Awesome Arizona Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a marvel of modern engineering. It is named as one of the Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th Century. Another result of combined intelligence of many people who constructed it. It was built to harness the wild Colorado river. The Hoover Dam harnessed the power of Colorado River to control its raging flood and provide hydroelectric power. It paved the way to the development of the West - Los Angeles, Phoenix, Nevada that grew from small desert towns struggling to meet their water and power needs.

As I stood viewing the scary height/depth of this dam (726 feet above border of Nevada and Arizona), I was telling myself it took a lot of perseverance to create this. It must have taken years to complete this. It must have a real good leader to get this up. Took a lot of men to work on this who believed in this project. The men who built this, and I mean the ones who really dirtied their hands have suffered the heat of the sun during summer, have won the cold snow during winter. I have not experienced snow but I cannot tolerate the cold weather even though it is already spring. I am wondering, how colder it was during those days? How much colder during winter nights?

I was awed by the site of this engineering. The depth of the dam, the strength of the walls, the height of the mountain that was cut…it must have cost a lot of money, cost a lot of lives. At the entrance of the dam is the flag of United States of America, proudly swaying and giving honours to those who made this dam a possibility-the Hoover dam that nearly didn’t happen. "The story of the Hoover Dam is a story of hardship and perseverance. It is a story of a great building feat."