[Thud]

Murphy was an optimist.

[Thud]

Gah, I mis-spelled Oroville in the title in the rush to get this out.

[patro]

That’s a reservoir, and a big one at that. This is bad.

[Thud]

A zipper effect is in progress from the bottom up in two locations at once, from the right (west) lower corner of the emergency spillway, and from the crater in the main concrete spillway going up to the top right straight at the dam.

IMO the Department of Water Resources is releasing water through the main spillway so as to time the extension of the zipper effect to the top of the dam to coincide with the extension of the emergency spillway zipper. This will delay the final dam failure as long as possible, and save lives downstream.

Then several million acre feet of water will deluge through what had been the Oroville Dam.

[dadfly]

Father God, i pray for Your perfect intervention, that innocent life and property may be saved, that there might be time for safe evacuation and that faults may be discovered and quickly repaired, but that, as always, Your will be done. In Jesus’ our Saviors’ beloved Name. Amen.