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It became such a desolate place
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Flood in the Desert

It became such a desolate place

It became such a desolate place

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It became such a desolate place.
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8 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:28
Uploaded
Mar 28, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history

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Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the 2nd deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via ...
It was a complete undoing - Flood in the Desert 00:09
It was a complete undoing
To the city and to Mulholland, this is terrorism. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
To the city and to Mulholland, this is terrorism.
You are destroying the water supply - Flood in the Desert 00:08
You are destroying the water supply
Six months after the first attack, - Flood in the Desert 00:15
Six months after the first attack,
They wouldn't restore the aqueduct flow, they said, - Flood in the Desert 00:12
They wouldn't restore the aqueduct flow, they said,
The siege lasted four days, - Flood in the Desert 00:09
The siege lasted four days,
To Mulholland's annoyance, - Flood in the Desert 00:13
To Mulholland's annoyance,
There are multiple layers of irony here. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
There are multiple layers of irony here.
When the settlers of the Owens Valley - Flood in the Desert 00:17
When the settlers of the Owens Valley
Before contact, - Flood in the Desert 00:11
Before contact,
Although most preferred a nomadic lifestyle, - Flood in the Desert 00:14
Although most preferred a nomadic lifestyle,
The Paiutes there, they were building irrigation canals - Flood in the Desert 00:15
The Paiutes there, they were building irrigation canals
Of course, during the conquest, - Flood in the Desert 00:08
Of course, during the conquest,
For the Owens Valley Paiute, in particular, - Flood in the Desert 00:13
For the Owens Valley Paiute, in particular,
In the long run, it's, it's the Paiute who are removed - Flood in the Desert 00:13
In the long run, it's, it's the Paiute who are rem...
So what the settlers did to Native people, - Flood in the Desert 00:11
So what the settlers did to Native people,
The Los Angeles Water Bureau picked up - Flood in the Desert 00:16
The Los Angeles Water Bureau picked up
"Some are living in dugouts or crudely constructed shacks - Flood in the Desert 00:14
"Some are living in dugouts or crudely constructed shac...
"Nearly all of them use immense quantities of water." - Flood in the Desert 00:10
"Nearly all of them use immense quantities of water.&qu...
But of course, it depends on whose morals - Flood in the Desert 00:08
But of course, it depends on whose morals