Thanks for educating me about St Thomas and Lake mead. I had no idea the lake level had dropped so much. I visited Hoover Dam in 1983 when the lake was almost full. To see it now makes me sad. I saw a brief (6 min) video that said (as someone else has commented) the concrete steps were the entrance to the St Thomas School. There was a picture of the school with those recognizable steps in front. It also said there were some people who refused to leave. One guy held out to the bitter end because he didn't believe the water was really going to reach his house. There's a picture of the water at his doorstep and they had to help him leave in a boat! Gotta love his spirit. I'm new to your RUclips Channel but I've subscribed and have already watched about 20+ of your videos. I can't believe some of the places you go into. You are a petite, beautiful woman but you could never be my girlfriend. I could never date a woman whose "cojones" are bigger than mine! Keep up the good work!
Just out there on 12/31/2022 - there are a number of signs now (with photos!) describing the buildings and how all of those water cisterns were used. It’s amazing to think that the town was 60 feet underwater in 1945, and that you can’t even see the lake from the townsite now. For viewers considering a visit, it is still a great cool weather hike. However, the museum is primarily about the lost Native Puebloan culture - and has only a passing reference to St. Thomas. Apparently, almost everyone makes that assumption. The on-duty docent actually got kind of prickly about it when I was there 😂.
Another GREAT video WH and informative to boot. Not sure how much time you spent exploring there but as a photographer I spent just 4 hours there, the light was never to good, and had to marvel at how those people lived so far away from other towns and still made do. Tons of shells and I even noticed some fishing line on a couple "bushes" not long after starting out on the trail. Keep visiting/documenting interesting places, makes me want to visit some of them.
Just watched this video being from Wisconsin I found this very interesting and unique so glad you did this video great history watch alot about Lake mead and the level of water dropping, never knew this town ever existed. Great video thanks for the great job making it.
I have always wondered about that place my great grandfather lived there worked on the dam then mined in kelso as well as many other mines along the old t&t railway, what I find most interesting is how similar the construction is to a lot of the ruins I find right here in Apple valley but then again a they may have been built by some of the very same hands ,thank you for this
@7:39 Sarah talks about the bodies that may have been dumped in Lake Mead. I'm watching this in May 2022 about a week after a 55-gallon drum was found at the bottom of dried-up Lake Mead and guess what was in it.
My family and I would go to lake Mead on weekends fishing and boating , we talk about the city way down under water . Don't recognize it now, course that was in the late 60's . you are so cool ,love your videos !!!!!
Thanks for this adventure! It was great fishing where you are in the 80's. Had no Idea this was down there. Outdoor explorations like this, are among my favorite activities. Fascinating look at nature and history in the desert.
I remember taking my jet ski to those ruins when it first started popping up, too shallow for a boat but a jet ski could make it, I also remember that all being full and driving over it in my boat, sad
I grew up in the old bonelli sandstone house that was built in 1906. I miss living in that house. Hopefully I can live there again someday and grow my children old in that house.. we had to move when my mother passed away in 2013
I love the explorations you do. I love the West and it really piques my interest in going out that way soon. New subscriber. I really like your take on some of our social issues. It’s refreshing, especially being in the heart of the Midwest
Overton is where I found our families first arrowhead! Great history there. The underground dwellings are so cool. There are artifacts everywhere, especially by the old horse corrals. I found the most on the red sand, right in the dirt road leading to the corrals.
Thanks for the video, I was raised just down the road between Overton and Logandale , and that was our playground back in the 60s-80s .... haven't been back there since 87 .... THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO !! BROUGHT BACK LOTS OF MEMORIES !! AND WATCH FOR UFOS ... THEIRS LOTTS OF THEM AT NIGHT TIME ✌️👽👾👽✌️... ps. say hello to Wayne Newton for me !! we used to be neighbors up there !! sending y'all lots of luv all the way from Mexico !! 🇲🇽🌮🌯🌮🇲🇽
Used to live in Henderson in the late 70's and spent a lot of time at Lake Mead and the dam, didn't have to pay to get into the park back then. Also got to see the lake when it was full to the brim and we spent a bunch of time at the dam watching the spillways, pretty awesome sight that we will probably never see again.
@@berniec3903 that's what I am saying. Because I grew up in the oldest house standing on overton. Was built in 1906 it's called the SA Angle house at the end of bonelli it's a bug two story sandstone house and I lived there my whole childhood... So I would like to know where they took these so called houses into overton because I know just about everyone in the town of overton and logandale because it's so small and everybody knows everybody's business.. and I never herd of those buildings being moved.. they aren't supposed to touch anything out there it's a historic place....
@@jamesduffy9756 I currently live in a cottage just a bit older than your old house, when we first moved here we lived in a place that was about four hundred years old, built before America was "discovered", history is always thought of as way in the past but in reality we create history every day, those houses have been lost possibly within a living memory and now those memories have become history and are of historical interest, it makes you wonder what history our future generations will value and what will be lost due to our electronic age, photos on floppy disc now lost as we cannot access them etc etc. Makes me just a bit sad.
OMGosh can’t believe Lake Mead has dried up that much my family traveled 5 hrs to go there every holiday weekend such great memories I probably watered skied over that town so sad I love your videos I have lived so close to so many of the places you filmed love all the ghost towns too 💖💖💖
Hey Miss Hussy really enjoy your explorations and what an amazing imagination! I mean you thought (out load) that those steps might have led to a brothel before "The Great Flood! :-) And when you imagined a mermaid might have used the other bldg. as her boudoir where she would hang out and brush her hair that was awesome. You seem to have a child like imagination!! I find that to be a very endearing quality in a person and with your exploratory nature It must really enhance the experience for you and your followers. Keep the vids coming love them. Thx...Wes
I lived n Las Vegas NV for 2 yes back in 2014-2016 and Lake Mead was severely low at that time, too. Such a shame to see what has happened up there. Best regards and God Bless you and your family.
I flew into Las Vegas a couple of years ago and we flew right over Lake Mead. I was shocked at how low the water was. I saw one marina where it looked like they rented house boats. The boats were all gone (moved to a different location) but you could see the docks. They were HUNDREDS of feet away from the water.
16:00 When I was a kid I was hiking with my dad when we heard gun fire. My dad became really alarmed at the shots because he could tell, bu the sound that were were down range. About the time he started to say something a shot rang out and the bark of a tree next to me exploded off. The bullet must have passed my body by less than a foot. That's when I became really alarmed. More shots rang out and I was already dropping when dad told me to drop. We couldn't see the shooters but dad yelled for them to stop shooting. They yelled back a sorry, then my dad stood up and headed through the brush to where the shots came from. I had never seen him that angry. I got worried because I could see dad was pissed and he clearly wanted to talk to the idiots who were shooting into the trees. My dad was never violent, but I was afraid he might try to kick some ass, and they were armed. But he just yelled at them. I think he was more angry that they nearly shot me than anything else. He was very protective of my sister and me.
Eric Taylor 1) the people that were shooting should of known what was beyond their targets. 2) your dad had a right to be pissed, and as it was an accident lethal force wasn’t warranted. 3) always remain calm even as a kid, listen to authority (your dad) and do what they say. Too many kids and now adults freak out and panic or freeze getting them in trouble or killed. I carry everyday (legally) and at 64 I still protect people.
I once saw a show with a guest who had survived somebody's celebration bullet on New Year's Eve because she was holding a spoon in front of her face when the bullet came through her open Window.
Thanks for sharing this info, I may be living under a rock but I wasn’t aware of the drought situation and the fact that Las Vegas consumes all of that water
Same thing happened in western Massachusetts in the 1930s. Four towns were evacuated and destroyed to create the Quabbin Reservoir, so that the city of Boston could have water. In that case, the buildings were completely gutted. They also had to move graves from cemeteries to higher ground. This would never happen today.
You're funnny,I love your sense of humor....theres another town that was flooded in upstate N.Y,it's still under water.Its called Lake Delta. We get too much rain for it to ever dry up.
It’s such a shame that Lake Mead is drying up. Everyone looks the other way!! I need to get back out to the dessert. It’s been 4 years and I am not getting any younger!! Wonder Hussy thanks for reminding me of the ‘the best of the West’. I need start planning my next vacation out to Vegas and the West!! I would love to visit with you in Vegas.
Yes, another find to explore!!! Amazing that lake mead is so low. You fly over bama and see the Colorado river, were it dumps into the sea? It is all but dried up there. Another interesting video!
So interesting! I remember when they made Lake Silverwood in CA and there is an old town under it. Can't remember the name but I remember going through it a few times as a kid.
In Australia, the little town of Adaminaby was flooded by the Eucembine dam forming lake Eucembine in the mid 50's. In times of severe drought, the old town becomes visible from time to time and I have heard that the first time it re-appeared after being flooded for about 25 years, some flowers like daffodils actually sprouted in some of the old gardens
very nice video, wondering where the cemetery is,no boats or anything else there ,wondering what is buried in the ground maybe lost gold bars or coins,no metal detecting makes me wonder why?
My wife and I used to SCUBA dive all five Basins back in the 70's and 80's when St. Thomas was 136 feet under the surface of Lake Mead. BTW, target shooting is prohibited where you are. Not allowed in the entire NPS Lake Mead area in fact. Hunting however can be allowed with a permit.
www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/97a277a65dba1c79d84a69be272980d56439c82d/c=0-20-800-620&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2015/06/06/StGeorge/B9317609698Z.1_20150606153632_000_GKKB028L5.1-0.jpg this is the building you were showing at 16:45 if you look close it has the same stairs and building shape. the square things you kept finding around the town site are cisterns for water storage.
You are one funny and unique Hussy. I really enjoy your trail trivia and you attitude. Let me know when you start doing tours of your favorite places for fun loving fans for $$$. ‼️🤗🥴
The lake is not actually drying up. Its just more water is being taken out, then rain and snow melt are putting back in, or at least that is the way it was back in 2017. When you consider alot of the water that goes into lake Mead comes from Wyoming and Colorado, and some times that is not a lot.
That 1500 Gallon Tank looks like a fire department water tender drop tank to me. Those are carried on the water tender trucks, "dropped" on the ground, set up the portable "drop" tanks and the trucks empty there water in to them, then leave to refill the water tank on the truck. What in the heck it's doing out there I do not know. Interesting video thanks for making and sharing it with us.
I heard that a lot of the wooden structures were burned completely away so the wood would not float to the surface of the lake and be dangerous debris for boating and would damage the generators in Hoover Dam. Then all that’s left are the foundations and the mud.
At a guess, the Parks Service has welded Rebar grills over the cisterns to stop wildlife and curious people from falling in and adding to the bodycount in Lake Mead.
Fun fact: there was a test run for a customized b-29 superfortress on one of the military bases around lake mead and the sun reflecting off of the water of the lake or the glass of the plane (I don’t remember all I remember is that the sunlight reflected off of something) and the plane hit the water and skimmed a few hundred feet and now it’s at the bottom of the lake so we’ll preserved that you can still see the numberos and signs on the inside and some of the outside of the plane and still see the co pilots headsets still on the flight stick
So I'm watching you today 2/11/17, seeing the dried up Lake Mead lakebed, that whole valley all dry today. Meanwhile, at Oroville Dam, in Oroville California the main spillway is falling apart, the huge outflow is tearing the mountainside apart. And for the first time in 50 years since Oroville Dam was completed, water is overtopping the never-used Emergency spillway. In Reno, the ground has not been dry in well over a month. I hope some of this season's snow and rain in the West is reaching the Colorado river watershed! Thanks for your excellent videos, Wonder Hussy!
I'm amazed that we, as a country, can expedite the distribution of oil, but can't invest in a water distribution system that can get excess water to places that don't have enough. Not enough profit in it, I guess. Falling off my soapbox now.
Re; water resources and infrastructure. If you want to know what was proposed in the early 60's for true large scale stuff- Go to Larouchepac.com, look there for a video NAWAPA 1964. That plan completely dwarfed all we have today. IT's mind-blowing!
Those chimney looking Square with metal grates on them are most likely wells. They didn't have indoor plumbing they got their water from a well. And the position and how many there are tells me it was their well. Nice video but do a little research before hand it will make it so much better. To be able to point out what your finding. Other than that your camera control and balance was good and the speed you moved around was excellent. Thank you.
I don't know for sure but would bet that those "chimneys" were cisterns for gathering rain water plus supplemented by hauling water and they probably had wind mill towers or hand pumps that had that curbed catch pan of concrete next to them. In that climate they would not want to waste any water by letting the excess hit the sand. Hope that is helpful.
For the record, in Vegas, we get very little water from Lake Mead. Most of the water used in Vegas comes from Northern Nevada. Arizona and California use most of the water taken from the lake.
I’m not sure if you will go over this.. but people refused to leave the town before it was vacated. The settlers didn’t believe that a lake would actually happen!
Brilliant!.I want to hike the world's wreckage and contemplate it with you.💙. I think the rectangle thing by the cistern is a baptismal pool. Or something. The nice metal grills over the deep holes are so you don't go down and get stuck. Modern safety stuff..
That clay is seventy years of silt ..The buildings concrete construction had trapped all the sit inside it . The rest were made of wood which decayed. Great video by the way.
I had been to Overton a few times. 1996 was the last year I was there. Even then, the water had been receding. Someone had said that Logandale, a nearby town, had been deserted, already, because of the lack of water. Wonder Hussy, you are seeing now, what I visited many years ago. You need to go check out Ft. Piute, off of hwy 95, aacross from the Laughlin turnoff. If you haven't been there, you need to check it out.
Interesting fact about those clams.... A very long time ago most of the Southwest was covered under a shallow ocean. And as the ocean went away many of these clams over the millions of years have adapted to live in freshwater. And today many lakes and rivers in the Southwest have freshwater clams in them today.
Small museum but really cool. Overton is a nice spot to resupply for your expedition into the Lake Mead area but they have a great supermarket Lini's to stock up and a Micky D's for a fast fuel up eat and the Inside Scoop across the street for chillin an getting some great grub.
and fast forward to 2020 regarding shooting. Sad. A very interesting video Sarah! I know it would never happen but I'd love to see what the Tn. valley looks like under all that water. TVA flooded it just like Lake mead was.
Awesome video WonderHussy and great little viewing of the ruins of St. Thomas. I was just there recently for the first time and did my own little documentary with little knowledge of the place and was testing my brand new Canon T6 Rebel camera and will post it on my channel...I subbed to your channel btw.
Sarah Jane, your "combing her hair with a fish skeleton" comment has me with beer out my nose!
Do love your commentary.
We lived in Vegas in the 80’s. I never thought I’d see Lake Mead drying up THIS much!! Thanks for your videos, God bless.
Same here. I left for the military in 1982.
it filled back up
Thanks for educating me about St Thomas and Lake mead. I had no idea the lake level had dropped so much. I visited Hoover Dam in 1983 when the lake was almost full. To see it now makes me sad.
I saw a brief (6 min) video that said (as someone else has commented) the concrete steps were the entrance to the St Thomas School. There was a picture of the school with those recognizable steps in front. It also said there were some people who refused to leave. One guy held out to the bitter end because he didn't believe the water was really going to reach his house. There's a picture of the water at his doorstep and they had to help him leave in a boat! Gotta love his spirit.
I'm new to your RUclips Channel but I've subscribed and have already watched about 20+ of your videos. I can't believe some of the places you go into. You are a petite, beautiful woman but you could never be my girlfriend. I could never date a woman whose "cojones" are bigger than mine!
Keep up the good work!
Just out there on 12/31/2022 - there are a number of signs now (with photos!) describing the buildings and how all of those water cisterns were used. It’s amazing to think that the town was 60 feet underwater in 1945, and that you can’t even see the lake from the townsite now.
For viewers considering a visit, it is still a great cool weather hike. However, the museum is primarily about the lost Native Puebloan culture - and has only a passing reference to St. Thomas.
Apparently, almost everyone makes that assumption. The on-duty docent actually got kind of prickly about it when I was there 😂.
Another GREAT video WH and informative to boot. Not sure how much time you spent exploring there but as a photographer I spent just 4 hours there, the light was never to good, and had to marvel at how those people lived so far away from other towns and still made do. Tons of shells and I even noticed some fishing line on a couple "bushes" not long after starting out on the trail. Keep visiting/documenting interesting places, makes me want to visit some of them.
Me and the wife never miss ya vids..you're great. Keep these coming and have fun. Peace
Holy cow, holy cannoli and now holy crikey! You never cease to amaze me. Another great video. Thanks for hiking in.
Just watched this video being from Wisconsin I found this very interesting and unique so glad you did this video great history watch alot about Lake mead and the level of water dropping, never knew this town ever existed. Great video thanks for the great job making it.
Wow, awesome video! This makes me want to come out and visit the bottom of what was once Lake Mead. I love all your videos, Greta job.
I have always wondered about that place my great grandfather lived there worked on the dam then mined in kelso as well as many other mines along the old t&t railway, what I find most interesting is how similar the construction is to a lot of the ruins I find right here in Apple valley but then again a they may have been built by some of the very same hands ,thank you for this
@7:39 Sarah talks about the bodies that may have been dumped in Lake Mead. I'm watching this in May 2022 about a week after a 55-gallon drum was found at the bottom of dried-up Lake Mead and guess what was in it.
My family and I would go to lake Mead on weekends fishing and boating , we talk about the city way down under water . Don't recognize it now, course that was in the late 60's . you are so cool ,love your videos !!!!!
Thanks for this adventure! It was great fishing where you are in the 80's. Had no Idea this was down there. Outdoor explorations like this, are among my favorite activities. Fascinating look at nature and history in the desert.
Thanks for the tour, Love the desert and its surroundings. Cheers.
Great video. You do an amazing job narrating your videos. Thank you.
That was cool and informative. Thank you Sarah.
Always a pleasure watching your videos!!! Informative, interesting, and intelligent! Thanks!
Thanks for the history lesson. I love knowing the history of places
Wonderhussy, you have such a knowledge that is priceless! Thank you for putting in the hard work for this video!
I remember taking my jet ski to those ruins when it first started popping up, too shallow for a boat but a jet ski could make it, I also remember that all being full and driving over it in my boat, sad
I love the History!
You do so well ; keep up your Good work , Wonder 💜😃✌
I grew up in Overton..my Gmas family was one of the last to leave St.Thomas...
+Lee Johnston (Bearpoop566) wow, that's amazing!
I grew up in the old bonelli sandstone house that was built in 1906. I miss living in that house. Hopefully I can live there again someday and grow my children old in that house.. we had to move when my mother passed away in 2013
Sup fellow neighbor !! I was raised up in Overton myself !! and man, I miss fishing and swimming the MUDDY RIVER ... 😢
I love the explorations you do. I love the West and it really piques my interest in going out that way soon. New subscriber. I really like your take on some of our social issues. It’s refreshing, especially being in the heart of the Midwest
Overton is where I found our families first arrowhead! Great history there. The underground dwellings are so cool. There are artifacts everywhere, especially by the old horse corrals. I found the most on the red sand, right in the dirt road leading to the corrals.
Thanks for the video, I was raised just down the road between Overton and Logandale , and that was our playground back in the 60s-80s .... haven't been back there since 87 .... THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO !! BROUGHT BACK LOTS OF MEMORIES !! AND WATCH FOR UFOS ... THEIRS LOTTS OF THEM AT NIGHT TIME ✌️👽👾👽✌️... ps. say hello to Wayne Newton for me !! we used to be neighbors up there !! sending y'all lots of luv all the way from Mexico !! 🇲🇽🌮🌯🌮🇲🇽
Used to live in Henderson in the late 70's and spent a lot of time at Lake Mead and the dam, didn't have to pay to get into the park back then. Also got to see the lake when it was full to the brim and we spent a bunch of time at the dam watching the spillways, pretty awesome sight that we will probably never see again.
I love St. Thomas. They moved a lot of the buildings to Overton. Great video thank you Christian
Where did they move them to?
@@berniec3903 that's what I am saying. Because I grew up in the oldest house standing on overton. Was built in 1906 it's called the SA Angle house at the end of bonelli it's a bug two story sandstone house and I lived there my whole childhood... So I would like to know where they took these so called houses into overton because I know just about everyone in the town of overton and logandale because it's so small and everybody knows everybody's business.. and I never herd of those buildings being moved.. they aren't supposed to touch anything out there it's a historic place....
@@jamesduffy9756 I currently live in a cottage just a bit older than your old house, when we first moved here we lived in a place that was about four hundred years old, built before America was "discovered", history is always thought of as way in the past but in reality we create history every day, those houses have been lost possibly within a living memory and now those memories have become history and are of historical interest, it makes you wonder what history our future generations will value and what will be lost due to our electronic age, photos on floppy disc now lost as we cannot access them etc etc. Makes me just a bit sad.
Hi Girl, that last building at 16:14 mins was the original school house.
MARTHA CAREY Yup, the St. Thomas School. Found a photograph on the internet with the unmistakable rounded edges of those stairs
OMGosh can’t believe Lake Mead has dried up that much my family traveled 5 hrs to go there every holiday weekend such great memories I probably watered skied over that town so sad I love your videos I have lived so close to so many of the places you filmed love all the ghost towns too 💖💖💖
Hey Miss Hussy really enjoy your explorations and what an amazing imagination! I mean you thought (out load) that those steps might have led to a brothel before "The Great Flood! :-) And when you imagined a mermaid might have used the other bldg. as her boudoir where she would hang out and brush her hair that was awesome. You seem to have a child like imagination!! I find that to be a very endearing quality in a person and with your exploratory nature It must really enhance the experience for you and your followers. Keep the vids coming love them. Thx...Wes
+Wesley Gurr thank you! I feel like imagination makes everything more Vivid and fun
Great tour thanks for sharing.
I love abandoned places. Terrific video!!! Thanks.
I lived n Las Vegas NV for 2 yes back in 2014-2016 and Lake Mead was severely low at that time, too. Such a shame to see what has happened up there. Best regards and God Bless you and your family.
I flew into Las Vegas a couple of years ago and we flew right over Lake Mead. I was shocked at how low the water was.
I saw one marina where it looked like they rented house boats. The boats were all gone (moved to a different location) but you could see the docks. They were HUNDREDS of feet away from the water.
Would be so fun if we could time travel and explore the town within a month of the lake forming.
Very cool! I love to see the construction of old buildings and homes like that.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video..
I love this video, I definitely want to go there someday. Awesome and informative.
16:00 When I was a kid I was hiking with my dad when we heard gun fire. My dad became really alarmed at the shots because he could tell, bu the sound that were were down range. About the time he started to say something a shot rang out and the bark of a tree next to me exploded off. The bullet must have passed my body by less than a foot. That's when I became really alarmed. More shots rang out and I was already dropping when dad told me to drop. We couldn't see the shooters but dad yelled for them to stop shooting. They yelled back a sorry, then my dad stood up and headed through the brush to where the shots came from.
I had never seen him that angry. I got worried because I could see dad was pissed and he clearly wanted to talk to the idiots who were shooting into the trees. My dad was never violent, but I was afraid he might try to kick some ass, and they were armed. But he just yelled at them.
I think he was more angry that they nearly shot me than anything else. He was very protective of my sister and me.
Eric Taylor 1) the people that were shooting should of known what was beyond their targets. 2) your dad had a right to be pissed, and as it was an accident lethal force wasn’t warranted. 3) always remain calm even as a kid, listen to authority (your dad) and do what they say.
Too many kids and now adults freak out and panic or freeze getting them in trouble or killed. I carry everyday (legally) and at 64 I still protect people.
I once saw a show with a guest who had survived somebody's celebration bullet on New Year's Eve because she was holding a spoon in front of her face when the bullet came through her open Window.
If it starts raining hard, get out fast ;) Thank you for sharing this.
You're so awesome good positive attitude. Thank you for sharing this video with us. Very cool of you.
wow amazing find! No wonder this lady is in such great shape...she hikes everywhere!
it look like you are having a good time keep up the good work my friend xx
once again, thank you so very much. I'm dpoing some amateue histrory and just love your material.. xo!
What a cool video. Thank you for exploring this city and sharing.
Thanks for sharing this info, I may be living under a rock but I wasn’t aware of the drought situation and the fact that Las Vegas consumes all of that water
Southern California uses water and the electricity generated, too.
Same thing happened in western Massachusetts in the 1930s. Four towns were evacuated and destroyed to create the Quabbin Reservoir, so that the city of Boston could have water. In that case, the buildings were completely gutted. They also had to move graves from cemeteries to higher ground. This would never happen today.
Another Great video. Good Job !!! Keep them coming.
great video. .thanks for sharing. always love your perspective.
yaaaaaaay, I'm glad you GET IT. thanks for being really awesome! I love your videos!
she doesn't get it the drains are suspect
We're you on Larry's live earlier April 2? .. that's how I found you .. I subscribed! I like this video .
love to check these ruins out! never been! Can U still go there now in 2019? I would think there's even more ruins today!
You're funnny,I love your sense of humor....theres another town that was flooded in upstate N.Y,it's still under water.Its called Lake Delta.
We get too much rain for it to ever dry up.
It’s such a shame that Lake Mead is drying up. Everyone looks the other way!! I need to get back out to the dessert. It’s been 4 years and I am not getting any younger!! Wonder Hussy thanks for reminding me of the ‘the best of the West’. I need start planning my next vacation out to Vegas and the West!! I would love to visit with you in Vegas.
Yes, another find to explore!!!
Amazing that lake mead is so low. You fly over bama and see the Colorado river, were it dumps into the sea? It is all but dried up there.
Another interesting video!
So interesting! I remember when they made Lake Silverwood in CA and there is an old town under it. Can't remember the name but I remember going through it a few times as a kid.
In Australia, the little town of Adaminaby was flooded by the Eucembine dam forming lake Eucembine in the mid 50's. In times of severe drought, the old town becomes visible from time to time and I have heard that the first time it re-appeared after being flooded for about 25 years, some flowers like daffodils actually sprouted in some of the old gardens
very nice video, wondering where the cemetery is,no boats or anything else there ,wondering what is buried in the ground maybe lost gold bars or coins,no metal detecting makes me wonder why?
I'm relocating to Vegas soon, I didn't realize how bad this situation really was. Crazy.
My wife and I used to SCUBA dive all five Basins back in the 70's and 80's when St. Thomas was 136 feet under the surface of Lake Mead. BTW, target shooting is prohibited where you are. Not allowed in the entire NPS Lake Mead area in fact. Hunting however can be allowed with a permit.
Great video, WH!
www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/97a277a65dba1c79d84a69be272980d56439c82d/c=0-20-800-620&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2015/06/06/StGeorge/B9317609698Z.1_20150606153632_000_GKKB028L5.1-0.jpg this is the building you were showing at 16:45 if you look close it has the same stairs and building shape. the square things you kept finding around the town site are cisterns for water storage.
That building was the town school
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Very interesting. You do a great job. Love you adventures
You are one funny and unique Hussy. I really enjoy your trail trivia and you attitude. Let me know when you start doing tours of your favorite places for fun loving fans for $$$. ‼️🤗🥴
The lake is not actually drying up. Its just more water is being taken out, then rain and snow melt are putting back in, or at least that is the way it was back in 2017. When you consider alot of the water that goes into lake Mead comes from Wyoming and Colorado, and some times that is not a lot.
I always enjoy every one of Your videos
If you ever feel brave enough, you should visit Groomlake, or Dreamland... area 51...
Love your videos take care.
That is excellent I’m going to have to go down there out there yes definitely thank you.
it's amazing so much of that town is left.
That 1500 Gallon Tank looks like a fire department water tender drop tank to me. Those are carried on the water tender trucks, "dropped" on the ground, set up the portable "drop" tanks and the trucks empty there water in to them, then leave to refill the water tank on the truck. What in the heck it's doing out there I do not know. Interesting video thanks for making and sharing it with us.
Not to be negative or anything but have you considered a gimbal for that camera? ;) as ever, great video!
I heard that a lot of the wooden structures were burned completely away so the wood would not float to the surface of the lake and be dangerous debris for boating and would damage the generators in Hoover Dam. Then all that’s left are the foundations and the mud.
In 20 years you will be able to explore the ghost-town that was once Las Vegas .....
Cept the Raiders will be there.
...hee hee
Nevada will be a coastal State. CA. will be eroded into the Pacific.
I hope so Vegas sucks...take your money and just throw it out the window; same effect. we lost 3,000 there; never again
@@lorenreece1665 ,........They say there's an underground naval base in Nevada
At a guess, the Parks Service has welded Rebar grills over the cisterns to stop wildlife and curious people from falling in and adding to the bodycount in Lake Mead.
Love your Instagram and Tumblr pics..RAWRRS:)
And of course this channel too:)
Fun fact: there was a test run for a customized b-29 superfortress on one of the military bases around lake mead and the sun reflecting off of the water of the lake or the glass of the plane (I don’t remember all I remember is that the sunlight reflected off of something) and the plane hit the water and skimmed a few hundred feet and now it’s at the bottom of the lake so we’ll preserved that you can still see the numberos and signs on the inside and some of the outside of the plane and still see the co pilots headsets still on the flight stick
So I'm watching you today 2/11/17, seeing the dried up Lake Mead lakebed, that whole valley all dry today. Meanwhile, at Oroville Dam, in Oroville California the main spillway is falling apart, the huge outflow is tearing the mountainside apart. And for the first time in 50 years since Oroville Dam was completed, water is overtopping the never-used Emergency spillway. In Reno, the ground has not been dry in well over a month. I hope some of this season's snow and rain in the West is reaching the Colorado river watershed!
Thanks for your excellent videos, Wonder Hussy!
+Tracy Gallaway Yay!!!
Yay back at ya, girl! All hung up on the situation at Oroville dam just now, it's looking real bad indeed. This water ought to be behind Hoover dam!
I'm amazed that we, as a country, can expedite the distribution of oil, but can't invest in a water distribution system that can get excess water to places that don't have enough. Not enough profit in it, I guess. Falling off my soapbox now.
Second guessing isn't required; access is.
Re; water resources and infrastructure. If you want to know what was proposed in the early 60's for true large scale stuff- Go to Larouchepac.com, look there for a video NAWAPA 1964. That plan completely dwarfed all we have today. IT's mind-blowing!
I am glsd that you are curious...always an interesting video!
Those chimney looking Square with metal grates on them are most likely wells. They didn't have indoor plumbing they got their water from a well. And the position and how many there are tells me it was their well. Nice video but do a little research before hand it will make it so much better. To be able to point out what your finding. Other than that your camera control and balance was good and the speed you moved around was excellent. Thank you.
Just looking at the places makes me feel like I'm in the hot desert! Cool video though!
The sense of wonder in your voice really sells this informative video. Thank you.
Thanks for the adventure
Have you checked out the old Spanish Fort over on Washington street in North Vegas?
I don't know for sure but would bet that those "chimneys" were cisterns for gathering rain water plus supplemented by hauling water and they probably had wind mill towers or hand pumps that had that curbed catch pan of concrete next to them. In that climate they would not want to waste any water by letting the excess hit the sand. Hope that is helpful.
For the record, in Vegas, we get very little water from Lake Mead. Most of the water used in Vegas comes from Northern Nevada. Arizona and California use most of the water taken from the lake.
Oh, cool, we'll get to walk all through this soon
I’m not sure if you will go over this.. but people refused to leave the town before it was vacated. The settlers didn’t believe that a lake would actually happen!
Brilliant!.I want to hike the world's wreckage and contemplate it with you.💙. I think the rectangle thing by the cistern is a baptismal pool. Or something. The nice metal grills over the deep holes are so you don't go down and get stuck. Modern safety stuff..
That clay is seventy years of silt ..The buildings concrete construction had trapped all the sit inside it . The rest were made of wood which decayed. Great video by the way.
That red tank is a cattle tank.
Randy Westfall Where were the cattle and what the hell did they eat out there?
@@loditx7706 C rations maybe or perhaps a bag lunch!
I had been to Overton a few times. 1996 was the last year I was there. Even then, the water had been receding. Someone had said that Logandale, a nearby town, had been deserted, already, because of the lack of water. Wonder Hussy, you are seeing now, what I visited many years ago. You need to go check out Ft. Piute, off of hwy 95, aacross from the Laughlin turnoff. If you haven't been there, you need to check it out.
Interesting fact about those clams.... A very long time ago most of the Southwest was covered under a shallow ocean. And as the ocean went away many of these clams over the millions of years have adapted to live in freshwater. And today many lakes and rivers in the Southwest have freshwater clams in them today.
Small museum but really cool. Overton is a nice spot to resupply for your expedition into the Lake Mead area but they have a great supermarket Lini's to stock up and a Micky D's for a fast fuel up eat and the Inside Scoop across the street for chillin an getting some great grub.
..... Like your smile..... Love your style.....!!
This was one of your most interesting videos. Imo. Shows just how bad the water situation is in the Western States.
and fast forward to 2020 regarding shooting. Sad. A very interesting video Sarah! I know it would never happen but I'd love to see what the Tn. valley looks like under all that water. TVA flooded it just like Lake mead was.
Makes you wonder how much of that clay is at the bottom of the dam. Howdeep really is that water.
Awesome video WonderHussy and great little viewing of the ruins of St. Thomas. I was just there recently for the first time and did my own little documentary with little knowledge of the place and was testing my brand new Canon T6 Rebel camera and will post it on my channel...I subbed to your channel btw.
I reckon those grill covered things were wells and they used to pump the water into the the thing next to it for there horsies.
they were cisterns. ...every house ad one for water storage.
The parents made their children go down in the cisterns and clean it out. That's what we learned about them. And no that's not what they are for
Your back in Nevada now? Very cool video by the way!
Isn't it sad what has happened to our lake?? 😢😢 maybe this winters snow will fill it a bit. We use to go to Overton to swim. Wow!