That's the coolest spillway I've ever seen. The way it curves to the left and the right makes some of the best water action I've ever seen. It looks the flume ride from hell.
I usually don’t take time to post compliments on YT, but this is an incredibly well made video. The drone shots are just beautiful, and well spaced with the “before” clips. Fantastic job, and thank you for letting us experience this.
Bloody fantastic. Hats of to the people who constructed this dam. Fantastic how they have done it with a natural spill way. Love. Many could learn from this.
This is beautiful!!!! You can see my Dad's place here.. only way to get to it is across the DAM! When we were kids, we kept horses out there.. and would swim them in the lake (not when it was going over the spillway though! As well, we would launch the boat from the 'beach' side.. i am happy they closed it off to public because people would trash the area so badly.. we have loved the canyon for many years! My GreatGrandfather, Grandfather and now my Daddy have owned the homestead on the pinnacle!!
hey my grandpa's place is across the dam as well though it's a bit further! I remember just how bad the drought was back about 8 years ago when the lake was ridiculously low. His place is on the lake but it was all the mouth of the cove, glad to see it's doing better now. So crazy to see someone else who knows the area.
Absolutely a visually stunning video. I have finished in Lake Medina many times when I lived in Texas. The music was absolutely beautiful for the video. Thank you very much for posting this in my extreme compliments to the pilot of that drone
Very well done/cool video.... the spillway makes a beautiful cascade of waterfalls & seeing it from the air is quite an experience. You went the extra mile & edited all of it plus added some music...... you created an "experience" in a natural rainfall. That's what's cool about it. peace man
My great uncle worked on the construction of Medina dam and earlier this year I posted photographs of the construction he had taken on my G+ page. This is marvelous footage of the beauty of the lake and the old dam, still standing a century later. The spillway working just as intended. I've never seen better film than your drone flights over this beautiful area.
@@googaagoogaa12345678 It wasn't built like a modern dam. They piled up stone and rubble and then covered it with a concrete shell, reinforced by cables. The floods threatened to wash over the top and did (IIRC) wash over the spillway. But the dam held.
@@dellalinehan9894 I didn't see your response till today. Wilbur worked in one of the towers that controlled the cables across the pass and were used to help move materials into position. Wish I knew more. But he left a bundle of snapshots showing life in the camp, and the mule carts originally used to move the stones which were replaced by some very old locomotives. Too bad G+ is gone and I can't point anyone to those images anymore!
When I was young we used to be able to drive across the dam and take that low road across the river and all the way into Castroville. When the water was going over the spillway in lower volumes, it was neat to park and walk down and sit in the moving water. Beautiful footage. Wish we could get some rain like that today.
incredible video with perfectly balanced back ground music, I have watched this video a dozen times now, its very relaxing, gorgeous scenery too Chris, Thank you for sharing
Living in Queensland Australia, how we would love the overspill to give our wheat fields and cattle country some rain , it has forgotten to rain in many parts of Australia this last 6 years at least .
I'm a little surprised they didn't put in a series of 48" - 72" culverts under that roadway when everything was built to keep the road usable during _most_ high water times. Or an overflow borehole like the one at Lake Berryessa in California. Love the natural look of the spillway though!
Exceptionally good flood control, and no way for the damn to be over-topped, or the overflow to destroy the outflow, as it's so wide and the water only cascades!
Very cool. Around the 2011 drought 7 years ago when the lake was around 3%, too bad the drone technology was not there, you would have an empty to full view, but we will have another drought...We always do.
Super mesmerising. I'm surprised to see there is an actual "Medina Lake." Here I thought it was just a made-up name for the band. Excellent footage anyhow. Loved it.
Medina Lake has a beautiful spillway. We used to hang out there after it rained and watch the waterfalls. That was before they stopped letting you walk across the dam to get to it.
That was sweet. Love the way that spillway works. The power of water is impressive. Easy to see how the original earth was radically changed 4400 years ago from the global flood of Noah's day. Drone footage was professional. The music was a nice touch. Solid video!
And if you had just landed somewhere long enough to get an audio recording… You would be the only one on earth (apparently) in possession of such a thing. I can’t believe no one recorded that. I’m sure you could hear that 5 miles away… Probably sounded like Niagara Falls. Pity.
Great spillway. I wish Oroville Dam was that well sited. They almost lost it a couple of years ago when the overflow started back cutting the earth fill dam.
