Hi! We’re Chadd and Kristi, hosts of the Magic Morning Show on Magic 94-9FM and “You On Demand” for Brighthouse Networks Tampa Bay and Orlando. We have done a series of “Traveling on a Budget” videos for families. Here is our latest featuring Las Vegas, Hoover Dam and Red Rock Canyon. We’ll be uploading more soon.

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Las Vegas Helicopter Tour of the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Extinct Volcano, Las Vegas Strip. You are looking at the top of the volcano at 2:05. Incredible Experience.

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These are a series of video clips that I took when some friends of mine and I visited the Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant back on December 28, 2008. Hoover Dam is located at Lake Mead at the Arizona and Nevada State line and just East of Las Vegas on US Highway 93. The highway goes over the dam, but a by pass bridge is being built across the Colorado River just down stream from the dam due to be completed in September of 2009. For more info about the bridge, go to
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Whats_New.htm

Video part 1 mainly shows the outside area of the dam as viewed from the visitor center observation area and from the top of the dam and part 2 are video clips are scenes taken inside some of the inner passage way tunnels and also inside one of the big main 650 feet long and 75 feet high generator halls with some good views of the water powered turbine generator units.

Additional information about Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

THE DAM

Type: Arch gravity
Height: 726.4 feet (221.3 meters)
Crest (Top) length: 1244 feet (379.2 meters)
Crest (Top) width: 45 feet (13.7 meters)
Base Width or thickness at bottom: 660 feet (201.2 meters)
Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubicmeters)

THE POWERPLANT

Commercial generating units: 17
Station service units (To run dam and power plant) 2
Nameplate capacity: 2080 megawatts (Including station service)
Length of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 650 feet (198 meters)
Width of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 55 feet
Height (Floor to ceiling) of each generator hall (each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 75 feet (22.8 meters)

LAKE MEAD

Shoreline: 550 miles (885 Kilometers)
Capacity: 28,254,000 acre-feet (34.85 billion cubic meters)
Maximum depth: 498 feet (151.4 meters)
Surface area: 156,800 acres (63,455 hectares)
Length when full: 110 miles (177 kilometers)

These measurement figures are for the reservoir at the top of
conservation storage – elevation 1219.6 feet MSL (368.7 meters)

Official Hoover Dam website is at http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/

Camera Used: Sony DSC-H2 digital still camera used in mpeg video mode.

Camera used for some of the still photo images:
Sony DSC-H50

Video shots were done by Bill Wolverton and the still photos were done by Jon Chauvie

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These are a series of video clips that I took when some friends of mine and I visited the Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant back on December 28, 2008. Hoover Dam is located at Lake Mead at the Arizona and Nevada State line and just East of Las Vegas on US Highway 93. The highway goes over the dam, but a by pass bridge is being built across the Colorado River just down stream from the dam due to be completed in September of 2009. For more info about the bridge, go to
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Whats_New.htm

Video part 1 mainly shows the outside area of the dam as viewed from the visitor center observation area and from the top of the dam and part 2 are video clips are scenes taken inside some of the inner passage way tunnels and also inside one of the big main 650 feet long and 75 feet high generator halls with some good views of the water powered turbine generator units.

Additional information about Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

THE DAM

Type: Arch gravity
Height: 726.4 feet (221.3 meters)
Crest (Top) length: 1244 feet (379.2 meters)
Crest (Top) width: 45 feet (13.7 meters)
Base Width or thickness at bottom: 660 feet (201.2 meters)
Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubicmeters)

THE POWERPLANT

Commercial generating units: 17
Station service units (To run dam and power plant) 2
Nameplate capacity: 2080 megawatts (Including station service)
Length of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 650 feet (198 meters)
Width of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 55 feet
Height (Floor to ceiling) of each generator hall (each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 75 feet (22.8 meters)

LAKE MEAD

Shoreline: 550 miles (885 Kilometers)
Capacity: 28,254,000 acre-feet (34.85 billion cubic meters)
Maximum depth: 498 feet (151.4 meters)
Surface area: 156,800 acres (63,455 hectares)
Length when full: 110 miles (177 kilometers)

These measurement figures are for the reservoir at the top of
conservation storage – elevation 1219.6 feet MSL (368.7 meters)

Official Hoover Dam website is at http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/

Camera Used: Sony DSC-H2 digital still camera used in mpeg video mode.

Camera used for some of the still photo images:
Sony DSC-H50

Video shots were done by Bill Wolverton and the still photos were done by Jon Chauvie

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These are a series of video clips that I took when some friends of mine and I visited the Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant back on December 28, 2008. Hoover Dam is located at Lake Mead at the Arizona and Nevada State line and just East of Las Vegas on US Highway 93. The highway goes over the dam, but a by pass bridge is being built across the Colorado River just down stream from the dam due to be completed in September of 2009. For more info about the bridge, go to
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Whats_New.htm

Video part 1 mainly shows the outside area of the dam as viewed from the visitor center observation area and from the top of the dam and part 2 are video clips are scenes taken inside some of the inner passage way tunnels and also inside one of the big main 650 feet long and 75 feet high generator halls with some good views of the water powered turbine generator units.

Additional information about Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

THE DAM

Type: Arch gravity
Height: 726.4 feet (221.3 meters)
Crest (Top) length: 1244 feet (379.2 meters)
Crest (Top) width: 45 feet (13.7 meters)
Base Width or thickness at bottom: 660 feet (201.2 meters)
Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubicmeters)

THE POWERPLANT

Commercial generating units: 17
Station service units (To run dam and power plant) 2
Nameplate capacity: 2080 megawatts (Including station service)
Length of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 650 feet (198 meters)
Width of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 55 feet
Height (Floor to ceiling) of each generator hall (each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 75 feet (22.8 meters)

LAKE MEAD

Shoreline: 550 miles (885 Kilometers)
Capacity: 28,254,000 acre-feet (34.85 billion cubic meters)
Maximum depth: 498 feet (151.4 meters)
Surface area: 156,800 acres (63,455 hectares)
Length when full: 110 miles (177 kilometers)

These measurement figures are for the reservoir at the top of
conservation storage – elevation 1219.6 feet MSL (368.7 meters)

Official Hoover Dam website is at http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/

Camera Used: Sony DSC-H2 digital still camera used in mpeg video mode.

Camera used for some of the still photo images:
Sony DSC-H50

Video shots were done by Bill Wolverton and the still photos were done by Jon Chauvie

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These are a series of video clips that I took when some friends of mine and I visited the Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant back on December 28, 2008. Hoover Dam is located at Lake Mead at the Arizona and Nevada State line and just East of Las Vegas on US Highway 93. The highway goes over the dam, but a by pass bridge is being built across the Colorado River just down stream from the dam due to be completed in September of 2009. For more info about the bridge, go to
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Whats_New.htm

Video part 1 mainly shows the outside area of the dam as viewed from the visitor center observation area and from the top of the dam and part 2 are video clips are scenes taken inside some of the inner passage way tunnels and also inside one of the big main 650 feet long and 75 feet high generator halls with some good views of the water powered turbine generator units.

Additional information about Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

THE DAM

Type: Arch gravity
Height: 726.4 feet (221.3 meters)
Crest (Top) length: 1244 feet (379.2 meters)
Crest (Top) width: 45 feet (13.7 meters)
Base Width or thickness at bottom: 660 feet (201.2 meters)
Volume of concrete: 3.25 million cubic yards (2.6 million cubicmeters)

THE POWERPLANT

Commercial generating units: 17
Station service units (To run dam and power plant) 2
Nameplate capacity: 2080 megawatts (Including station service)
Length of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 650 feet (198 meters)
Width of each generator hall (Each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 55 feet
Height (Floor to ceiling) of each generator hall (each building wing at bottom of dam by the river) 75 feet (22.8 meters)

LAKE MEAD

Shoreline: 550 miles (885 Kilometers)
Capacity: 28,254,000 acre-feet (34.85 billion cubic meters)
Maximum depth: 498 feet (151.4 meters)
Surface area: 156,800 acres (63,455 hectares)
Length when full: 110 miles (177 kilometers)

These measurement figures are for the reservoir at the top of
conservation storage – elevation 1219.6 feet MSL (368.7 meters)

Official Hoover Dam website is at http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/

Camera Used: Sony DSC-H2 digital still camera used in mpeg video mode.

Camera used for some of the still photo images:
Sony DSC-H50

Video shots were done by Bill Wolverton and the still photos were done by Jon Chauvie

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Zion National Park, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas

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Grand Canyon Air and Floor Landing Tour from Las Vegas McCarran Airport to the Grand Canyon. In the video, you will see us flying over and through the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas Valley, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, and the Vegas Strip.

The helicopter is an EC-130 Eurocopter jet helicopter and seated six of us plus the pilot. The rest of our crew flew in a separate helicopter.

The song is “No Cars Go” by Montreal band Arcade Fire. The song is from their Neon Bible album. The orignal song is over 5 minutes long, but I extended it by repeating a section of the song to fit over seven minutes of video.

We booked the tour through Grand Canyon Tour Company and the tour is operated by Sundance Helicopter Tours.

For info on the tour go to:
http://www.grandcanyontourcompany.com/heloairgd.htm

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These are my personal photographs of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Las Vegas Strip and visit to Hoover Dam. Credit given to the incredible Keith Urban for the music – “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me” from the iTunes Originals recording (2009).

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Landing in Las Vegas, Excalibur Buffet, Luxor, MGM Lions, M&M World Rainforest Cafe, Fountains, Southwest Diner Boulder City NV Hoover Dam Tour, Cows in the Desert, The Road to West Grand Canyon Western Town with Tee Pees Las Vegas Sign. Thanks to Black Eye Peas I got a feeling and Kate Perry’s Waking up in Vegas.

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