Why Florida’s Most Dangerous Lighthouse Fell into the Sea

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IT’S HISTORY - Weekly Tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Florida's Cursed Lighthouse
0:57 How the St. George Lighthouse came to be
2:40 Mighty Gales, Violent Wars, and Unforeseen Tragedies
6:56 Hurricanes STRIKE the St. George Lighthouse
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@dvulpis29 8 дней назад

I’m guessing Florida’s most dangerous lighthouse fell into the sea because it was Florida’s most dangerous lighthouse.

@stellamcwick8455 8 дней назад

Insert Florida Man joke here.

@blipco5 8 дней назад

😂😂😂

@martinphilip8998 8 дней назад

Because it tipped over. Pisa is next.

@greg8106 7 дней назад

@@dvulpis29 They should have known giving it that nickname would lead to disaster! It's like being surprised the leaning tower of Pisa leans, you shouldn't have named it that if you wanted it to stand straight up! Lol.

@blipco5 7 дней назад

@@martinphilip8998 The Pisa tower has been shored up to prevent future leaning. Or at least that’s the plan. We shall see.

@joetuktyyuktuk8635 8 дней назад

I am reminded of a story about not building a castle on sand?

@teh-maxh 8 дней назад

It's a tiny island. The choices were a lighthouse on sand or no lighthouse.

@lenna629 8 дней назад

Hurricane Andrew was in 1992

@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman 8 дней назад

yup, I went thru that one

@88KeysIdaho 7 дней назад

Yeah- he said it correct at first, and then threw in 1995, which was either a misspeak, or he meant something else happened in 1995 as a result of 1992's Andrew.

@dennisc6716 7 дней назад

Except his mistake here was saying Andrew instead of Opal.

@88KeysIdaho 6 дней назад

@@dennisc6716 Ah. Good to know.

@joemichael3656 8 дней назад

It’s wonderful that someone posts historical stories and photos, so the experts can crawl out of the cracks and explain to the commoners about life.

@tjtreinen7381 8 дней назад

Maybe if florida had not gone cheap, and used techniques the British used to build light houses, with interlocking stones, it might be still standing. Thanks for another interesting video.

@user-yt9id8zq3g 8 дней назад

It was the foundation

@aspensulphate 7 дней назад

I don't think it would have helped. The lighthouse stood on what was, essentially, a sandbar.

@stevecausey545 8 дней назад

Were they able to retrieve the fresnel lens the last time it collapsed? The spirit of the light...

@joewoodchuck3824 7 дней назад

You're right. I didn't think of that.

@RCAvhstape 7 дней назад

I'd hope they'd have removed it when it was taken out of service.

@bauhnguefyische667 8 дней назад

If you think about it, everything in Florida is built on sand. Think of it as a Zen sand garden that gets raked over every couple of decades.

@joewoodchuck3824 7 дней назад

Plenty of the interior is fertile earth though too..

@fightingwolf18 7 дней назад

@@bauhnguefyische667 With a Cthulu-sized plow.

@bender7565 8 дней назад

I was in the USN for a long time and spent a buttload of time there, they packed up the Cape Hatteras LH and drug it 100+ yards inland. It was a better deal than replacing beach sand EVER year for rich dick flutes,

@RCAvhstape 7 дней назад

I saw Cape Hatteras LH in the early 90s and I remember how close to the water it was. Came back a few years later and it was weird to see it in a different location. I think there was a whole Discovery Channel documentary on how they moved it, really fascinating engineer work.

@silver-berry 7 дней назад

I have managed to be unaware of this story. Thanks for bringing it up and giving me something to learn about today!

@BakedRBeans 5 дней назад

@@RCAvhstape See also, the PBS series "Legendary Lighthouses" . One episode tells all about how they moved it.

@Electriceye1984bySam 8 дней назад

Great vid👌🏻👍🏻

@danieledrich6602 7 дней назад

What became of the Fresnel Lens?

@davidkastin4240 8 дней назад

Gee it was doomed from the getgo 😮

@walkerpantera 8 дней назад

wow, $11k in 1830s is about $4MILLION today.

@gregpendrey6711 8 дней назад

That’s inflation. Price never goes down and pay never keeps up. Wish I had 4 million back then. Just imagine all that could purchase then.

@Rick-qf5de 7 дней назад

Do you remember when land in the USA. was $500 for 500 acres.... That was the minimum you could purchase...

@GumbyAndrit 6 дней назад

I’ve been to St. George many times, and have known about this lighthouse before, well told

@edwardsuarez-ri5dz 6 дней назад

Great story.

@JusticeAlways 8 дней назад

It fell because it was too heavy...😅

@iamelcapitan 8 дней назад

1995 would have been hurricanes Erin or Opal, not Andrew again. Otherwise great information, I never knew about this one.

@rebeccahylant7695 8 дней назад

I remember those hurricanes, especially Dennis in North Carolina.

@michaelsimmons261 8 дней назад

I like when you said(if you were paying attention earlier and I was😂

@jerrydean6702 3 дня назад

Hurrican Andrew hit in '92, so what storm was it in '95? Opal maybe?

@b_f8852 7 дней назад

There is no curse, just marginalized competence.

@DLeadVox 4 дня назад

💛💛💛

@edwardsuarez-ri5dz 6 дней назад

What would have happened to all the houses had there been on the beaches?

@LAkeshow17 8 дней назад

Cargo, not freight.

@Trakeso 7 дней назад

ah, a video set in the South instead of the Rust Belt. Nice change :)

@Trtevoorryu 7 дней назад

I just knew from the title it was the St George Island lighthouse. That is a barrier island and like all barrier islands anything on it is transitory

@davidpoole5595 8 дней назад

Own a house right down the street from this lighthouse

@ThanksChris 8 дней назад

@@davidpoole5595 Is it true what they say about Florida home insurance?

@freetolook3727 8 дней назад

What do they say?

@bstory3196 6 дней назад

Hurricane Andrew Aug 16, 1992 - Aug 28, 1992

@bstory3196 6 дней назад

1995 hurricanes Luis, Marilyn, Opal and Roxanne

@joewoodchuck3824 7 дней назад

What was this lighthouse called or what town was it located in?

@aspensulphate 7 дней назад

St. George Island Lighthouse

@joewoodchuck3824 7 дней назад

@@aspensulphate Thanks!

@-Katastrophe 6 дней назад

one of these days he's going to start his video with the formation of the solar system for context.

@jmt979 22 часа назад

It was never called Cape St. George. I have been in it 100 times before the collapse.

@John-zy4zz 6 дней назад

Cotton is king. I lived in Arizona 40 years before I realized we even grew cotton lol. Please try to understand how important cotton was and is

@SuperMika70 8 дней назад

😢

@brentcoates5470 8 дней назад

Yay a video that doesn’t have something to do with Chicago, thank you

@caseysmith544 8 дней назад

Or NYC.

@onmyworkbench7000 5 дней назад

It was not the SEA it was the Gulf Of Mexico!

@BeckVMH 2 дня назад

Physics.

@Twobeers1 8 дней назад

It's obvious, it the most dangerous, duh. Just sayin

@VIPER0308 8 дней назад

What about Kainé in Nier? They knew we'd do it, and they gave us 10 great lines while kicking us away until the 10th time. She kills you brutally (off screen), and you get an achievement for your perverted stare.

@ambert.3792 8 дней назад

heehee, first? lighthouse lets GOOO!

@Rick-qf5de 7 дней назад

And God said let the mountains crumble to the Sea... !!!

@BrownEyePinch 7 дней назад

Its floriduh

@Josh-yr7gd 8 дней назад

Third!

@derrickmiles5240 7 дней назад

Erosion wins again.

@rottenroads1982 8 дней назад

It didn't have its foundation on the Rock. That's why it fell. Know the Parable of the Builders, taught by Jesus. A Wize man built his house on the rock, then the floods came, and the wind beat and blew against it, but it didn't fall. A Foolish man built his house on the sand, then the floods came, and the wind beat and blew against it, and it fell with a mighty crash. This parable is usually used for stating that you should base your life on the foundation of Jesus's teaching, but it can also be used as good Building advice. I mean, that light house was Definitely built on Subpar foundations.

@stevetadlock5223 8 дней назад

That was BS the lighthouse should have been trashed...

@2024.choice 8 дней назад

Ron DeSantis didn't pay the light bill so the lighthouse stumbled over a rock and fell into the sea we can still say lighthouse in Florida can't we just never know when Ron is going to ban another word

@RCAvhstape 7 дней назад

And how does that make you feel?

@Trtevoorryu 7 дней назад

Actually most lighthouses are under federal jurisdiction. There used to be an entire department called the United States Lighthouse Service. Nowadays they are managed by the United States Coast Guard

@vanpunk 8 дней назад

Quarter million to restore a useless, doomed relic. Sure there was no better use those entitled jackasses could find for the money. Nostalgia is stupid.