| Mrs Pumblechook | 26 Apr 2013 12:02 a.m. PST |
I'm perpelexed I'm trying to work out how this is happening link It is near the river bank, but how deep would the water need to be there? Is there a sink hole? I can't see the debris popping up elsewhere, where is it going? What creates something like this? I know it tries to explain some of this in the text below, but I'm just not getting it. Can anyone explain? |
| britishlinescarlet2 | 26 Apr 2013 12:07 a.m. PST |
Strangely enough I had a Latvian girlfriend once who devoured all that entered. |
| Patrick R | 26 Apr 2013 3:25 a.m. PST |
My first though is that it looked like somebody just opened some kind of drain/sewer during a flood. |
| Jana Wang | 26 Apr 2013 7:16 a.m. PST |
There's a hole of some sort in the floor of the riverbed. It's either a natural hole into an underground cave/river system or it's a drain pipe (the article makes reference to a nearby road/bridge). Water is going down this hole just like it would if it were emptying from a bathtub. |
| jpattern2 | 26 Apr 2013 8:08 a.m. PST |
One of the articles I read explained that, yes, there's a culvert there that runs under a nearby road and bridge, and that's what's causing the whirlpool. |
| Eclectic Wave | 26 Apr 2013 8:22 a.m. PST |
No hole or sink hole, it's a very common phenomenon caused by having a surface current going one direction while a deep running current in the water is going in the opposite from direction of the surface current. The sub-surface water
current pulls water down from the surface, and you have a whirlpool. The items sucked up are pulled in the opposite direction of the surface current and can even pop back up to the surface upstream to the whirlpool, and end up being sucked back down into the whirlpool. This happens all the time actually. |
 Parzival  | 26 Apr 2013 10:00 a.m. PST |
"Linas! Didn't Mother tell you not to pull on that chain? Now Papa's going to have to put the plug back in!" |
| jpattern2 | 26 Apr 2013 11:14 a.m. PST |
No hole or sink hole, it's a very common phenomenon caused by having a surface current going one direction while a deep running current in the water is going in the opposite from direction of the surface current. Yes, I'm aware of the phenomenon, and I've seen it in local streams. But in this case there *is* a hole: "Indeed, a longer version of the same video shows the mysterious 'monstrous whirlpool' in Latvia has been formed by water from the swollen river flowing into an inlet on the upstream side of a bridge. All of the debris is funneled under the road on which spectators are standing and flows downstream." I've seen that sort of whirlpool form on the upstream side of a local dam's spillway, and at Linville Falls in NC. There's a hole off to one side into which water usually flows normally, but when the river is high the inflow is greater than the outflow and a whirlpool forms. Very scary, because you can practically look straight down into it. |
| Gunfreak | 26 Apr 2013 1:14 p.m. PST |
Someone dropped a teaspoon neutronium in the river and it made a whole righht through the planet. |
| gladue | 26 Apr 2013 1:39 p.m. PST |
The whirlpool below Niagara Falls is pretty impressive. |
finds a 3D model on the internet, and tries to turn it into a wargaming model.
