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Flood in the Desert

Nobody trusted the Hollywood Dam after St. Francis Dam went out

Nobody trusted the Hollywood Dam after St. Francis Dam went out

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Nobody trusted the Hollywood Dam
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after St. Francis Dam went out.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:47:02
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 ...
They ended up drawing it down two-thirds. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
They ended up drawing it down two-thirds.
It only holds one-third its design capacity, - Flood in the Desert 00:11
It only holds one-third its design capacity,
The monument to - Flood in the Desert 00:09
The monument to
People in Hollywood no longer have to be reminded - Flood in the Desert 00:10
People in Hollywood no longer have to be reminded
Mulholland had a stroke - Flood in the Desert 00:08
Mulholland had a stroke
At family gathering, he would just - Flood in the Desert 00:08
At family gathering, he would just
William Mulholland died in Los Angeles - Flood in the Desert 00:12
William Mulholland died in Los Angeles
And in this story, Mulholland is the villain. - Flood in the Desert 00:08
And in this story, Mulholland is the villain.
There's lots of other folks, including - Flood in the Desert 00:07
There's lots of other folks, including
This is a communal effort. - Flood in the Desert 00:05
This is a communal effort.
The St. Francis Dam had largely disappeared - Flood in the Desert 00:15
The St. Francis Dam had largely disappeared
The Hoover Dam - Flood in the Desert 00:12
The Hoover Dam
I think a lot of good things come out of failures. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
I think a lot of good things come out of failures.
We pull back, - Flood in the Desert 00:08
We pull back,
St. Francis Dam had a huge impact on Hoover Dam. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
St. Francis Dam had a huge impact on Hoover Dam.
Where the St. Francis Dam had been largely - Flood in the Desert 00:17
Where the St. Francis Dam had been largely
It captured the imagination - Flood in the Desert 00:08
It captured the imagination
Immense dams became defining monuments of the age. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
Immense dams became defining monuments of the age.
The legacy of the St. Francis Dam disaster - Flood in the Desert 00:37
The legacy of the St. Francis Dam disaster
And water our crops," - Flood in the Desert 00:08
And water our crops,"