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Los Angeles flood of 1938 - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia
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40 Incredible Photos of the Los Angeles Flood in 1938
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American Experience: Flood in the Desert
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St Francis Dam was built to provide water to Los Angeles, bcollapsed in 1928, killing hundreds of people. #disaster #stfrancisdam #losangeles #water #flood #waterdamage #dam | Armchair Engineer
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St Francis Dam was built to provide water to Los Angeles, bcollapsed in 1928, killing hundreds of people. #disaster #stfrancisdam #losangeles #water #flood #waterdamage #dam | Armchair Engineer
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Just under 100 years, in 1928, LA County suffered a major natural disaster and catastrophic infrastructure failure, resulting in communities being wiped out and many lives lost. And yet, many people who live here, have never heard about the St. Francis Dam collapse. Have you? #history #southerncalifornia | PBS SoCal
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Just under 100 years, in 1928, LA County suffered a major natural disaster and catastrophic infrastructure failure, resulting in communities being wiped out and many lives lost. And yet, many people who live here, have never heard about the St. Francis Dam collapse. Have you? #history #southerncalifornia | PBS SoCal
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A Brief History of Los Angeles Floods
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The Los Angeles Long Beach Floods of the Late 1930s remain etched in history as one of the most significant floods to hit Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties in southern California. | Amazing Time Capsule
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Los Angeles has had eight great floods since 1861. However, since the massive flood in 1938, damage has been minimized due to our ability to control the L.A. River. . .and that starts with the Sepulveda Dam. Let’s get into it! | L.A. in a Minute
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The St Francis Dam disaster of 1928 is considered the worst American civil engineering disaster of the 20th century William Mulholland, of which Mulholland Drive is named after, hastily oversaw the project. He ignored geologists warnings to not build the dam due to unstable foundations and went a step further by opting to use cheaper materials to get the job done quicker. Why? Because LA needed more water and fast. But this dam construction came right after building the first ever long distance
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California's "Little Civil War" erupted in the spring of 1924 as the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct to draw water from Owens Valley. Learn more about California's battle over water in FLOOD IN THE DESERT, now streaming on YouTube and the @PBS App → https://youtu.be/ocju4Y23j0M #FloodInTheDesertPBS | American Experience | PBS
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On this day in California history, tragedy struck. The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in Los Angeles County built from 1924 to 1926 to serve Los Angeles's growing water needs. It catastrophically failed in 1928 due to a defective soil foundation, claiming the lives of at least 431 people. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is considered to be one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest l
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Los Angeles County is flooded out drop a comment down below if you’re in this area or know anybody impacted by this flood
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