In May and into last month, much of the midwest had a torrential downpour of rain. This caused two dams to fail in Michigan sending walls of water down stream and draining a large lake. America’s dams are not in great shape alongside the rest of the infrastructure we rely on. In our recent series on Infrastructure, we talked about this very problem and slowly it is coming to pass.
Michigan’s Floods
In this age of crisis, spring flooding hit the midwest with a vengeance causing two dams in Michigan to fail. This is the aftermath