In Idaho, Lewiston is best known for smelling awful due to its paper mill. It's also the lowest elevation point in Idaho. Literally a hole.

@CollinHeist20

23 күн бұрын

I was hoping he'd bring that up. Hard to forget that smell...

@wyatt8770

23 күн бұрын

You get used to it; Some people can't smell it at all, also its usually worst in the morning.

@kenetickups6146

23 күн бұрын

To be fair, all of idaho is a hole

@UHaulShorts

23 күн бұрын

​@@kenetickups6146 Y?

@connorbaniak

23 күн бұрын

​​@@UHaulShortsbeen there?

Midwesterners on Twitter were telling me being able to receive ocean going vessels made states like Illinois and Minnesota not landlocked by definition, so congrats Idaho

@markpimlott2879

23 күн бұрын

Both of those states not only have major ports on the Mississippi River system but also ocean-going freighter ports (for bulk commodities as well as for containerized goods) on the GREAT LAKES /ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY, THE WORLD'S GREATEST and most commercially important INLAND WATERWAY for actual ocean-going international vessels! 'Certainly not landlocked like all of the other Great Lakes States, as well as the massive Province of Ontario! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇲 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

@markpimlott2879

23 күн бұрын

Since when are RIVER BARGES pushed by tugboats classed AS OCEAN-GOING VESSELS? 👎 👎 👎 👎 'Simply ship wannabes! 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢

@frankmoldenhauer6558

23 күн бұрын

Damn feels like people haven’t been this touchy about ports since Russians got themselves a warm water port in Port Arthur lmao

@MorningMeasure

23 күн бұрын

We cope how we can.

@swliner

23 күн бұрын

@@markpimlott2879 did you not watch the video? They load ocean-going barges there, not just river barges

The thing not mentioned in this video is how MASSIVE the columbia gorge is, making this even possible at all in the first place.

@fredinit

23 күн бұрын

What's even more interesting is what CREATED the Columbia Gorge.

@chicken_punk_pie

23 күн бұрын

@@fredinit Yeah God is super fascinating

@CaptainCuttlefish74

23 күн бұрын

​@@fredinityeah the missoula floods were crazy Edit: I misremembered, the missoula floods were because of an ice dam that spanned the gorge failing. The gorge was already there.

@Noremac023

23 күн бұрын

How massive is it and why does it make it possible?

@atzuras

23 күн бұрын

I also call my big gorge "Columbia" because it is Massive.

I live in Idaho and the fact that we have the most inland Western American Sea Port is my favorite fun fact to say about my state. :D

@bossman4856

23 күн бұрын

Also we have the 5th deepest lake in the US

@chimoshi3393

23 күн бұрын

I’m sorry that you live there.

@vannyvanman1709

23 күн бұрын

@@chimoshi3393why?

@jeron3966

23 күн бұрын

I’m pretty sure Salt Lake City or Ogden Utah is about to take that but there’s is an Inland so idk if it’s the same?

@jeffe_77

23 күн бұрын

@@chimoshi3393it’s great living here.

Fun facts: Walt Disney got married in Lewiston. If you pay attention to the modern Disney intro with the castle on a river that plays before movies, then look at pictures of Lewiston, you’ll notice something 🤷‍♂️

@daelinblack6681

8 күн бұрын

Out on gun club road is one of their old houses, pretty sure his wife is from orofino Idaho just up the river

@markmh835

6 күн бұрын

​@@daelinblack6681-- No, she came from Lapwai.

Shout-out to my idahos and idahomies

@JoeJaJoeJoe

23 күн бұрын

🥔tater gang🥔

@ZenCyius

22 күн бұрын

i SEE what you did there ya genius motherfucker

@John-tx1wk

22 күн бұрын

You seem to be an Idaho native so you surely know best but wouldn't it be "my Idahos and Idabros"?

@PsRohrbaugh

22 күн бұрын

@@John-tx1wk kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4t30tukXdWYgqg.html

@spacedvenus

22 күн бұрын

Used to be an Idahomo (I have a sticker on my car that I got from the downtown Boise flying M lol) but I escaped to Oregon late 2022

Very intriguing and most interesting is the dairy queen

@donjackson5522

23 күн бұрын

Until the Snake River floods and then you have the eastern most Dairy Queen in Washington

@jerrylivasy1744

23 күн бұрын

Not true DQ in Seattle area

@JusNoBS420

23 күн бұрын

That's not even close to being accurate lol. I live in Washington state and literally pass 2 DQ's between my house and work

@JusNoBS420

23 күн бұрын

@@jerrylivasy1744and Oregon and I'm sure California. Probably Alaska and perhaps Hawaii as well

@thePronto

22 күн бұрын

I drive past a Dairy Queen (DQ) every weekday that is 300 miles further West than Lewiston. But, hey, everyone needs to validate their existence, right?

Fun fact about Lewiston, it is right across the river from Clarkston, WA.

@roejogan292

22 күн бұрын

I was amazed this wasn't mentioned in the video.

@StreetSteeze

22 күн бұрын

And they were both named after Lewis and Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition because they stayed there and traded with the Nez Perce during their Expedition.

@marjieyoung9570

21 күн бұрын

Thank you! I live in Clarkston and although the map was labeled correctly I was still thinking, man, not even a shout out for the other half of the community. It's called the LC Valley for a reason. 😂 (By the way, for those who didn't know, Clarkston is the town directly across the Snake River from the one labeled Lewiston. Extra bonus, there's actually two rivers, the Snake River and the Clearwater River that join together and continue on as the Snake. So technically, if the river is in Idaho it's the Clearwater, not the Snake.)

@staples138

20 күн бұрын

The perfect place to live if you love pot and permitless conceal carry

@davidbranch2020

18 күн бұрын

New York is more dynamic and fun loving than both of them

Well, actually France also moves a lot of its grain by river. Which caused quite bit of a problem when authorities decided, in late 2023, that the Seine river would be closed to the circulation in Paris during the duration of the Olympic games, which also happens to be harvest season. When farmers and cooperatives found out, they were, to say the least, pretty pissed. Negociations followed, during which (and I kidd you not, it really happened) a member of the Paris council asked: "Well, can't you just delay the harvest to after the Olympics?". In the end, it was agreed that river boats would be allowed to cross Paris at night, in convois. The alternative would have been tens of thousands of trucks (that don't exist), or hundreds of trains (that would have needed time tables to be agreed upon at least two years in advance).

@jasonhurdlow6607

20 күн бұрын

Yeah, 'cause the whole world would be offended at seeing barges on the Seine... 🙄. News flash: we could care less!

@Plutokta

20 күн бұрын

@@jasonhurdlow6607 It's mostly a security concern, since the opening ceremony and some swimming events wills occur in the river.

@johnlacey3857

17 күн бұрын

Typical politician response.

@johnlacey3857

17 күн бұрын

@@PlutoktaMaybe they should have thought twice about planning swimming events in a maritime highway. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@Plutokta

17 күн бұрын

@@johnlacey3857 Right?

Another fun fact: As of June 2023, there were exactly 2 uber drivers in all of Lewiston. I flew in for a couple days for work and got driven by both of them lmao.

@mediocreman2

4 күн бұрын

As an Uber driver, I'll remind everyone that's not really how it works. They might have two full-time drivers. But there are often many drivers that are dormant. I don't go out unless the timing is right. Sometimes it's weeks at a time. People say the same thing in my smaller city that there are only three drivers. I laugh because when I'm on the app I see way more. Not only that, but my city connects to another city about an hour away. So we will often have less drivers, or even more drivers. Depending on if they are looking for rides back to where they started.

@mikemiller1534

Күн бұрын

I couldn't get an uber there just last week. Had to walk.

If we were France, it would be Louistonne and not Lewiston

@augustuscaesar8287

23 күн бұрын

Yes, and we'd tell the people living there to "Va te faire foutre".

@DjesonPV

23 күн бұрын

It would be Louis-sur-Serpent (as it's not a fortified city it could not be Louisbourg ; not Saint-Louis because no major church; and it's on the Snake river) ;

@kishascape

23 күн бұрын

@@DjesonPVstop making us hate France even more.

@Naugr

23 күн бұрын

Louisfert

@Michael-pp8lz

23 күн бұрын

Lol, I like how its still technically pronounced the same way

I drive tow boats for a living. Most barges are 200x35. Not 195x35. I noticed the Tennessee River was missing from the map. Plus they push sometimes over 40 barges at once on the Mississippi. Not 15. Overall great video. Enjoyed it.

@charlesmorgan602

23 күн бұрын

Not to mention the Cumberland River was gone as well

@philbert006

23 күн бұрын

There's plenty of 195 ft barges too. And tank barges, which are 52 x 250 or so and in and around Memphis the corps of engineers operates work flats, crane barges, spud barges, and dredge barges of so many different sizes they don't even bother with the specs. In my admittedly limited experience working on a tug in the port of memphis, typically the box barges were 195 ft and the rake barges for leading the tows were 200 footers. And the tows dev get huge down here. Biggest one I can remember working on is 56 barges, but 35 to 40 is quite normal. Usually 15 barge tows were coal tows coming from the Ohio river or anywhere else north of Cairo cause that's max size to make a lock.

@GetThemLyrics

23 күн бұрын

@@philbert006 Chemical barges are normally 297x54. That’s what I’m currently pushing. When I did dry cargo most of the time the 195’s went on the head because their lengths would mess up couples in the tow. Plus they were normally rakes.

@Leyrann

22 күн бұрын

@@GetThemLyrics Huh. That probably _is_ the kind of job that leaves you with a lot of time to watch YT videos.

@sirBrouwer

22 күн бұрын

wait you work with tow boats you can drive? like amphibious boats? sounds cool.

I competed in the national Geography Bee this year and 4 of the questions i answered correctly were due to this channel. For that I thank you and these strange but interesting locations.

@kv4648

23 күн бұрын

I'm betting some people on the team were directly or indirectly influenced by his videos. Whenever some big fact explaining channel spreads something unknown, it does the rounds around the internet.

@thekinginyellow1744

22 күн бұрын

Was one of the questions about the westernmost Dairy Queen in Idaho?

@gaberomero1740

20 күн бұрын

I competed in the national geography bee when I was in middle school and I grew up right across the river from Lewiston

Very nice, but I'd argue Duluth is still the king of land locked state seaports being over 2,000 miles from the Atlantic. They get whole ass ships too, not just big barges.

@JoelRipke

23 күн бұрын

But Lewiston is higher

@CharChar2121

23 күн бұрын

Facts

@TSERJI

23 күн бұрын

@@JoelRipke lol

@vincentm.2458

23 күн бұрын

Duluth doesn't contain Idaho's westernmost Dairy Queen

@kefkja

23 күн бұрын

Duluth is ON the great lakes. Calling it “land locked” is cheating

The locals say it smells like money here as that fabulous smell comes from a huge paper mill. Don't forget that Lewiston is also home to some major ammunition manufacturing facilities.

@Humuhumunukunukuapaa

4 күн бұрын

That 'fabulous smell' smells awful in reality.

@TalenGryphon

Күн бұрын

Like CCI Ammunition, who's cheap junk turns my Beretta into an expensive jamming machine

"And because the river refuses to follow the decree of man we have to do it are selves" has got to be the most human thing ive ever heard.

@NoName-zn1sb

21 күн бұрын

do it ourselves

@rasmis

21 күн бұрын

“.. is one of America's most unique features” is the most American thing I've heard all day. Sam has been to Europe. And crossed many rivers and canals. A feature isn't unique, when you've copied it from somewhere else.

@ZakhadWOW

21 күн бұрын

actualyl I think coing the verb "To Riv" is up there for me.. and I'm multilingual and studied linguistics! LOL

I grew up in Vancouver WA, which is separated from Portland OR by the Columbia. I’ve seen the smiley face barge so many times and never known what it was until now!

@MatthewTheWanderer

23 күн бұрын

Awesome, that's where I was born! I still have relatives who live in the area. I've lived most of my life in Oklahoma, though, and haven't visited Vancouver in 24 years.

@dirtyjoe1317

18 күн бұрын

I missed the smiley face part? What was it? I live in washougal and was curious.

@seanmcdirmid

15 күн бұрын

I was a toddler in West Richland, which is near where the Snake and Columbia meet.

@darcypond8763

10 күн бұрын

@@dirtyjoe1317 at 4:44 the barge that falls into frame. It’s a reference to a Tidewater Barge that frequents the Columbia River

@daelinblack6681

8 күн бұрын

Dude I literally lived the first 20 years of my life in lewi and never realized there's a face on the barge. I've spent days watching them from across the river as they fill it up, yet I've never noticed

Damn I was just wondering why is there a Pacific Ocean port in Idaho.

@General12th

23 күн бұрын

And I was just wondering where the westernmost Dairy Queen in Idaho was!

@markpimlott2879

23 күн бұрын

Actually, there is a RIVER BARGE PORT in Idaho! 🥔 🍠 🥔

@danielzhang1916

23 күн бұрын

that is misleading, there is a port that leads to the Pacific Ocean, not on the ocean

@Seatownrandom

21 күн бұрын

ME TOO INWAS JUSS GHEREEEE

@mikevanderwolf8575

18 күн бұрын

Love Lewiston, the whole area really

Barges are NOT ocean going vessels. That cargo is transferred at the actual oceanic port.

@ryanjohnson4565

9 күн бұрын

Way to barge in with that correction.

@oceanlnr9414

9 күн бұрын

To be clear some barges are oceangoing, but not these ones

@tonycoryell2566

8 күн бұрын

You sound... Vaccinated

@JimboJette

8 күн бұрын

I spent time in the villages of Bristol bay and they are supplied by Barges from Seattle so barges can 100% be ocean going vessels. I’ve seen one in the middle of the gulf of alaska

@fbi9009

6 күн бұрын

​@@tonycoryell2566what?

While it is possible that an ocean going ship does go up the river that far, most don't. Nor does most cargo depart the Columbia in barges. The reality is that the barges are just an intermediate step. The cargo is transferred from the barges to bulk carriers on the lower Columbia and the grain crosses the pacific that way. Another cool tidbit left out is the fact that many of these barges are dual purpose. They have tanks down low and grain hoppers above. The barges sail down carrying grain, but return upriver hauling fuel.

@zimmejoc

19 күн бұрын

that's just good logistics. Never move an empty platform if you can avoid it

Well, there’s Atlantic ports in Michigan and Wisconsin. I once met a guy who worked on a ship that went back and forth from Michigan’s upper peninsula to the Netherlands and back.

@niggalini

22 күн бұрын

Was it iron ore shipping? That's the big thing for cargo coming from the upper great lakes (Minnesota Wisconsin UP Michigan)

@evanneal4936

21 күн бұрын

That's because those states are on the great lakes, which have direct water access to the Atlantic Ocean via the St Lawrence River. Basically, they are no different than any other coastal city in the United States like San Francisco and New York, etc. Because the Great Lakes act as an extended version of the ocean...

@PaulGuy

21 күн бұрын

​@@evanneal4936Does no one know about Niagara Falls?

@ZakhadWOW

21 күн бұрын

the legendary Edmund FItzgerald was a major ship on the rountes from Duluth/Superior all the way out to TOldeo at upper end of Erie. SHe wasnt built for Sea so then cargo got trans shipped to an oceangoing vessel for traveling the lower Saint Lawrence seaway.

@paule5195

7 күн бұрын

@@evanneal4936 Right but the work that went into making it navigable on the St Lawrence river was immense but the ship size is very restricted because the lock system cannot handle full size ocean going vessels.

The follow up to the "most western Dairy Queen in Idaho" was perfect and made me laugh more than I should have 😂

I'm from LA but visited Lewiston 2 years ago. A friend and former coworker moved up there. (currently working, but will probably stay there when she retires). I saw the dock/port, drove right by it on my way from Montana. Someone I talked to there also mentioned the paper mill that is present, right next to it, so I don't think wheat is the only thing getting on a boat there. But yes, it very much has ocean access. And for anyone thinking of one day visiting the area, I took the drive over the Lolo Pass and it's very scenic. On the Idaho side you parallel the river for perhaps 100 miles.

As a citizen of Hamburg in Germany, I'm all too familiar with these things! We receive the world's largest container ships 100 km from the North Sea and also have to constantly dig out the river every few years. While doing that, you have to manage the grievances of environmentalists and be careful not to hit the motorway tunnel underneath!

@andyjay729

20 күн бұрын

Did some of those containers possibly originate from Lewiston, ID? I mean, you probably know Hamburg Sud is a huge shipping line; you see their containers all over the world.

@DesertTOON

13 күн бұрын

I think Basel is similar to Lewiston. Lewiston doesn't actually have ocean going ships traveling to it just barges. Hamburg is like Tacoma.

"Cars are going to be the death of us all" True, we want HIGH SPEED RAIL

As a Canuck, Im quite happy with the "habitable" dig. You see, its the cold that keeps the bugs small, the water fresh, and most of the US population south of the 49th parallel. Please keep making more digs, it keeps the defense spending down to a minimum ;). Lol.

@Idahoguy10157

17 күн бұрын

Idaho is far enough north we happily don’t have fire ants. Which if you’ve ever been stung by them, you’d understand my meaning

@daelinblack6681

8 күн бұрын

Lewiston is full of fire ants. I remember going on the jet boats down hells gate and getting into a hill on accident as a kid

@Idahoguy10157

8 күн бұрын

@@daelinblack6681 … their terrible

I'm super impressed that they made graphics and got relevant clips. I started avoiding these because I'm tired of everything being just a pile of stock clips. But this is really good!

@Gnarledwallet

23 күн бұрын

They have multiple clips and photos of the actual barges that go up and down the river!

@renderproductions1032

23 күн бұрын

Yeah. I sometimes just listen to it as a podcast, but this one was visually pretty good.

Most of what services Lewiston are going to be river tugs, not ocean going ships. The river tugs will bring it to a port down river where it will get loaded onto a ship (or an oceangoing barge). Tugs CAN run out in open water, but are mostly used coastwise. Something like an international voyage would be a ship.

@markpimlott2879

23 күн бұрын

' Right on, Mariner! 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢

@luipaardprint

23 күн бұрын

In general though there are a lot of ocean going tugs, mostly for the oil industry.

@jakebrod7

23 күн бұрын

@@luipaardprint yep mostly for towing huge objects like platforms. OSVs are kinda tugs but aren’t anything that would service an inland port

@burtbacarach5034

23 күн бұрын

@@jakebrod7 OSV's are NOT tugs,unless it's an Anchor handling Tug/Supply.As far as servicing an inland port,Venice Intracoastal City Port Aransas and to a degree Port Fourchon.Depends on your definition of "Port to Port" trade.

@pyropulseIXXI

22 күн бұрын

a ship is merely a vessel where its center of buoyancy is below its center of gravity. A boat is where its center of buoyancy is above its center of gravity

"Canada ... It's habitable" Never have I been more insulated by a more true statement

@TheDroppedAnchor

23 күн бұрын

,eh?

@zednotzach

22 күн бұрын

But which province we talking about tho

@Andre_XX

22 күн бұрын

Habitable? ... only just.

@NoName-zn1sb

21 күн бұрын

more insulted, maybe?

@orppranator5230

19 күн бұрын

Well you certainly need lots of insulation up there

I wrapped up a multi-day float trip down the Snake River at Lewiston, Idaho. I was unaware of the seaport and totally shocked to see an ocean going vessel in Idaho.

Good explanation, but you may want to add that the Snake River flows into the Columbia which flows to the Pacific. Part of the Columbia River divides Oregon and Washington and the dam/lock system is pretty interesting.

As someone who lives in Lewiston, I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life.

This is honestly the first time in months I’ve learned some new in terms of geography/geopolitics. Epic topic man! Love it.

2:46 You: And you do not want to be France. Me: Preach on my brother!

@westrim

23 күн бұрын

Except France moves way more goods by truck than the US does. The EU as a whole moves 45% of freight by road, 37% of freight by water, and only 11% by rail. In major part, that's because they chose to focus on rail use for passengers, while the US focused on rail use for freight, something that people don't think about when doing comparisons.

@ddegn

23 күн бұрын

You also don't want to be Canada. Worst of all, *French Canada.*

@strindberg8764

22 күн бұрын

still you move wheat on river barges, just like France do on at least 2 different rivers that I am aware of. and probably did even before your country was even invented.

Goal for the year: Get Merriam-Webster to recognize the new verb “riv”.

I am a 5th and 6th generation native Idahoan. I grew up in Boise. But pretty much every waterway in Idaho drains into the mighty Columbia River. That river is HUGE! The area around Leweston (guess where it got its name) is a breadbasket of the Pacific Northwest (PNW).

@ZakhadWOW

21 күн бұрын

Only the SE corner, part of the Bear River drainage, has no real connection with the grater Columbia/Snake drainage.

@jamiesuejeffery

21 күн бұрын

@@ZakhadWOW Yes, you are correct. I forgot about that little corner. :)

3:40 "enough wheat to kill a small nation's worth of celiacs" had me ROLLING

Fun fact: eastern Washington state (the Palouse region) is some of the most productive farmland in the world, yielding more grain per acre than anywhere else.

@user-en9qd5nx8w

16 күн бұрын

I had read somewhere that they mostly produce white wheat in the Palouse, which is primarily exported to the Asian regions, where it is in high demand.

@tannertaylor9432

15 күн бұрын

​@@user-en9qd5nx8w yeah thats what we grow here. Soft white wheat that goes to Asia for Ramen noodle flour. We farm 3,000 acres of Palouse farm ground

@seanmcdirmid

15 күн бұрын

I got stuck in Colfax once and that was pretty apparent.

@concernedliberal4453

15 күн бұрын

The Palouse is gorgeous. Too bad Washington is no longer a livable state.

@Lutherson1962

14 күн бұрын

Dry land farming does not yield more grain per acre.

As someone who’s from Vancouver, and have 3 grain export port terminals, this seems silly. Everything from AB and SK gets trained in and then put on to bulk ocean liners.

I live a couple hours out of Lewiston, but the view coming in from the north is amazing!

@ZakhadWOW

21 күн бұрын

back in the Fall of 1982 I was doing roadtrip work for a small drama company and Eastern WA/OR and all of Idaho was our zone. I remember discovering the insane beauty of The La Palouse, and then that drive down the clifframp form the Columbia Plateau surface to Lewiston is amazeballs.. The drop from plateau down to Wenatchee is pretty dramatic also

"Yes, I am counting Canada as a US State". That has to be the most offensive thing I have ever heard you say Sam. HAHA

@arryn786

23 күн бұрын

It’s also virtually correct, or at least that’s the impression given🤷‍♂️

@DerToasti

23 күн бұрын

the poorest US state lol

@Neojhun

23 күн бұрын

Sam just desperately wants to start a war.

@SuperCatacata

23 күн бұрын

Tbf the farming areas of Canada would get along well with the midwest US. Both harbor a shared hatred of the big city dwellers in their countries.

@TheAnnoyingBoss

22 күн бұрын

The sooner canada ceases to exist and the land ks folded in usa portfolio the better. We usa should have the land all the way from the panama canal to greenland and alaska. We need alaska for the oil, resource, and wildlife reserves etc, plus greenland will be key for things like science, storage of things that need cold places. Archeology sciences etc. As well as if we build things like a roadway or train up there its closer geogrsphically to like germany and denmark sweden norway. Gives us a bigger presence in the arctic regions that all others will struggle with because other than us russia will be closest by land and they have half the population and theyre strugglin. We can open up all these lands and so if you dont want to buy 10 million dollar house in florida yet you can go live anywhere on the nkrth american continent withoutncrossing an international border and we can atop playing these games where canadians steuggle to go shoot gums in texas and we struggle to run mining operations on canadian lands they dont even have the people to handle that was lands intended for usa anyway. These canadians could sell out and fold and they will only gain not lose its kinda jacked because we will have to buy yukon we will have to buy vancouver and northern territories and that will be a large chunk of the job done already right there. By the time we buy all tbe land they have more freedom and money than ever because of us in our country by selling out theres and that might ojtntjem in positions over us we dont want to be in so part of ke wants to shame the cansdians for proping up their illigitimate tyranny which was designed to hinder the expansion of the only country in the world thats capable of making a real difference. Hogging up half of north america with the population of california amd half of them are living next to new york above montana and abive oregon. Theyre border hogs man. Most americans live on coast and coast they got all this land no people. They live at the birder steuggle to drill the oil they dont eben have enough people to prospect effectively man they need to give up all there land and become usa so we can all go from alaska to greenland to florida to socal on a train if we want or a car or a plane or a campervan. We only love once

A note about the railways: while Lewiston has a railway, it ships basically no grain by rail. The line from the Palouse is torn up and the Camas Prairie railroad is out of service and has a trestle burnt out. Most grain that moves by rail hits the river around the Tri Cities area or goes straight through to the Pacific.

@nwmacguy

17 күн бұрын

The rail has been ungraded to Lewiston to take 100ton grain hoppers in a 110 car unit shuttle train. Done partly in case a dam lock is out of service for work, whether planned or unplanned. All but 1-2 grain terminals on the lower Snake are track side so an up past, then load up downhill with a shuttle (and extra high speed loading gear) is feasible.

@antaries93

3 күн бұрын

Yeah no. When I worked for the PNW farmer co-op, the majority of my job was loading grain into railcars Pause the video at 3:42 and in the top center of the screen is the rail terminal leased out to that co-op

man this seems like a lot of work for all 4 people living in Idaho

And this is how Huntington, West Virginia, a town of less than 50,000 people eight hours from the ocean by car, is home to one of the 25 largest ports in America and the second largest inland port (formerly largest).

Before Grand Coulee dam was built a steam ship could travel from Astoria OR to Revelstoke BC. Revelstoke is @ 400 miles due north of Lewiston on the Columbia River. By the way there are a lot of Dairy Queens west of Lewiston ID.

I’m sorry but I can’t believe sending a freight train to the ocean roughly every 2 days is more expensive than that construct

@DS-lk3tx

6 күн бұрын

Ah yes.. the ones paying for it are lying. 😂😂 Why use a cheaper mode of transport when they can use this "construct."?

Hi Sam! Thanks to Amy for not being France. Therefore, she deserves a raise!

"What if we just made the noodles here--" *receives slap from Wheat Boss* "Dammit, man! That's madness!"

Lived in Winchester 30 minutes away 1st-3rd grades. Did our grocery shopping in Lewiston, can still remember the smell.

@jasonhurdlow6607

20 күн бұрын

Nice. My fam likes to go stay in the yurts. Miss the wolf center, that was pretty cool.

Hells Canyon, America's deepest river gorge is south of Lewiston and I didn't even know it existed until I drove between the Wallowas and Lewiston/Clarkston. It's amazing, but the Grand Canyon gets all the glory.

@andyjay729

20 күн бұрын

And the Wallowas themselves are gorgeous. It's an underappreciated part of the country.

@Somebody509-ot4kk

16 күн бұрын

Don’t tell anybody about Hells Canyon and the wallowa’s. Please please please.

"Fortunately we ARE not France" might be my favorite HAI quote

@zacharyelliott7161

23 күн бұрын

SAME!

You woke up and chose violence with that Canada crack 😂❤🇨🇦

Funny thing your graphic for wheat was barley. Also Canada has its own west coast grain ports, infact several

I suspect this isnt that special. Port Cargill in a suburb of Minneapolis built actual ocean going ships and floated them down the Mississippi for WW2. This probably wasnt that abnormal during the war years.

@TheDroppedAnchor

23 күн бұрын

The M/V Tustamena was built in Wisconsin I believe. But it came via the St. Lawrence. It is still active and the only way to transport goods out to Alaska's Aleutian Island chain. Except you know airplanes. Wisconsin and Minnesota built a shitload of wood-hulled tug boats in WWII and transported them in two parts to Seattle via railroad. edit -- M/V Tustamena is a ferry boat for the state of Alaska Marine Highway System.

A "tow" where a tug pushes barges. Makes total sense.

@philbert006

23 күн бұрын

Tug boats do not push barges, they assist with port work, tow work, and docking boats. Line boats, or tow boats push a tow of barges.

Fun fact this is the same reason why the port of Thunder Bay in Canada is the largest grain shipping port in tbe country despite it being really faf inland.

The writing on HAI is getting hilarious. Its always been witty, but the snark in this one is strong. Loving it.

Sounds like we should consider turning Lewiston into a ship construction facility for national security reasons.

@daelinblack6681

8 күн бұрын

It's already the "jet boat capital of the world" already has many government ammunition contracts, why not?

@antaries93

3 күн бұрын

​@@daelinblack6681 youre thinking of CCI/Speer, and unless they lost their contracts since I left, they hold the contracts for both the NYPD and Orange county (the two largest police forces in the country I believe), FBI, Border Patrol, DoD (several smaller groups pooled under them for bulk discount), and I remember loading a test contract for one of our military groups wanting hollow points. Iirc, there was also contracts with various gov groups for France, Finland, and Sweden,Hong Kong (revolver ammo), I think maybe Japan to. There are many more but I don't remember most of the foreign stuff I made. Being there I can say the ammo shortages that happened some time ago were entirely bs. Fear buying crested the shortage and my job security at the time.

Thank You soooo much for creating this podcast. I did learn about the Marine Highway cause of it. And found the Port of Lewiston fascinating.

pnw resident here, this video hits close to home for sure. this video is INCREDIBLY OP! good job

Very cool and definitely fully fascinating, not half as fascinating but full on! TY for another solid video man!

It's a cool video, but if you need content for another mistakes video, at 2:30 and 2:42, the images shown are not wheat. Those are pictures of barley.

I was born in Oregon and it's fascinating to imagine what life would have been like when people had to take a boat from Portland to the coastal town of Bayocean

I really appreciate these longer HAI videos

🎶Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of Idaho's westernmost Dairy Queen 🎶

As a celic, that was a good joke 3:47

I remember seeing this about the Port of Lewiston on an interactive map at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon.

I drive alongside that river every time I go on a road trip to Washington, but I never really thought about it how it connects to the ocean

Listen to Lock 8. Named after the proximity to that section of the Welland Canal, Port Colborne's Lock 8 was the way to the St. Lawrence. Oh yeah, there are 63 provinces.

Great video. Visited Lewiston/Clarkston a lot 2021-2022. Really cool town actually, and awesome that it plays such a big part in exporting given it's near land locked location. However the paper mill smell... not fun.

@Jhardy64

20 күн бұрын

Smell sucks but driving through that mill is wild. It is absolutely massive.

Good video. Thank you. About 10 years ago, during a season when the Columbia locks and waterway were undergoing maintenance, the company I worked for helped ship hundreds of empty containers to Lewiston by rail to be loaded with grain. Good business.

Thanks for the shout out! It would have been fun if you had at least mentioned the Lewiston Grade when you mentioned the highways that meet up there. I'd love to know how much time and money actually went into making that massive grade possible, no doubt to make it easier to truck the wheat down from the Palouse (where I'm from) just north of Lewiston. (There is a small section about the grade on the Wikipedia article for Lewiston Hill. It doesn't say much, but having driven it many many times in my life I can say it is an impressive feat of engineering in its own right.)

It's a great thing that Idaho has that port seeing as the Port of Portland no longer is conducting ANY container operations of any kind whatsoever indefinitely. According to them, it cost them far too much to have and run those operations, and the negotiations with the last company to do such ops fell through, while the State of Oregon apparently set the terms in a way that the Port HAD to succeed with those negotiations or else they'd receive no funding or support from the state. So only car ops essentially now at the Port of Portland. This directly impacts the Port of Astoria and Idaho negatively, as they need the operations in Portland in order to serve the logistics network properly. Now it's Tacoma, Seattle or SF.

@GBR9794

22 күн бұрын

no wonder there isn't many ships whenever I commute through 84 highway.

@jds1275

22 күн бұрын

Sounds like there are some regulatory issues causing increased prices that and or potentially the Portland port would need a redesign to increase efficiency.

@GBR9794

21 күн бұрын

@@jds1275 Too many bridges are too old. Oregon and Washington state do have plans to rebuild them but it's going to take another decade at least.

@PNWParksFan

19 күн бұрын

Grain doesn't get moved on container ships. Plenty of bulk carriers still get loaded in Portland, and Lewiston does not have any significant container operations.

@TheCriminalViolin

19 күн бұрын

@@PNWParksFan I never suggested that grain got hauled on container ships or made any claims to know what resources are shipped out and through Lewiston, to be fair. But things like meats in example would require that, and, Idaho deceptively has a high output of tech hardware, which itself needs containers. Other things like paper need them too. Each of those things are goods that Idaho not only produces in high quantities, but surrounding states do as well. Essentially the bulk of things we ship (literally) require containers, so it's not too surprising if the Port of Lewiston does in fact have at least some container ops. I'd have to look into the operations of the Port in order to learn the details, which of course like most people, I didn't even have the thought of doing, nor what does or doesn't go through it.

Being a native Tulsan, I immediately thought of the Port of Catoosa at the end of Highway M-40 when I saw this video's thumbnail.

Driving east next to the Colombia River (having no idea what to expect) was one of the most majestic road trips I have ever been on.

Surprised he didn’t send Outdoor Correspondent Amy to Lewiston to ride a ship

Now that really is half as interesting.

Please stop reminding people that Idaho exists.

@TheDroppedAnchor

23 күн бұрын

I've never heard so much talk of Idaho's ag exports without ever hearing of so much as a single potato.

@HiThereZoomy

22 күн бұрын

What's idaho, I only know potato nation

@newshodgepodge6329

22 күн бұрын

Are you threatening my supply of potatoes? 😅

@Flabulo

21 күн бұрын

Nope, we all no Idaho is the nice one. Not like it's naibor Montana at all! This place is basically like if you lived in the arctic circle during the winter, and in Death Valley in the Summer. All the trees got killed by the beatles and their fungus so now there is no shade anywhere, and the wind runs wild and free all year. Uhhh... Oh! The bears, they have learned to work together and now we live in constant fear of roving groups of grizzlies and bands of blackbears on bicycles. Sure, the black bears sound funny, and it was. But then we made the mistake of laughing at them and they said "Gurrr Grraaa Gra" which means "I will see to it that your blood line ends at you." in black bear. Now they took all the guns. And that is how a state has legal weed and super open gun laws at once. To cope with and to protect from an existential threat of bears. Also, moose are just kinda scary anyway.

@markw999

21 күн бұрын

It's too late. Give up. People still throw shade, then pay $600k for a starter home here to get away from the hellscape they helped create in Portland. Like, thanks.

1:25 shoutout to the anonymous animator for that note at the bottom left!!!

Shout out to that western most Dairy Queen, that’s something to be proud of

When Sam mentioned "wheat" in the video, for a certain amount of time I thought it was "weed." English is not my first language, so my listening comprehension level may not be the same as the Americans, but I don't think that doesn't mean that I don't have problems.

@UnexpectedPlay

22 күн бұрын

English is my first language and I heard the same

@Puddingskin01

21 күн бұрын

Oh don't worry, Idaho exports that too.

@jesseking9254

20 күн бұрын

Your English comprehension is probably still superior to half the American population

@Trenz0

20 күн бұрын

Lmao. The way you worded it made it seem like you're saying Americans have the worst reading comprehension and while you struggle, you're at least better than an American. (As an American, this may not be far from the truth...) You may not be "fluent" but you're writing KZread comments and watching English videos. That's pretty impressive in my book

@UnexpectedPlay

19 күн бұрын

@@Trenz0 I agree, he's doing great!

0:50 imagine if this was a high speed rail map instead 💀

@OmiReal

23 күн бұрын

World peace

Drove thru Idaho to Portland. Colombia river gorge is massive This is badass!

Thank you for your posting!

I know Lewiston as a major ammunition production city!

My wife studies inland waterway transport and has celiac. Sam are your writers stalking her on linkedin 😐

@TheDroppedAnchor

23 күн бұрын

Shout out to Marine Highway addicts!! My sympathy for the celiac.

This video is more unhinged than usual and im so here for it

Half as Interesting, Your videos always make me happy, so I subscribed!

Wait, there's something interesting in my home state

@1985toyotacamry

23 күн бұрын

I'm very surprised they have that.... That is half as interesting.

@mt_xing

23 күн бұрын

Well, half as interesting. Not full interesting. That would be too interesting.

You know what would make that port and all other US ports more useful? Repealing the Jones Act.

@z0phi3l

23 күн бұрын

Now we're talking, but that might also lower prices, and I don't think the government is interested in that

Good point Jarek, I have hiked there and the Columbia river gorge is MASSIVE! Like, the Willamette valley is big, but the gorge is way bigger, way, way bigger!

So I assume that the grain gets transferred from the barge to a real ocean going vessel once it hits the West Coast... still feels like a riverport rather than a seaport to me if the ship itself doesn't continue on across the sea on its own. But details...

You'll see 15 barge tows on the upper Mississippi river. South of Cairo Illinois, they can be upwards of 50 barges.

@TheAnnoyingBoss

22 күн бұрын

Crazy how much of our country has ocean access even 1000+ miles away

why did i get so offended he counted canada as a state... we essentially are lmfao

@JoeJaJoeJoe

23 күн бұрын

USA's frosty cap 🇨🇦

@AreJayMC

23 күн бұрын

@@JoeJaJoeJoe where the geneva convention is more of a check list lmao

@jds1275

22 күн бұрын

Technically a foreign nation, but functionally, a state without representation.

@scootertrash911

18 күн бұрын

@@jds1275 kinda like the Southeastern US

I grew up in Pullman, WA just 45 mins north and I spent a lot of time in Lewiston growing up (mainly for sports). Very weird place, bad smell with the paper mill lol but there are some good parts of the area. Some cool nature and golfing there

Just three weeks ago I happen to stop through Lewiston on a detour just to see Idaho going down the Pacific coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles. I thought it was an extremely random town and very interesting to the fact that the town opposite was called Clarkston given that it was on the Lewis and Clark trail. Now my favorite KZread channel makes a video about how it was actually very interesting city after all. The government is watching.

Surprised if you were looking for an example of an exotic port, you didn't pick the Tulsa Port of Catoosa, America's most inland ocean port, or Tulsa Port of Inola, the second most inland port, both operated by the City of Tulsa's Port Authority.

@scotchbingeington6761

23 күн бұрын

Is that further inland than Duluth/Superior? I'm too lazy to measure on earthy google

@BalooUriza

23 күн бұрын

@@scotchbingeington6761 Yes, thanks to the Great Lakes screwing them, but they're also closer to the Atlantic.

Yo, I live here! I live in the city next to it! I never thought anyone would talk about the LC Valley! :D

@FutureSlyty

18 күн бұрын

Nerd

The Columbia Gorge is beautiful.. If you ever get up to the Pacific Northwest youll see why ships are able to traverse it. I remember me and my brother were sitting drinking a beer on the beech sand under the St Johns Bridge in Portland OR and we literally seen a cruise ship passing us.. I thought I was seeing things, it blew my mind how deep it was to allow such a huge ship when it was only about 50ft on either side from the ship.

3:12 Working for the railroad here in ND, all ND wheat goes by train to Portland, Longview and Kalama Tacoma