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Glory, Be! Lake Berryessa's Glory Hole Is Spilling Over
San Fracisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, February 17, 2017 | Amy Graff

Posted on 02/17/2017 5:27:44 PM PST by nickcarraway

Lake Berryessa's Glory Hole is spilling over for the first time in 10 years.

The reservoir two hours north of San Francisco reached full capacity and an elevation level of 440 feet Friday at 6 a.m., and began spilling, according to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokesperson Janet Sierzputowski.

The unique spillway operates similarly to a bathtub drain

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Weather
KEYWORDS: baryessa; california; gloryhole; water
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To: editor-surveyor

“Its in Yolo County and Napa County, about 50 miles northeast of Frisco..”

Yolo? My son says Yolo al, the time. Means you only live once.


41 posted on 02/17/2017 6:12:54 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.)
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To: nickcarraway

The outflow pipe at the other end is a mecca for skateboarders. Not this week, though.


42 posted on 02/17/2017 6:18:37 PM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: editor-surveyor

oh i see.
its always been lots of fun to notice that WQMY906 emergency radio communications tower that serves the most densely-populated parts of the area.... is sitting right by the earthquake fault in the Berkeley hills, ha!
but they got other, farther-away towers too...so maybe ok?

and anyways, since CalBerkeley stadium is right on the fault line, as is downtown hayward (lots of old brick buildings) and part of the BARF train line....well, WTH? Apres Moi, Le Deluge...anyway, eh? ha!


43 posted on 02/17/2017 6:21:40 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

You might also find it interesting to know that in empties into “Putah Creek”. Let me know if you have trouble translating “putah”.


44 posted on 02/17/2017 6:24:41 PM PST by TonyM
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To: nickcarraway
How do they keep it from getting clogged?

Ex-Lax?

45 posted on 02/17/2017 6:24:48 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: faithhopecharity

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Actually the radio tower is at least a mile above the fault.

The fault runs along Arlington.


46 posted on 02/17/2017 6:28:16 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

yes. close tho.

and the greatest damage is generally away from the fault lines ... anyway..... mostly on fill dirt (and multi-decker or heavy structures) like... in 89 the greatest damage was in the Marina (fill dirt from the 06 quake), Burlingame Hyatt (big heavy building on fill dirt), SF Bay Bridge (built down thru bay of course), eastshore freeway (collapsed, sandwiched at the first segment built on fill dirt), and geologists said that had the quake lasted longer than 29 seconds then Foster city and redwood shores (all built on bay mud) would have completed liquification (and buildings would have sunk into the mud).

but none of the above high-damage sites is on the quake fault line, nor are any of them near the epicenter down at Loma Prieta by San Jose


47 posted on 02/17/2017 6:33:36 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: nickcarraway
#14

Blnk
48 posted on 02/17/2017 6:36:05 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Glory Hole.....I’m think car parts


49 posted on 02/17/2017 6:38:58 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: dp0622

The headline was meant to get everyone in SF very excited....


50 posted on 02/17/2017 6:40:48 PM PST by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: nickcarraway
This thread is really starting to sound like a gay porn movie.


51 posted on 02/17/2017 6:47:50 PM PST by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Scary, actually. Nightmarish!


52 posted on 02/17/2017 6:51:46 PM PST by BunnySlippers (REALLY)
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To: Enchante

Reminds me of this liquid plumber ad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHARrcdS7AY


53 posted on 02/17/2017 6:52:21 PM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: dp0622

Man the lower west side by the river to the west of Sheridan square down to the meat packing area ..lol

The Glory Hole

The Mine Shaft

The Wrangler

Rawhide

Badlands

The Tool Box

Id go to mcnultys for beans on Christopher from my Nassau street digs

Prolly 25 leather bars wide open with ten blocks

Guys walking around in leather with harry reems mustaches in the open....chaos and no pants

Only other places I saw that degenerate were the Quarter and Castro....I grew up fairly near NOLA but it was more queenie

Then gay mans skin lesion disease as it was known hit around 1984-85 and it got quiet real quick

All the twinks took on a walking dead look

Nearly all the queers I knew from the 70s and 80s died from the ninja

I know of one still alive

He got on meds early by 91

Despite all the talk otherwise who really wants to be queer ...it’s a siren call they follow straight to pain and despair eventually

I’ve known a homosexual man who was neurotic


54 posted on 02/17/2017 6:53:11 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: wardaddy

That areas was INSANE in the late 80s and early 90s!!!

Transsexual/vestite/gender hookers everywhere! lol

A few REAL women hookers too.

42 street was PACKED with hookers before Rudy.

And I saw one too many leather outfits on guys at clubs like LimeLight!! I almost went blind.


55 posted on 02/17/2017 6:56:52 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper cbrust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: nickcarraway

I can think of some Californians whom I’d like to encourage to get a closer look.


56 posted on 02/17/2017 7:05:38 PM PST by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: nickcarraway

Lying media lies again. It’s not unique. There’s one on a small lake in Dallas. It’s impressive to see it in a flood. Unfortunately, it isn’t really big enough to get the job done.

Ground level
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Turtle+Creek,+Dallas,+TX+75205/@32.8200095,-96.7995175,3a,55y,286.47h,86.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spbiUA7m6gU_5TMngEjdOEA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x864e9edba043a627:0x5221de4cb354f733!8m2!3d32.8196918!4d-96.8002045!6m1!1e1

Aerial:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Turtle+Creek,+Dallas,+TX+75205/@32.8190879,-96.8000258,97a,20y,45.06t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x864e9edba043a627:0x5221de4cb354f733!8m2!3d32.8196918!4d-96.8002045


57 posted on 02/17/2017 7:19:08 PM PST by PAR35
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To: faithhopecharity

North, not south of SF.

In 1997, a UC Davis graduate student was pulled into the glory hole while swimming and drowned.

What an awful way to go. Poor kid.

The water level can be 15 feet above the hole for max flow!


58 posted on 02/17/2017 9:37:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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