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Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

Posted on 02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST by janetjanet998

Edited on 02/12/2017 9:33:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: butte; california; dam; dwr; evacuation; lakeoroville; liveoroville; moonbeamcanyon; moonbeammadness; oroville; orovilledam; orovillelive; runaway; spillway; sutter; water; yuba
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To: maggief

thanks  :-)


1,421 posted on 02/18/2017 9:01:33 AM PST by tomkat
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To: tomcat; SE Mom; WildHighlander57; Grampa Dave

Flooding in Maxwell California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yssSL8iVWhk

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TNPRI5xuI


1,422 posted on 02/18/2017 9:05:09 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
Where is Maxwell, Ca


1,423 posted on 02/18/2017 9:14:50 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: maggief

Are these guys graduates of new math and Core Math?


1,424 posted on 02/18/2017 9:18:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: EarthResearcher333

im just sayin... did that really have to be explained??


1,425 posted on 02/18/2017 9:23:00 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: janetjanet998

But stupid California liberals are told, and they believe, that there is still a drought in California....


1,426 posted on 02/18/2017 9:24:45 AM PST by uncitizen (We are with you, President Trump!)
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To: maggief
These pictures show what damage an over flowing creek can do let alone a river below a major dam.


1,427 posted on 02/18/2017 9:28:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: maggief
I believe that this picture was taken on I 5 northbound at the Maxwell exit.

If so, based on my personal experience and family's experiences of driving on that part of I5 and never seeing flooding like this since I arrived in Cali land in 1970. Lots of trips during the winters and springs and never saw flooding like this.


1,428 posted on 02/18/2017 9:42:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: EarthResearcher333
maximum probable flood has a probability recurrence in EXCESS of ten thousand years

Hmmm...

Maybe it's later than we think...

1,429 posted on 02/18/2017 10:51:12 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: All

ULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
1112 AM PST SAT FEB 18 2017

CAC007-011-021-101-103-191900-
/O.NEW.KSTO.FA.W.0010.170218T1912Z-170219T1900Z/
/00000.0.MC.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
COLUSA CA-SUTTER CA-TEHAMA CA-BUTTE CA-GLENN CA-
1112 AM PST SAT FEB 18 2017

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD CA HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
COLUSA COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...
NORTHWESTERN SUTTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...
SOUTHWESTERN TEHAMA COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...
SOUTHWESTERN BUTTE COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...
GLENN COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 1100 AM PST SUNDAY

* AT 1104 AM PST, REPORTS FROM EMERGENCY MANAGERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND PUBLIC INDICATE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IMPACTS EVEN AS RAIN HAS
SUBSIDED. VALLEY STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AS IT TAKES TIME
FOR THE MOUNTAIN RUNOFF TO REACH THE VALLEY FLOOR. MANY
EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR LOCAL
EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR EVACUATION NOTICES.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CHICO, RED BLUFF, CORNING, ORLAND, WILLOWS, MAXWELL, ELK CREEK,
GLENN, COLUSA, TEHAMA, PENNINGTON, TISDALE, HENLEYVILLE, PASKENTA,
BUTTE CITY, STONEYFORD, COLLEGE CITY, CODORA, AFTON AND DELE


1,430 posted on 02/18/2017 11:23:40 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

Check out @IAmSteph_1’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/IAmSteph_1/status/833003835161391104?s=09

Conga line of traffic driving through surface water near Maxwell.


1,431 posted on 02/18/2017 11:28:18 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: meyer

Yeah I thought it smelt crappie


1,432 posted on 02/18/2017 11:35:21 AM PST by Tony in Hawaii (Some of them. I'm sure, are good people.)
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To: maggief

For some reason, for the past few days, the feed goes offline and comes back up with another link that you have to search for on Broadcastify’s website. This one is live right now.

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/1929


1,433 posted on 02/18/2017 11:40:21 AM PST by onemiddleamerican (It's morning in America again.)
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To: maggief

Update here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526554/posts?page=1#1


1,434 posted on 02/18/2017 12:24:46 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: janetjanet998

Why is the National Weather Service yelling?

It must be really really serious.


1,435 posted on 02/18/2017 12:47:56 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

They always yell.

(You are yelling your screen name, btw - I whisper)


1,436 posted on 02/18/2017 12:56:54 PM PST by onemiddleamerican (It's morning in America again.)
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To: onemiddleamerican

I ALWAYS YELL.


1,437 posted on 02/18/2017 12:57:47 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

:-)


1,438 posted on 02/18/2017 1:08:34 PM PST by onemiddleamerican (It's morning in America again.)
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To: WildHighlander57

Thanks for posting the link here on the mega thread!

Update:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h384gT87WxI

Oroville Dam Spillway 2-18-17 9:10am More Rain


1,439 posted on 02/18/2017 1:17:43 PM PST by maggief
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To: sit-rep

>>..did that really have to be explained??<<

Greetings, the context of the post, on that continuing particular browning coloring discussion, was related to a specific technical discussion/questions originating from a sequence of discovered images from a Fox40 video.

See posts 1,308 (OP question on this subject), then posts 1314, 1317, 1318, 1322, 1326, 1327, 1328, 1335, 1337, 1338, 1340, 1341, 1344.

Posts 1358 & 1360 was followup to these posts. There was a good underlying question on the CCD camera as to whether a dynamic exposure change could have created an illusion of a “browning” in the two images in 1314.

That is why the “catch all” starting comment (”>>Brown Water discussion: Fox video images<<”) to the post. These additional shots (1358 & 1360) confirmed the particular coloration changes in revealing a common chroma to “bursts” of erosion (spectral RGB distribution, contrast, exposure, etc).

Sorry if the posting was lacking in all of the above in an explanation (i.e. seemed “pot calling the kettle black”).


1,440 posted on 02/18/2017 2:20:56 PM PST by EarthResearcher333
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