okay so i've got some kinetic
sand here this is sand to play around
with
i've never used it but right now is a
good time to teach with it
and so i have got
a couple of rocks here i'm gonna take
i've got two of them actually i don't
know if i need both of them
but i just picked them up they were
thrown out here
and i just started picking up rocks one
day
okay so i'm gonna set this rock right
there
and then i'm gonna put this on top of it
because oh but look what we've got right
there though around the rock though too
okay but i want to make i want to keep
the oh it
might cover up completely so we can't
even
see the rock yeah
okay so but this this serves the purpose
though
so so this is what i'm going to
say is okay so let's say that this is
the ocean right here
right here is the ocean so we've got a
little corner of the ocean right here
and so i'm just going to put my finger
you see how i made a little
a little tunnel under there
you see and so it's kind of
you see how there's like a well my dad
always called this like
sand bars sand bars along rivers and so
even the rivers
the water carves away underneath and he
said
that the sand bars were dangerous
and so i mean you can so
think of the ocean the ocean is like a
lot larger than a river
and so think of what could be done
by the power of the ocean okay so
i wanna so right here
right here we've got we've got the rock
right there we've got a rock because
there's a story
there's a story in the bible and i'm
sure we've all heard about it and
there's a story in there about the rock
there building on
bedrock and so in a lot some places
next to the earth we've we do have a lot
of rock and some places it's just
sand and just sand so
if i was building right here
there's a rock right here
so there's something solid to build
on now of course that doesn't mean that
there's there might not be flooding
there i mean there could be
you know some areas or porous dirt
it'll sink in it'll sink down well below
but right over here in the corner
remember is
the sea right here the water is coming
in right here i've
i've never used my kinetic sand with
water so i don't know if it'll work or
not
so right there the water comes in and
there's a tunnel that starts making its
way
in a bunch of different directions in a
bunch of different directions
let's see oh my goodness now look
at how far can you guys see there how
far back i went
see there how far back i went and so
we've got
like right here is a huge huge
this is a huge sand bar
and there's just water underneath it and
so
like during hurricane sandy when i was
at fort pierce oh
i can look at the bottom the bottom oh
that's a good example
this is a really good example at the
bottom do you see that so there's a big
hole there
but on top it looks completely different
on the side it looks completely
different
so this is what i'm going to do i'm
going to take and i'm going to
poke this down and see if i can do it
without
well there was a house there on stilts
but the water's coming in and it's
falling apart
so the water is just falling apart
now over here there's rock
but keep in mind all of this is on sand
right next to the water right next to
the ocean
and there are parables there's parables
in the bible phrases
and and so it has me thinking about it
being used
as a teaching tool instead of
of something else and so i
i believe that there are some things in
there that it could be used
in different ways and
everyone could relate to it in different
ways as a teaching tool
so now let's just smush all this back
down
i want to take
i've got this so so this would be like a
slab
a slab house
i'm going to stick it right
i'm going to stick it right next to here
because i live on a slab house actually
a slab we're just gonna stick it right
there
and let's see what we can do with this
let's see what we can do with this
okay so i'm gonna whoopsie
well that could happen you know so when
this is what they said when it freezes
it can go up because it get
and then when it then it can go down so
when you have no rocks under there
this is what it can do um
okay so i'm gonna i am going to
and and they have had some horrific
stories
from down in florida related to
some of the things that have taken place
kind of in the tampa area
related to sinkholes when they had the
story about the guy who was in his house
what was this like maybe six years ago
or so
and then they had to close the whole
area
and so this one might be a little bit
more solid
but think about this this is cement
concrete slab so it's eventually going
to break
but take a look at this under here
do you see that under there the big
opening
so there's a big big huge opening there
it's a big huge opening
and so then at some point the water
comes in and fills up
but look where the look at what we've
got there so it's underneath
which could could cause some problems
you see that so there's a big huge
problem here and the folks living here
may not even know
that they have a problem i actually
i'm gonna admit this when they put that
on
that that was before i actually
was aware of here it kind of scared me
a little bit you know it was just one of
those things that it's like well
i'm feeling like well i'm glad i don't
live close the ocean
i'm 30 miles away
but some something there is something
dying something gnawing
and there's questions being asked of me
um a lot let's put it that way there's a
lot of questions
being asked and they're like do you do
you even have any idea about where you
live and i'm like no
i'm like yeah i live across from
interstate 95
we're 30 miles away from the ocean
and so we're in a safe place that's what
our realtor told us
and and so
you know i didn't think anything
otherwise of it you know
um but then to find out otherwise
so so this would be kind of like a
a you know on a river a river sand bank
my dad might have some examples
i don't know but what happens is the
water carves
underneath so do you see that the water
carves underneath
let me see if i can expose
i'm going to expose some of the cement
there
so if this were the guy in tampa
who fell they said he part of
he was in his bedroom and it caved in
and he got sucked up in the sinkhole
so imagine that this corner was his
bedroom here
and then the water came
and sucked him down into his
bedroom so they said this what they said
happened was that
he was in his bedroom and
it just gave way and so that
that would be this would be
demonstrating and showing
how that would happen living where he
lived because they said there's porous
material underneath
underneath that area
but they're building in the wetlands
though too florida is probably one of
the
i don't know if florida's the worst it
could be
they're building even more now um
they're building on landfill dirt
landfill
well sand landfill let's put it that way
it's dredged sand
landfill and sediment so
so let's take away a little bit more
here and show
what we're talking about
so you see what that looks like there
but let's turn it around from this
perspective oh look what we've
got we've got a beautiful piece
of real estate right next to the sea
now let's turn it around this direction
we've got a house in california
next to the cliffs california is another
good example
because they do have houses like this
that fall into the sea all the time
so california is another good example so
the water is chipping away at the
coastline
and so then the houses eventually
there's so there's so much
that's gone that this is what starts
happening and then
they break under their own weight and
then
they fall into the sea like that and so
that's that's kind of how the
sinkholes happen and then the houses
just actually go into the ocean
i have no idea why no one cleans them up
i really don't um that that baffles me
why
nobody cleans up the mess and some
people just let it
fall into the ocean now i know stillwell
hall
on fort ord they said stillwell hall was
in danger of falling into the ocean so
they actually chose to tear it down
before it did before it fell into the
ocean
and i was thinking well you know that's
that's a better practice
but the others who who have houses
next to the ocean it seems like and i
don't know who it
is um they just let it fall into the
ocean
and it's like well why you know i mean
are these the private
well would it be like a private
club type of a thing or private owned
land or something and someone just
abandons it so they just decide well
we don't want it anymore so we're just
going to let it fall into the ocean
and so kinetic sand this is a good
example
of building on rock versus
dirt versus sand
i did get a bunch of sand stuck in my
little lego piece here um
oh i dropped them all on the floor um
yeah but the thing is though too is if
you have this this is the other side of
the argument
that they'll say oh well if you just
build on this
then you're going to have flooding too
which is true
but but but i'm
it it is true you know because this is
just
just solid rock you know so you need
that mix of
dirt and then a low water table so right
next to the ocean
is a high you're right on the water
table
whereas um inland
further you are the water table is going
to be
lower in a lot of places sometimes
hundreds of feet
in order for you to get to it you know
just depending on where you're located
not but not this maybe i'm going to have
to make another video
this this would be like
cities cities where you have solid roads
and then this would be like a house and
a solid road and the water has no place
to go so that's a whole nother
that's another video i think i'm going
to leave it at that
and so we might call this one something
related to the ocean
um because the cities they call them
there is a reason they call them
concrete jungles
there is a reason they call them
concrete jungles so
um i'm gonna leave it at that for right
now
and maybe i'll go buy myself another box
of kinetic sand because this was fun
look what i made in here too i made it i
made a
shape in the legos too that's kind of
fun
um anyway that's it for this video
