Liquid Avalanche: Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Monument

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, True Crime

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Water – we live and die by it. Today, we head to southern California and visit the ruins of the Saint Francis Dam to learn about the worst civil engineering failure of the 20th century and the second greatest loss of life in California state history. Make a donation: Kentucky Relief Fund For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!Feals - Become a member today and save 50% off your first order of Focus Melts with promo code: AFTERDARK Cozy Earth - Save 35% with our promo code: NPAD Stride Career Prep - Prepares your teen for in-demand careers in business, tech, health science, criminal justice and more! Aspiration - Fight climate change by planting trees with every swipe. Apply for the Aspiration Zero credit card today and earn a $300 welcome bonus after spending three thousand dollars in the first ninety days. For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.3	The news is overflowing with stories of all kinds of disasters. So much so that it seems
0:44.7	we're confronted with a new one every single day. Natural disasters are especially eerie.
0:52.4	Trees have always feared nature as we are helpless in the face of her profound power.
0:58.4	Droughts drying up the land, blazing fires, the ground splitting open during quakes, whipping
1:05.5	winds ripping away homes in tornadoes and landslides sweeping away entire faces of mountains.
1:13.1	These are all just the tip of the iceberg. While we have spent thousands of years finding
1:19.1	ways to understand weather patterns in an attempt to predict the unpredictable, it's
1:25.1	abundantly clear we are no match in the ring, pitted against the elements.
1:31.8	The ancient Greeks believe that there were four elements that everything was made up
1:36.2	of. Earth, water, air and fire. Not surprisingly, all four of these things we need to survive.
1:45.6	They may be essential to our survival, but as history has proven repeatedly, they serve
1:52.2	as our lifeline, but also potentially as our demise.
2:00.3	Welcome to National Park after dark.
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