[nickcarraway]

Video at site.

[Joe Miner]

Thanks for sharing that, now an abundance of water to prove the climate doomsayers wrong. I love it.

[FreeperCell]

Oh boy.

[Just mythoughts]

fyi

[FlyFisher]

It looks pretty tame to me...what’s the problem? It’s never gonna rain in California again! /s

[HollyB]

We can blame it on Al Gore that they didn’t prepare.

[NoLibZone]

The dems did nothing to maintain the dam and its spillway.

They did however take on the educational expenses of illegals.

[Daniel Ramsey]

And it’s exactly where it needs to be right now to allow time to rebuild the main spillway, improve the emergency spillway, repair the powerhouse and lines.

They should look at an alternate means to lower dam level even if it requires blasting elsewhere or a drainage tunnel.

[Vendome]

The town of Alma is completely submerged .

You can’t see the rooftop of any buildings...

[GOPJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLz0Z9GqZaQ

[Joe Boucher]

The federal gub mint gives block grants for states DOT to help highway infrastructure.
Minnesota like many states took said money and gave it to social issues instead.
Remember the Interstate bridge going in to Minneapolis that collapsed killing many? Well that bridge was supposed to have been repaired.
Same for so many other issues. Take block grant money to use for social issues instead of its real use.
Infrastructure is so mundane and there are votes to be bought by libs using block money to bribe voters.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

That looks just like Lake Hartnell during the drought about 6 years ago. Boats and docks were laying on dry land. All is well now but nature has its own cycle that no man can control.

[Does so]

Friends at nearby Lincoln, CA, tell me their elevation is secure against flooding.

[Lee25]

let me guess, they did not repair the dam did they?

[GreyFriar]

Ping for photo of Lake Oroville during the recent drought.

[norwaypinesavage]

I remember in 1977, while dating the woman who later became my wife, driving across a California bridge that looked exactly like that. It was probably the same bridge. What struck me was a sign on the bridge that said: "no diving off bridge". Looking at the thin band of water hundreds of feet below, the sign seemed quite unnecessary. The reservoir filled shortly after that.

The point, of course, is that the water lever goes up, and the water level goes down. It's called weather. It's the stupid Leftists in California that don't get it.

[Delta 21]

No one noticed the water level rising over the last 8 years?

I bet the hydro-plant workers noticed the increase in pressure.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, soon the city of Oroville will be renamed Lake Brown - and the governor’s legacy will be cemented forever.

[samiam5]

Every drought ends in a flood.
When ours ended a couple of years ago, a lot of reservoirs were at 5-7% capacity. It rained so much that in two weeks, almost every lake was full and running over.
If we hadn’t been so dry, all that water would have been a disaster.

[dr_lew]

I guess that's Lumpkin Road. The Enterprise Bridge is identifiable in a Google Maps Photo. The drought looks even worse in the Street View from the bridge, as of Jan 2009. ( The date doesn't show in the link but it does when I click into street view from Google Maps. )