Driving Around Flint, Michigan in 4k Video
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2023
- Filmed on Tuesday, July 4 2023, I drive around Flint, MI to see what's going on.
In 1819, Jacob Smith, a fur trader, founded a trading post at the Grand Traverse of the river which was then called "Pawanunking" by the local tribe, or "River of Flint".
As the ideal stopover on the overland route between Detroit and Saginaw, Flint grew into a small but prosperous village and incorporated in 1855.
In the latter half of the 19th century, Flint became a center of the Michigan lumber industry. Revenue from lumber funded the establishment of a local carriage-making industry. As horse-drawn carriages gave way to the automobiles, Flint then naturally grew into a major player in the nascent auto industry.
In 1904, local entrepreneur William C. Durant was brought in to manage Buick, which became the largest manufacturer of automobiles by 1908. In 1908, Durant founded General Motors (GM), filing incorporation papers in New Jersey, with headquarters in Flint. GM moved its headquarters to Detroit in the mid-1920s.
For the last century, Flint's history has been dominated by both the auto industry and car culture. During the Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937, the fledgling United Automobile Workers triumphed over General Motors, inaugurating the era of labor unions.
The city was a major contributor of tanks and other war machines during World War II due to its extensive manufacturing facilities. For decades, Flint remained politically significant as a major population center as well as for its importance to the automotive industry.
The city's population peaked in 1960 at almost 200,000, at which time it was the second largest city in the state. The decades of the 1950s and 1960s are seen as the height of Flint's prosperity and influence.
Since the late 1960s through the end of the 20th century, Flint has suffered from a series of crises.
Flint has suffered from disinvestment, deindustrialization, depopulation and urban decay, as well as high rates of crime, unemployment and poverty.
Since it's peak in 1960, Flint as lost more than half it's population.
GM employment in Flint has fallen from a 1978 high of 80,000 to just 700 people today.
The City of Flint as also suffered from mismanagement and a series of financial crises, resulting in the appointment of multiple Emergency City Managers between 2002-2015.
In 2014, during one of Flint's many financial crises, state-appointed emergency manager Darnell Earley changed Flint's water source from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River) to the Flint River.
After the permanent switch to the Flint River, city residents began complaining about the color, taste, and odor of their water. In August and September 2014, city officials detected levels of coliform bacteria, so residents were advised to boil their water.
General Motors (GM) made the first complaint about the corrosivity of the water. GM stopped using Flint water in October 2014, after reporting that the water was corroding car parts. General Motors requested to switch back to the Detroit water source, which was later approved by city officials.
The MDEQ placed Flint on violation notice but did not reveal the information to residents until January 2015. The employees of the Flint Public Library declared the water undrinkable after noticing that it was discolored, despite the city's claim that the water was safe. January and February 2015 tests showed that the city water met all health and safety standards. Nevertheless, Detroit Water offered to reconnect Flint, waiving a $4 million connection fee, but was declined by new Emergency Manager Jerry Ambrose.
In March 2015, Flint voted to switch back to Detroit Water. Ambrose disagreed with the reintroduction of the Detroit water source. Ambrose argued, "Flint water today is safe by all Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality standards, and the city is working daily to improve its quality." In August 2015, it was found that local organizations observed that high concentrations of chloride caused the water to be orange and that the water contained high levels of lead.
Lead levels tested by the water utility never reached the EPA action level of 15ppb lead during the crisis, however the city did not know the locations of lead service lines, which city officials acknowledged in November 2015.
In September 2015, a team from Virginia Tech found that at least a quarter of households in Flint had levels of lead above the federal level of 15 ppb and that in some homes, lead levels were at 13,200 ppb.
To date, more than 25,000 service lines have been excavated, resulting in the replacement of 9,516 lead pipes.
The Flint Water Crisis led to several lawsuits, the resignation of several officials, and fifteen criminal indictments.
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Home. No matter what..always home, always loved. You can take the boy out of Flint, but you can never take Flint out of the boy.
J
The "unintended" consequences of offshoring the midwest.
Very intentional
Also the consequences of union greed.
Lol the downtown area actually looks a lot better than when I moved away in 2016
downtown's improved a lot. tons of new businesses and they're redoing the infrastructure
Looks like to be a very clean city, but where are the people? You can tell when you are in the black part of town.Finally I see those blue tops
Flint has undergone one of the most tragic hardships of American history and has since over the last 5 years especially been reviving. It will take decades if not more to heal from the job loss and crime that resulted in the auto industry in particular moving overseas. Flint is a prime example of what happens when shady elected officials sign bills such as nafta
U was in miller rd mashion
It's so empty where is everyone
all of those green open lots used to have a house on them
This was Indian land Flint residents are okay with green lots and free land. Let it breathe again m
Do you have to pay for parking in flint downtown
Most places no. Some street parking has meters
This must have been filmed on a Sunday
It was filmed on the 4th of July
Hey! I am a filmmaker from the Lapeer County area and wanted to reach out to you regarding your footage of Flint. I am working on a detective webseries that takes place in and around Flint starting next year and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind if your video was used in different episodes in snippets? I’ll credit you at the end of each video as a thank you if you’re cool with me using it.
I don't need credit or a thank you but I would want a small license fee, you can email me: churchofthesimulation@gmail.com
@@exploreusacities Thanks, but I'll decline.
God I thought 💭 that was really funny 😆 😅
For the right price bugs a daffy could live here 😅😮
Rikers island 🏝️ anyone 😅
Some good some bad and some ugly. Thanks. What's for lunch?
A tall, cold glass of Flint tap water! Hahaha. Just kidding. Tacos!
@@exploreusacities Lol. I hope you were kidding. Do you know what was in that water a few days ago?
Porky 🐷 pig 🐷 is also considering it , just like fog horn leg horn if the price is right of course 😅
In a number of categories, the most important being population bases under 100,000, this community is considered the most dangerous in the Western Hemisphere. 2016 counted 81 homicides in a population of less than 90,000 inhabitants. It's closest rival, British Honduras exceeded these numbers only by including the large number of women and children in homicide rates.
Baby, these are mean streets!
This is what happened to the "American Dream." Reality time. Too many cities look like this in the North. South, East , and West.
Welcome to abandoned central of America 🇺🇸 😅
Cheap 🌞 sunglasses 😎 anyone😮😅😅😅😅
Your autism is flaring with all your comments
This is the market’s invisible hand. Present when profitable. Moving away the same instant the productivity goals aren’t met. Not rocket science.
Still the best economic system in the world.
Imagine how much better Flint would be if it was an all-white or all Asian city or both.
you should address the Flint city council and tell them your idea, I'm sure they will love it!
@@exploreusacities Well for starters, white and Asian are capable of repairing their own water treatment facility.
A little commentary would have been helpful....
That’s what I was thinking. Once he left the downtown area it hard to recognize the neighborhoods he was driving through. I grew up near there in the 60s but it has changed a lot.
Could you send me to a more dangerous neighborhood? I'm dreading walking back to the car someone shouldn't crack me over the head and steal my bag, I'll be lying there on the street in this neighborhood and people will spit on me and empty my pockets. I'll lie in the gutter like a bum, like a dog, like a mutt, like an animal! God forbid someone should help me or call an ambulance. No, that's too much trouble to pick up a phone and press a few buttons.
yeah sure, I'll find that neighborhood for you
Like a baby detroit. F that lol
actually Detroit is much nicer
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Flint Michigan just like 👍 Gary Indiana 😮 would make a great v place for a prison colony for its people and citizens who live there still😮