Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered

Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

[janetjanet998]

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.

[4Liberty]

Drudge has it up now. ‼️‼️‼️‼️

[maggief]

Get off your high horse! Are you waiting for CNN to report?

This has been building for days, and suppressed from MSM. Best footage was streaming from an ARF printer repair guy.

A no-fly zone went into effect yesterday, UNTIL MAY 31, 2017.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“That being said, links with additional information *are* welcome.”

*WHISPER* I love you, Grey Whiskers. *WHISPER*

[vette6387]

“It sounds like they got more rain snowmelt than they thought so had to dump more water to keep the dam from over-topping.”

There is NO SNOW MELT at this time of year! I had planned to go skiing this weekend, but it was going to snow followed by very low temperatures. We were going to go to Kirkwood where it was 17 degrees for the low Friday and 22 degrees for the high. Right now it’s all rainfall.

Here is a chart showing the rainfall to date and a comparison with last year and historical norms:

http://weather.sfgate.com/auto/sfgate/geo/precip/index.html

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...and severe flooding would ruin some of the most productive agricultural land in the country.”

OK. NOW you’ve got my attention. *SNIF*

[digger48]

Thanks for the link.

Good videos and coverage.

Just a matter of time, and this thing blows.

[Nifster]

Yes good words

[rdl6989]

CNN is showing Anthony Bourdain and Fox is talking about other stuff, I don’t believe this.

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks Janet Janet!

Links

Confirmed by tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/corinhoggard/status/830944293485371392/photo/1

NWS site has flood warning (I.e. imminent)

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=214&map.y=28&minlon=-124.5&maxlon=-119.3&minlat=35.65&maxlat=39.65&mapwidth=354&site=mtr&zmx=1&zmy=1#.WKEJpDBME0M

[Rome2000]

They can try stacking illegal aliens on top of the spillway like they used to do with slaves on the levees on the Mississippi.

That’s thinking outside the box right there.

[zot]

I am also following these developments.

[maggief]

Go watch the Grammys ... likely LIVE on MSM.

[VTenigma]

There you go, layer them in like cordwood.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

What they need is a high speed train to nowhere.

[meyer]

They can try stacking illegal aliens on top of the spillway like they used to do with slaves on the levees on the Mississippi.

Maybe democrats and that gang of black blockers.

[Drago]

Live news/helicopter video: http://www.kcra.com/nowcast

[Grampa Dave]

Scary stuff.

I couldn’t catch the date on the heavy rain in that area when it happened or will happen.

[Dan Cooper]

I think I found it:

The Oroville Dam Failure

[WildHighlander57]

Confirmed Twitter image of alert:

https://mobile.twitter.com/corinhoggard/status/830944293485371392/photo/1

NWS flood warning (i.e.imminent) issued for Oroville;

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=214&map.y=28&minlon=-124.5&maxlon=-119.3&minlat=35.65&maxlat=39.65&mapwidth=354&site=mtr&zmx=1&zmy=1#.WKEJpDBME0M