Lake Powell - Shocking To See How Low The Water Level Is!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Took a drive out to Lake Powell on the Utah side. WOW! What a beautiful drive there, some of the best scenery I have seen in a while! And of course Lake Powell didn't disappoint also! I did not expect to see how low the water was. It was really shocking to see how far up that water line was!
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Before Glen Canyon was flooded, it was considered more beautiful than the Grand Canyon. But back in the 50s nobody knew about it.
Read Edward Abbey's book 'Desert Solitaire'... He describes the area in vivid detail.. He was a ranger at the 'Arches'..
Truthfully written Southern Utah as a whole picturesque as all get out my exact sentiments national parks. Moab state park Green and Colorado Rivers. Lakes and creeks abound....
@@chuckbrasch4575 We stayed up at Pack Creek Ranch with Abbys friend Ken Sleight, who ran that stretch of river and lamented its drowning.
The prayers in Monkey Wrench Game are being answered
Boo I knew
It's beautiful scenery, but the situation with the overuse of water is obviously devastating, thanks for bringing us along and another fine video 👍☮️
@@themourningdove7208 really?? Attack a certain group? Not cool. Let’s talk about all of the Golf Courses and fountains in Vegas
It's Vegas Henderson too many new homes being built-up.
@@richardrichard9953 The golf courses that use 5X less water than they did twenty years ago and the fountains that use the same water over and over again? Let's talk about climate change instead.
Thank you Sarah. If we keep taking without giving back we may lose it all. Stay safe
It's going away regardless of if you use it thanks to climate change.
You are right the scenery is stunning!! Thanks for the adventure 😀
I remember going to the grand opening of the Glenn Canyon dam; my mom had a thing for Princess Margaret, I guess. There wasn't a bathtub ring back then-the reservoir was still brand new and full to the brim. It seems sad to see it all gone now-but this was the natural state before man put his hand to it.
Wow, that is shocking. I haven't been to Lake Powell in many years. But you are right, it is still beautiful in its way. Great video.
Their draining them on purpose,you control the water you control everything
Sarah you our right that is a great drive. I love this place . I have Made many many trips to the lake fishing house boating jet skiing
It makes me sad to see the water that low .When the water was high we went up the Colo river 10 miles. I have been one end of
lake to other. The best days of my life we spent at Lake Powell. I miss that Hite the inlet is just mud now use to be 90 feet deep.
When it turned to mud I sold my Lake Powell Boat and bought the jeep it is fun but nothing like being on Lake Powell. I don't think
I will see it full again in my life time. Thanks.
Sarah, you are becoming my favorite with GREAT content like this one.....
I wish we could send you some of this rain we've been getting. It's been raining or dribbling rain for the last couple of days here. Still looking forward to your videos. Keep them coming. Right in the middle of your video, a Wonderhussy video popped up. Life is good.
One of the things that separates the desert, it is very dry and not meant for large populations.
@@bikinisforever4163 Sam Kinison. did a skit on that note , but about Africa's food scarcity ...🌎❤🌄😔🐱
Hi Sarah, the sad thing it will take 10 to 20 years of snow and rain on the west side of the rockies to fill the lakes, powell,mead and mohave. Love your Chanel and your tattoos. You tell such great stories and adventures. You are my favorite youtube 🌟
The developers say ah fire hose can full it in no time 😀
Can't wait to see Mexican Hat ..🌄🌎❤🐱🎸
Wow! The water level is much lower than I thought. Still a beautiful place. Nice and quiet. What a view of Mexican Hat. Thank you for a cool video.
I've been staying in Northern Illinois and it has rained for 3 days now, today we get a break. Beautiful out there and they have been dealing with water shortage for a while now. Time for Sarah to do the rain dance.....Stay safe ✌
All the water has been drank.
Hopefully it will come back soon.
Thanks for sharing. 💖
Thanks for your concern and appreciation of the lowering of water levels in the west. Very, very lovely photography.
That is one heck of an interesting and spectacular place! Enjoyed the visit, Thank You!
Ah spectacular place? even without water ?
@@winstonmarajh991 The rock formations, sediment layers,...other
things besides the water.
This drought has been going on for 25 years. Have a great weekend, Sarah.
Yeah...nothing to do with all the water being funneled to the homes and golf courses in the Nevada desert...wake up bruh.....
Everyone PLEEEEEASE look into the Millions of Gallons per Day of Fresh Water that the California Delta is redirecting into the Bay because California Farmers can't afford to buy the water because of ancient, incompetent, and blatantly corrupt agriculture laws that make it mega expensive for farmers to buy! The entire state of California does not need water from Nevada, Arizona, or anywhere else if it would stop listening to fake science & fake environmental groups while deciding to make its water laws! There are channels that have gone over this in 2021 and 2020, one of them is the California Insider; check it out!
@@paolo-n2000 Actually ya. Even if everyone stopped using the water it would still be declining. No snow in the winter means no water in the summer. Didn't you learn about climate change in grade school?
@@bobwoods1302 LMAO...you're such an "intelligent" tool!!! Captain Obvious...put your bong down Boob!!! Your brain cells are vanishing....
@@bobwoods1302 You have no idea what you are talking about.
Yes, beautiful rocks and so cool to see the waterlines.
Last time I was by Lake Powell was 2008 (driving from Salt Lake to Phoenix) and I though the water was low then. Yikes it's low now. Only other times I've been to Lake Powell were when my family lived in Moab. First time was when I was five and we went to Halls Crossing with some of my dad's relatives. Second time was when I was seven and my grandfather's company was doing some work on the Navajo Nation. I know that area is most likely dry now. It is a very beautiful area. Also gets very hot in the summer with all of the rocks being baked in the sun.
Beautiful video ! Thank you for bringing awareness so we can help.
Absolutely gorgeous country sites! Thank you for posting
WE ARE ALL LUCKY TO LIVE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET!
ARE WE ? See how many beautiful things we are doing to it !
Wow Sarah you are on top of this,your videos are astonishing thank you so much. Keep up your hard work 😓 sweetie I love ❤️ it.
Nature, with a lot of help from mankind, is returning Lake Powell to its former glory, which is to say, a river. The same can be said for Lake Mead. The area will always remain beautiful. At night, you can see stars from horizon to horizon, as the center of the Milky Way Galaxy travels across the sky. We must remember to appreciate the beauty before us, as you are doing in this video. In the end, all we can say is that it was good for houseboats while it lasted. That was then and this is now for the living that witnessed this hugh change in the environment.
I'm glad you make videos of these great locations.
Thank you Sarah. Your a beautiful soul and I hope you’re enjoying your journey.
Raining here in Pennsylvania so it's wandering jeepsey day today lol!!! That's a nice lake there ,it would be cool on a the lake and just sit back and relax. Stay safe love ya friend
Send us some of that rain!! 🙏🏼
Awesome color.
In So Cal they're taking 10 - 20 houses out & building loft projects with 1000 toilets on the same block size!! ! Then telling us 1 day watering of our landscaping. These projects are being ok'd without any opposition because of money!!!
Great video Sarah and thank for sharing!!
Swimming pools movie stars green lawns in California and other states that consume water 💦 an endless drain of water resources, great video Sarah and much Love ❤️ to you and little one
Don't forget the 1000's of golf courses, many of which are in the desert.
Very nice Sarah! Praying for rain, lots of rain! 🙏
👍
Even if it rains for 40 days and 40 nights it still wouldn't full the dams !
I'm heading that way as soon as the winds calm down here in Kaibab Nat'l Forest in GC. Sad to see the water level so low! Also excited to see Monument Valley on my way up to CO. Hope to jeep with ya when I hit LaSal.
Keep on jeepin! Thanks for the adventures...
Truckin
Thanks Sarah! Just love your videos. Utah is such a beautiful place. I plan on coming to visit in a few months and stay at your camp ground.
Enjoyed the video Sarah, looking forward to many more
Backpacking before Lake Powell you could find 1200 year old corn in storage bins. I wish I was 20 years old again.
I feel like we are blessed to have your videos thanks
Beautiful. Now the bad news. Lake Powell is expected to drop in about 90 days. Below the level at which the dam will produce power. Lake Meade is expected to reach that point, around October. Without power from either/ Grid collapse. Stay informed, and stocked. Sorry, hate saying these things.
That might just be good news. Time to live in balance with nature and not abuse her.
In Moab, check out hwy 128, from Moab, along the Colorado River. And back in Moab in a easy day drive, returning back to Moab.
Great vid🤠
Lake Havasu 🌞 Az
wow awesome video thank you for the trip..water is so cool and very low...grate job...
It’s all beautiful
Beautiful work and subtle observations thanks for caring and taking the time
That is crazy!! And sad. As you said still beautiful!
They never should have built the dam in the first place, so it is hard to be too sad to see the lake fail. It will be awesome to see what comes in to view as the lake drops.
I rafted the Colorado River there when the dam was in the early days of construction (1960). The canyon walls and river banks were beautiful and full of animal life. Native American cliff dweller ruins were seen too.
I agree... should have never been built... therefore over half of L.A. , Vegas, Phoenix couldn't live out here
ok--lets take out all the dams and let all the water flow to the ocean like before--now i call that a terrible waste!! what do you call it?...geezuz -bunch of infantile comments here--droughts happen--too bad,get over it,move to canada
Lack of rain will do that, been watching the lake levels recide for years now. Too much development in the desert areas for the lack of snowfall and rain.
Actually, it's mostly due to overuse of the water. Some is due to drought, but most is agriculture drain-off.
It can be remedied, but growers need to be cut-off.
Not politically easy.
@@reubenj.cogburn8546 No actually you are wrong. It's climate change. When the snows still came there was plenty of water for everyone.
@@bobwoods1302 Well, if you have done your reading you would KNOW that you are the wrong one.
80% percent of Colorado river water use is AGRICULTURE.
Read that carefully.
Yes, there IS a drought.
No, there is NOT plenty for everyone, in fact, draw-down has EXCEEDED input for over 20 years now.
Hard NOT to see that coming, unless you don't want to look.
Do your research, and know what is fact and what is an individual's opinion.
@@reubenj.cogburn8546 So everyone should just stop drinking and eating? We should all just crawl off somewhere and die? Climate change is the reason you have no snow in the winter and heat waves that last months burning off the water. Or maybe you don't believe in evaporation either.
@@bobwoods1302 Obviously you are a simple minded person that needs simple answers.
Life is often not like that.
Be as obtuse as you wish, it won't change the facts.
Yes, i know you'll have to look up "obtuse"
They have your picture next to the description.
I know you were thinking while standing on the cliff a "cannonball" jump into the water would be a blast!! lol
a great beautiful and informational video. thanks
Watch for deer and cows in the roads around there Beautiful lake area. Thanks for showing us. Happy Trials 👍😎🦌
Live in Ohio, it's been raining for 3 days straight. It was the same last week.Too bad we can't send some of it your way.
Send it down by train 😀
Sadly, It';; take a long time for the lake to fill up again. Thanks for posting this...maybe more folks will try harder to conserve water if more people post videos like this. Anyway, it is still a beautiful place. Thanks for your skills at showing us such beauty. Much love💗.
Thank you for sharing this:)
That I believe is the building they had at the fuel dock. Not the ranger station. The ranger station is small in Halls. Huge and up on dry land in Bullfrog.
You did a good job Sarah!
Interesting to see what they do when the water runs out xx
Great video good job thank you
Last I heard the lake is 174ft. low. Also you can can take the dirt roads over Adobe mountain to get to Hite. Very beautiful scenery that way.
Thanks!
Now you know why my detour to come see you was something I didn't regret. Such a pretty drive!
We'll be there with our kayaks next month! Great video
As you know our Lake Mead is the same way! 😩😩 I wish there was a way to pump or channel all the water that is falling back east to our lakes. Always thought a channel would be great! I guess that wouldn’t be financially feasible….😳😢😢 sadly instead the powers that be think it’s a better idea to drain the water tables in Northern Nevada to fill them. Not going to get into the politics of the whole thing, but is it wise to kill off one area to fill another? There has to be a better way.
yeah--let the place dry up--move
I love the tires!
They can build a pipe line to bring oil from Alaska to the lower 48. Send Trillions to other countries but can’t find the money to create an infrastructure to disperse water throughout the southwest
Lol yeah nice try. Go ahead and run that by any liberal and see how they react to you saying the word pipeline
Thanks for this video!
They will have dry lake beds in areas of the deserts. I have family that lives in the Mojave Desert. She talks about riding in horse in one of them.
I am so glad that you actually are an environmentalist
Oh you must must must see Monument Valley. It is so beautiful, so peaceful. It is beyond amazing.
The southwest is reverting back to its desert roots. But I'd like to check out Monument Valley too. Lots of great old western movies filmed there.
Great to ride along; yes Mother Nature is unique in its diversity 😎😎😎👍👍👍👍
Great video! I wonder when the lake was last full?
Nice video, pretty scenery all around. Hope there's some rain out there soon. :)
rain does nothing,it is all about winter snowpack in the mountains
I read up on the lake levels . They keep allowing new houses n families that use lake water to shower drink water yards ... its a desert turned into a metropolis not good ...
That's how it is in the desert. Cities like Denver,Salt Lake City, Phoenix,Las Vegas and Los Angeles all use water that started as snow and got diverted for people to use.
luv the tires boat dock cool.
Don't be sad. Change is part of nature...
Utah Arizona and Nevada all about to get a dose of humble pie, everything was built on unsustainablity
Hello from Kansas. Really like your videos Really is pretty there Have a good one.
Man I remember back when there was so much water there but that was back in the 70s
Very cool video keep up the good work
I watched an interesting video on how Turkey pumps fresh water to the island of Cyprus. It is a floating underwater pipe that hangs under the sea. It was suggested that California could do that where the Klamath River washes into the Pacific Ocean. That pipe could go all the way to Los Angeles. The advantage? No obstacles.
Wow great idea kill off a whole river ecosystem just for the benefit of Los Angeles
$$$
💕Gorgeous area💕Sad to see how very low the water level is, tho💕
Thank you & stay safe Jeepsy💕
Yes
Interesting that the Colorado river feeds from Powell into Lake Havasu in CA/AZ which is FULL to the brim and thriving with their water sports economy.
It's sad to see up river states get drained from their lifeline simply to feed a lifestyle in California.
Camped on the Colorado at Parker dam which is totally the opposite of Powell.
Gotta keep those golf courses watered.
Right? It's messed up where people's priorities are.
Golf courses, hotels in Vegas and continuous building new homes. That's where a lot of the water is going.
"Shut down" of a lake wouldn't stop me.
That Ranger "" houseboat "" was part of the dock... Not a houseboat....
Lake Powell is a long way from Moab. Lots of Love, James
I was there in 1999, and 2000. BIG DIFFERENCE!
Greg Braden has a great story. New Mexico was experiencing a great drought a few years back. A Native American friend said to him, let's go pray. They got to an area where the friend drew a circle in the desert earth, he took off his shoes and sat in the circle. In a few minutes he said, let's go get something to eat. Greg said wait, we didn't pray, what were you doing in the circle? The friend said I was envisioning the rain, I could smell the rain, I could feel the rain, I could feel the mud squish between my toes. Shortly, they heard thunder, rain clouds came in, it started raining, it rained and it rained and it rained. Greg said ok, that's enough, make it stop. The friend said my ancestors didn't tell me that part!! Let's all collectively feel, smell and squish our toes in the rain for this area and for Lake Mead.
Pretty grim isn't it. Edward Abby would be laughing his ass off 😂.
He would be thrilled. Drain Lake Foul!
@@majorpayne8373 yup!
They (government) knew this was coming but money was more important.
I've lived in Las Vegas and Henderson for over 25 years and saw this happening.
It's really depressing.
Hi Sarah great video its a real shame how they have abused that lake. Hope i'm back close to normal after my little trip. Till next time
Its crazy.
Hi Sarah, I think we just waste too much water and don't harvest enough looks a lovely place for a swim, stay free
What nice scenery even though the water level is so low. I bet you can now walk through some ghosts towns that where flooded, like in Nevada. Will the lake ever be filled up again, I doubt it.. Next will be the power cuts..
This is what happens when people move to the desert and still what to have a lawn.
Thanks for the video.
Sarah,
Thank you for the video. Enjoy watching your travels, great job. Glad you are traveling while you can! I think the water shortage will be getting worse, sad but will not produce a change in the mind set of most tell the faucet at home runs dry. It’s only a money problem tell the money runs out.
T-TOTALLY SHOCKING 😞
Its more scary than beautiful !!!!
great video. cant wait to see mexican hat.
come to Brock corner road between Yuma az and el centro i think you'll find your missing water.