Meet Jack and Barb Moberg as we visited the Hoover Dam...
I'd been to Hoover Dam on many an occasion, but this is the first time I've been on the dam tour. I must say, it's pretty dam impressive.
Consider the intake pipes which bring in the water which generates electricity...
The generators themselves are an impressive spectacle producing some 2.8 million kilowatts...
If you took all the cement needed to build the Hoover Dam, you could build a 4 foot wide sidewalk that would circle the planet.
The dam was originally named Boulder Dam. The final sites under consideration to build the dam were Boulder Canyon and Black Canyon. Boulder Canyon was the preferred site, but ultimately, they selected Black Canyon.
However, the public's familiarity with the Boulder Canyon site led them to name it Boulder Dam even though it wasn't in Boulder Canyon.
Sort of like Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill all over again.
Of course, then that darn Herbert Hoover came into the picture again and they renamed it Hoover Dam in honor of our former president.
Here's a freakier statistic.
Like President Bush, Hoover Dam is leaking.
Well, they're sensitve about the word leaking. They say that water is "seeping" through the pores of Hoover Dam as seen below...
According to the national park service tour guide, Hoover Dam does NOT leak, but instead experiences seepage.
Seepage to the tune of about 150 gallons per MINUTE!
Here's a view of the Colorado River below the dam...
Dam impressive if you ask me.
And the day ended with a dinner at a wonderful Indian restaurant. That's Jack, Barb, my in-laws Jane & Dave Hansen, and me on the end.
And so goes another day in the desert.
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