Exploring the L.A. FLOODING with a 5yr Old—'QUICKSAND!'
Published February 06, 2024 · 6:30 · 62,936 views
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Topanga Canyon at 8am after the flooding, and Van takes his five-year-old into it. The "QUICKSAND!" in the title is the child's word for the saturated ground, and it captures something that adult language misses: that natural disaster and natural playground can occupy the same terrain. The flooding is dangerous. The flooding is also fun. Both things are true, and Van doesn't collapse the paradox.
The footage moves from Topanga Canyon to Red Rock Canyon State Park, and the L.A. flooding becomes a lens for examining how children process environmental disruption differently than adults. The adult sees property damage, infrastructure failure, risk. The child sees mud, water, and an adventure that wasn't there yesterday. The video argues implicitly that the child's response is not naive but correct. Nature's disruptions are invitations if you're willing to get your boots wet.
Transcript
how did you think it is I don't know it's deep Bro Look at how high it is on
the trees those trees aren't even in the creek when there's no rain coming all right so put it four-wheel
drive four-wheel drive let's go all right here we go wait five wheeel drive five wheeel drive we don't have five-wheel Drive dad step on
that he it's quick sand dad is Qui bro the street is literally flooding right now backo well that was crazy oh boy we got emergency guys here I'm
out are they going to let us back up you film me I'm going to ask these guys something all right film me okay I'm filming you we live on Old Canyon can
can we get back up here uh okay so we can go back and forth okay thank you oh look at that waterfall see it
over there oh my gosh there's a beautiful water ball over there can you see it it's behind those
trees I really want the people who watching this movies to see it wow that was amazing that's not normally there
wao there's one too Straight Ahead see it see it right behind that telephone pole
wow I just saw one beautiful was midair wow oh oh my go look at that one look at that one how big is that one I'm fing it I'm
filming it how big is it I just filmed it wow that's beautiful film it I'm filming it
okay okay all right so should we go check out that
Landslide yeah all right look at that big bould can all all St the world's strongest
that I think so you think this one's new or old I think it's new it's old
you guys just stopped in the middle of the road oh look there it is there's the road block can't go any further than
this that's it all right so now you want to check out Red Rock Canyon State Park yeah
okay all right here we go bro look at the creek yes so high
look at all this m oh my gosh look there's a ladder there all kinds of debris should
we keep going yeah let's keep going oh we might be it might make us
turn around here see oh I think this is the end of the
road no put it four-wheel drive what if it's illegal four wheeel Drive let's go for it
oh no it's too deep Too Deep the mud's too deep here
oh did you hear what he said what quicksand he said quicksand we might be stuck I'll put it in four-wheel low all
right they're saying to get out all right all right I'm going to put it in four-wheel
low what if we all stop dad dad what if we all stop I'm filming you all right so
we're in four-wheel low Dad can we get out here quick yeah we can get out but we're going to have to find a parking spot oh
there's one no all right so we going to go see the quicksand oh yeah let's go let's go let's go let's go
go careful okay wait where the put we'll go find it Bud we'll find
it so this is where we got got stopped where we got stuck but we got out in four-wheel low
because our rear wheels see didn't get stuck but this is the quick sand see okay let's try to go TR oh I don't like
quick sand you don't like sinking in it no are you I I got you I got you sinking in quicksand I got you buddy I got
you I got youing it's all right it's all right buddy can we wash my shoes you want to wash my sock off do you want me to wash your socks oh my gosh
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