As above, so below. This is two 'tributaries' feeding a larger 'river'.
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 Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.
I usually don’t use this kind of language but I’ll make an exception in your case.
You’re an ass.
This isn’t about forecasting weather. This is about a critical situation that really exists and really threatens to kill real people.
People are most likely going to die when that thing lets go and they are not out of the way.
Maybe lots of them if they can’t get out of the path of the flood waters when the dam lets go.
Water is NOT compressible.
That wall of water is going to hit whatever is in it’s path with probably millions of tons of weight and wipe it off the map.
It’s going to be an inland tsunami.
Ya know, I think I ‘know’ you from somewhere..... :)
Remember, the depth of reservoir water at risk of a rapid, uncontrolled release is basically only 30-50 feet (down to “good” badrock on the sidehill). I am not minimizing what that amount of water can do in terms of flooding - death and property damage - but it is far from the entire contents of the lake. If the more solid bedrock is deeper yet than the water release could be bigger.
Great.
High winds mean waves.
As above, so below. This is two 'tributaries' feeding a larger 'river'.
Wow! Thanks for finding and posting. Fascinating.
Wow...that is very much damage.
Pay me now or pay me more later...
A stitch in time saves nine...
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
Hind-site is 20/20...
etc., etc., etc.
Metmom - could you send me the link? I’d like to pass that on.
I like how they mention the 2005 ecological groups suit that they lost. They say it was against the Feds. In fact the Fed’s were peripheral and the suit was against the State. The state of California owns this pig and could have overlaid the top of the emergency run off area at any time. In fact. they could have topped it for much less than the figure mentioned and it probably would have worked.
California journalists — just knee jerk placing blame on the deep pocket feds.
It explains a lot, but what happened (or didn’t) between 2005 and 2017? The Obama years are ironically left out.
I like how the wiki page gives the account of the 2009 valve accident and fails to say WHY the valve was being opened with so little formal planning. Do you think the account is given in a misleading manner because the state fisheries ecology nuts were in there having the valve opened for nothing but speculation as to how to give more cold water to river fish?
That is what I have heard and the lack of explanation makes it more glaring that the reason was something not approved by the State of warranted.
Thank you!
Incredible research and history!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526956/posts?page=1#1
“Forecasters with the National Weather Service offered a stark warning Sunday for just about everyone living in the soggy, soaked Central Valley. ...”
H/t mariner
For pingout...
Graphics are Amazing
15:50 houseboats?
18:40, 21:36, 23:21 flooded flatlands
20:38 up close at the dump truck gravel site at the dam
26:00 route 20 closed
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