Western Arizona is an empty, beautiful place to drive. Even here, well away from the predation of the eroding Colorado river, it is filled with tortured rock formations.
Sitting on the border of Arizona and Nevada, spanning the Colorado river sites the Hoover Dam. While driving across it used to be a thing, now it is a pedestrian way where you can walk and gawk and the massive engineering.
The dam was completed in in 1936 and Art Deco was a popular style at the time. This statue reflects that influence.
As you can see below, looking upstream at the end of Lake Mead, water levels are seriously low. If you look on the Wikipedia entry for Hoover Dam, you will see that in 1983 when there was a flood, the place looks quite different when really full.
I hope it is looking a bit different now that so much rain has come east across California an the western states this winter.
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