1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. There's Charles, there's Jerome. 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: This is Joshua. This is short Stuff the Legend. How 3 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: you doing. I'm doing good man. I'm pretty excited about 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: this one. Have you ever been to Niagara Falls? I have? 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: What's it like? Uh? Watery, damp, It's very pretty. It's 6 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: actually really need it's it's definitely worth seeing. Which falls 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: did you see? We went on the American side, but 8 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: then you know, when we got to the Canadian side, 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: we stopped and turned around and looked again. It's a 10 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: It's really definitely a site to see, for sure. Yeah, 11 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we should point that out for 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: people like me who have never been to Niagara Falls, 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: that there are a few falls. If you're American and 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: you don't want to leave the country, you can see 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: the American side, right if you want to see something that, 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: to my eye on images online looks better. The Canadian 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: Horseshoe Falls look pretty nice. H They're better, right, I 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: don't want to say better because I'm an American, but 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: they are much larger, there's much a much larger volume 20 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: of water. It's much more graceful, and they're separated by 21 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: a Goat Island, and then there's cute little bridal Veilfall 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: separated from the American Fall by Luna Island. Yeah, so 23 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: there's technically three falls with Niagara Falls, and um, what's 24 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: surprising to me, Chuck, is is um in researching this, 25 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: like that set up where you've got the American Falls, 26 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: bridle Veil Falls, and then the Horseshoe Falls in the 27 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: Canadian side. That's only like five eight hundred years old. Yeah, 28 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: that seems old, but uh, I believe that. I don't 29 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: know why that sounds reasonable to me. Okay, well, that's 30 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: like I can't keep my socks on every time I 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: hear that. Yeah, because you think of something like a 32 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: geological feature like a waterfall, it's got to be ancient, right, 33 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: But the idea that it's only been that way for 34 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: five hundred eight hundred years kind surprising, until, of course, 35 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: then you look into a little further and you see, oh, well, 36 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: this this waterfall is just eroding the earth beneath it 37 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: so quick that Yeah, it's it's of course it's not 38 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: always been this way. It just totally makes sense. Yeah, 39 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: and that erosion, you know, the the bottom of the 40 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: falls is pretty uh, intimidating. It's very rocky and uh jagged, 41 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: big boulders. That's why going over a barrel. We did 42 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: a podcast, I guess if you want to call it, 43 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: that may many years ago in our early days, about 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: going over the falls in a barrel. Then it's incredibly dangerous. Yeah, 45 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: it is very dangerous. And those rocks, though, haven't always 46 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: been there. There were two rock falls in the nineteen 47 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: thirties and the nineteen fifties, specifically under the American Falls, 48 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: and that left a lot of bowlers underneath. And some 49 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: people said, well that is just unsightly, and frankly, it's 50 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: probably not very patriotic to let the Canadians best us 51 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: with their much more beautiful waterfall. Now, so we've got 52 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: to figure out what to do about us, because we 53 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: can't just let the American Falls go away, that's right. 54 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: And who do you call when you need something like 55 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: this done? You know that you call the Army Corps 56 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: of Engineers. And they said, well, really, the only way 57 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: to find out what's going on is to dry up 58 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: this waterfall. And everyone at the table spit out their 59 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: coffee and they said, you're crazy. It's it's nineteen nine. 60 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? And they said, you know, 61 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: it's really not that hard. Yeah, it really isn't. So 62 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: they hired a construction company and they built a Coffer dam, 63 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: which I believe we talked about in the Hoover Dam episode. 64 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: It's just like a mound of earth that is holding 65 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: water back, um, that's not normally there. And they built 66 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: that at the point like the fork where the American 67 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: Falls began, and they diverted the Niagara River mostly over 68 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: to the Horseshoe Falls, a little bit to the Bridle Falls. 69 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: But then that was it. Like the water stopped flowing 70 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: over the Niagara the American Fall and it virtually ride 71 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: everything up. It was kind of easy if you if 72 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: you think about it. I mean, it was a massive, 73 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: huge project, but it wasn't technically that hard. Yeah. It 74 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: was close to twenty eight thousand tons of phil So 75 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: that's a lot of a lot of dirt and rock 76 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: and fills. It's a lot of fills. Um. But when 77 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: you think about the fact that the Horseshoe Fall accounts 78 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: for of the dump anyway, like they couldn't damn a 79 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: Porshoe fall. There's no way, right, I I don't believe 80 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: so no, I don't think the American Fall could take it. 81 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: The other thing I wonder too, is if when they 82 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,559 Speaker 1: did this, if he could tell a difference at Horseshoe Fall. Yes, 83 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: I read that you could really most decidedly cooler. Right, 84 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: I'm teen percent more inspired. I love it. Yeah, the 85 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: rainbows around it were ten percent brighter. It was just 86 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: you could really tell. Well, should we take a little break? Well, sure, man, 87 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: all right, let's take a break and find out exactly 88 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: what they did once they had these dry falls right 89 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: after this, so again, chuck there. They dried up Niagara 90 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: Fall because they wanted to figure out how to keep 91 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: it from roading and possibly how to clean it up, 92 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: like clean up all those boulders that talus at the 93 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: bottom from those rock falls, because they were worried about 94 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: it looking ug basically, that's right. But here's the thing, 95 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: uh that, And you should look up pictures of this 96 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: if you're not driving your car, because it's pretty remarkable, 97 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: it really is to see this thing, uh dried up 98 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: like that. I mean, it just looks like a you know, 99 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 1: really flat mountain basically like a cliff, which is what 100 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: it is. But they couldn't keep it all dry that 101 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: face they had to keep wet because it had never 102 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: been dried out and exposed to the sun and the wind, 103 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: and they were rightfully worried about what might happen, so 104 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: they had to keep spray in that face kind of 105 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: continually from what like June to November. Yeah, they installed 106 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: the sprinkler system to do it, and they didn't have 107 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: just a bunch of people right to standing there like 108 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: this is the worst summer job of all time, that's right. 109 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: But then they had to clean out the riverbed, so 110 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: they sam blasted out um a bunch of stuff, and 111 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: they get the moss off, and they sprayed all these 112 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: rocks clean and got all the loose gravel out of there. 113 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: And they really wanted to see what was going on, 114 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: you know, geologically, so they injected blue dye uh into 115 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: the They drilled down into the riverbed injected blue dye, 116 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: and they were like, let's let's see what happens. Let's 117 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: sit back and have have a t and see where 118 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: this blue comes out. And then some of the more 119 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: excited workmen among them and be like, oh, there it 120 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: is there, it is something. When the blue die started 121 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: to emerge and they clap him point and laugh. That's right. Um. 122 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: They also installed something called extensive meters, which are pretty interesting. 123 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: They're little sounds so made up there it does. It 124 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: also sounds like something a mad villain would would use, 125 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: but it measures the movement of the rock in the 126 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: foundation or the bed or the riverbed of the American 127 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: Falls to to basically look out for any movement greater 128 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: than one one h of an inch. This is pretty specific, 129 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: very specific. And they also installed little metal posts called 130 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: monuments which they can use in the future and have 131 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: used in the future, um to survey the area and 132 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: see if they've moved at all, if the riverbed has 133 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: moved at all, in the hopes that they will be 134 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: able to catch a rock fall from happening or erosion 135 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: from happening before it happens. That's right. And they did 136 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: find a place where they thought it was pretty susceptible 137 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: in the future to occur, and that was a prospect point. Uh. 138 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: This had already been a place where they had a 139 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: rock fall in the nine, which is the one that 140 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: kind of kick started this whole plan to begin with. 141 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: So prospect point is a problem quite frankly, yes, although 142 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: this was uh the last time it happened. It has 143 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: happened since. No, it hasn't. And I think some people 144 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: might be a little surprised because this is nineteen sixty nine, 145 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: where they're like, uh, this is probably where it's going 146 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: to happen next again, and it just still hasn't. It 147 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: was a summer of love, it was. That's so funny. 148 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: Look I haven't written down here the summer of Love underneathing. 149 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: Did you get that email? Yeah? Yeah, apparently we've been 150 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: saying summer of Love is at anything but nineteen sixty seven, 151 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: then that is officially the summer of Love. I did 152 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: not know that, so I always thought it was sixty 153 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: eight For some reason, I always thought it was sixty nine. 154 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: All right? Well, uh in show correction short stuff style. Yes, 155 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: So back to the dry bed. You would think who 156 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: would want to come see a dried up Niagara Falls, 157 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: And it turns out a lot of people would you not? Well, 158 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't been this. I would want to. 159 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if that would want that to be 160 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: my first trip right right? Or you would definitely want 161 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: to go back a second time when it's in full 162 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: swing first, or maybe actually that would be the time 163 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: to go because you could see that and Horseshoe Falls 164 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: and get the best of both worlds. Yeah. So so 165 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: some people were thinking like that and thought like this 166 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: is amazing. There was one weekend in mid July where 167 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: nine people streamed through there um to see, you know, 168 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: because this is this is kind of a once in 169 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: a lifetime thing to see Niagara Falls dried up or 170 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: the American Falls at least. But overall that tourist season 171 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: was pretty pretty lame because a lot of people were like, well, 172 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: I guess it's under construction. I'm not gonna I'm not 173 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: gonna pay for that road trip to go see a 174 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: Lamo fall. Yeah. And the original plan was there, like 175 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: let's try this thing out and invite people out to 176 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: walk around and do stuff. They kind of were like, 177 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: it's a little too wet still, and it's probably still 178 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: kind of dangerous. So it was in August finally that 179 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: they deemed it dry enough for people to go out safely. 180 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: I think that they never allowed people up on the cliff, 181 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: did they. Well, they built a fence on the brink, 182 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: so I think I don't know how close to the 183 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: brink they were loued to be, but I get the 184 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: impression that all throughout the summer, whether they were allowed 185 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: out there or not, people would go run out on 186 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: the riverbed and just like hang out, and then they 187 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: would be chased off by the army corps, like we 188 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: might not have guns, but we have sextants. Another thing 189 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: they did, and I just consider this very bad luck, 190 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: people would go out and collect wish coins. I just 191 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: didn't that bad luck. I don't know, those are people's wishes. 192 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: We've seen the good eats. Yeah, yeah, but the wishes 193 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: have come and gone. I mean, come on, if it's 194 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: not if they hadn't been granted by now, they're not 195 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: going to be granted. You know, let's give those coins 196 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: another shot. I guess. So it just seems I don't know, 197 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't seem right. That's like that one part in 198 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: the Simpsons, the beer baron episode where they're driving through 199 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: the cemetery and bar goes, Dad, it's bad luck to 200 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: run over gravestones, and Homer goes, really, I heard good, 201 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: it's good luck. Um. One thing they did find, and 202 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: it's kind of amazing they didn't find more dead bodies, 203 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: but they did find too. One of them was a 204 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,479 Speaker 1: pretty recent one that they were actually looking for this guy. 205 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: They saw this guy dive into the river about a 206 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: week before, so they knew he would be in there. 207 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: But what they didn't know is that they would find 208 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: a very creepy find woman in a red striped dress 209 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: who had been down there for a long time. It says, 210 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: lodged head first into the talus. Didn't that's so ghoulish. 211 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: And she had a gold ring inscribed with forget me not. Yeah, 212 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: and then the irony of that is that she's never 213 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: been identified. Yeah, that seems remarkable to me. It doesn't. Man. 214 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: I looked. I was like, I don't know how else 215 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: to word the search, but I didn't find anything about 216 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: that woman being identified ever. Um, so I don't. And 217 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: I'm also not sure that the guy who jumped the 218 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: week before they turned the water off was ever identified 219 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: as well. It was, but they they yeah, he was 220 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: mistaken for a worker by some people who's um initially 221 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: jump in and then they were like, oh wait, that 222 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: that guy. That's not good. Yeah, but but yeah, a 223 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: lot of people are surprised that they didn't find more 224 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: bodies because there's a lot of people who die by 225 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: suicide or just do something dumb and and go over 226 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: the you know, falls in a barrel or whatever, like 227 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: it's it's a well known place to do that. And 228 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: only two bodies is kind of strange. Yeah, they found 229 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: one deer carcass, which that's kind of surprising. I just 230 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 1: thought it would be littered with carcasses. I think that's 231 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: kind of what they were half expecting to It was 232 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: probably a good you know, they were delighted by that. 233 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: I'm sure they were. Yeah. So by November they're like, Okay, 234 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: we've figured out everything we can figure out. We've kind 235 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: of shorted up as best we can. Um, from what 236 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: I read the the waterfall naturally eroded at like five 237 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: ft a year, and now they've got it down to 238 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: one because of this stuff they did in nineteen nine 239 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: and later nine two. But um, they said, okay, it's 240 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: time to turn the wall are back on, and they 241 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: did on get this November nine, which I believe was 242 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: fifty years and two days ago. Oh wow, isn't that 243 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: neat anniversary? Happy water Day, Reintroduction of water to Fall Day. Uh. Yeah. 244 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: And of course they had to do it slowly throughout 245 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: the course of a day. They couldn't just make some 246 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: big magnificent scene and say watch this everybody. I'm sure 247 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: they wanted to, but hang on to your duff's. Yeah, 248 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure they did some math to figure out just 249 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: kind of how slow they needed to go with it. 250 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: But it was still probably pretty cool to see it all. 251 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: Bet it was, for sure. Um. And so what was 252 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: kind of heartening to me is they said, Okay, we 253 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: learned a lot. Actually we can probably keep this thing 254 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: from a roading, but should we? And this joint task 255 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: force to kind of preserve Niagara Falls, but a joint 256 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: commission between Canada and the US said, well, what are 257 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: the residents around here? Thinks? So they sent out little 258 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: mailers and asked, like two thousand residents in Canada and 259 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: on the U. S side, what do you guys think 260 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: we should do? And the majority of people said, Hey, 261 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: it's a natural formation. Just leave it to nature. Leave 262 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: it be. So they did. I thought that was kind 263 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: of neat. I like it. They ask locally too, right, 264 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: They they asked local locally and acted locally. There you go. 265 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. They were going to turn it off all 266 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: more time in two thousand nineteen to fix some bridges, 267 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: and I believe time has basically run out on that project, 268 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: so it might happen in let's cross our fingers, maybe 269 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: we can do a podcast live from the brink. That's 270 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: a really great idea, Chuck, Well, I guess that's the 271 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: end of short stuff Chuck, which means short stuff out. 272 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: Stuff you should Know is a production of iHeart Radios 273 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: How Stuff Works. 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