Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 12193254)

^^^That was amazing. I don't understand the engine sound. Sounded like one of the GA planes over my house (200 a day). Aren't Rivians electric? The sound quit the instant the truck hit.

The way it took out the K rail was insane. I guess that was more of the point than how well the truck survived.

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe (Post 12115672)

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Standing on an outcrop of volcanic rock, Joshua Chenoweth looks across the languid waters of California’s Iron Gate Reservoir and imagines the transformation in store for the landscape. In early 2024, operators will open the floodgates on the 49-meter-high dam that blocks the Klamath River, allowing the more than 50 million tons of water it impounds to begin to drain. Once it’s gone, heavy equipment will dismantle the structure. All that will remain of the 11-kilometer-long reservoir that filled the valley for 60 years will be steep-sided slopes coated in gray mud, split once again by a free-flowing river.

Within months, however, that sediment will be covered with a fine, green carpet of seedlings and colorful splashes of flowers, many planted by Chenoweth’s team. Eventually, if all goes as hoped, patches of Gary oak, desert gooseberry, and mock orange will take hold and a lush ribbon of cottonwood, willow, and ash trees will line the banks of the river. Beneath their boughs, salmon that last migrated through this valley more than a century ago will return.

More: https://www.science.org/content/article/historic-dam-removal-poses-challenge-of-restoring-both-river-and-landscape

Originally Posted by masraum (Post 12202365)

I believe in some cases that these sorts of crashes are performed by the vehicle being dragged by a cable, so the sound that you heard was likely the cable running over pulleys with gear and motor noise.