St. Francis Dam

“If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.”
~ William Mulholland

The St. Francis Dam collapsed just before midnight on March 12, 1928, sending billions of gallons of water toward sleeping people downstream. 431 died in the second worst disaster in California history. The lessons learned have had a big impact on dam safety, and are taught to every engineer and geologist.

Learn about the disaster from Garry Hayes, geologist and educator, in his great blog:
https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2018/09/recalling-californias-second-worst.html

See scenes from the actual disaster in this very short video: The Story of the St. Francis Dam https://youtu.be/YWf6H3l4T4E

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Yes, the Rwanda removals policy has been ruled legal

But the court held UK government has applied that policy unlawfully 19 times

Yesterday's judgment not that welcome to the government

By me, at my new Substack

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