Very professional production. To someone who constantly watches mainstream videos with millions of views, this fit surprisingly well in my feed. Great editing and mic work. I think making videos about riding your bike through historical areas could be your niche, I can definitely foresee an audience for that on youtube. Good luck
Trent: Great route, great video. I'm facinated by your visions and inspiration to create. It's always a surprise where our inspiration comes from, such as the dam collapse, which was the catalyst for your route, your video as a medium to educate people about the history of the damn and the tragic loss of lives. Well done. Keep Creating. Keep riding. Keep inspiring others. ~ PEACE
Hi, Trent. That was a good ride, and you made good time. Having grown up in the area of the dam site, I've always known about the disaster. I'd like to recommend a good book on the subject that I read recently. Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles, by Jon Wilkman. Happy trails to you...
Of course people know about it. However, most people I've spoken to, do not! Having been both a Los Angeles and Ventura County resident, learning about the disaster hit me in a meaningful way.
Frank Black and the Catholics have a song “St. Francis Dam Disaster” on their album Dog in the Sand. That’s how I knew about this tragic event. Give it a listen.
yep- the okies escaping the dustbowl in oklahoma found employment when they got to vta county by earning 25 cents per body exhumed from the tangle of wire and wood and debris. i know this because i got to hear this from someone who did exactly this. sherman leroy goodman also set up the first service station in somis and built tthe water system for simi valley. i grew up in camarillo and this is a story people should know about, also the deaths may have been as high as 2000 people. you should cover the raytheon/rocketdyne meltdown in simi valley and how all of ventura was built on top of thousands of graves. the headstones were deposited in the riverbed north of ventura. you can still read a lot of them. theres some content for you, hexagon eyes!
@@TrentSiggard all my friends who grew up in simi had very early onset lieukemia, ovarian cysts, and other maladies. unfortunately half of them died from suicide or overdoses..... its a rough place to grow up. even the chumash avoided that area
