Posted on 03/01/2017 8:35:40 PM PST by Mariner
Aerial photographs taken by The Sacramento Bee’s Randy Pench from a helicopter flying over Lake Oroville, Oroville Dam and its wrecked spillway and the clogged Feather River below the dam show the damage caused by record flows released from the lake as the region was hammered by relentless February storms.
The devastation was evident on Wednesday, March 1, 2017.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
It's only March 1st and there's 40 feet of snow in the mountains.
If they have to use the main spillway for another 60 days it will cut that mountain in half.
The EPA needs to go fine Calif.
That hole was bad on the spillway, but wow it got way worse. Wow. Like.....Jeeze. Idiots.
Oroville needs to have a River that can run at 250K cfs without flooding.
What a mess! there needs to be some accountability and a anal probe audit.
Higher are the only thing that will work.
Higher taxes are the only thing that will work.
If humans (should) have learned anything over the last several thousand years is that you can’t fight water. Oh you can coax it with aqueducts and contain it somewhat with barriers for a time, but if you deny its primordial nature and power, you will lose every time.
The Bible records Jesus conversationally using water as a symbol for the Holy Spirit. You sure can't fight the Holy Spirit.
Kalifornia environmentalwacko creepozoids have been concentrating on dam removal for decades. Just Google Hetch Hetchy removal. It was on the ballot, and while it has not passed yet, the creepozoids will never give up. Creepozoids all.
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The water always wins.
There is a HUGE amount of snowpack in that watershed.
There is a giant pile of crap in the channel below the washed out spillway. That will take months to haul away.
I predict they reinforce the upper spillway and let it drain thru the new channel for the rest of this year and next year too.
California style bureaucracy is too slow to make decisions in a timely fashion.
Very interesting video. I’m struck by the difference in the order of magnitude what mother nature can do compared to man. It took how many days for the water to wash all of the dirt into the river? I’m guessing it will be many weeks by the time it is cleared out again, one bucket at a time.
Awesome video, compare to the drone video linked below from two days ago. They are really getting a lot done...
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dramatic-new-images-show-scale-of-damage-to-10966777.php#photo-12410193
Amazing aerial photos of the semi destroyed spillway and the rock area below and around the spillway.
Some have been mentioning events are happening inside the Matrix.
Uh ... Yup, Ok.
The “Big One” might be a massive flood instead of an earthquake.
In 1862, it rained in California for 45 days. The Central Valley was cover with up to 30 feet of water.
Then a heat wave hit and melted all the snow and most of Sacramento and Los Angeles was submerged.
Flooding didn’t subside in some places for 6 months.
If something like that happened today, it would make Katrina look trivial.
everyone in the region, please flush your toilets and let your tap run. There.... Fixed.
Higher taxes are the only thing that will work.
Tax those in So Cal who use/waste this water.
I think you are wrong here.
The ‘blueish’ rocks you see are granite and they care little about water.
The danger is the spillway being undermined and crumbling up toward the spillway gates.
That has not happened...yet.
Maybe they can hire Mexico’s Cemex to fix this.
Looks like the concrete was too thin and had not much support and was too narrow to release the amount of water that needed to be released.
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