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NZ dams overflowing after heavy December rain

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There's something beautiful about this.
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Added: Apr-7-2012 
By: ghostsofmany
In: Regional News, WTF, Other Entertainment, Citizen Journalism, Other
Tags: floods, dam, spillway, awesome, power
Location: New Zealand (load item map)
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  • the most terrifying experience, to be near this flow and volume of water ...

    Posted Apr-7-2012 By 
    chronecro (180.70)  

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    • @chronecro
      No, not really. When it is properly controlled massive flows are really cool to be near, the ground sorta vibrates.
      When out of control....definitely terrifying!

      Posted Apr-7-2012 By 
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    • @mytwocents ahh but the challenge of being within it ... hard for me to not imagine the uncontrolled version, even as I know it's controlled ...

      Posted Apr-7-2012 By 
      chronecro (180.70)  

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    • @chronecro
      I feel the same way about my fists.
      Cheers!

      Posted Apr-7-2012 By 
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  • Is it just me being a bit pervy.....or can anyone else see a huge anus in the first vid? Nah: on further reflection, it IS just me.

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    Fifteen Foot Kitten (274.10)  
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    • @Fifteen Foot Kitten LOL I kinda thought the same, especially when he zoomed in xD

      Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
      markoni (372.98)  

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    • @Fifteen Foot Kitten Your just westerner.. that explains why you see all pervy and sexual things everywhere all the time.. Plame your media if you want.

      Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
      Nooop (1025.40)  

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  • i wonder if anybodys ever jumped in there?

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    indigenous (235.50)  

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  • This is common here in New Zealand that is not what you'd call flooding they are designed that way. Some parts of the country get an average of 276 inches (over 23 feet) of rain a year..pure clean natural rain..that's gold of the future right there

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    tizeye (15.00)  

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    • @tizeye Not trying to be a dick. But the way we are ruining this earth, its probly not as clean as we would like.

      Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
      landryde1 (90.16)  

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    • @landryde1 for sure and we don't help either with intensive farming practices..but it's still a damn sight better quality than they have in some Countries. But never the less it is still water and it just keeps recirculating over and over again..I predict that one day we will ship our water to Australia

      Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
      tizeye (15.00)  

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    • @tizeye Fuck the auzzies they have enuf desalination plants to keep them going. we should just sell it top dollar to the highest bidder if anything

      Posted Apr-9-2012 By 
      FukyoCouch (98.10)  

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  • regardless how logical and constrained I think myself to be, the sound, the movement, the magnitude of this sort of big water is viscerally terrifying

    Posted Apr-7-2012 By 
    chronecro (180.70)  

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  • Throw Justin Bieber in it.

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    Doogrisa (128.52)  

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  • Spillways ... not overflowing the dam

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    icehole666 (635.10)  

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  • New Zealand declares a drought if it hasn't rained for two weeks.

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    DEADBEEF (4160.86)  

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  • Someone should kayak down there.. with an gopro camera.

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    Nooop (1025.40)  

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  • Wow, wonder how many bodies have been thrown off that ledge into that vortex of death

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    BrassChaser117 (80.60)  

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  • There better be a big fucking turbine at the bottom of that to harness that sexy natural energy! : )

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    Ste_0 (179.48)  

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    • @Ste_0 We do harnes geothermal electricty in huntly. but no all they do is stop the dam overflowing when it really rains alot. most of the time water is not flowing down the tube so theres no point in building a generator at the bottom

      Posted Apr-9-2012 By 
      FukyoCouch (98.10)  

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    • @FukyoCouch so no sexy energy is being harnessed? I disprove.

      Posted Apr-9-2012 By 
      Ste_0 (179.48)  

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  • All you need is a raft and the day is saved!

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    BrorGertrud (54.46)  

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    • @BrorGertrud
      I was thinking tyre tube or body board, but a raft might be a better option.

      A mate nearly earned his darwin award when we took on a flooded creek with a tyre tube. It was a good thing he was a bit apprehensive. When it went bad I was hanging on to rock as hard as I could, I remember considering my options and when I looked back to see what happened to my mate, all I could see was his helmet and life jacket floating on the water, without him in them.... Somehow I found the streng More..

      Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
      mcphuk (229.28)  

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  • poop in it

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    Doogrisa (128.52)  

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  • I think youd be f%$% if you fell in there

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    St4ked (54.40)  

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  • cmon lets get some drunk Russian's to ride down it in a barrel

    Posted Apr-8-2012 By 
    hanksta (49.60)  

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