The Massive LA Disaster You've Never Heard Of

Visit http://www.audible.com/mortician or text mortician to 500 500 and start listening with a 30-day Audible trial. Get 1 audiobook and unlimited Audible Original monthly downloads absolutely free. Water, water everywhere. Thank you Patron deathlings, who make this all possible! http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath Learn more about the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation: https://www.gcrcf.org/ ***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR MOVEMENT*** Join our community of deathlings and support Ask a Mortician: https://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath Support the education and advocacy efforts of The Order of the Good Death: https://bit.ly/3iaz9jN Shop our advocacy wear: https://the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com/ ***MORE DEATH CONTENT & RESOURCES*** Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books MORTAL course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Our podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Google Play: https://bit.ly/2AdEvoj The Order of the Good Death – articles, resources, updates, and more: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/ ***SOCIALS*** Order Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordergooddeath/ Caitlin Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath Order Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrderGoodDeath ***CREDITS*** Mortician: Caitlin Doughty Producer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair) Additional Research: Remy Servis This video was greatly informed by the book "Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles" by Jon Wilkman. Thank you Mr. Wilkman for your exhaustive research and insightful storytelling. ***MUSIC*** George Street Shuffle by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300035 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Kool Kats by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100601 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ ***SELECTED SOURCES*** Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles Wilkman, Jon. Bloomsbury Press, 2016. New York. "Destruction of a Dam (1928) St. Francis Dam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ__yE4IoYg&feature=youtu.be&t=124 "The 1928 St. Francis Dam Failure and Its Impact on American Civil Engineering" http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/st_francis_dam/St-Francis-Dam-for-ASCE-Press.pdf "The Flood: St. Francis Dam Disaster, William Mulholland, and the Casualties of L.A. Imperialism" https://www.kcet.org/history-society/the-flood-st-francis-dam-disaster-william-mulholland-and-the-casualties-of-la San Francisquito Canyon and the St. Francis Dam http://saintfrancisdam.com/ "St. Francis Dam" -- American Scientist https://www.americanscientist.org/sites/americanscientist.org/files/200583124443_306.pdf "On Occasions Like This, I Envy the Dead: The St. Francis Dam Disaster" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/occasions-i-envy-dead-st-francis-dam-disaster-180954543/ "Memorialization and Memory of Southern California's St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928 (master's thesis)" https://www.academia.edu/11242671/Memorialization_and_Memory_of_Southern_Californias_St_Francis_Dam_Disaster_of_1928_masters_thesis_