Wow! That was totally worth the view — nice find. Standing close to natural geysers is scary even when they’re small, this eruption is like some of the largest geysers in Iceland — so I can’t imagine how scary it is to be driving at 90kmph almost directly into one. Amazing that it appear to have only resulted in one car crash.

It also seems the owner of the truck gets caught in the second eruption.

The video is amazing but what’s more amazing to me is that there is a video of it. I just wonder how it managed to get on video!?

Hrafn- yeah, I can’t believe there was only one wreck. I wonder if there were wrecks before or after the camera’s view due to hydroplaning…

Elaine- I hadn’t thought about that. It kind of looks like some sort of permanent camera doesn’t it? Perhaps its a traffic cam?

yeah, it looks like a traffic camera to me.
thats amazing, i’m just hoping whoever was in the truck got out before the second eruption!

If that’s a man hole … that’s not water. That driver probably got chunks all over …

Given the date format mm/dd/yy and the fact the day is in English I’d have to say this was a traffic camera somewhere in the United States. Also I can only imagine the southern states needing storm drains of that size given the hurrican season they have.

Fantastic video too…

I would guess that it’s somewhere near the coast and the two gushes are caused by some sort of huge wave surging in. And as they are driving on the right hand side of the road it’s definitely not Britain.

Stumbled upon this and wow is all I can say.

[...] Massive Storm Drain Eruption 4 05 2007 Massive Storm Drain Eruption in Middle of Street: “This is just so strange that it’s worth seeing. I’m not sure where it occurred, but apparently in the middle of the night a manhole erupts gushing millions of gallons of water onto the highway.” [...]

you know what gets me? the fact that people are still trying to drive past it while its happening!!
just goes to show people in general are in far too much of a hurry nowadays.

This occured in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the interstate. You can see real videos of it here: http://www.weatherpaparazzi.com/flooding.asp

Gary,

Thanks a lot for sharing that info!

John

mis, if you saw water shooting 30 feet in the air out of the ground wouldn’t you try to avoid it?

[...] Wasserrohrbruch^2 Veröffentlicht in video von mejkon am 28. Mai 2007 http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/26/massive-storm-drain-eruption-in-middle-of-street/ [...]

Monty Pythons “Run Away” fits very well here

I saw this before, it said that it happened because some radio DJ called out to thousands of people to flush their toilets at the same time. I don’t know if it’s true, but it sure as hell would be awesome if it was.

It happened on Glenmore Trail During a massive rainstorm we had. It happened in Calgary, Alberta , Canada.