“On the 12th of March, 1928, the St Francis Dam in Los Angeles County, California, failed catastrophically…”
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:50 – Background
04:31 – The St Francis Dam Disaster
07:46 – The Aftermath
MUSIC:
►”Glass Pond” by Public Memory
►”Underworld” by Myuu
SOURCES
►”On Occasions Like This, I Envy the Dead: The St. Francis Dam Disaster” by Matt Blitz, published by Smithsonian Magazine, March 2015. Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/occasions-i-envy-dead-st-francis-dam-disaster-180954543/.
►”St. Francis Dam Disaster: An Extended Timeline” by Alan Pollock, published by SCVHistory.com, March 2014. Link: https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/stfrancistimeline_pollack2014.htm.
►”The Last Victim of the St Francis Dam Disaster” by Alan Pollock, published by The Heritage Junction Dispatch, October 2019. Link: https://stfrancisdammemorial.org/last-victim-of-the-st-francis-dam-disaster/.
►”The 1928 St. Francis Dam Failure and Its Impact on American Civil Engineering” by J David Rogers, published by Missouri S&T. Link: https://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/st_francis_dam/St-Francis-Dam-for-ASCE-Press.pdf.
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You should all check out ask a mortician she also did a piece on this!!!
Systemic Evil 😈
Wow. The man just straight took the full responsibility. That like, NEEEEVVVERRR happens.
That is an enormous, rare amount of responsible dignity in one person.
The Santa Clarita River (normally dry) empties into the Pacific right around Oxnard CA.
self taught engineer, oh my
We gotta do better, damn failures take damn lives.
A literal floodwave washing over California? Damn, kinda wish that could happen today.
California could use all this water now.
American engineering at its best .
self-taught engineer. that phrase absolutely makes my skin crawn and spine tingle
Everyone says Mulholland is great for taking responsibility for the dam, but he didn't take responsibility for what happened in the opening of the video.
Yet not enough to inform them on building the Oroville spillway.
Never trust a commiefornian. The entire thing could have been avoided if they weren't selfish and arrogant to build a metro in a desert.
To be fair to Mulholland, even if he had deemed the dam unsafe, there was nothing that could’ve been done before the dam broke since it was only an hour or so.
California has always received more than their fair share of federal funds. I don’t blame Californians, I blame thieving politicians.
Asking Mulholland about the structural integrity is liking asking a fox about the chicken coup.
I live near a large dam. When it was built in 1927-1930, it was worlds largest earthen dam and it created the worlds largest man made lake.
Since then, engineers have realized the dam was designed to meet certain seismic codes which were underestimated so the dam owner built a back up dam right behind the original dam. Well, there is a highway between the two dams and on top of the original dam. The new reinforcement dam costs a couple of billion dollars.
At some near point water in places like this is goin to be a big problem again! I think its already going on but the government isn't going to say anything! Because of money and to be truthful where are they all goin to go with out messing another place up!? The planet has been over populated for many many years already!
And you think by moving all that much water from somewhere else isn't slowing destroying the place where their getting it from! I mean look at the Colorado rivers they are slowing dissappearing! But most don't even think or want to think about shit like this!
We have been slowly destroying the united states or really everywhere!
My grandpa told me
His grandpa blew up the la aqueduct and was banned from public office for life.
My hero
Awesome — the subject and the telling.
We don’t want it to become a tourist attraction so we are tearing it down.
puts up memorials everywhere
Yeah, like that isn’t gonna attract tourists.
Hollis Mulray in Chinatown.