Life After People - The Salton Sea - Feb 9, 2010 11_33 PM.mp4

[superwhiz88]

this is result of greedy by corporation dump all you can dump , and republscum still trying to eliminate EPA .. imagine this happen to your home area..

[goldieloxxxx123]

The narrator's voice is so over-dramatic and annoying.

[strangelylucky]

misinformation. people still live there.

[jwallbanger]

@strangelylucky uh yeah they acknowledged the 200 people left there, out of 15K.

pics don't lie, that place is fucked. and you can thank monsanto for that, the evil corporation hell bent on killing us all with poison, genetic pollution and fascist seed control.

personally, i think no business should be allow to grow so big. they just become psychopathic, predatory monsters that no one can stop.

[woody5551]

No longer an upscale playground. Boy oh boy! That is a tragedy. ;-) So much mis-information and biased reporting. Not helpful , History Channel.

Salton Sea is still a beautiful place. It needs the right kind of preservation.

[TheRadical42]

Very kewl stuff! I like Life After People a lot! : D Way to go History Channel.

-Sure, some argue, "That's not History, that's the Future!"

-But like this excerpt shows, some of it IS history.

-Many people prefer the CGI collapses and ruins but I like these parts best of all; what's already happened. This, the Salton Sea, Chernobyl, areas around Detroit, ruined amusement parks - things like that. Spiffy!

[ObsoleteRobot89]

Palm springs is a shithole lmao

[superwhiz88]

this is what happen when your reduce government agency .. get it ??? stupid azz tea beggars ....

[MarinoDevin]

"Because War.. War Never Changes."

[01miguel0122]

I wish i could of been in the Salton sea back then when it was nice :(. Now it's just dead.

[scottwoodard1]

What this vid did not tell you is that this whole area has 10,000 acres or more of dedicated off road vehicle parks. Tens of thousands of quads, rails, Jeeps and motor homes flock here year round with the exception of summer. It does get hot. My office is 35 miles away in La Quinta. Tell me who hasnt commuted that far before. That smell everyone talks about? Hasnt been noticable for years. And when it is, the Palm Springs valley gets it too. Lasts a couple days and is gone.

[scottwoodard1]

This vid is incredibly bias. Yes there are places on the sea like what you see here but they are few. I own a home here on the south shore. I do business here. What kind of business? I sell real estate. Ironic isnt it. I am one of a dozen or so agents out here and we are all making money.

[Jakey92407]

Salton Sea is an evironmentalist whackos wet dream.

[DontMeanWell]

The fish dying started a chain reaction. Wow.

[LitHoneysuckle]

I went to visit this sea yesterday. The moment you step out, a whole swarm of flies come at you. It smells rather like a chicken farm. The temperature is hot. There are lots of dead tilapia there, most of them were adult sized. I saw lots of the hatchlings swimming very close to the shore. I wonder what will happen to them next year.

[PeterFormaini]

@LitHoneysuckle Sounds delightful. :D :D A fitting place for the San Andreas Fault to dive back into the bowels of the Earth. :D

[anikinippon]

Woa

[thEmAddrshOck]

Um... The Sea isn't "toxic", nor are there only a few hundred people living around the place. More bad scholarship from the History Channel. And they have the author of that "Imperial" book to give his two cents? Nothing like another rich white guy telling everybody how it is.

[Tyrant60]

@thEmAddrshOck

ib the 1960s, about 15,000 people lived there...

its "toxic" because of local agricultural run off... millions of fish die because pesticides.. that makes sense.

[thEmAddrshOck]

It isn't "toxic" because of agricultural run off. The agricultural run off causes algae blooms that rob the water of oxygen, causing the fish to suffocate. The Salton Sea is Rec 1 water, and you can drink it if you're so inclined with no ill effects. I suggest you visit the Salton Sea Authority webpage, or else one of the other numerous sites on the web devoted to the truth vs. the myth of the Sea. I do research down there, and it's far from "toxic".

[johnnecron]

No that is not entirely true

the high salt content and high tempuratures in the summer cause an oxygen transfer problem causing the tish to suffocate and die. the algea also dies causing a greater loss of oxygen

[papinsac]

@thEmAddrshOck if you stop and think about it, what else goes into that agricultural run off? A lot of hazard chemicals that are sprayed from planes, which also causes cancer. In the end, the place is a dead zone.

[thEmAddrshOck]

@papinsac Even the DDT used in the 50's is nowhere to be found in the Sea. It's a very complex ecosystem. The place is far from a dead zone. I assume I'm the only one commenting who's actually been there. I go there at least once a year, I have friends there, and I genuinely enjoy the place. The main point I'd like to make is that the media has blown the Sea's problems way out of proportion. Neither the state or the people of California want to fix the real problems for water law reasons.

[PeterFormaini]

@thEmAddrshOck Interesting hearing from someone who has actually visited and knows something of the area.

But I have to posit that if the population has dropped from nearly 20,000 to a couple of cities with a few hundred people, then SOMETHING is causing a problem with the water. :D :D

Thanks for the post!! :D

[thEmAddrshOck]

Oh, I should also add that a lot more than 15000 people used to live there. Originalk pop estimates are much higher than that. The Salton Sea State Rec area used to get more visitors annually than Yosemite, many of who would winter in the area as snow birds.

[socalhky]

saw this clip on the history channel tonight. it inspired me to do a little reseach of my own. pretty interesting story for a lake.