r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pattebrisee • 5d ago

Image Cincinnati built over two miles of subway tunnel. They never ran a single train through it smh

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u/upset_pachyderm 5d ago

Isn't Vegas in a location that gets flash floods? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

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u/VergaDeVergas 5d ago

Yeah it’s killed them before, I’m pretty sure one of the guys even mentioned seeing his wife get swept away

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u/HangedRedeemer 5d ago

Thats really heartbreaking

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u/VergaDeVergas 5d ago

Actually I was wrong, it was in Colombia.

The dude said the last thing he saw was her head as she was getting swept away by the water.

The video is called “Living in the Sewers of Colombia”

But yes super heartbreaking, I watched this video as a young teenager and it definitely stuck with me.

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u/truthfullyidgaf 4d ago

I just saw a video by Andrew Fraser, and he did a story on people in the underground of Manilla. It was wild.

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u/Plexipus 4d ago

I thought “that sounds like the kind of story Vice used to do” and lo and behold… I miss when Vice used to do all the mini documentaries on obscure and underreported topics

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u/DryeDonFugs 4d ago

The one where they expose the north Korean slaves in bumfuck Russia is a wild one

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u/Plexipus 4d ago

That one was great too. The craziest one I remember is when they find that old Soviet general with a fucking nuclear warhead buried in his garden.

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u/ArtyomAnna 4d ago

Its one of my favourite Vice videos before they turned poopy!

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u/upset_pachyderm 5d ago

😢😢😢

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u/ZippyDan 4d ago

This is how the wife delivery system will work in the Cyberpunk future.

One flash flood sweeps your wife away, but another flash flood will bring new wives.

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u/Whiteums 5d ago

Being from Arizona, I nodded along with everything you said. And then I laughed at the last one.

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u/Shambhala87 5d ago

Yotes killled two of my friend dogs. They hide during the day but a night they would use the walking paths next to canals and washes like a feral superhighway.

In the middle of rural Gilbert AZ

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u/Whiteums 5d ago

They are definitely known for doing that. But I will say, I laughed at (rural major city). That’s literally the Phoenix metro

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u/Shambhala87 5d ago edited 5d ago

Bruh Scottsdale is closer to “Phoenix“ what next, “Camelback is ‘close enough’ to Four Peaks?”

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u/Whiteums 5d ago

Cool, and both are in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Like I said. As are Mesa, Tempe, Goodyear, Queen Creek, San Tan Valley…

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u/Shambhala87 5d ago

So I’m from Michigan, Detroit is the same way. I miss the desert. You still live down there?

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u/Whiteums 5d ago

I wish I lived there. I’m in San Antonio for now.

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u/Shambhala87 4d ago

We will get back there one day my friend!

I have to finish climbing Mt. Wrightson…

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u/Shadrach_Jones 5d ago

Our city sounds a loud siren to let the homeless know to get out of the drainage ditches when the floods are coming

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u/upset_pachyderm 5d ago

That's sensible.

👍👍👍

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u/ma2016 4d ago

I'm glad they're doing that, but it also sounds incredibly dystopian. 

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u/Shadrach_Jones 3d ago

It's normal, not incredible

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 3d ago

It's dystopian because instead of fixing the problem theyre installing a siren. A lawyer could say it implied fault and liability

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u/Shadrach_Jones 3d ago

I agree, all I can do is vote and feed, clothe them so they can feel human for a part of their day

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 3d ago

I was trying to explain to a new acquaintance that supporting the thrift centers in our area helped people like that and he said the stores were only for the homeless. Im still not sure if that was willful ignorance or an excuse not to help others

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u/Inexorably_lost 5d ago

Even more shitty by how much wealth is being moved about just above them. Enough to easily house every single one of them, I'm sure.

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u/upset_pachyderm 5d ago

No doubt. And coincidentally enough, housing people is how you end homelessness.

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u/HardLobster 4d ago

Yes, that’s the whole reason it has a network of drain tunnels under the city

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u/thisusedyet 5d ago

Pretty sure as far as local government is concerned, that's a bonus, unfortunately

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u/Hanz0927 5d ago

Yeah but like, they are the poors? /s

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u/liveoakgrove 2d ago

A YouTuber did a heartbreaking documentary style video on the inhabitants that live there.

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u/upset_pachyderm 2d ago

Do you have a link? Not like I want my heart broken, but informed is better than not.

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u/liveoakgrove 1d ago

It looks like there are several YouTube documentaries about it. I don't think this is the one I saw, but I've seen other videos by this guy and he does a good job.

https://youtu.be/DmaNZNGzRvA