That was a major major hurricane on US territory, so I was thinking that with 15,500 paid employees, an outfit like CBS could do better than amateur twitter sites, maybe chase down some background. However the pay scale for reporters there is shocking, $40k a year or only 2x the salary of a Walmart greeter.
Now here is a real dam failure, the worst ever in US history. No storm, zero warning, followed by denial of responsibility. The cover-up went on for years. Site selection by prominent individual with no formal education in geology, built right across a fault in tremor-prone California.
St. Francis Dam - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_DamJump to Collapse and flood wave - Two and a half minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam catastrophically failed.
St. Francis Dam collapse left a trail of death and destruction
www.latimes.com/local/.../la-me-stfrancis-dam-retrospective-20160319-story.html The collapse of the St. Francis Dam on March 12, 1928, is, in terms of loss of life, the second-greatest disaster in California history. ... The death toll from the collapse varies from about 400 to more than 600. ... It swept into Castaic Junction and along the Santa Clara River bed to ...
The Flood: St. Francis Dam Disaster, William Mulholland, and the ...
https://www.kcet.org/.../the-flood-st-francis-dam-disaster-william-mulholland-and-the...The 1928 failure of the colossal concrete structure resulted in one of the worst civic disasters in L.A. history.
Remembering California's 1928 St. Francis Dam Disaster - NBC ...
www.nbclosangeles.com/.../Francisquito-Canyon-Dam-St-Francis-Collapse-Disaster-C...
More than 400 people were killed in the March 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, a civil engineering failure that unleashed a devastating ... some consider the failure of the St. Francis Dam to be the “worst American ...