During the early morning of June 6, 1976, just hours after the Teton Dam collapsed, a Roberts Church of Jesus Christ of ...
REXBURG — Jed Platt points to the flood line on display inside Rexburg’s Romance Theater as he recounts the stories of locals who lived through the Teton Dam disaster. It’s one of numerous businesses ...
REXBURG — Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 a.m. on June 5, 1976, and the local radio personality was ...
The smell of flood mud, memories of Army helicopter rescues, and the “death” of a rubber snake. All make up stories about the Teton Dam Disaster thanks to a recently created “Teton Dam Stories” on ...
That’s how Richard Robison described Teton Dam General Excavation Foreman Jay Calderwood’s experience as he witnessed the ...
Failure and Fortitude: How Faith, Politics, and Power shaped the Teton Dam Disaster. That’s the name of soon to be published book about the Teton Dam Flood that nearly wiped-out Wilford, Sugar City ...
SHELLEY, Idaho – Fifty years after the collapse of the Teton Dam, Virgil Jonak still gets emotional when he recalls what happened. The 93-year-old Shelley, Idaho, man was a truck driver who hauled ...
Explore some of the biggest construction mistakes in history in this informative video, which covers notable incidents such as the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel during construction, the sinking of ...