid for building homes next to a lake, but they should have been fine. With all the rain the midwest has been getting lately, it is impossible to have a home not near water anymore. I suppose we could all move to places where hurricanes and earthquakes will take the homes instead, huh?

  • so you blame the dykes? agreed. dumb bee-otches !!

    bunniansprouse is a fruit.

  • I wished all this rain would wash away liberals and atheists. Wisconsin needs cleansing.

  • shut up.

  • Obama made this happen!!!LIBERALS are to blame!!!!!

  • This just in, building a house directly by something that can flood is teh smartz.

  • Yep, you're an idiot. I wish it was easy for me to predict history-making weather. I'd be the richest meteorologist on earth! You should probably start using your talent and apply for a job at your local weather station... soon you will probably have a globally broadcast weather program fortelling all natural disasters.

    By the way, it's not only people who built near lakes that have damage. Sewage systems were backed up flooding into homes, winds damaged homes, etc.

  • oh, ya, istead they now have to buy new ones along with a new house, smart one

  • oh well sorrrrry i dont know who put your panties in a wad.

  • Not washed away...it went to take a bath, that's all.

  • it was sad, until i read your comment. it was very uplifting :)

  • im from wisconsin,lake delton was a man made lake next to the wisc river,due to recent very heavy rains the levees (if you will)collapsed causing this lake to completley drain very bad..........:(

  • So why would you build your house if you already know that can happen ohhhh you already know and happy the insurance is gonna cover it... conman

  • I was just down at noah's ark monday, and the damage isn't that chatostrophic, yes it is a tradgedy, but the dells-lake delton area will survive.

  • ddaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmm

  • That shit is funny. lol.Look at that lol. "ROW ROW ROW YOUR HOUSE, GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM" LOL LMAO LMFAO LOL LOL LMAO ROTFL ROTFFL. I dont mean to be igorant but that but that shit look funny.

  • Thats a fast moving lake

  • I meant below me. Sorry. I'm tired.

  • Yeah, the person below you is correct. My family has a summer home in the area... which (I think) survived. My dad's going up there this weekend to check on it. I would say 90% of homes in that area are vacation homes, so even though it's a terrible thing to happen - it could have been much worse. On my way to my internship this morning I saw a playground still half underwater. It's crazy.

  • Yes this is devastating but perhaps some of you will feel less sad to know that these people did not actually lose everything. All three homes that where washed away where vacation homes.

  • Sad!

  • 2012!!!

  • such a shame it's a beautiful area to visit as we go there a lot especially over the summer..I hope that the Dells area can recover from this as we head into the peek season.

  • Where is the musical score? These things always are better with a musical background of some kind.

  • that sucks ...such a nice house,i thought it would brake apart

  • Poor Guys! I can't imagine my home being washed away! Everything I own...gone...poor people...I wish I could donate something!

  • makes me want to cry:[ more homeless people. i cannot believe this is happening. i bet there will never be a day without news.

  • this is awful...poor people. Imagine these people wathing their homes wash away, everything they've worked so hard for, years they've worked, is destroyed in a few minutes.

  • your hearts like washed away :[

  • Seriously, it's incredible. More rain tonight.

  • The worst part is that they wouldnt give those people flood insurance because they werent in a flood plain.

  • "I lost my house to the bank."

  • It gives a whole new meaning to the words "Mobile Home"

  • omg i can imagine how someone would feel watching their home being washed away :| that sux.

  • talk about river of dreams

  • that is crazzy. i accidentally clicked on it and i replayed and replayed and replayed the vid.this is incredible

  • That's a tough loss!

  • FAIL!!!!!

  • "...honey, why is the dog barking so much?....."

  • why couldn't this be my home. I'm ready to die.

  • :o(

  • megamover should see this...

  • Their house wasn't next to a river. They were near the lake, but far enough away to not be in much danger at first. We had so much rain that the banks of the lake eroded away and what you saw is all the water gushing out of the lake. And no, no one was in that house.

  • If that isn't the most un-compassionate and ignorant thing anybody could say...

    There was nobody in the house, and the house wasn't on the river either. The water that you see the house flow into is the same water that washed away HWY A (That's that black thing that you see all those things called cars parked on) HWY A ran alongside Lake Delton.

    The people of that area have been denied flood insurance for years since they were off of the flood plain.

    sxhxixtx-from us in Sauk County-Fuck You!

  • It would be a dreadful nightmare for anyone sleeping there.

  • If they want to rebuild it should fall on the people who benefit, the home owners and the hotels and the people who make money in that county, perhaps a sales tax hike with a higher tourist tax and lake usage fees in the area. It should not fall on the rest of the state to bail out these people for luxury homes and hotels on a man made lake.

  • Freakin A!! Our tax in the Dells is already 11% what more do you want from us! Our homes didn't fall in...but yet because we live were someone's homes were destoryed we should pay more money out than we don't have? Ahhhh! Bring everyone else don't why don't ya!

  • Ohhh higher tourist tax! Doubt that would work...customers bitch enough about 11% as it is...

  • Sales tax in the Dells is 6%

  • Not for charging hotel rooms, We have to charge 11% if someone has to rent a room...5.5 of it goes to sales and marketing and the other 5.5 of it is for the hotel itself I believe. The gift shops charge 6% yes.

  • dats so devastatin everything ive worked hard 2 have just gone overnite!

    everything happens 4 a reason and i really hope they didnt loose 2 much and theyll be able 2 rebuild their lives!

  • y would u say sumthing like dat?

  • Hahahaha what?

  • now dis is just stupid and immature!

    ppl like u r a threat 2 this country!

  • More like a threat to our future depression!

    zzzzing

  • the home owners asked the county if they recommended flood insurance, but they were told they didn't need it because the dam would hold. which it did, the dam is perfectly fine, it was just the rising water that caused the problem. so yes, they should have gotten flood insurance, but they were told it was unnecessary.

  • Just like New Orleans, we built a system and hoped for the best, we knew it wasn't adaquate but we went ahead anyway and alot of people made a lot of money and it was too too good to stop and really deal with the situation, now the shit has hit the fan and everyone is gonna have there hand out looking for help rebuiling their vacation homes and lake front condos.OMG you lost your boat and dock.. well boo fucking hoo on you.Dont expect me to pay for your toys or your lake. 2Words:Flood Insurance

  • yo see what happens when too many people smoke crack

  • People WOULD pull politics and all that crap into this... but did anyone who commented below stop to think about what it's like for the people who lost their homes? not only that, the ecomony is going to suffer in wisconsin dells, so it's a double whammy. I live in wisconsin, and no where near lake delton it was flooding. Stop turning other people's misfortune into a debate about global warming and whether they were stupid or not to build their home where they could find a job and raise a family

  • dood.. now its 5 houses, i live 30 mins from ther... its realy bad

  • I live 90 min. away from here and I just came from the Dells just to see what it looks like afterwords and It's the first real disaster zone I've ever seen !

  • Fuck you "Global Warming" mf's talking your "Go Green" bullshit too. You want to know who lives "Green"? The dirty homeless bum on the streets of Chicago. They don't waste shit. So next time one of you yuppie fucks loosely throw out the word "Green" out, remember that the homeless bum that you look down on is better than you. You see, that homeless fucker didn't "GO GREEN" because it's the hottest trend.

  • Yeah, just keep burning fossil fuels till there's none left and we have no alternatives. Great plan asshole. Think about all the smog in big industrial cities and look at the health problems children born there have. I don't care if you don't believe in global warming, but any 5-year old knows what it means to run out of a resource. "Going Green" is a shitty marketing tool, but there's more to it than global warming. It's about building sustainable efficient communities.

  • wow

  • Global Warming is nothing more than a scare tactic that extreme liberals use to brainwash. Besides that, look at the way other countries conduct their industry. They don't have half the laws that the US has in place to regulate pollution. WOW another camel riding douche bag that hates America.....

  • Perhaps they were built too close to the water? or is that too obvious?

  • they were not built to withstand the dam breaking.

    you maroon

  • your reply clearly indicates who the moron is. many dams could break and my home would never be washed away. not the case here because they were too close to the water - pretty simple really.

  • Wrong...the dam didn't break and they weren't too close to the water...read above comments.

  • You people are half retarded. Lake Delton overflowed from heavy rainfall. Which then caused it to breach and create a channel letting it empty into Wisconsin River. I watched this, half asleep, when I woke up this morning for work in Chicago and I still managed to get the story correct. The "tornado alley" comparison wins the "Retard Award" for today. Congrats DUMBASS!

  • AGREED 100%! XshamisX my hats off to you!

  • Thanks and cheers.

  • My favorite is the theory that global warming, i.e. the loss of the Earth's protective ozone layer, is going to trigger a new ice age. I would LOVE to meet the scientist who can explain how more potent sunshine will actually COOL the Earth.

  • When I was in school, global warming was greenhouse gases burning holes in the ozone layer, which then would allow more harmful sunlight in, raising the global temperature and melting the ice caps.

    Of course, that didn't happen as expected, so now global warming refers to any weather related change that hasn't happened for over 50 years. Go continue to get all of your information from Al Gore and ignore the scientific data that the earth is actually cooler than it was 100 years ago.

  • Over population? Burning too much fossil fuels? are you people retarted? If the house was never there? do you know anything about Lake Delton? One of the nicest lakes i've ever been to. Have a little sympathy. Luckily, no one was killed or seroiusly hurt

  • I concur with your sentiments, but wake the fuck up. This sort of scenario will soon become apparent the world over. Its not 'IF', but 'WHEN' it will happen.

  • This has happened because - Americans above all others, burn more fossil fuels and contribute more to the decay of our planet ie: Global warming. My solution; Put all the americans on a fucking rocket and blast 'em outta space on a one way journey to nowhere.

  • Global warming! Never mind that Wisconsin had one of it's coldest winters in decades, and set records all across the state because of all the snowfall. I love how global "warming" is now responsible for not just hot temps, but cold temps, extra precipitation, no precipitation, floods, earthquakes, etc. If you don't live in LA, where it's 75 and sunny every day, then blame global warming!

  • Yes that's right 'GLOBAL WARMING'. Global warming doesn't actually mean that every country heats up, it could have the opposite effect, whereas countries actually become freezing. My solution remains the same. Get those americans off their fat twinkie eating asses, and out of their fuel guzzling vehicles and blast 'em off the planet.  Problem solved.

  • Way to stereotype. I bet you got your GED didnt you. Way to go!!!!

  • I'm not stereotyping....I just stated what my personal opinion is... you don't have to agree with it as I don't have to agree with yours. I just feel that you need a new or different hobby because you have the thought process of a bag of hammers. And... what the hell does GED, high school, or college or any other dimwitted remark that you can come up with have to do with the price of eggs today??? If you want to show your love for people, maybe try talking less and doing something to help!

  • Here's a thinker for ya...Knowledge is NOT power! Power comes from what you actually DO with your knowledge!!! Get out of here and DO something with your knowledge where it can make a difference. Use your smarts for good instead of on all this crap. Take care and god bless!

  • That home had some slight water damage...

    My prayers go out to the families.