There's Eighty Billion Gallons Headed for Us: The Teton Dam Collapse

This week, Brianne and Melanie go back to the podcast coal mines, Melanie discovers that she's a ghost, we get a Drunk Melanie Math Lesson, a 5,000 foot dam collapses, and there's an 80 foot wall of water.

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Content warnings: water disaster, dead cattle, drowning, multiple deaths.

Links:
FAMOUS FAILURES:REVISITING MAJOR DAM CATASTROPHES
Museum of Rexburg: Home of the Teton Flood Exhibit
Museum of Rexburg: Teton Flood Exhibit
Report to U.S. Department of the Interior and State of Idaho on failure of Teton Dam
Teton Dam
Teton dam break documentary
Teton Dam collapse 40 years ago was worst man-made disaster in Idaho history
TETON DAM FAILURE "DISASTER AT TETON" IDAHO 1976 88384
Teton Dam History & Facts
The collapse of the great Teton Dam
The Teton Basin Project Eric A. Stene January 1, 1995 Bureau of Reclamation History Program
The Teton Dam Disaster Dylan J. McDonald 2006
The Teton Dam Failure- An Effective Warning and Evacuation
Teton Dam Flood - June 5, 1976