A Flood Destroyed Our Road...Again 

Most people in World have a Shame Based Childhood. Yet few people actually get therapy.

Magnesium threonate and Omega3's should help your brain to relax.

I have found this site and also Steve Wallis (Canadian camper) to be so calming they say Steve is the bob Ross of camping. He has recently lost his beautiful wife but he has so many older ones you can watch I’d really recommend it. Happy you are getting out.

It’s described as ‘going through hell’ not because it’s permanently awful, but because you’re passing through it, and can come out on the other side. There is always light my dude. Enjoy the park! One park at a time. 🙌

@@williamevans6522 Good advice - Health benefits of keeping your required nutrients and minerals in check, goes a lot further than just physical health. Diet has a bigger part in our mental well-being than most people even register. Giving your body even the the smallest required nutrients that are lacking - has a lasting impact.

Agreed

infrastructure is always the most important but most overlooked factor in long term viability for habitation.

He has a backroad in and out so he isn't isolated. They wont be stuck.

@@chrisl6263 he hasn't talked of that, why?

@@wmcbarker4155 Yes he has. They used it to get back to the site after the initial flooding.

Yes a bit of civil engineering is definitely needed. I think he should leave the waterway there and make a new road surface above it so when it does rain, the water can just run down there without washing the road surface away.

Myself and quite a few people commented this on the last video. This needs to be properly rebuilt with drainage installed. It'll just keep happening. That road needs to be widened, drainage installed, stabilized, etc. It's not a small job. Another option would be relocating/raising the road so that it isn't the lowest point in some sections. "The Narrows" will always be an issue for the road because the water has to flow through there. Looking at the drone shot at 8:40 it's clear that the "bend" in the road needs to come out. All those rocks need to be moved, etc. Any narrow spots need to be widened/raised so the road isn't the drainage path. These "1000 year storms" are going to become a lot more frequent. The road should be over built to accommodate the increased frequency of these "freak" storms.

It needs a water reservoir Shady section freezes solid in the winter, so it can't be crowned or have angles

It literally never rains, Next time it rains like that will be in a 100 or more years

At the same time tho, hasn’t he mentioned it’s also a county road? If that’s the case it’s really not up to him. All he can do is make suggestions to the county.

I liked the way you said crumbly lol ...

Am new but very interested in this 👌

Good stuff

Awe

Speaking of getting out there, as a kiwi who has lived 15 years away i can tell you that i really miss the native bush and tramping\camping, even the sight of the mountains! So many awesome tracks.... Make the most of it mate!

That is what I was thinking. All that run off is both a blessing and a curse.

@@neilhosler9001 I was thinking rain barriers that could go to a pond or rain barrels there are ways to divert water.

Needs @jefflawton to make his contours

It’s a county road, so it’s not really up to Brent what gets done. Any work he does is with the knowledge and permission of the county

I was going to suggest this exact thing months ago, but figured they had already thought of all of that. Guess not. They certaintly need to look into this, since even a paved road there can get washed out when the weather gets bad enough.

Very good way to put it.. see it as a light being shed on an important topic which needed addressing, sooner or later.. 👍🏻

true.

As I commented I have been to the tunnel twice myself as a younger child in the 90's and found it fascinating. I was delighted to have seen the tunnel again for a third time now!

It'll probably be another metric of climate change....

well said.

Great comment and great analogy.

... Video wont even be a word people remember in less than a hundred years.

Come to think of it... how cool is that for young people in the future? I wish I could watch vlogs from a miner in 1880. "GOOOLD IN THEM HILLS" lmao... I just hope it doesn't go the way of most things on the internet and get lost to storage issues or time somehow.

Wow, such wonderful words. You too are an inspiration to whoever reads your words.

@@harrysurtees8710 awhhh, what a lovely thing to say. I'm just an old introverted gal from England. Hihi. I wish I could get out to Cerro Gordo and help out, but I'm in Wyoming. I just so love this countries landscape and the old western history. I should have been born a hundred years prior. Heh Heh! Thank you, take care.

Cool dad

He is an inspiration for anyone anywhere.

Or lost in his mind... sometimes that happens too out there.

​@@dirtpounder damn

I’m sorry to hear about the relationship. I really appreciate the note and hope you’ll always continue pursuing your passions

@@GhostTownLiving Need a drainage system to be installed in the road . 1000yr flooding is not the time has changed and climate change global it will happen more often bro you need to make a drainage system.

@@tonyariba9253 I second that opinion.

@@deirdrepasko9965 Dare I say easier said than done. The 'Red Tape' it would take to strip and peel away would be debilitating to any such drainage project. Which may suggest sadly the idea of altering what the county seems to have juristiction over makes it a non starter. A 'No Can Do' for said concept. There's a challenge. Any takers? An impossible task/thing that will take smart and good people in the right place with empathy and the willingness to put good money into a fine and worthy project. Also to assist with cutting through all that tape!

@@tonyariba9253 He just needs to restore the land around him with livestock so that it can soak up more rain water pr minute. Currently the land is turning worse and worse because it lacks grazing animals, and the water runoff will only increase if nothing is done.

Good advice, if I've ever heard it, this is it!

having visited cerro gordo I have no doubt that brent (or anybody) will be able to easily get some solitude. Walk for 10 min in any direction without a buddy and you will be utterly alone.

Hang in there Dean. I feel your honesty and respect your understanding of what needs to be done. There is strength in numbers.

You go King live the best life you Can 😁

@@odie00zero thank you, it’s been a long journey, but it’s not over yet , I have a strong will to live and lately it’s been a long road , but I’m livin the dream!!!!

Dean keep trucking at your pace , Rome wasn't built in a day, hitting 57 most days are okay , life is immense always , hang in there young guy.. ✌️💪👍🏜️🙏🤔

Thinking about takin up metal detecting!

This is such an ingenious idea that could be implemented fairly easily. There are a lot of people making suggestions that would take YEARS and MONEY for a road that is under county jurisdiction, in one of the most regulated states in the nation. That's not going to work as the entire point of Brent intervening in a county project is to get the water and cement up the road before the winter snowfall. TIME is of the essence. I hope he sees your comment and takes you up on this suggestion! 🙏

Yes! This works very well in a pinch and can work a lot longer than people usually think. We did this on our property leading to our barns after a heavy rain season kept flooding us out and we couldn’t get access to take care of the animals. We also put strategic trenches in and graded some areas. I was hoping it would help at least a little bit but it fully stabilized the road beyond my wildest dreams and it has survived an even heavier flood season since then with 0 issues. It was a god send. And we were able to do it mostly by hand over a week or so with about five people. Surprisingly small amount of work for the pay off. I read about it in one of my grandfathers only farming and land maintenance manuals I found in our attic and figured we’d give it a go. We did a small section first about a week before some flooding was expected and it work so well it gave us the go ahead to do the rest. I can’t believe I do see it written about more in current manuals cause it works very well and almost anyone can do it.

i bet the county would look the other way if he did a neat & tidy enough job paving water bars on the road as well

Where it's rock on all sides is where it all comes apart. Clearly to bring Cerro Gordo back to it's prime those areas must be blasted clear.

@@apollo5751 Yeah maybe a bit of blasting might be the cheapest and simplest option.

That works well for low intensity storms…sadly the intense storms that were experienced recently would blow out a French drain.

@@allyb1055 Right on, just a lame perception from me. Maybe start a brownwater rafting company? The "Narrows" sounds like a typical dangerous rapid name from any major river? Farmers Almanac says heavy precipitation this winter. Looks like Brent might need Heavy D once again. The county might not help until after the winter rains?

He is being used to sell products! It's very popular over years. It shows lack of confidence that the products can't sell themselves on their own merits.

@@BeingMe23 It is okay to sel products that have value

@@BeingMe23 so by your opinion nothing should ever be advertised anywhere. Bravo to you

You do know he chooses to do this and can go live a regular life anytime he wants? No one is forcing him to make You Tube videos and live in his ghost town. I suppose the drama is good for his number of views on You Tube, though. And praying only helps the person praying feel better about themselves, it doesn't actually do any good for anyone else.

Ive given Brent warnings in the past as well. I'm glad he seems determined despite numerous set backs . Onwards and upwards. 😎

I can’t even fathom what it would feel like after nearly two decades of carving out a tunnel in the dark, only to be told your efforts are of waste. Then to toy with the options; What am I to this world? I’ve wasted a quarter of this life to fallible suits. Do I fade into mediocrity from here on? Could there be purpose for me beyond this mountain? Do I convey to others, that I am useful, that I am necessary? Could other endeavors await me elsewhere? May I make my worth in other efforts, in other places? Maybe if I keep faith and press on, I may see the light at the end of this tunnel. What else can I do, there is not work for me anywhere but here. These are heavy emotions, and Mr Schmidt certainly considered them before pressing on the rest of the way through the mountain. Any human would. In the end it is inspiring that he did follow through regardless of the naysayers, if only to prove his worth to himself, if not someone else.

I visited the tunnel around 20 years ago. In EL DORADO mountain range it's very hot there. The tunnel is cold inside

@@missingremote4388 I was there and walked through, back in the early 90's.

A friend took me to that tunnel and we walked threw to the other side of the mountain. Looking out over the landscape at the end of that tunnel, it looked steep, sorta like it would be very difficult to build a road here. Maybe as hard to build a road as it was to dig the tunnel? I have also drove up the road to Cerro Gordo, and that too will take a major effort to build a permanent road.

this is a scammer do not reply he has been here before .dear scammer I can have your phone # tracked to your location .😠

Yes, Brent needs a vacation to the tropics somewhere so he can sip from a glass with an umbrella in it. If I had a million dollars I would pay for that trip.

On what do you base on?

The south west definitely needs more rain, but experts say the current drought is expected to continue for many more years

There is another way into Cerro Gordo from the north but its alot more technical and harder to traverse if it's raining.

Or asphalt

Install some french drain type drainage and give the water a path to follow. The mercy of mother nature isn't her strong suit.

One in 100 year flood, does not mean your weather service expects a flood of that severity, to occur, once every 100 years. It means, the odds of such a flood happening, are 1 in 100 against, in your area, on any day, during any particular year.

Yeah it's part of the what we sign up for to live there. We need the rain badly here in Cali.

@@Mrbfgray the only problem being that too much rain is as bad as not enough

@@raeward8092 Locally but not state wide, with rare exceptions that entire Central Valley becomes a lake for half a yr, about 160 yr event we are "due for"....next one will of course be attributed to driving SUVs, lol.

@@Mrbfgraypeople don't drive SUV"s they just figure more ways to get in your way

@@zoltanliszkai2162 Are you hinting that the next lockdowns, and other trampling of basic human rights, will be about CO2 hysteria?

He describes the rain "just where he is" not in the valley below, this is NORMAL for Owens Valley and mountains on both sides, it can be brutally storming on both sides while sunny on the valley floor even, that's what the term 'rain shadow' comes from, mountains ring out the heavy clouds. Wasn't jus his town probably but much of the higher elevations.

Remember, it's all content for RU-vid. Once Brent catches onto the it's all content, and content is money for Cerro Gordo concept, and posts regularly, all will improve. Most youtubers would love 1.5 million subscribers, that's gold.

@@markmitchell457 Great point. It would appear he's only scratched the surface of YT potential in some respects.

Please read Callums road book he did same thing on a Scottish island called Rassay 😀 many many gloves boots wheel barrows later he finished but his efforts up to a point were fruitless as he did it for his fellow islanders only to find out when he had finished most of the people had moved on .The road is still there and the council even tarred it AFTER Callums death. Check out the 📖 .

Disagree. He'd still be remembered as it would likely be known as a tunnel to nowhere. It would still go down in history. People would remember that it had all been done by one guy and it was all for nothing. Sure, people remember it more because he carried on but to say it would just be a random tunnel in a mountain is not correct. There's nothing random about it.

Well-stated!!! I agree!

That last bit... it's a romantic self-fulfilling prophecy... If Brett wants to, he will. If not, he won't.

Dude, don't give him money. He's rich and has hundreds of people donating time, supplies and money. Don't forget about all of his ad crap in these videos

@@MichaelRichards983 I never understood people like you. If you do not like someone's content just leave and find something more suitable for your taste without leaving hate comments. I guess you get high off leaving hate comments because you left two more on this channel.

@@Leon-ve2xb You don't understand when someone has followed a channel and supported them why when the channel begins to fail that they post a comment? If you can't understand that simple point I'm not sure you are mature enough for this conversation.

@@MichaelRichards983 481.000 views in few days certainly isn't failure, also it's none of your business to tell someone to do or not to do something. If someone wants to donate let them. Imagine yourself in Brent's shoes, would you rather have supportive and reassuring comments or mean and unhelpful comments coming from toxic and miserable bastards like you?

@@MichaelRichards983 I can't comprehend your last comment. What are you trying to say?

This never scurried to me but this is actually an excellent idea. In my area too the national guard and forestry services etc. have really strict code rules for their equipment that got put in about five years ago so they are always getting rid of the old equipment or they auction some or whatever. He could also look into getting an equipment donation from them for some extra supplies. Most of it is in excellent condition and sometimes not even used. I know about two years ago one of the groups did a huge donation to the local Boy Scouts and the forestry organizations at our schools and the stuff they got was exceptional. They were able to sell the extra for money to build a green house and they built a bunch of knew fences and all kinds of cool stuff just with the equipment they got. It seems like they were happy to be rid of it cause they weren’t allowed to use it anymore and it was taking up space. My uncle does some work with them sometimes and they just send a full warehouse of extra equipment they had to help with the relief efforts in Puerto Rico and Florida I guess and he said a lot of it had never even been used or open but they had to buy it to use up the grant money they got so they would meet their budget and not lose money the next year. Pretty crazy to think about.

god bless you for your service.i grew up with bulldozers dumptrucks and dad let me drive a mck twin stick on my first date i was 15 im 60 now ill never forget that date.he said in rough voice park it on a hill it might not start the airstarter is weak.i hauled my date a pretty little blonde all over these towns that night.her comment was god almighty this truck smells!