California fires from space

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-10-29 07:13am

IIRC, the city which popped up near the site of the Dam building (Used to house workers) Was actually called Boulder City, and from that collection of tents to army-style barracks housing, and finally the more city-like atmosphere with schools and regular services and whatnot, the City of boulder was born. I saw that on PBS one night...I could be wrong about the city housing the workers growing into boulder city eventually, but that sticks out in my head, For some reason.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-10-29 07:32am

And of course the Rapture Readites are calling it a sign of the impending apocalpyse, no doubt.

Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » 2003-10-29 08:49am

Hmm, i guess one could argue that this fire-thingy was a signal from the GUY ABOVE, that he didn't want Arnold for governor...

(eventhough i doubt it...)

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-10-29 09:11am

Chardok wrote:IIRC, the city which popped up near the site of the Dam building (Used to house workers) Was actually called Boulder City, and from that collection of tents to army-style barracks housing, and finally the more city-like atmosphere with schools and regular services and whatnot, the City of boulder was born. I saw that on PBS one night...I could be wrong about the city housing the workers growing into boulder city eventually, but that sticks out in my head, For some reason.

Correct, the work camp set up for the dam’s construction grew into the current permanent city. This was in part because even once the dam was finished, workers where needed to build the power generation facilities and the transmission lines for years after words, not to mention to need to house the workers. Many other dams also sprung up city seized work camps, others could make use of existing towns and cities which simply got bigger for a time, but Boulder is the exception in becoming permanent out of nothing.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-29 03:03pm

kojikun wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Assuming you mean the Hover dam, the concrete dam was built on the solid rock below the the river bottom and into the solid rock cliffs sides, its difficult for water to leak through that sort of thing..
Assuming you mean the HOOVER Dam, then you'd be right. Useless knowledge: The Hoover Dam was originally named the Boulder Dam, because the nearest city is Boulder, Colorado, but the government changed its name in the 30s to the Hoover Dam, in honour of the president that pushed for the dams construction as an effort to provide jobs to depression-era unemployed.

Don't you mean the closest big city is Las Vegas....considering that its in Nevada after all.

(I would know since I've ridden across it on my way to Vegas over the summer.) Boulder is pretty damn small.