Debris from the storm of 1900 stayed piled up for decades. Following WW2, soldiers coming back from the war used this lumber to build houses for themselves. I grew up in one of those houses near Dickinson Bayou which is a tributary that empties into Galveston Bay. Well, it was actually two of those houses put together. The wood was so mineral laden that we had to pre-drill before sinking any nail or screw into the ship lap, beams, and floor joists.
I wished the Tri-State tornado would have been mentioned. I knew three people who survived that event when they were children. The amazing thing is that all three said they remembered the event like it just happened. The detail they went into was proof of how that disaster-affected them.
3:50 one of the main reasons was that the chief Weather Service meteorologist for Galveston, Isaac Cline, had been very vocal in the years prior about his belief that Galveston Island was immune to hurricanes thanks to the shallow waters off the coast. The hurricane that proved him wrong spared him, but killed his entire family.
My maternal grandmother died in December 1918 in Havre, Montana from the flu. She left behind 4 children (my mother was the oldest at 7 years). My grandfather deserted the family, leaving the kids alone. My great grandmother arrived to visit her newest granddaughter who had been born in November and found the kids alone and hungry.
As a native of Wisconsin, this video reminded me of the Peshtigo fire. I visited its small museum when I was a child and learned it happened on the same day as the great Chicago fire and has been over-shadowed for that reason. It is estimated 1,300-2,500 people died, but all records were destroyed so it is hard to determine. I love your channels and wonder if it would be a good fit somewhere! Thanks for all the facts for me to binge :)
The Johnstown Flood led to a "temporary" tax on liquor in Pennsylvania that is still in effect 84 years later. That tax in fact is nearly double the original 10% at 18%! Politicians have apparently learned that 'new' taxes can get them voted out of office, but adjustments in uses or rates of existing taxation is too boring to get the mobs to break out their pitchforks so the flood tax lives on past the lives of nearly anyone it was originally established to provide temporary relief to.
I think that tax is from a later 1936 flood in Johnstown, PA. Johnstown is surrounded on all sides by mountains and in a natural bowl, so there have been several floods in that city. My grandparents lived in that area, so one year when I took the bus into Latrobe for Thanksgiving, we passed the lights of Johnstown that evening and you could see how much of a valley Johnstown is in from the lights.
My great-grandfather died in the Johnstown flood. He was the editor (publisher?) of the German language newspaper. The rest of the family survived floating downriver on the roof of their house.
Didn't the various immigrant communities put out newspapers in several languages? Or were some of the other newspapers put out in other Western Pennsylvania cities like Pittsburgh and Altoona? I know Carnegie and his Robber Baron/industrialist friends had a habit of bringing over entire villages and even the local priest to work in their factories (the priest simply to marry the workers, bury them, and baptize their children). It led to a bunch of single or merely double church enclaves of various Eastern European denominations like Romanian Orthodox or Eastern Rite Catholics or Hungarian Reformed church. And each immigrant community could maintain their language.
The Galveston hurricane was the reason for one of the great mega projects of it’s day. They actually raised the city several feet by pumping in mud and then draining the water off. Some surviving buildings do not have a first floor because they are now below ground level. Check it out.
In an effort to NOT talk about the subject, I want to say that I love the “Chapter” labels for the different stories. That’s a really nice, professional touch. Tell your editor clone to keep that shit up.
During the Johnstown flood the flood water swept thru several barbed wire factories, causing furnaces and boilers to explode. Stacks of coiled barbed wire mixed with the bricks from the buildings were swept along by the flood. Many people got trapped by the barbed wire and burnt to death when the mass was trapped by a bridge that was across the river. The fires were caused by stoves that were in houses that were swept away.
Same day, not just the same week. 300 died in Chicago and 1200 are known to have died in Peshtigo with a possible 1000 more that they are unsure of. In fact, William Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago and major developer and landholder there owned a huge timber stand and sawmill in Peshtigo so he saw both sides of his life go up in flames. He paid his Peshtigo employees until a new sawmill was built and had relief supplies shipped in. He is a huge hero in Peshtigo.
I think the Chicago fire was really part of the much more widespread Peshtigo fire. I read a book about the fire and there was mention that the RAF and US Military studied the mechanics of the firestorm as part of their plans to bomb Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden during World War II. These bombings were retaliation for the German attack on Coventry which showed similar firestorm characteristics to Peshtigo.
Hey I know you and the production crew are super busy but all your channels are not linked in the "channels" section of your shows. I know this could definitely help the newer channels get the same viewership as Toptenz and today I found out so I thought I'd give you the heads up.
Abe Lincoln once said of General Mclellan, "he's got the slows". Mclellan took too long to act on anything and Antietam was his greatest victories. He was replaced by General Burnisides - he had monstrous sidebuns . . . .
Re: Antietam, Lincoln considered it a sufficient success to issue the Emancipation Proclamation but was more privately angry with McClellan over the incomplete victory and fired him.
An interesting, and sobering, fact about the Storm of 1900 that was not mentioned. Prior to the hurricane making landfall, Galveston was the largest city in Texas. After the storm blew through, Houston suddenly found itself the largest Texan city. In part this was because some in Galveston and the surrounding areas fled north into Houston, but also in part because so many folks in Galveston had perished during the storm and its after effects. One can still feel the legacy of those lost souls to this day by walking along the sea wall or strolling near the port.
Two of my grandfather's brothers died from the "Spanish" flu in 1915-1918. The older of the two, who was 22, got his WWI draft notice on his deathbed. The other brother was 19. Grandpa was 8.
Back about 2007 or so we had a week of temperatures in excess of 103°. In some areas that's an every-summer thing, but I live in western Oregon where most summer temperatures are between 85° and 90° and rarely get hotter. A lot of homes aren't air conditioned (like ours) and there was a veritable black market in air conditioners. I heard about one truck driver who had a load of air conditioners that he was trying to deliver to a local home store, and he was mobbed.
You didn’t mention the Galveston grand raising. That could easily be a mega project but given everything it could just be a side project. The whole great flood, the story of the nun who sadly dragged the orphans tied to her to their deaths and many other stories about the event would make a geographics episode. The aftermath with so many men forced to deal with the bodies at gun point and booze, the floating coming back to shore after being buried at sea, even Clara Barton came to Galveston to aid. The eventual raising of the entire city was a monumental affair that those who couldn’t afford to raise their two story homes merely had them become single storied and odd lower floors eerily peaking out from under the newly made porches. This is a story I’d love to hear you talk about as you’ve danced around it.
The Battle of Antietam resulted in fact in far more deaths than the 3.5 thousand cited, that's approximately the number of Americans that died during the battle, on November 17 (if we count the confederates as Americans, which we shouldn't, a more accurate description would be "2,108 brave American Patriots as well as 3,281 treasonous confederate rattlesnakes"). But thousands more died as a result of wounds received during the battle in the following days, bringing the total to 7650 (according to the National Park Service). Also, Lincoln was disappointing by general McClellan, he thought (and was probably right) that his over-caution was the reason why the battle ended in a tactical draw rather than in a major victory for the Union.
1889 we didn’t need fema, we had neighbors and charity. 1936, Pennsylvania had an idea - let’s create a liquor tax to ‘help Johnstown’... Still in effect.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane, for example, was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on record in terms of pressure, but it rarely gets talked about.
1:10 no Simon, I am pretty sure they called it Spanish Flu not because they reported the cases accurately, but precisely bcs they reported them at all and the combatant countries did not bcs of not wanting to lower morale
@@sriyasodharmma4021 Spain was the only country reporting deaths regularly, it's not because they were the first. General consensus is that covid-19 originated in Wuhan, China, and nobody has ever disputed that. Is there an actual purpose to labeling it cHiNa fLu or kUnG fLu aside from appeasing your corny boomer sense of humor? I can't see any.
@@sriyasodharmma4021 being funny isn't why trump started calling it that, trump doesn't do anything if it isn't serving himself. It was simply a lousy attempt to deflect attention from his poor handling of the problem within the United States. I just don't see how thousands of Americans dying every day warrants coming up with "funny" nicknames for the virus.
"with no vaccine or antibiotics to treat secondary infections control efforts were generally focused on quarantine and isolation as well as personal and public hygiene initiatives and limiting public gatherings!" Almost EXACTLY what the Greek government is still doing, probably because the health care system was left, for years, to "rot away", in an effort to privatize it more cheaply.
I was hoping to see the Texas City Explosion in here to. But with only 500 to 600 killed it may not have been deadly enough despite being the most deadly industrial disaster in the USA.
Hi Simon. Thank you for all your good work. I would like to make a suggestion for an episode. In the 1960s the local government's of the Bay Area started building a train system that would connect San Francisco to the smaller communites on the east side of the San Fransisco Bay. This proved to be a bit more difficult, time consuming, and expensive than had been originally planned. Some of the biggest problems came from such a large project built up cities. Other times work was brought to a halt when constution crews came across the unmakes graves of early miners and settlers. It's an only in California tale. Thanks. Tom Harriman. The City
If you watched the video, you would know that this is incorrect. The Spanish Flu averaged 6500 deaths/day for an entire month, meaning something like 29 of the top 30 days are due to Spanish Flu. We just don't have the exact numbers for those individual days.
If anyone is interested in the Galveston Hurricane, I highly recommend the book Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson. It doesn’t just discuss what happened in Galveston but how racism and the idea of American exceptionalism led to the storm hitting the Texas coast with no warning whatsoever. It was so sudden that trains were still running in to the city (or attempting to) in the midst of the storm. It’s fascinating and horrible. I’m from the Texas coast and that storm has always been something of a shadow and the reason we track storms and prepare and make evacuation plans if need be.
Spanish Flu originated on a pig farm in Kansas in 1916/17 and was transmitted to US soldiers on there way to the European trenches. And yes that took a lot of research to find!!
Simon, an additional issue regarding the Spanish Flu revolves around COAL use and Industrial Pollution. The flu mutated due to the excess carbon providing a safe haven breeding ground for the flu virus which would otherwise not survive prolonged periods outside of a body. There was a recent study on this a couple years ago, since the actual virus is alive and well and pathologists were wondering why it isn't killing as many people.
The last bit is why I hate insurance companies. They take your premiums for 50 years, then when it's time to pay up "it's an act of God" so NO we won't. Crooks
Can you do a video on the Sun Valley resort in Idaho? Everyone has heard about it but nobody knows how cool it used to be, considering that the first ski lift in the world was built there
I grew up in Pennsylvania and went to see the Johnstown flood area. We learn about it in school as one of the examples of the mega wealthy not caring about the lives of others and getting away with it.
Great video. Would like to see Hudson yards in nyc as a “project “. The Vessel attraction there had recently become notorious for people jumping to their deaths from the structure
Glad to see the Johnstown flood here. Grew up couple hrs away, and hearing stories of the flood. Its taught that it was caused by poor maintenance and cheap owners who didn't want to pay to fix its problems for years before the flood happened.
The weather bureau on Galveston Island in 1900 was manned by brothers Isaac and Joseph Cline. They hailed from my home county--Monroe County, Tennessee. Sad, sad story. If you get a chance, read Eric Larsen's ISAAC'S STORM. Isaac Cline's wife, pregnant with their fourth child, drowned in the storm, and Isaac lived a widower for fifty-five years. 😢
Fun fact about the san fran earthquake and fire, a man named general funstun shelled san Francisco during the fires, hes from iola Kansas, we have a museum of him
How about the "refounding" of San Diego by Alonso Horton? I grew up in a town called Hortonville that he founded in WI on his way out west, and it has always interested me.
The story goes that Carnegie and Frick never spoke again after the flood, and that Carnegie Hall in NYC was built because of the guilt that Carnegie felt from the devastation he allowed to happen ...
The video is only partly accurate regarding the Johnstown Flood. The dam was originally built by the State of PA in the 1840's and sold to the Hunting and Fishing club in the 1880's. The clogged spillways were received by the club in the deteriorated condition and they were the most important reason for the failure, although the topping of the dam was also a factor. The dam was topped in order to provide room to create an access road to the lodge. The debris piled at the stone bridge ignited due to friction and was held together by barbed wire from the flooded out barbed wire factory. The lawsuit was properly decided based on jurisprudence at the time which held that the owners had to have committed knowing and gross negligence to be held responsible and they pointed out that if the record-setting rains had not occurred there would have been no problem with the dam, and how were they to anticipate a storm that had never happened before. This led to the adoption of the doctrine of absolute negligence which says that 'if you own it and it breaks, then you own the problems, too--regardless of what you did or failed to do'. That doctrine explains how product liability lawsuits are upheld even though users employ the product against instructions.
On the Galveston Hurricane, I think it was not simply a case of the citizens of Galveston having days of advance warning but choosing to ride it out, which still happens today. There was, however, an attitude of, a storm is probably not coming this way, but if it DOES strike here, we've been through it before and we can handle it...nothing to get excited about. They had no idea that Galveston would take a direct hit from such a powerful hurricane, until it was too late. The US Weather Bureau would not listen to the advice or warnings of Cuban experts, who really WERE experts, and signs pointing to an approaching storm were not understood as such until, again, it was too late. Useful reports from ships were almost non-existent, because few if any had wireless telegraph sets aboard, so their information was generally outdated before it became available. Galveston before the 1900 Hurricane was set to become the premier Gulf Coast port; afterwards, it would fall behind its great rival, Houston, and could never catch up. On a side note, according to family history, one of my great-grandfathers went to Galveston to help in the rebuilding; he was a first generation German-American, and Galveston had a large German population with numerous social and fraternal societies...it's my understanding that this network reached out to branches in other parts of the country, asking for assistance.
At 1:29 he says that 500 Mil people were infected, 50-100 Mil died, or “25% of the global population” -That 25% figure is the infection rate (global pop. in 1918 is ~1.8 Bil) but the phrasing makes it sound like 25% of the global population died.
After watching the bit about Steele, ND having a record temp of 121F (Yikes!), my interest was piqued, so I decided to look up the highest temp ever recorded in the US, and it was (no real surprise here) Death Valley, CA, which hit 134F in July, 1913. I mean, yeah it's Death Valley, heat is expected there, but I never imagined it would be that extreme!
One of the most disgusting aspects I remember reading about the SF quake was that they never included the Asian casualties in the numbers of dead. That fact stuck with me for years.
We hit 400k today, I think you’re right. The idiots who refuse to wear masks should be prosecuted like Typhoid Mary was. Put them all on an island. Preferably without internet access or Fox News.
Debris from the storm of 1900 stayed piled up for decades. Following WW2, soldiers coming back from the war used this lumber to build houses for themselves. I grew up in one of those houses near Dickinson Bayou which is a tributary that empties into Galveston Bay. Well, it was actually two of those houses put together. The wood was so mineral laden that we had to pre-drill before sinking any nail or screw into the ship lap, beams, and floor joists.
What sorta minerals ?
A major effect of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane was it shifted shipping to the Port of Houston and made Houston a major city.
nice anecdote
I wished the Tri-State tornado would have been mentioned. I knew three people who survived that event when they were children. The amazing thing is that all three said they remembered the event like it just happened. The detail they went into was proof of how that disaster-affected them.
What happened?
3:50 one of the main reasons was that the chief Weather Service meteorologist for Galveston, Isaac Cline, had been very vocal in the years prior about his belief that Galveston Island was immune to hurricanes thanks to the shallow waters off the coast. The hurricane that proved him wrong spared him, but killed his entire family.
My maternal grandmother died in December 1918 in Havre, Montana from the flu. She left behind 4 children (my mother was the oldest at 7 years). My grandfather deserted the family, leaving the kids alone. My great grandmother arrived to visit her newest granddaughter who had been born in November and found the kids alone and hungry.
As a native of Wisconsin, this video reminded me of the Peshtigo fire. I visited its small museum when I was a child and learned it happened on the same day as the great Chicago fire and has been over-shadowed for that reason. It is estimated 1,300-2,500 people died, but all records were destroyed so it is hard to determine. I love your channels and wonder if it would be a good fit somewhere! Thanks for all the facts for me to binge :)
Strange how the Peshtigo fire killed more people than the Great Chicago fire, yet it never achieved the same level of notoriety.
The Johnstown Flood led to a "temporary" tax on liquor in Pennsylvania that is still in effect 84 years later. That tax in fact is nearly double the original 10% at 18%! Politicians have apparently learned that 'new' taxes can get them voted out of office, but adjustments in uses or rates of existing taxation is too boring to get the mobs to break out their pitchforks so the flood tax lives on past the lives of nearly anyone it was originally established to provide temporary relief to.
I think that tax is from a later 1936 flood in Johnstown, PA. Johnstown is surrounded on all sides by mountains and in a natural bowl, so there have been several floods in that city. My grandparents lived in that area, so one year when I took the bus into Latrobe for Thanksgiving, we passed the lights of Johnstown that evening and you could see how much of a valley Johnstown is in from the lights.
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Flu pandemic
3:15 - Chapter 2 - Galveston hurricane
5:30 - Chapter 3 - 1936 Heat Wave
7:20 - Chapter 4 - The battle of antietam
9:20 - Chapter 5 - San Francisco earthquake
11:00 - Chapter 6 - Johnston flood 1889
I hope people come to visit johnstown
My great-grandfather died in the Johnstown flood. He was the editor (publisher?) of the German language newspaper. The rest of the family survived floating downriver on the roof of their house.
Didn't the various immigrant communities put out newspapers in several languages? Or were some of the other newspapers put out in other Western Pennsylvania cities like Pittsburgh and Altoona? I know Carnegie and his Robber Baron/industrialist friends had a habit of bringing over entire villages and even the local priest to work in their factories (the priest simply to marry the workers, bury them, and baptize their children). It led to a bunch of single or merely double church enclaves of various Eastern European denominations like Romanian Orthodox or Eastern Rite Catholics or Hungarian Reformed church. And each immigrant community could maintain their language.
The Galveston hurricane was the reason for one of the great mega projects of it’s day. They actually raised the city several feet by pumping in mud and then draining the water off. Some surviving buildings do not have a first floor because they are now below ground level. Check it out.
In an effort to NOT talk about the subject, I want to say that I love the “Chapter” labels for the different stories. That’s a really nice, professional touch. Tell your editor clone to keep that shit up.
It makes me quite happy that you pronounced "Conemaugh" almost perfectly. Most people really struggle with that.
That's because the "maugh" comes from Ireland and the U.K place names
You got a stiffie bro why don't you just marry him geeze
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When I said I wanted to be part of history I didn’t mean covid cases...
I am affraid you dont get to pick your disasters.
Well said
*: Examinees Zipper :*
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I'm holding out for dieing in the defense of liberty agianst an oppressive fascist system that currently controls near every facet of our lives 👍
You should make a video about the last prisoners at the Sarah Island penal colony in Tasmania. Quite amazing.
During the Johnstown flood the flood water swept thru several barbed wire factories, causing furnaces and boilers to explode. Stacks of coiled barbed wire mixed with the bricks from the buildings were swept along by the flood. Many people got trapped by the barbed wire and burnt to death when the mass was trapped by a bridge that was across the river. The fires were caused by stoves that were in houses that were swept away.
The Peshtigo fire was as bad as that in Chicago the same week.
If memory serves, more people died, but it was harder to be sure because so little remained. Still horrific, even if my memory sucks.
Same day, not just the same week. 300 died in Chicago and 1200 are known to have died in Peshtigo with a possible 1000 more that they are unsure of. In fact, William Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago and major developer and landholder there owned a huge timber stand and sawmill in Peshtigo so he saw both sides of his life go up in flames. He paid his Peshtigo employees until a new sawmill was built and had relief supplies shipped in. He is a huge hero in Peshtigo.
I think the Chicago fire was really part of the much more widespread Peshtigo fire. I read a book about the fire and there was mention that the RAF and US Military studied the mechanics of the firestorm as part of their plans to bomb Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden during World War II. These bombings were retaliation for the German attack on Coventry which showed similar firestorm characteristics to Peshtigo.
I'd love to see you do a feature of the Emu War which Australia lost.
Galveston actually had no warning. NWS thought it was going to turn into the southern coast and not go that far west
Hey I know you and the production crew are super busy but all your channels are not linked in the "channels" section of your shows. I know this could definitely help the newer channels get the same viewership as Toptenz and today I found out so I thought I'd give you the heads up.
Abe Lincoln once said of General Mclellan, "he's got the slows". Mclellan took too long to act on anything and Antietam was his greatest victories. He was replaced by General Burnisides - he had monstrous sidebuns . . . .
Yes, Ambrose Burnside. Fantastic facial hair. Less fantastic military leadership capability
@@greenkoopa he knew he shouldn’t be put in command, but if your boss says do it...
Douglas Adams - "It was an act of god. But WHICH god?"
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Corruption
I just subscribed to Megaprojects and Sideprojects! WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG! MY LIFE HAS CHANGED!
Now all you have to do is subscribe to Simon's other numerous channels!
Anyway, welcome!
@@ianr i think I am subscribed to all Simon's channels, but with a new one every few days it's always hard to know.
Beware, he's got you hooked now, in a week you won't be watching anything else!
Fantastic job yet again Simon. I was wondering if you could do a video on trail of tears and the lead up and consequences of it.
A good Geographics subject
Agreed
Have you ever done a video on the American interstate highway system ?
There are some stretches that could get their own Sideprojects video. The entire thing would definitely warrant a Megaprojects video. Do it, Simon!
He has done a megaprojects on transamerica highway but not the whole interstate highway system....that would be kinda interesting.
Re: Antietam, Lincoln considered it a sufficient success to issue the Emancipation Proclamation but was more privately angry with McClellan over the incomplete victory and fired him.
Antietam. Beautiful area. Bout 10-15min from my house. The nearby Chesapeake and Ohio Canal would be a great mega/side/geo show....
An interesting, and sobering, fact about the Storm of 1900 that was not mentioned. Prior to the hurricane making landfall, Galveston was the largest city in Texas. After the storm blew through, Houston suddenly found itself the largest Texan city. In part this was because some in Galveston and the surrounding areas fled north into Houston, but also in part because so many folks in Galveston had perished during the storm and its after effects. One can still feel the legacy of those lost souls to this day by walking along the sea wall or strolling near the port.
Two of my grandfather's brothers died from the "Spanish" flu in 1915-1918. The older of the two, who was 22, got his WWI draft notice on his deathbed. The other brother was 19. Grandpa was 8.
Back about 2007 or so we had a week of temperatures in excess of 103°. In some areas that's an every-summer thing, but I live in western Oregon where most summer temperatures are between 85° and 90° and rarely get hotter. A lot of homes aren't air conditioned (like ours) and there was a veritable black market in air conditioners. I heard about one truck driver who had a load of air conditioners that he was trying to deliver to a local home store, and he was mobbed.
in addition to building a seawall, the people of Galveston also jacked up all the buildings and raised the level of the streets.
You didn’t mention the Galveston grand raising. That could easily be a mega project but given everything it could just be a side project. The whole great flood, the story of the nun who sadly dragged the orphans tied to her to their deaths and many other stories about the event would make a geographics episode. The aftermath with so many men forced to deal with the bodies at gun point and booze, the floating coming back to shore after being buried at sea, even Clara Barton came to Galveston to aid. The eventual raising of the entire city was a monumental affair that those who couldn’t afford to raise their two story homes merely had them become single storied and odd lower floors eerily peaking out from under the newly made porches.
This is a story I’d love to hear you talk about as you’ve danced around it.
As a resident of Johnstown I appreciate your clear, concise and accurate account of the 1889 flood.
Should have added a "before 01. January 2020", for that sweet second part ad-revenue
Good morning Mr. Whistler it's great to see another video!
Wow this is such an uplifting video I’m glad you made it
SCARY AF!!!!!!! Thank you Sir Whistler!
The Battle of Antietam resulted in fact in far more deaths than the 3.5 thousand cited, that's approximately the number of Americans that died during the battle, on November 17
(if we count the confederates as Americans, which we shouldn't, a more accurate description would be "2,108 brave American Patriots as well as 3,281 treasonous confederate rattlesnakes").
But thousands more died as a result of wounds received during the battle in the following days, bringing the total to 7650 (according to the National Park Service).
Also, Lincoln was disappointing by general McClellan, he thought (and was probably right) that his over-caution was the reason why the battle ended in a tactical draw rather than in a major victory for the Union.
I'm from Johnstown, so cool to see someone actually talk about it! And also, we had 3 major floods lol
Is the flood museum still there? I was a little kid when we went there so probably like 30 years ago.
@@NPFAC yes it's actually been renovated and modernized too, I took my kids there a few times.
1889 we didn’t need fema, we had neighbors and charity. 1936, Pennsylvania had an idea - let’s create a liquor tax to ‘help Johnstown’... Still in effect.
Funny how people forget weather events from the 30s
You mean the dust bowl? No, we didnt forget about that.
How many are old enough to remember it?
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane, for example, was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on record in terms of pressure, but it rarely gets talked about.
We had to be made to forget all that so we can believe the current climate fear narrative being foisted on us.
Great watching, thanks !
Do a video over lesser known pyramids around the world including the one in indonesia
Suggestion: the molasses flood
It must be one of the more bizarre disasters ever to occur.
1:10 no Simon, I am pretty sure they called it Spanish Flu not because they reported the cases accurately, but precisely bcs they reported them at all and the combatant countries did not bcs of not wanting to lower morale
That and they didnt want for the enemy to know about the weakness on their ranks
@@sriyasodharmma4021 Spain was the only country reporting deaths regularly, it's not because they were the first. General consensus is that covid-19 originated in Wuhan, China, and nobody has ever disputed that.
Is there an actual purpose to labeling it cHiNa fLu or kUnG fLu aside from appeasing your corny boomer sense of humor? I can't see any.
@@sriyasodharmma4021 yeah exactly lol
@@sriyasodharmma4021 being funny isn't why trump started calling it that, trump doesn't do anything if it isn't serving himself. It was simply a lousy attempt to deflect attention from his poor handling of the problem within the United States. I just don't see how thousands of Americans dying every day warrants coming up with "funny" nicknames for the virus.
The first three months of 2021, on a daily basis, are right up there.
Simon unleashed the Blaze a bit at the end
"with no vaccine or antibiotics to treat secondary infections control efforts were generally focused on quarantine and isolation as well as personal and public hygiene initiatives and limiting public gatherings!"
Almost EXACTLY what the Greek government is still doing, probably because the health care system was left, for years, to "rot away", in an effort to privatize it more cheaply.
I was hoping to see the Texas City Explosion in here to. But with only 500 to 600 killed it may not have been deadly enough despite being the most deadly industrial disaster in the USA.
But it can give Simon the idea of a video on the worst industrial disasters in the US. I know they are quite many.
Simon did a video on that on one of his other channels, the geo one not the blaze one
He did it last week. ua-cam.com/video/B9VDI5tEmfM/v-deo.html
@@bruhbruhhh6592 I know but the idea of having two such disasters so close to where I live mentioned kind of makes my heart warm.
I'd love to see a mega project video on hurricane prediction history. How they tracked it back in the day without hurricane hunters or GPS.
Hi Simon. Thank you for all your good work. I would like to make a suggestion for an episode. In the 1960s the local government's of the Bay Area started building a train system that would connect San Francisco to the smaller communites on the east side of the San Fransisco Bay. This proved to be a bit more difficult, time consuming, and expensive than had been originally planned. Some of the biggest problems came from such a large project built up cities. Other times work was brought to a halt when constution crews came across the unmakes graves of early miners and settlers. It's an only in California tale. Thanks.
Tom Harriman.
The City
Wow the Rideau canal/river would be a great Mega project! Vote Canada!
I agree as someone from ottawa
Or the Trent Severn!
I've been trying to get that done for months. Thank you for suggesting it.
As of the publishing of this video, 9 of the 10 deadliest days are now due to COVID-19. Only the Galveston Hurricane had a higher single day total.
If you watched the video, you would know that this is incorrect. The Spanish Flu averaged 6500 deaths/day for an entire month, meaning something like 29 of the top 30 days are due to Spanish Flu. We just don't have the exact numbers for those individual days.
Love your new program and bread!
If anyone is interested in the Galveston Hurricane, I highly recommend the book Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson. It doesn’t just discuss what happened in Galveston but how racism and the idea of American exceptionalism led to the storm hitting the Texas coast with no warning whatsoever. It was so sudden that trains were still running in to the city (or attempting to) in the midst of the storm.
It’s fascinating and horrible. I’m from the Texas coast and that storm has always been something of a shadow and the reason we track storms and prepare and make evacuation plans if need be.
Simon has a new microphone! 👍
Speaking of Frick.. You should do a video on the Homestead Riots and the story surrounding Emma Goldman
Spanish Flu originated on a pig farm in Kansas in 1916/17 and was transmitted to US soldiers on there way to the European trenches. And yes that took a lot of research to find!!
These aren’t deadliest days. These are deadliest events. The heatwave you mentioned was over the course of like two months.
A video on the Galveston Seawall, as seen in the video, might be a good one to make.
Sheesh, the 1930s were just kicking our ass. Heat wave, global financial crisis, the fucking Dust Bowl. We couldn't catch a break.
2021 gonna be a whole video to itself
Already has been
i live near j-town. we had major flooding in 1894, 1907, 1924, 1936, and 1977. the 77 flood i was 5 years old at the time.
Simon, an additional issue regarding the Spanish Flu revolves around COAL use and Industrial Pollution. The flu mutated due to the excess carbon providing a safe haven breeding ground for the flu virus which would otherwise not survive prolonged periods outside of a body. There was a recent study on this a couple years ago, since the actual virus is alive and well and pathologists were wondering why it isn't killing as many people.
The last bit is why I hate insurance companies. They take your premiums for 50 years, then when it's time to pay up "it's an act of God" so NO we won't. Crooks
Can you do a video on the Sun Valley resort in Idaho? Everyone has heard about it but nobody knows how cool it used to be, considering that the first ski lift in the world was built there
I grew up in Pennsylvania and went to see the Johnstown flood area. We learn about it in school as one of the examples of the mega wealthy not caring about the lives of others and getting away with it.
If you ever go to Johnstown, the bridge a the base of Incline Plane has labels for all 3 floods.
Great video. Would like to see Hudson yards in nyc as a “project “. The Vessel attraction there had recently become notorious for people jumping to their deaths from the structure
A segment on the Halifax, NB, harbor explosion is in order too. Resulting in devastation much like a volcano eruption.
Here ya go. ua-cam.com/video/dWs9a9bFzo4/v-deo.html
Glad to see the Johnstown flood here. Grew up couple hrs away, and hearing stories of the flood. Its taught that it was caused by poor maintenance and cheap owners who didn't want to pay to fix its problems for years before the flood happened.
The weather bureau on Galveston Island in 1900 was manned by brothers Isaac and Joseph Cline. They hailed from my home county--Monroe County, Tennessee. Sad, sad story. If you get a chance, read Eric Larsen's ISAAC'S STORM. Isaac Cline's wife, pregnant with their fourth child, drowned in the storm, and Isaac lived a widower for fifty-five years. 😢
You didn't even list 1978 when 99% of the population died from Captain Tripps
The Sydney NS Tar ponds could be an interesting side project.
Fun fact about the san fran earthquake and fire, a man named general funstun shelled san Francisco during the fires, hes from iola Kansas, we have a museum of him
How about the "refounding" of San Diego by Alonso Horton? I grew up in a town called Hortonville that he founded in WI on his way out west, and it has always interested me.
Side Projects, you stepped in some Top Tenz
The story goes that Carnegie and Frick never spoke again after the flood, and that Carnegie Hall in NYC was built because of the guilt that Carnegie felt from the devastation he allowed to happen ...
Too bad he chose to erect a monument to himself rather than help out those devastated by the flood.
You’re a good man Simon a little weird but I actually like your quirky personality you’ve kept me well entertained during the lockdown thank you
The Rideau canal in Ottawa, Canada would make a great video.
Port Chicago Explosion deserves your attention.
The video is only partly accurate regarding the Johnstown Flood. The dam was originally built by the State of PA in the 1840's and sold to the Hunting and Fishing club in the 1880's. The clogged spillways were received by the club in the deteriorated condition and they were the most important reason for the failure, although the topping of the dam was also a factor. The dam was topped in order to provide room to create an access road to the lodge. The debris piled at the stone bridge ignited due to friction and was held together by barbed wire from the flooded out barbed wire factory. The lawsuit was properly decided based on jurisprudence at the time which held that the owners had to have committed knowing and gross negligence to be held responsible and they pointed out that if the record-setting rains had not occurred there would have been no problem with the dam, and how were they to anticipate a storm that had never happened before. This led to the adoption of the doctrine of absolute negligence which says that 'if you own it and it breaks, then you own the problems, too--regardless of what you did or failed to do'. That doctrine explains how product liability lawsuits are upheld even though users employ the product against instructions.
On the Galveston Hurricane, I think it was not simply a case of the citizens of Galveston having days of advance warning but choosing to ride it out, which still happens today. There was, however, an attitude of, a storm is probably not coming this way, but if it DOES strike here, we've been through it before and we can handle it...nothing to get excited about. They had no idea that Galveston would take a direct hit from such a powerful hurricane, until it was too late. The US Weather Bureau would not listen to the advice or warnings of Cuban experts, who really WERE experts, and signs pointing to an approaching storm were not understood as such until, again, it was too late. Useful reports from ships were almost non-existent, because few if any had wireless telegraph sets aboard, so their information was generally outdated before it became available. Galveston before the 1900 Hurricane was set to become the premier Gulf Coast port; afterwards, it would fall behind its great rival, Houston, and could never catch up. On a side note, according to family history, one of my great-grandfathers went to Galveston to help in the rebuilding; he was a first generation German-American, and Galveston had a large German population with numerous social and fraternal societies...it's my understanding that this network reached out to branches in other parts of the country, asking for assistance.
T28/T95 America’s Super Heavy Tank “The Doom Turtle”
Seen pictures of it. Such a beast.
I can't unsee that pokeball on the lamp behind you.
At 1:29 he says that 500 Mil people were infected, 50-100 Mil died, or “25% of the global population” -That 25% figure is the infection rate (global pop. in 1918 is ~1.8 Bil) but the phrasing makes it sound like 25% of the global population died.
Always fun to walk the Galveston sea wall in the summer
You forgot about the day the music died... 🎶
To clarify, he is saying 25% of the world population was infected with the Spanish Flu. The death toll was more around 2.5%. Still a lot.
i live in Johnstown luckly above the flood area but there is alot of history of 3 huge floods and damn failures in the area
Not sure if you've covered it Simon, or which of your channels it would fall under but have you done or would consider covering the Tizard Mission?
Do you have a moment to speak about our boi with the blaze, lord, and savior Simon Whistler?
After watching the bit about Steele, ND having a record temp of 121F (Yikes!), my interest was piqued, so I decided to look up the highest temp ever recorded in the US, and it was (no real surprise here) Death Valley, CA, which hit 134F in July, 1913. I mean, yeah it's Death Valley, heat is expected there, but I never imagined it would be that extreme!
I would love to see Three Mile Island Nuclear Powerplant!!!!!
We need a Geographics Episode of the San Francisco Quake... Or the Johnstown Flood!
One of the most disgusting aspects I remember reading about the SF quake was that they never included the Asian casualties in the numbers of dead. That fact stuck with me for years.
To Our American Cousins: no more Antietams please.
Can it be that I'm one of the first? It's always a good morning when Mr. Whistler has a new video.
You have alot of good mornings then, pretty sure he uploads 7 days a week between all his channels.
@@Soph27199 Exactly! Every morning is a good morning lol.
Simon enjoys posting videos on days that end in Y. Hence SimonTube.
I’m catching up, Simon. Can you make as many videos in a day as I am able to watch?
while i wouldn't necessarily label this topic as " enjoyable " per se, it is eye openingly educational at the very least
You forgot to mention the day after one of their teams wins the Superbowl.
You're a busy guy! I'm trying to keep up..!
How about the Royal Gorge Bridge I believe it is the highest bridge in the USA and was built for next to nothing.
Hey, I live right next to that! Agree, heavily. It’s impossible to describe how high it is.
No doubt I have walked across it and it's a bit spooky looking over the edge.
Must have filmed this a while ago. We've had a few 4500 days. The Butcher's Bill is going to be close to a million.
We hit 400k today, I think you’re right. The idiots who refuse to wear masks should be prosecuted like Typhoid Mary was. Put them all on an island. Preferably without internet access or Fox News.
Love your videos