A brief History of: The Baldwin Hills Disaster (Documentary)

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• PL

  @PlainlyDifficult · 5 years ago · pinned

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• TH

  @thoralexander9387 · 5 years ago

  Good on the caretaker for noticing and raising the alarm. Without him many more lives would likely be lost.

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• RA

  @raydunakin · 5 years ago

  Building a reservoir on top of a fault -- what could possibly go wrong?

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• BE

  @beglitchery · 5 years ago (edited)

  “it was thought that the asphalt membrane would still hold out any significant erosion”. … … have these people never seen a pothole?

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• SO

  @soulfly3438 · 5 years ago

  i can totally imagine the chief engineer putting his hand on the giant reservoir and giving it a push and saying “that aint going anywhere” as he walked away proudly.

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• BO

  @boostfrog · 5 years ago

  &quot;We&apos;re going to build a new dam on top of the biggest hill we can find, right above a fault line, right next to an oil drilling operation, with a channel to funnel all the water directly into a neighborhood, and make it out of FUCKING CLAY&quot;

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• DA

  @Damien.D · 5 years ago

  A reservoir on top of a hill traversed by an active fault line...<br>It&apos;s like the dam designer thought in advance that someone far in the future would need materials to produces mini-documentaries about disasters, aired on a yet to be invented streaming service, running on a then inexistant worldwide computer network. That&apos;s what I call very advanced forward thinking!

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• RR

  @rrknl5187 · 5 years ago

  In my opinion, the main cause of this failure is the ego of the chief engineer.

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• C0

  @c0c0asauce · 5 years ago

  Only annoying thing about discovering this channel is that YouTube keeps recommending other channels that do similar videos but most of the ones they recommend are crap. They use unrelated photos and their explanations are always covered in a thin layer of humor to prevent you from seeing how shallow their research was. This channel does it right. Thank you.

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• RE

  @reedman0780 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Basically the whole thing is reliant on a single big ass layer of clay, in loose soil below, and in the middle of an active fault line. Cant see why it wouldn&apos;t self destruct in a year

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• SE

  @SeventhSwell · 5 years ago

  It&apos;s possible to be a damn failure without causing death and destruction. Just look at me.

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• IZ

  @izzieb · 5 years ago

  As soon as you said it was over a fault line, my immediate reaction was &quot;Uhoh!&quot;.

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