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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I’m guessing Florida’s most dangerous lighthouse fell into the sea because it was Florida’s most dangerous lighthouse.
Insert Florida Man joke here.
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Because it tipped over. Pisa is next.
@@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.
@@martinphilip8998 The Pisa tower has been shored up to prevent future leaning. Or at least that’s the plan. We shall see.
I am reminded of a story about not building a castle on sand?
It's a tiny island. The choices were a lighthouse on sand or no lighthouse.
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.
It was the foundation
I don't think it would have helped. The lighthouse stood on what was, essentially, a sandbar.
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.
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.
Plenty of the interior is fertile earth though too..
@@bauhnguefyische667 With a Cthulu-sized plow.
Were they able to retrieve the fresnel lens the last time it collapsed?
The spirit of the light...
You're right. I didn't think of that.
I'd hope they'd have removed it when it was taken out of service.
Hurricane Andrew was in 1992
yup, I went thru that one
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.
Except his mistake here was saying Andrew instead of Opal.
@@dennisc6716 Ah. Good to know.
Great vid👌🏻👍🏻
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,
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.
I have managed to be unaware of this story. Thanks for bringing it up and giving me something to learn about today!
@@RCAvhstape See also, the PBS series "Legendary Lighthouses" . One episode tells all about how they moved it.
What became of the Fresnel Lens?
Great story.
I’ve been to St. George many times, and have known about this lighthouse before, well told
Gee it was doomed from the getgo 😮
wow, $11k in 1830s is about $4MILLION today.
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.
Do you remember when land in the USA. was $500 for 500 acres.... That was the minimum you could purchase...
I remember those hurricanes, especially Dennis in North Carolina.
I like when you said(if you were paying attention earlier and I was😂
1995 would have been hurricanes Erin or Opal, not Andrew again. Otherwise great information, I never knew about this one.
It fell because it was too heavy...😅
Hurrican Andrew hit in '92, so what storm was it in '95? Opal maybe?
There is no curse, just marginalized competence.
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What would have happened to all the houses had there been on the beaches?
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
ah, a video set in the South instead of the Rust Belt. Nice change :)
Hurricane Andrew
Aug 16, 1992 - Aug 28, 1992
1995 hurricanes Luis, Marilyn, Opal and Roxanne
one of these days he's going to start his video with the formation of the solar system for context.
What was this lighthouse called or what town was it located in?
St. George Island Lighthouse
@@aspensulphate Thanks!
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
Cargo, not freight.
Yay a video that doesn’t have something to do with Chicago, thank you
Or NYC.
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Own a house right down the street from this lighthouse
@@davidpoole5595 Is it true what they say about Florida home insurance?
What do they say?
It was never called Cape St. George. I have been in it 100 times before the collapse.
Physics.
heehee, first? lighthouse lets GOOO!
It was not the SEA it was the Gulf Of Mexico!
It's obvious, it the most dangerous, duh. Just sayin
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.
And God said let the mountains crumble to the Sea... !!!
Its floriduh
Third!
Erosion wins again.
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.
That was BS the lighthouse should have been trashed...
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
And how does that make you feel?
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
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.
Like modern retro games, sometimes it is.
You're not so bright
@@clearviewtechnical neither is a broken lighthouse, zing!
I smell something...smells like an opinion.