@evanlovett: The Saint Francis Dam was supposed to be William Mulholland’s crowning achievement. Instead, they collapsed and is the largest disaster in Los Angeles history, and one of the largest civil engineering failures of all time. Here is a tragic story. Let’s get into it. #Mulholland #WilliamMulholland #SaintFrancis #SaintFrancisDamn #Disaster #CivilEngineering #EngineeringFailure #EngineeringFail #SantaClarita #SanFranciscoCanyon #losangeles #losangelescounty #stfrancis #stfrancisdam #stfrancisdamdisaster #lainaminute #dam #damdisaster #USHistory #TikTokLearningCampaign
Most people don’t know this but Mullholand didn’t have an Engineering degree! Yet they somehow let him design and build the dam.
2025-07-17 23:56:06
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collin_august :
I think the recent fires just took the title of LA’s biggest disaster(s), but that’s just my opinion 🤷🏻♂️
2025-07-14 02:35:26
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dime.gone.dice :
the Northridge earthquake might be first
2025-07-16 08:51:34
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Austin Santiago :
The damn at the Hollywood Reservoir was a super similar damn which is one of the reasons they backfilled the side, facing Hollywood to avoid a similar fate.
2025-07-14 05:19:33
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Always resist :
Mulholland destroyed the eastern sierras, was responsible for this disaster and yet, la honors him with his name plastered all over so cal……
2025-07-25 01:02:24
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user5278916080407 :
The thing that made it so sad was that nobody really knows how many people died because back in those days there were a lot of people that were sleeping in tents. Farmworkers, people,traveling, etc. and they all got washed away all the way to The Ocean.
2025-08-06 13:59:20
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Ruby 🛍️✨ :
Baldwin Hills reservoir went down 1963… wonder who built that one 🤔
2025-07-14 20:53:41
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33_Daddy_33 :
Anyone go to parties at kret cabin up san francisquito cyn rd in the late 90s??
2025-08-31 19:43:18
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TheBigJoe :
You didn’t show the tombstone, it’s still there
2025-07-24 01:30:12
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HEX :
I watched a video about in YouTube from ask a mortician
2025-08-04 18:59:52
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Armen Tumanyan :
Bro the biggest disaster isn’t the damn dam. It’s our governor knowingly doing all these thigs for his own twisted will.
2025-07-22 16:20:56
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Fritz the cat :
yes it was a ways out in SanFransisquito Canyon and the flood pretty much followed where Ca 126 highway is now
2025-07-19 23:01:59
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user4499637358961 :
Wow that’s a wild piece of history
2025-07-14 03:11:29
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Jo funk :
Hule Howser had a show about that incident
2025-07-14 23:53:46
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Ulfberht808 :
I just finished reading The Mirage Factory which detailed this in a chapter. Horrific and sad.
2025-07-14 18:56:04
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Fabian :
First comment
2025-07-14 02:22:44
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starfishtheblue :
Newspaper says 1100 dead 🙄
2025-07-15 05:53:07
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Evin Kennedy :
👍
2025-07-14 03:24:41
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user2949487942252 :
😳😳😳
2025-07-14 04:43:11
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mimi :
❤️❤️❤️
2025-07-15 03:54:49
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olegarionpatricia :
💯💯💯
2025-07-14 14:23:44
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johnsauceda5 :
🥰🥰🥰
2025-07-16 22:59:06
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Jeffmac33🇺🇸 :
👍🏻 I grew up there and riding dirt bikes all over those mountains there’s also lots of missile silos all around up there
2025-07-14 13:00:44
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