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Flood in the Desert

It's a retaining wall thatyou're building to have something of muchgreater weight and...

It's a retaining wall that
you're building to have something of much
greater weight and stability than the forces
you're putting against it

Full Transcript

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It's a retaining wall that you're building
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to have something of much greater weight and stability
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than the forces you're putting against it.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:23:54
Uploaded
Mar 28, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history

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Movie Summary

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 ...
And this is water, this is concrete. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
And this is water, this is concrete.
So a dam that has a triangular shape - Flood in the Desert 00:09
So a dam that has a triangular shape
As work proceeded on the dam, - Flood in the Desert 00:09
As work proceeded on the dam,
Mulholland had made a promise - Flood in the Desert 00:12
Mulholland had made a promise
Because the population was increasing so much every year, - Flood in the Desert 00:10
Because the population was increasing so much every year,
And so Mulholland - Flood in the Desert 00:15
And so Mulholland
But if you do this, - Flood in the Desert 00:12
But if you do this,
In fact, Mulholland was distracted - Flood in the Desert 00:08
In fact, Mulholland was distracted
The Boulder Dam project, - Flood in the Desert 00:21
The Boulder Dam project,
Mulholland is a consultant to that project. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
Mulholland is a consultant to that project.
It feeds into his vision of what - Flood in the Desert 00:08
It feeds into his vision of what
Even as the biggest dam he'd ever built - Flood in the Desert 00:20
Even as the biggest dam he'd ever built
All the while, behind the St. Francis Dam, - Flood in the Desert 00:09
All the while, behind the St. Francis Dam,
When it's completed in the spring of 1926, - Flood in the Desert 00:09
When it's completed in the spring of 1926,
There are a number of dynamite attacks - Flood in the Desert 00:07
There are a number of dynamite attacks
I think they don't want to draw attention to it. - Flood in the Desert 00:05
I think they don't want to draw attention to it.
The official reticence did nothing to pacify - Flood in the Desert 00:09
The official reticence did nothing to pacify
On May 27, 1927, an explosion - Flood in the Desert 00:10
On May 27, 1927, an explosion
A few nights later, - Flood in the Desert 00:07
A few nights later,
By the end of June, there had been - Flood in the Desert 00:12
By the end of June, there had been